Yosemite National Park staffers claimed responsibility for an upside-down American flag being hung thousands of feet in the air to protest the Trump administration’s “attack” against public lands and mass layoffs of federal staff.
Eleven of Yosemite’s full-time staff members, including the park’s sole locksmith and a biologist received a termination email on February 14 – as did 1,000 permanent National Park Service employees across the country after the Trump administration directed federal agencies to carry out widespread layoffs.
Demonstrators unfurled a giant ‘Distress flag’ after 11 full-time Yosemite staff members were laid off amid the Trump administration’s federal employee purge.
It continued: “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.
“At first thought the upside-down flag was for Trump support, but then realized it was to support the national parks, and I was for it,” Las Vegas resident Tina Alidio told The Chronicle.
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