PHOTOS: ‘Hands Off’ West Seattle demonstration #1, at The Junction

(WSB photos/video by Dave Gershgorn)

While Seattle’s biggest gathering as part of the nationwide “Hands Off” demonstrations was downtown at Seattle Center, as previewed here, two concurrent mini-rallies were held today in the Alaska and Admiral Junctions for people who couldn’t or didn’t want to go downtown. WSB contributing photojournalist Dave Gershgorn went to both. These photos are from The Junction, where a woman and her sister invited people to join them, and, Dave reports, got at least 70 supporters:

Dave found at least one canine participant:

Dave reports the gathering also drew, in addition to people honking, a heckler in a red pickup truck who yelled at the demonstrators on two passes before moving on. He also noted the bus stops were full of sign-toters catching the RapidRide downtown, apparently headed for the Seattle Center event. Next, his photos from the gathering of “Old Tyme Adults for Democracy” at Admiral/California.

Suzy Harrison April 5, 2025 (6:23 pm)

When is the next one?

Lauren April 5, 2025 (8:34 pm)

There’s been one almost every weekend at Tesla Dealerships, saturdays at 10am. We should make the same happen at the Junction!
- Donna April 6, 2025 (5:08 am)
  
  Yesterday due to life circumstances I ended up in the Junction instead of Seattle Center. It was incredible how what was essentially a pop up protest became a large high energy experience with lots of honking from passing cars. My cowbell and I having been doing Tesla Takedowns since nearly the first ones. Size, energy and community response have been steadily increasing.I heard and saw lots of reasons why our Junction protest was a better fit for the participants than going downtown. I think not only for those reasons but even more importantly because we need to grow and spread out and show how very many people from all neighborhoods are demanding change we should be on that corner every Saturday. There are a handful of Tesla dealerships in the region and those protests are great, but we need to increase visibility and participation to every neighborhood in Seattle. And noisemakers are great! I’ve heard kazoos are excellent. Imagine a group of people performing the National Anthem on kazoos! Oh, and O Canada with a video to share with our Canadian neighbors, and Lift Every Voice, and a mariachi band. We Shall Overcome would sound good, too. America the Beautiful, This Land is Our Land, Imagine…the possibilities are endless!
  - Lauren April 6, 2025 (9:57 am)
    
    Love that! Let’s make it happen
  - Cait April 6, 2025 (12:49 pm)
    
    I would absolutely participate in more WS demonstrations! I made a list of things for next time hoping there would be one. Was so nice to meet a bunch of you yesterday! (Cait, with the “This Machine Fuels Fascism” sign)

AlkiGuy April 5, 2025 (7:39 pm)

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Kevin April 6, 2025 (6:13 am)

So proud to see the good people of West Seattle “Takin’ It To the Streets”, especially the senior citizens in the Admiral District!

Corliss April 6, 2025 (10:08 am)

The “heckler” was in support of Hands Off. He said Trump needed to be jailed.

Cait April 6, 2025 (12:49 pm)

That guy was awesome!

newnative April 6, 2025 (10:19 am)

I can verify that a lot of us West Seattleites were at Seattle Center. The 11am water taxi was near capacity and they sped us across and opened two exits to let us out. Met a few on the way home too. It was a great day for Seattle.

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