Seattle, WA
Seattle anti-Trump protests including ‘PUNCH A NAZI’ illuminated display continue at Cal Anderson Park
“Yup, F Donald Trump,” says a Capitol Hill resident in their video posted to the CHS Facebook Group showing a hundred or so chanting protesters streaming by Wednesday afternoon on E Denny Way.
The afternoon demonstration starting in Cal Anderson Park had been promoted online as a warm-up for a larger rally planned on March 15th in a post encouraging demonstrators to march “for our reproductive rights,” healthcare, trans rights, and “to bring awareness to the housing crisis.” The marchers headed through the city to Seattle Center and kept mostly to the sidewalks to avoid conflicts with traffic and police.
Capitol Hill’s Cal Anderson continues to be a center for protest. In the hours before Donald Trump’s inauguration and return to the White House, a few thousand demonstrators rallied in the park with speakers including newly sworn-in Governor Bob Ferguson, U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal, and Sheley Secrest, president of the regional NAACP, before marching across the city.
There were no reports of conflicts with police or arrests.
Over the weekend, another kind of protest took over the park in a demonstration from light projection artist @lightguerrilla with a display illuminated on the landmark Gatehouse at the head of the park’s reflecting pool. Thanks to @streetphotojournalism for the pictures.
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