The President Stole Your Land: Patagonia blasts Trump for monuments move
Source: Think Progress
On Monday night, just hours after President Donald Trump announced that he would be reducing the size of two national monuments by some 2 million acres, Patagonias website went dark save for a simple message in bold white lettering.
The President Stole Your Land, the homepage of Patagonia.com read, adding, In an illegal move, the president just reduced the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. This is the largest elimination of protected land in American history.
The website then offered visitors a chance to learn more, both about the presidents move to reduce the size of the two Utah monuments as well as Patagonias own commitment to maintaining federally protected public lands. Earlier this year, Patagonia ran its first-ever television advertisement in direct opposition to the administrations then-rumored intention to shrink national monuments, spending some $700,000 on television and radio advertisements in Utah, Montana, and Nevada.
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/patagonia-trump-monuments-move-6e61fd999648/
Pretty straight forward, it is not UTAH'S, MONTANA, NEVADA state government land, it is "our" land.
AmericanActivist
(1,019 posts)ffr
(22,674 posts)Thanks Patagonia for standing up against the establishment.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Botany
(70,614 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,649 posts)Tikki
(14,560 posts)I know a lady in a Rocky Mountain State who brags about the unspoiled beauty
of her State's wilderness, even owns an outdoor's business and vote's repug
and backs fracking and has repeatedly pushed for more sale of Public Lands to the highest bidder. She wants to see someone make money off the land...she just doesn't actually realize..she is not the one pocketing the money and never will be.
She does not see herself as a hypocrite.
Tikki
question everything
(47,544 posts)Did not follow the story closely and I am not sure that developers will rush to develop there, will they?
groundloop
(11,527 posts)One of his companies, or Kusher's, or one of the t-rump kids is gonna' make a killing off of this.
0rganism
(23,975 posts)doubt developers are going to rush in there, however there are some sizable coal deposits so expect lots of "really really excellent, yuge biggest ever" strip mines doing their part to MAGA.
murielm99
(30,777 posts)It works for him if Bill Clinton gets thrown into the erasures too.
question everything
(47,544 posts)I remember when Reagan came to power, he, and his people - Watt, especially - really reveled in reversing everything that FDR did with his New Deal. At least, whatever they could.
Even removing the solar panels that Carter installed. Why? Because..
And now this putz.
onenote
(42,782 posts)Who don't like grazing restrictions on public land.
Ironically, those who claim that the land is "ours" not the "government's" are actually echoing the sovereign rights advocates like Bundy.