I rented a cheap room on La Brea and set up shop: cardboard, paint and projector. I use spring clamps to hang the cardboard from the curtain rods, trace the lettering with a marking pen and paint them in. I’ll listen to the blather of the news shows for awhile, then switch to music. I use flat, water-based paint that dries pretty quickly and generally go for a walk while the signs lie out to dry.
I put the first sign up in the afternoon, waiting for the sun to creep into the west a bit. The next morning I saw the original sign was still up and decided to hit the westbound lanes as well: It looked beautiful:
Here’s how it looked from the road:
While I was putting it up some guy yelled “FUCK YOU FAGGOT!” from the 12-lane parking lot below. The sound of rage is always a little disarming, but when it’s impotent and coming from my enemies, it makes me smile. I ran through the text in my head, searching for the homosexual content. Finding none, (there weren’t even any big words after all,) I wrote it off to the typical behavior and mentality of the average Trump supporter. I’m not proud of it, but Trump supporters really do make me feel comfortable with my prejudices towards the right wing as a bunch of ignorant, angry, homophobic bigots. I know I should probably work on this, but then again why waste the time? Six months from now nobody’s even going to admit having voted for him.
After checking out of the room I ran a few errands and passed by the site a few hours later - both signs were still up and looking gorgeous. This didn’t really surprise me - here’s the entrance to the overpass: looks daunting, but depending on how good the resolution is via kos, you might be able to see how I got in.
Sealed overpasses are far and away the best places for sign hanging. If you know of any, pay them a visit sometime. Take a look around and see if there’s a way in: there usually is. Sometimes it involves climbing, sometimes crawling, but the harder it is to get in, the longer your sign’s likely to stay up. Don’t get me wrong on this, entering a condemned structure is definitely against the law. But it’s not as serious a crime as colluding with a hostile government, and sometimes you’ve got to break the small laws to uphold the big ones.
If the blockade to the overpass is far enough out so the space on the other side is visible to traffic, you can hang a sign without even entering using good old hook-and-pole technology. Use scrap wood as a crossbar and hammer the top of the cardboard in with nails. (Use both sides - these things swing around…) I used wood, wire, binder clips and duct tape to bracket the carabiner.
Firmly attach a hook to the end of a telescoping pole, hook it just below the carabiner, slip the sign between the bars and hoist it up with the pole, clipping the carabiner to the fencing above. Now leave: you’re done. (I suggest practicing this a bit at home - signs can be heavier than you think.) This method makes for a more interesting legal question since technically speaking you’re not actually trespassing. What you are doing is using public property to speak out to as many of your fellow citizens as possible when you feel that your country is in danger.
A good legal defense would be to say that your actions are precisely what the Founding Fathers intended when they wrote the First Amendment. My defense is it’s what they demanded.