{"id":2150,"date":"2016-05-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-prod.greenpeace.org\/usa\/campaign-updates\/2150\/mountain-west-rising-two-days-protest-colorado-show-courage-growing-movement\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T02:34:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T02:34:42","slug":"mountain-west-rising-two-days-protest-colorado-show-courage-growing-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/mountain-west-rising-two-days-protest-colorado-show-courage-growing-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain West Rising: Two Days of Protest in Colorado Show the Courage of a Growing Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='p4descriptive_paragraph'>The people of the West are sick and tired of our public lands being sold out to the oil and gas industry. Last week, folks from my home state of Colorado were joined not once but twice by people from across the region to deliver a clear message to lawmakers: keep our fossil fuels in the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class='wp-block-image size-large p4featured_image'><img src='https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/dd61dc4d-gp0stptxi_web_size_with_credit_line.jpg' alt='Break Free Action in Colorado' \/><figcaption class='wp-element-caption'>Activists march to the Holiday Inn to disrupt a U.S. Bureau of Land Management sale of mineral leases on public land in Colorado.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<lite-youtube style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/0-ZCawvs_ZE\/hqdefault.jpg');\" videoid=\"0-ZCawvs_ZE\" params=\"rel=0\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last week, I was part of something incredible. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twice, I stood with hundreds of fellow Coloradans to demand our lawmakers stop giving away our communities and public lands to the oil and gas industry. Joined by folks from across the West and beyond, we raised our voices and walked side by side. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And when the time came to put our bodies on the line, we did.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hundreds rallying in CO to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KeepItInTheGround?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KeepItInTheGround<\/a>. You can join the movement here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CshOVTHgGC\">https:\/\/t.co\/CshOVTHgGC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BreakFreeCO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BreakFreeCO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f4lEbDUbDa\">pic.twitter.com\/f4lEbDUbDa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Greenpeace USA (@greenpeaceusa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greenpeaceusa\/status\/730837046588256256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On May 12, I joined 300 protesters at a Holiday Inn in Lakewood, Colorado. There, inside a generic conference room, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) was set to lease thousands of acres of Colorado\u2019s gorgeous public lands for fracking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sales like this have been going on for years across the West, but in the last six months something has changed: communities like mine are saying \u201cenough is enough.\u201d Folks from Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and more are using non-violent direct action to disrupt fossil fuel auctions and keep oil and gas in the ground. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That day\u00a0felt like the next step in this escalation. We marched to the hotel and occupied the front lobby, faced down by the police. As the crowd surged, the police pushed us back and threatened us with arrest. But we kept coming \u2014 singing, chanting, and supporting each other until finally the police and the crowd reached a kind of equilibrium.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Over 100 blockading entrance to  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BLM_CO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BLM_CO<\/a> auction of federal land. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/breakfreeCO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#breakfreeCO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QpDRDWee75\">pic.twitter.com\/QpDRDWee75<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Charlie Spatz (@ccspatz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ccspatz\/status\/730846504198410240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the crowd provided cover, a group managed to slip behind the barricade. They made their way to one of the conference room doors and peacefully blocked it. Another team of blockaders almost got to the second door of the auction room, but were stopped by the police.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Whenever we hear your chants and cries we are emboldened! Together we are strong! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/keepitintheground?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#keepitintheground<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/breakfreeco?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#breakfreeco<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ie1qPav1mt\">pic.twitter.com\/Ie1qPav1mt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jourdain Jones (@JourdainJones) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JourdainJones\/status\/730853179651330048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After more than an hour of holding the crowd back, officials from the BLM sneaked\u00a0auctioneers through a back door. The auction was conducted in less than 30 minutes behind closed doors, with only industry insiders and some press as witnesses. The public was excluded from this public auction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This auction, like many before it, makes one thing very clear: the federal leasing program is broken. We will continue to demand it comes to an end once and for all. We will not stand by and watch as more and more of our public lands get sold to the highest bidder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two days after the blockade, on Saturday May 14, I found myself lying in a field of flowers early in the morning. Staring past my own feet in the grass, I gazed at the small community of Thornton, Colorado. It was hard to believe that in a couple of months, this exact spot would become one of the largest fracking sites in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Within weeks, this could be a 40 well fracking site\u2014just 2,500 ft from an elementary school. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BreakFreeCO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BreakFreeCO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yw06FcSIA2\">pic.twitter.com\/yw06FcSIA2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Greenpeace USA (@greenpeaceusa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greenpeaceusa\/status\/731512406199799809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 14, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For months, the community of Thornton has been pleading with city leadership not to sell out the health and safety of the community for fracking. But already, a test well and squat tank have been set up, a sign of the hundreds more to come. And so the people of Thornton turned to civil disobedience \u2014 and we joined them.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Coloradans on the move! Our future is at stake! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BreakFreeCO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BreakFreeCO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/breakfree2016?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#breakfree2016<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rZpBwu0dgE\">pic.twitter.com\/rZpBwu0dgE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christian O&#39;Rourke (@ORourkeCM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ORourkeCM\/status\/731591252605427712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 14, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As in Lakewood two days before, we numbered in the hundreds. Activists from all over the country came to show solidarity; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shelby.robinson.5439\/videos\/10206613172708796\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bill McKibben<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and other national climate leaders were there side by side with the moms, neighbors, and other community leaders from Thornton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was amazing to see the range of people risking arrest that day, many for the first time. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ruthinajosefina\/status\/731609390524960768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A 13-year-old<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was cheered on by her eight-year-old sister as she and her dad crossed onto the frack site \u2014 they are from Firestone in Weld County, the town with the highest concentration of frack sites anywhere in the country. I saw older folks risking arrest for the first time since the anti-war demonstrations of the 1960s. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hundreds on the move at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/breakfreeco?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#breakfreeco<\/a> &#8211; converging on fracking well. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/breakfree2016?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#breakfree2016<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LgpI3Tohnt\">pic.twitter.com\/LgpI3Tohnt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Leonard (@MattOakland) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattOakland\/status\/731589913129312257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 14, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thornton and those auctioned parcels of public land might be in Colorado, but I felt like the whole West was with us last week. And while we took action, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/break-free-fossil-fuels-rides-an-unprecedented-wave-of-people-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">so did thousands around the world<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Climate change is happening everywhere, and when one community suffers the effects of extraction, it\u2019s an injury to us all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The solution isn\u2019t as simple as solar panels and wind turbines \u2014 it\u2019s going to take our action. This is a mass movement made of solidarity, courage, and a belief that we will win. I am committed to building this movement, and I want you with me. Are you ready to take action in your community, or to show solidarity with a community near yours? Are you ready to do something brave?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Something incredible happens when people rise up in courage to protect their communities and their neighbors. Together, we become bigger than we ever imagined. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ve seen it in the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/speaking-gulf-drilling-six-years-spill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gulf South<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and I\u2019ve seen it in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/arctic-offshore-drilling-alaskans-say-keep-ground\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alaska<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and I am so proud to see it happening in my home state. Because we are united, it is only a matter of time until we break free from fossil fuels. It\u2019s only a matter of time until we win. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Diana Best is a Senior Climate Campaigner with Greenpeace USA. She works to end federal leasing and support community resistance to fossil fuel infrastructure projects across the West. <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I was part of something incredible. 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