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.
@skoombidoombis we can't build homes bc the state makes laws that price out most ppl from being able to buy or build a house unless you pay for a bunch of permits and bullshit. This limits the amount of houses and makes them more expensive bc there are too many ppl looking to buy a house and too few houses. There is also the issue of those equity firms that buy and rent houses, but again they would not be a problem if regular ppl would be allowed to build a home without the red tape
@skoombidoombis
Without the red tape, there would be a surplus of houses, and the equity firm would lose money on their house investment, causing them to sell their homes and invest their money elsewhere. So, in essence, if you get rid of the gov red tape, the giant equity firms buying all the housing issues go away by itself.