ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A local activist group says they keep having to replace a lawn sign after a vandal keeps cutting it down.

It features two world leaders and a slogan some may not like.

The group now wants to bring the public in on the conversation.

“These two personalities are not liked by many people,” Greg Mello said. “And yes, and we knew that.”

That is one way to describe President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Mello is the executive director of the Los Alamos Study Group, an activist organization focused on different social justice issues that has an office near Girard and Constitution.

He said they knew there would be a lot of talk about their latest sign.

Mello said it is meant to spark dialogue on the Ukraine war, something the group does not support.

“We keep fueling the conflict,” Mello said. “The previous administration refused to talk to the Russians, and that made everything worse.”

But recently Mello caught a vandal doing more than just talking. He watched security footage of someone cutting the sign down and stealing it three times in a month.

“Not very good,” Mello said. “It’s upsetting, and it leads to sleepless nights wondering, what the heck can we do? And should we just be intimidated, should we just let it go? They win then.”

The activist group decided to keep hanging the sign, this is the fourth one, and it’s only been up for a couple of days.

Trish Williams-Mello said they have never had any issues with signs from anyone before this.

“They don’t necessarily agree every time, but they definitely think we should be able to have our freedom of speech and put our signs up in the front yard,” said Williams-Mello, the group’s operations manager. “And most of the neighbors, they’ve seen these ever since we’ve moved in, in 2003.”

And now they are asking the community for help finding the vandal. They have a wanted poster next to the sign with pictures of the person.

But what they want most is simple.

“Peace on our street,” Mello said. “That would be nice. We would like to not have to replace this sign, and but if someone wants to tear the sign down, we will find louder ways to speak.”

The group has filed three separate police reports after each incident, but haven not heard anything back from Albuquerque police just yet. The group said they know APD is swamped and that is why they also turned to the public for help.