The latest in a year of smaller, more local, low-conflict protests focused on messaging against the second Trump administration filled the Seattle Central plaza and Broadway Saturday.

The Capitol Hill rally and march was part of a national day of “Hands Off” protests across the country and up and down the Puget Sound. It was also part of multiple demonstrations in the city itself as groups like Seattle Indivisible have kept a steady drum beat of protests in motion with frequent, nearly weekly gatherings centered in neighborhoods and cities across the region instead of attempting larger rallies in Seattle.

Keeping track of the smaller events has been sometimes a challenge for those wanting to get involved and sort out if a planned protest will have a healthy turnout.

Last week’s protest on Broadway

A demonstrator marching on Capitol Hill in April

Saturday’s Capitol Hill rally at Seattle Central and march to the nearby Mexican Consulate was largely organized and promoted by the tiny Capitol Hill Pride Festival group under the banner of the planned national day of protest. The same organizers have been denied permits for Pride events but have tenaciously remained a part of the neighborhood’s activist scene.

Saturday’s turnout was robust and a spirited crowd of more than 1,000 filled Broadway with signs and chants. Organizers had modest goals saying 1,000 cans of donated food were collected.

Will next week bring another demonstration against Trump and his administration’s erosion of the federal government to Capitol Hill? The odds are good. We’ll have to check with the city’s loose collective of neighborhood organizers to find out.

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