Images by Ananya Mishra
Seattle lefties gathered on the Area Needle this weekend to hype themselves up for what guarantees to be a tough 4 years below a second Trump administration. Audio system acknowledged that the longer term feels foggy, and that it is unclear what the primary fights shall be.
In contrast to most of the protests across the nation, Seattle’s wasn’t organized by the Girls’s March or pushed by Trump’s assaults on abortion, girls, and LGBTQ rights. But it surely was an vital alternative for native activists to start out saying a few of our new realities out loud: that we’re about to have a president that appears decided to stage Gaza, deport each documented and undocumented immigrants, undermine employee energy, and proceed to permit cops to kill with impunity.
Maybe unsurprisingly, although, not everybody left feeling hyped. The protest lacked the identical power that they harnessed within the wake of Trump’s election eight years in the past, and even a few of the different protests across the nation this weekend. The calls to motion—“resist, manage, combat”—felt too imprecise, particularly when the left has had so little success organizing on the nationwide stage. “It felt like we went from resistance to resignation and that this was simply perfunctory,” one attendee mentioned.
However we’re additionally solely six days into this new paradigm. And we captured what guarantees to be the primary protest of many as Seattle’s left finds their footing, and their power.
