- The Save Our Signs team has a number of new updates we wanted to share with you: “Over 3,000 new photos published in the SOS Archive, thanks to a new workflow and updated backend database.”
- “Digging Into the Leaked NPS Data,” a new story map that illuminates what NPS employees have flagged in response to the Executive and Secretarial Orders. Save Our Signs was formed as a result of Executive Order 14253, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” which seeks to erase “negative” stories from any federally-managed properties, and the subsequent Secretary of the Interior Order 3431, which called for the removal any materials that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.” Save Our Signs hopes to preserve our nation’s rich history by documenting the signs and exhibits used to educate visitors in the National Parks, the nation’s largest outdoor classroom.
- An updated SOS Archive map that provides more detailed guidance of where we need new photos: Where Do We Still Need Photos? We still need photos from National Park sites around the country. You can help! The map below shows which NPS sites have photos in the SOS Archive. Darker green dots indicate more photos. Pick a site with few photos and help fill in the gaps in the SOS Archive!
- More info in our blog post at the Data Rescue Project – Save Our Signs: New photos, new maps, and a renewed sense of purpose: The past four months have been a challenging and sobering time for the Save Our Signs team. Most of us live in Minneapolis and St. Paul and as th ICE occupation in Minnesota devastated our communities, we had to balance our professional work with our efforts to support our neighbors. At times, this meant slowing our pace on our ongoing efforts to combat censorship at National Park Service (NPS) sites. Throughout this past winter, we watched our government attempt to suppress those who seek to document the human rights abuses perpetuated by ICE. This suppression coincided with the administration’s efforts to erase documentation of past injustices and atrocities from National Park sites. The ICE occupation continues to cause ripple effects across our communities, and so we are continuing to balance our work with supporting our neighbors. While things are not back to normal in Minnesota, we feel a renewed sense of purpose in our SOS work.
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