Some 2020 Accomplishments

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Some 2020 Accomplishments

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As 2020 draws to a close, our Alliance is reflecting not only on a historic and challenging year, but 40 years of grassroots organizing across Western Colorado. And looking back, we have such deep appreciation for the road we have traveled together. Please consider an end-of-year gift to our Alliance to keep the journey going!   

It all started one sunny day in a farmhouse outside of Montrose with a group of everyday folks who knew together they could accomplish more together than they could as individuals. In the face of imminent threats to our Western Slope communities, we organized to create a united voice for Western Coloradans who believed in a just, healthy, and self-reliant future for our region.

Over the ensuing decades, our Alliance has grown to include thousands of everyday folks from Craig to Cortez. Together, we have won many precedent-setting victories for ranchers, workers, consumers, and this beautiful place we call home.

We have kept up the momentum ever since, with victories big and small. In 2020 alone, our Alliance:

  • Won precedent-setting, comprehensive oil and gas reforms, re-writing hundreds of rules to put public health and safety above industry profits.
     
  • Registered hundreds of Western Slope students to vote, helping achieve record turnout of youth voters in Colorado in both the primary and general election.
     
  • Organized rural electric co-op members across the region to move TriState Generation away from coal power to more clean and renewable energy sources.
     
  • Passed the RECLAIM Act out of the U.S. House of Representatives, a bill which would invest $45- million back in Colorado coal communities.
     
  • Worked with FarmAid and other regional partners to dispense thousands of dollars of emergency COVID relief aid to farmers and farmworkers across the Western Slope.
About the author

Arn's career includes more than 35 years of experience in broadcast media, online advertising and branding in both Western Colorado and New York City. He is a four-time Colorado Broadcast Award winner and has also won multiple Colorado Press Association Awards. Arn also teaches Film Expression at the college level. He lives with a dramatic pit bull and a grandiose cat and enjoys painting, animating, and exploring cinema in his spare time.

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