About 600 participants marched in the Port Townsend People’s March on Jan. 18, with sources at the event estimating that the local turnout rivaled Seattle. …
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About 600 participants marched in the Port Townsend People’s March on Jan. 18, with sources at the event estimating that the local turnout rivaled Seattle.
The local event included guest speakers Walter McQuillen, hereditary chief of the Makah Tribe, Sen. Mike Chapman, Jefferson County Commissioner Heather Dudley-Nolette and Natalia Duran of the Jefferson County Immigrant Rights Advocates Board.
The march began at the Quimper Mercantile parking lot and ended at Pope Marine Park, a distance of five blocks.
Similar marches were held across the nation as part of a mobilization effort organized by a coalition of left-leaning and progressive organizations opposed to President-elect Donald Trump’s second-term agenda. Those organizations included Abortion Access Now, Reproductive Freedom For All Foundation, Time To Act, Ben & Jerry’s, Sierra Club, Feminist, Planned Parenthood, The Frontline, the National Organization for Women, among others.
Formerly known as the Women’s March, the name was changed this year to the People’s March.
Jason Serinus, an advocate who also writes a column for The Leader, was emcee at the event. “We rallied at Pope Marine Park, and approximately 600 people entered the plaza, or so we were told,” he said. “That’s more than Seattle’s march.”
