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Trump is back, so are the marches — People’s March Seattle planned to step off from Capitol Hill’s Cal Anderson Park on January 18th

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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. Continue reading →

International Working Women’s Day march to step off on Capitol Hill

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An International Working Women‘s Day march is planned to step off on Capitol Hill Friday night.

The International Working Women’s Day Coalition says it is organizing the event to mark the day commemorating “massive strikes by largely immigrant women garment workers in New York City on March 8 in 1857 and 1908.”

“Seattle’s public observance of International Working Women’s Day is being organized by a strongly international combination of organizations, including feminists from Palestine, Iran, Afghanistan, and the Philippines, as well as communities of color, reproductive justice activists, and others from the U.S.,” the group said in its announcement. “The action will express a commitment to survival, equality, labor rights, and justice for women, LGBTQI+ people, and allies around the world, with a special focus on opposition to Israel’s war on Gaza.”

The Friday, March 8th march will begin with a “speak-out, info fair, and cultural activities” in the AIDS Memorial Plaza above Capitol Hill Station from 4 to 6 PM. “At dusk, a dramatic night march will circle the area for approximately an hour,” organizers say, with plans for “several hundred people” to participate.

 

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Seattle’s MLK Day march carries message of support for I-1000

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2019’s Seattle MLK Day march crossed Capitol Hill with a message about specific, immediate change in the state of Washington — Initiative 1000.

“Every year we aim to create tangible change in our community,” organizers wrote about the 2019 MLK Day events and Monday’s march. “This year we are backing I-1000 which would redefine affirmative action in Washington, providing equal opportunities through recruitment, hiring, outreach, training, goal-setting and other methods designed to increase diversity.” Continue reading →