{"id":1528,"date":"2026-03-29T21:30:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T04:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/?page_id=1528"},"modified":"2026-06-07T14:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T21:12:19","slug":"no-kings-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/?page_id=1528","title":{"rendered":"“No Kings” III in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On March 28, 2026, crowds gathered again at Cal Anderson Park on Seattle’s Capitol Hill to protest the actions of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

There were as many as a hundred thousand, and after some oratory many marched downtown to Seattle Center. Our local Sinclair television station focused more on the traffic disruption than on the politics.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This time I skipped the walk up and down the hill and met them at the Center, where there were booths representing several non-profits and signs for meeting points for people from a number of different neighborhoods. The weather was especially nice early on, encouraging people to hang around.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Street theater highlighted some popular themes:<\/p>\n

\"Clown-like<\/a>
\nMore extensive reporting is available for previous “No Kings” demonstrations:\u00a0 October 2025<\/a> and February 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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On March 28, 2026, crowds gathered again at Cal Anderson Park on Seattle’s Capitol Hill to protest the actions of the Trump administration. There were as many as a hundred thousand, and after some oratory many marched downtown to Seattle Center. Our local Sinclair television station focused more on the traffic disruption than on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":247,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1528","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1539,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1528\/revisions\/1539"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}