Resistance Rocks! is an art project to flood Bozeman Parks and Downtown with cheerful rocks painted with heartfelt patriotic messages resisting tyranny and oligarchy. Keep it happy and cheerful, but patriotic and resistive at the same time. Please bring palm-sized or smaller rocks. We’ll paint background, slogan, and clearcoat. Then we’ll place them in neighborhoods, parks, and downtown independently or in small groups.

Join us on Saturday, September 27th from 9:30a-11:00a at Soroptimist Park which is located at the corner of East Main and South Rouse. The goal is to recruit bystanders and paint even more rocks with resistance and heartfelt messages and place them around town to be noticed! We are spreading the message so that people who are worried about the current administration know they are not alone.  Of course, it is littering, so placing the rocks should be done judiciously and with a mischievous wink. We will need tables and chairs. We will need more rocks.

Some ideas for rock messages: Act Now, All Hands on Deck, Not Fragile – Angry, Be Kind Not Blind, Breathe, Clean Air, Clean Water, Courage, Crack ICE, Dream, Due Process for All, Expect Resistance, Faith, Freedom, Freedom is Non-Negotiable, Good Trouble, Grace, Hold the Line, Hope, Hope is Resistance, Hope is Stronger Than Fear, I AM a Patriot, Justice, Kindness, Let Freedom Ring, Let Justice Prevail, Liberty, Love, Make the World Kinder, Make Racism Wrong Again, More Puppies, More Trees, Never Surrender, No Kings, No Nukes, No Oligarchs, Not Fragile, Obey Little, Our Voice Our Power, Peace, Play, Pray, Reclaim Our Future, Resist, Resist Much, Resist with Joy, Rise Up, Save our Parks, Smile, Stand Firm, Stand Together, Strength, Tax the Rich, The Stones Cry Out, Unite Against Trump, Unite Against Tyranny, Unite for Democracy, We Are the Change, We Will Overcome, Yes, Yes Joy, You’re Awesome, Stronger Together. 

This activity is not associated with any political party or group. It is simply people coming together to oppose authoritarianism through non-violent means. It’s just about painting and placing rocks to support our democracy.