Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.
Also, a fired Yosemite National Park service worker rappelled down El Capitan in protest of the illegal cuts.
Statement by Yosemite NPS workers: “These losses, while deeply personal and impactful, may also be invisible to visitors and members of the public — we are shining a spotlight on them by putting a distress flag on El Capitan in view of Firefall. Think of it as your public lands on strike.”
@luckytran fuck them, the main reason why we can't build more homes is because 1/3 of all land in the US is controlled by fed gov land management for wild life and bulllshit, we are not talking about beautiful lakes and mountains like Yosemite, we are talking about miles and miles of desert.
@37712 we can’t build homes because private equity, corps & banks have bought up most of the real eastate & are withholding it driving prices up. They don’t want to build infrastructure in the desert, waiting for the government to build new water treatment plants, hospitals etc…only problem is the same companies hoarding land don’t pay taxes for that stuff. 15 yrs back I wanted to buy business property in sanbernadino—nothing left to buy only rent. Just sits there undeveloped.
@37712 and why do they want to build on federal land? Because then the federal tax dollars will pay for infrastructure and they can hold onto their better real estate.
@skoombidoombis the land does not belong to the fed government, it is just being rented by the fed gov, the land belongs to the state.
