Protests are becoming more frequent around here, even in the cold Southerners are not prepared for. This weekend I drove under a FUCK ICE protest on an overpass, with a FUCK ICE sticker on my car, to a store and passed a panhandler with a giant FUCK THE POLICE sign. Then my Mexican neighbors reached out to thank me for putting the sticker on my car. I feel a sense of alignment around me. I’m in Arkansas of all places. (I’m omitting quite a bit of anti-trans shit this weekend but that’s another story).
I’m a school bus driver and I drive across multiple freeway overpasses each day. On most days these have protestors with temporary signs up on the fences facing the highway traffic. The problem is I have no idea whether they’re pro-Trump or anti-Trump since I only see the backs of the signs. One time I could make out “Jan. 6” on one of the signs (this was on January 6th, natch) but I don’t know whether they were remembering the good old days or not.
There’s a guy on an overpass many mornings with a cardboard sign that is unreadable from the ground, I know what it says because I drive by him above (Deport Trump), but we do need some workshops on “how to make your sign readable because it’s worthless without that simple thing.”
Visual perspecitve is a hell of a thing. People don’t realize just HOW BIG overpass signs are and how big the lettering needs to be such that it can be read from the highway at highway speeds. USDOT recommends 16" high letters for highway overpasses.
we do need some workshops on “how to make your sign readable because it’s worthless without that simple thing.”
Uh… and what exactly are these americans doing about it…?
Sharing angry rehearsed AOC videos on Reddit and writing “wake up america 😡”, aren’t they brave? Isn’t that the greatest opposition you’ve ever seen?
Protests are becoming more frequent around here, even in the cold Southerners are not prepared for. This weekend I drove under a FUCK ICE protest on an overpass, with a FUCK ICE sticker on my car, to a store and passed a panhandler with a giant FUCK THE POLICE sign. Then my Mexican neighbors reached out to thank me for putting the sticker on my car. I feel a sense of alignment around me. I’m in Arkansas of all places. (I’m omitting quite a bit of anti-trans shit this weekend but that’s another story).
I’m a school bus driver and I drive across multiple freeway overpasses each day. On most days these have protestors with temporary signs up on the fences facing the highway traffic. The problem is I have no idea whether they’re pro-Trump or anti-Trump since I only see the backs of the signs. One time I could make out “Jan. 6” on one of the signs (this was on January 6th, natch) but I don’t know whether they were remembering the good old days or not.
There’s a guy on an overpass many mornings with a cardboard sign that is unreadable from the ground, I know what it says because I drive by him above (Deport Trump), but we do need some workshops on “how to make your sign readable because it’s worthless without that simple thing.”
Visual perspecitve is a hell of a thing. People don’t realize just HOW BIG overpass signs are and how big the lettering needs to be such that it can be read from the highway at highway speeds. USDOT recommends 16" high letters for highway overpasses.
https://www.evergreenresistance.org/events/20250901/Overpass-Bannering-Tips.pdf maybe pass that around?