Days after the first inauguration of Donald Trump in 2017, 120,000 people took to the streets as the first Seattle Women’s March stretched from the Central District to the Space Needle. Another 100,000 marched again in 2018 as organizers started the event with a rally in Capitol Hill’s Cal Anderson Park and a sea of pink filled E Pine.
In 2025, it is time to get your pussyhats out again. Women’s March organizers this time are calling for a People’s March Seattle — Saturday, January 18th starting in Cal Anderson.
“This feminist-led, inclusive march is hosted by the Seattle Women’s March, in partnership with organizations that serve vulnerable communities,” organizers say. “The march will build community and amplify voices to promote collective liberation.”
You can learn more and help the group raise $12,000 to help support the planned rally and march from Capitol Hill to the Seattle Center here.
Organization of the marches has been a challenge that shifted from group to group over previous years as officials and organizers were unsure how many participants to expect. Predictions of around 25,000 marchers ballooned to more than 100,000 hitting the street in 2018.
The 2018 rally in Cal Anderson
Most recently, some of the groups involved chose to put their energy behind International Working Women’s Day in March.
The People’s March slated for the 18th is so far shaping up to be smaller than actions at the start of the first Trump administration. Organizers say they backed off a larger plan to focus only on a starting rally and the march. Details of the Cal Anderson rally have not yet been announced.
Still, preparations are being made for a large turnout. Organizers met with city officials in December to discuss the event’s plans and the march’s route from Cal Anderson
2017 marchers
How the city’s women — and people — respond to the 2025 revival of the march remains to be seen. Eight years after the first event, there may be as much anger and as many calls for change as ever but the nation’s political landscape has been revealed to much rougher terrain. Trump is now a two-time winner. Pussyhats? Try a pussyhelmet.
Meanwhile, the battles here and abroad have also left Democrats and progressives scrambling and searching souls over issues like the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
For those attending, organizers have posted a FAQ with information about taking part in the protest and ideas for signs — as well as some requests for topics to avoid. “Keep to domestic issues,” they implore. “We know there are many issues around the world we are passionate about but we ask messages are kept to keeping and expanding our rights here in the US.”
The People’s March Seattle is planned to begin with a 9 AM rally in Cal Anderson Park on Saturday, January 18th. Learn more at peoplesmarchseattle.org.
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Suggesting “Silence is Complicity” while saying to “keep to domestic issues” is quite the statement. We all know what they are referring to.
Sorry, but our complicity in killing thousands and thousands of women & children overseas is a domestic issue when our elected leaders and taxes are supplying the bombs.
I guess it’s no wonder they expect fewer people at this year’s March when the “People’s March” to “promote collective liberation” won’t fight for people or collective liberation.
I fear another Trump administration, but I also fear the performative progressive bullshit and anarchists smashing windows of Capitol Hill small businesses to fight fascism. We live in a such a stupid country. Count me out for anything called The People’s blah blah blah. It reeks of Sawant.
Get over yourself. Always frustrated…go have a donut
Use whatever money is raised to send people to Washington D.C., having people march in Seattle has no impact on Trump, other than creating photo opportunities for his supporters to raise more money.
Every dollar that is spent will result in two or more going to Trump.
I think it is less about changing anything and more about trying to make themselves feel better.
Oh boy! Can’t wait! This will make everything better.
What I would ask all these participants is “Did you vote?” and who did you vote for? Did you vote for Jill Stein?
You know what? I’m hella over the extra political nature of Seattle. It’s nothing like what I grew up with. This great city’s once reputable name for protest and social justice has been co-opted to point where I don’t recognize the city any more. Cal Anderson is a Soda zone, AGAIN! We worked hard to make capitol hill accessible and safe. The hub of progress is no more. Capitol Hill, what was once cool about it, is now a soda zone. Makes you really take stock about what it means to say I’m from Seattle. Because I’m not from this… I’m from a time long gone.
Go watch reruns on boomerang then