I appreciate this article but I'd research Alt National Park Service before quoting them again, it's likely that whoever runs the accounts/website has zero affiliation with the organization they claim to be.
Thank you, Li. I am aware that Alt-NPS is not run by actual rangers. It's an activist group created by a group of concerned individuals in response to restrictions placed on the official NPS social media accounts, and it functions in secret cooperation with actual employees. Their original aim was to promote and protect U.S. parks and monuments, then along the way they expanded into an activist group. They do have a coalition, although I'm unsure how many are involved. I do know that many of them are retired folks who enjoy our park system.
What happened in Salt Lake City should never have happened. One man came looking for violence. He charged at the demonstrators, AR-15 raised to fire. In that moment, everything we’ve warned about became real. Without armed "peacekeepers," he might have seriously hurt or killed others. But instead, a peaceful protester was the one who died, and it was one of our own who killed him.
That’s the story the public will hear. The man with the AR-15 will fade into the background, while the narrative that liberal Democrats are violent will take center stage. The MAGAts have been desperate to paint us as violent. Now they have their trope.
We cannot bring guns to our protests if we want to break that cycle—if we want to prove that we stand for peace—we must learn that living by the lessons of Gandhi, Mandela, and Martin Luther King Jr. is the only way we will sway public opinion.
Excellent post!! Really heartened that there was such a massive turnout for the No Kings Protest across the entire nation ... and it was for the most part, very peaceful!! Very sorry that Salt Lake City protester, Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, was killed in a peace-keeping incident that resulted in the arrest of an armed (allegedly BLM protester) man who brandished a rifle during the event. We need to continue to protest peacefully. I hope organizers will keep up the pressure. MAGA will cave in time! We must erode that entire corrupt, hateful, fear-mongering, racist, white supremacist, misogynistic movement.
I appreciate this article but I'd research Alt National Park Service before quoting them again, it's likely that whoever runs the accounts/website has zero affiliation with the organization they claim to be.
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Thank you, Li. I am aware that Alt-NPS is not run by actual rangers. It's an activist group created by a group of concerned individuals in response to restrictions placed on the official NPS social media accounts, and it functions in secret cooperation with actual employees. Their original aim was to promote and protect U.S. parks and monuments, then along the way they expanded into an activist group. They do have a coalition, although I'm unsure how many are involved. I do know that many of them are retired folks who enjoy our park system.
What happened in Salt Lake City should never have happened. One man came looking for violence. He charged at the demonstrators, AR-15 raised to fire. In that moment, everything we’ve warned about became real. Without armed "peacekeepers," he might have seriously hurt or killed others. But instead, a peaceful protester was the one who died, and it was one of our own who killed him.
That’s the story the public will hear. The man with the AR-15 will fade into the background, while the narrative that liberal Democrats are violent will take center stage. The MAGAts have been desperate to paint us as violent. Now they have their trope.
We cannot bring guns to our protests if we want to break that cycle—if we want to prove that we stand for peace—we must learn that living by the lessons of Gandhi, Mandela, and Martin Luther King Jr. is the only way we will sway public opinion.
Excellent post!! Really heartened that there was such a massive turnout for the No Kings Protest across the entire nation ... and it was for the most part, very peaceful!! Very sorry that Salt Lake City protester, Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, was killed in a peace-keeping incident that resulted in the arrest of an armed (allegedly BLM protester) man who brandished a rifle during the event. We need to continue to protest peacefully. I hope organizers will keep up the pressure. MAGA will cave in time! We must erode that entire corrupt, hateful, fear-mongering, racist, white supremacist, misogynistic movement.