Seattle 'General Strike' Protests Against Trump Planned For Friday

SEATTLE, WA - Anti-Donald Trump protesters around the nation are holding a general strike on Friday, asking students and workers to stay home in a show of solidarity against the president. There will be a number of protests and rallies in Seattle to mark the day.

The group Strike4Democracy is organizing many of the protests, and the group says that the general strike is to show resistance to a number of the president's policies or positions.

"Strike4Democracy will coordinate over 100 strike actions across the United States, and beyond, to plan for a series of mass strikes to stand up for America’s democratic principles. As the nation suffers through ICE raids, travel bans, Trump’s mobilization on the border wall, as well as attacks on the rights of workers, women, people of color, the LGBTQ+ community, and our environment," the group wrote on its website.

There are at least three events planned around the general strike in Seattle Friday.

• Solidarity Rally for Education Justice: This rally begins at 11 a.m. at Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill. Then, a march at 1 p.m. march will head south along 12th Avenue East, west on Denny Way, and south on Broad Street to Myrtle Edwards Park along the waterfront. The Seattle Department of Transportation expects at least 1,000 people to participate.
  
• Pike Place Market Unity in Support for the General Strike: The rally begins at 12:15 p.m. along Pine Street between Pike Place and 1st Avenue. SDOT expects close to 400 people to participate.
  
• Free Daniel! Rally Against Deportations! Fight Trump!: Rally begins at 9 a.m. in front of the federal courthouse in downtown Seattle at 700 Stewart Street. The rally is partially in support of Daniel Ramirez Medina, the 23-year-old Des Moines DACA "dreamer" who was arrested and detained last week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

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