1. The NPS is asking you to report wayside signs that “don’t depict history or the landscape” accurately (AKA, snitch signs). Spam the form! Ideas for comments here.

2. Post a screenshot of your comment on Instagram and tag @ResistanceRangers 

3. Report any censored content you notice on NPS websites to RR.

4. Tell Congress not to RIF rangers, and to protect and restore NPS jobs and funding: https://5calls.org/issue/public-lands-interior-department-workforce-act/ 

5. If you live somewhere state or local governments or friends groups are helping keep parks open, call your state & local officials and tell them parks should remain a federal responsibility, and only open with all of NPS’s support programs.

6. Keep tabs on our upcoming actions!

How to Help from Home: Furloughed Fed Edition

1. Take care of each other. Check in on your local colleagues, and ask for help if you need it. Lend a hand and an ear, or even a ride or a meal, to folks who are working but not paid. Help each other connect with resources. 

2. Build community in person. Organize a potluck, hike, happy hour, or other event with your colleagues and families. We’re stronger together.

3. Join a union or a campaign to unionize your park or regional office. Unions are fighting for federal workers in the courts. Follow the efforts on social media.

4. What isn’t getting done during the shutdown? Post on social media or send RR information about what you would be doing if the NPS were funded, and why it matters. We want to share the impacts that may not be immediately visible to visitors.

Low lift

SPAM THE SNITCH SIGNS! 

• You can do this from a park or from anywhere. Information, example comments, and inspiration here. 

• They are tracking IP addresses, so if you are a federal employee, make sure not to do it on government equipment on government time!

Help us document impacts of low staffing, budget cuts, and censorship to parks! 

• If you see overflowing trash cans, long entrance lines, closed visitor centers, graffiti on rocks, etc. help us document them! We need to spread the message loud and clear how this is damaging both public lands and your experience.

• If you see any signs, exhibits, or books that you can tell have been covered, altered, or removed recently, take a photo to report censorship.

• Submit any photos and visible impacts here

Medium lift

• Check the Save Our Signs map to see if park signs or exhibits you’re looking at are in their database. If not, please contribute to help track what is changed: https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/save-our-signs/home.

• While visiting public lands, take a photo with a sign that says “public lands are not for sale”. Or, take a picture of a “for sale sign” in front of a park sign or visitor center.

• Drop photos into a folder for us to potentially use on a future campaign and tag Resistance Rangers on social media. Use a burner account if you don’t want it traced back to you!

• Take a photo or video of you and your friends getting into good trouble and post with #ResistanceRangers #NoParksWithout

Higher lift: 

• Every park has a First Amendment Area. Set up for a few hours with flyers, signs, and postcards and talk to people about impacts on parks! Print your own stickers and zines to hand out! Tag #ResistanceRangers on social media accounts! If you are helping remotely, set up a postcard pop-up at the local library or other public spot. 

• Start your very own tabletop protest in the First Amendment Area. Reference this toolkit to help you plan your event.

• Post some renegade flyers in parks asking people to submit negative impacts of budget cuts they see, i.e. Overflowing Trashcans Brought to You By the Shutdown!

1. Dr. Strangelink, or How I Learned to Love the QR Codes: Work with your friendly local Interpretive department and start putting (legit) QR codes on park publications, program posters, etc. Add QR codes that link to any audio or virtual tours at your park. Add “Learn More” stickers on the wayside bases themselves that link to your park website or scholarly articles! Dilute the likelihood visitors will use the snitch code by putting codes on stuff that’s actually interesting to read.

2. Don’t use the administration’s talking points. Don’t be a mouthpiece for fascism. We do not lie to visitors.  Instead, tell them, “You have the opportunity to share your comments. Let the NPS know what the parks mean to you.”

3. Start your very own tabletop protest in the First Amendment Area. Use this opportunity to make the stories that are being censored visible, on postcards or signs, or highlight the funding cuts. Reference this toolkit to help you plan your event. Consider doing this on a regular basis and encourage your friends and coworkers to join you. Reference this toolkit to help you plan your event. Consider doing this on a regular basis and encourage your friends and coworkers to join you.