We are a grassroots neighborhood action group for Seattle's Phinney Ridge and Greenwood neighborhoods, and part of the umbrella organization Communities Rising. Want to get involved? We post weekly and ongoing opportunities for action on this page. Join us!

No Kings happens March 28.

No Kings

With less than a week to go before No Kings 3, we're encouraging everyone to plan ahead:

Make a sign. Here's an inspiring list to get your creative juices flowing.
Know the schedule. If you're going to Seattle's flagship event, the rally starts at noon and the march at 1:15 p.m.
Plan your transportation route. Parking will be difficult, and buses may fill up and start skipping stops, as has happened before. Light rail is always a good option, as it runs more frequently. Can you ride a bike?
Join us Wednesday, March 25 at 6:30 p.m. for the joint Phinneywood Rising/Communities Rising meeting at our usual meeting spot (check your email for details). We are setting aside a half-hour for sign-making, so know what you want your sign to say and bring any supplies you have (recycled cardboard, markers).

No Kings 2 was the largest single-day mass demonstration in U.S. history, and No Kings 3 organizers want even more people out on the streets this time, to break the record once again and show that this movement has momentum.

In Seattle, the focus is on getting the maximum number of people to show up for the downtown protest, which starts at noon at Cal Anderson Park and ends at the Seattle Center at 4 p.m. Seattle Indivisible aims to get 100,000 people out for this rally.

We know not everyone can go to a huge protest like this. If this is too far outside your comfort zone, or other reasons prevent you from going, consider one of the other events (map here). For Phinneywood folks, the No Kings Ballard protest from noon-1 p.m. at Bergen Place is a good option.

There will also be a pre-march rally at 10 a.m. March 28 at Maple Leaf Reservoir Park. This is a family-friendly rally, with sign-making and opportunities to meet neighbors, and it will continue until 1 p.m. People planning to attend the main rally will leave for Cal Anderson around 11:30 a.m.

Banner with the frog

Phinneywood Rising's bannering project takes place Tuesdays from from 4-5 p.m. (We're doing it again March 17 - dress for rain.) Find out why the regulars at this event love to be out there dancing and waving signs to the approximately 2,000 motorists that pass by. Bannering takes place at the Highway 99 north pedestrian overpass at Woodland Park. Here's a map of the exact location. Here's a little write-up about why bannering matters.

Rally for Democracy

Thursdays: Rally for Democracy at 73rd & Greenwood (Ken's Market), 4 - 5 p.m. (note new start time). Join the sign-wavers! An hour of noisemaking, sign and handwaving, and conversations on the sidewalk.

Singing Resistance

Let's use song to bring about change. The Marching Resistance Choir is holding a No Kings practice session March 22 (Sunday) from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Mount Baker Community Club, 2811 Mount Rainier Drive South. Learn songs for marching in the No Kings protest March 28. All are welcome!

West Seattle Indivisible is also actively participating in the Singing Resistance. Learn more on their website (scroll down to the middle).

Read and listen

If you're a fan of podcasts, give a listen to This American Life's March 6 episode, in which two lawyers who work for ICE step forward and lift the curtain on what is really happening inside our immigration system right now. Here's a link to TAL's website, or get it wherever you get your podcasts.

Indivisible, the powerful organization behind No Kings, holds weekly national Zoom sessions ("What's the plan?") describing where the movement is headed, and you can now listen to these in podcast form on their website, or wherever you get your podcasts. Of note: The March 19 session will be a No Kings preview.

Fighting ICE

If you missed the national No Kings training about how to document and record ICE encounters, there's a YouTube video of the training here. Fast-forward through the first 8 minutes to get to the heart of the workshop.

The League of Women Voters has published a comprehensive guide to immigrant and protester rights, including downloadable cards and trainings. Check it out.

And the City of Seattle's Stand Together: Let's Make Seattle a Welcoming City is worth a read to understand Seattle's policy on immigration enforcement.

Meetings, actions

March. 25: Joint meeting of Communities Rising and Phinneywood Rising in Greenwood. Watch for upcoming emails for details.
March 28: The next No Kings march. Make a plan!
May 1: The next major action is a May Day General Strike & boycott (details to come).

"He took the greatest military force in world history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, and demanded that the media lie about this and everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone can mistake this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength. His weakness is something negative, gravitational, so deep that it can draw in a whole country. But only if we fail to see it. Only if we let it." -- Timothy Snyder, author

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