CO-CATS (Colorado Coalition Against Tar Sands) is a group of land defenders working against the insidious spread of tar sands infrastructure and development in all of its forms.
We aim to inspire community empowerment through mutual aid and direct action.
We believe that all of our struggles are interwoven, and must be addressed collectively.
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
– Frederick Douglass
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