Photos: 'Distress flag' towers over Yosemite to protest cuts as crowds view firefall

[douglas9]

A group of frustrated Yosemite National Park staffers hoping to draw attention to the federal government’s sweeping workforce cuts hung an upside-down American flag Saturday thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

The 3,000-foot granite cliff looms above Yosemite Valley, and thousands of eyes were on it Saturday evening for the dramatic stunt: It’s the last weekend of the annual firefall spectacle, which brings scores of onlookers to Yosemite.

Dozens, if not hundreds, of large telephoto cameras set up by visitors Saturday in a viewing area on the valley floor were trained high on El Capitan to capture the ephemeral moments when the day’s last light illuminates Horsetail Fall as if it were a cascade of lava pouring over the cliff.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/article/yosemite-protest-job-cuts-20180229.php

[MayReasonRule]

1. May Reason Rule Our Troubled Nation!!!

[Meowmee]

2. I can't see it, wants me to pay etc.

[Hope22]

10. Giant American flag hanging upside down on a rock wall.

Weighted at the bottom to keep it flat.

[Meowmee]

12. Thanks, someone posted it here so I was able to see it 😁

[Lovie777]

3. This could be done all over the country......................

[duhneece]

5. I've said as much to my husband and friends

Surely, truly our nation is in danger, in distress

[et tu]

4. so sad we

have come to this- and it's still just
the start of 2025

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Trump probably wants the parks for minerals

With far fewer personnel on hand, forest fires will have more chance to get going and give him the excuse.

[oasis]

7. It's only the beginning folks.

[Magoo48]

8. I live in a very large retirement community.

There are approximately 16,000 of us here in the small town of retirement folks in Southern California. Everyone of our homes has a flag bracket. I’ll be interested to see how my neighbors react when I hang our flag upside down. All of us here now live under this threat to our Social Security and Medicare.

[JI7]

11. Spring Break is about to start

[BoRaGard]

13. G.O.P. Billionaires did this to America

[LaRaven]

14. If Alito was able to...

Then WE THE PEOPLE can! We Are A Nation in Distress…and no one can argue with that. Send out the SOS signs too!

[surfered]

15. Here's the photo from SF Chronicle

https://i.ibb.co/mM2RJCj/IMG-6775.webp

[TomWilm]

16. Wear those US flag lapel pin upside down!

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