Seattle women (and others) march against hate
Brenda Elston appeared stunned.
She had traveled from Edmonds to Volunteer Park with her husband and teenage daughter Saturday morning, expecting to join a group of like-minded people in the Seattle Women March Against Hate.
The size of the crowd — which looked to be at least a thousand strong — rendered Elston nearly speechless as the group began its 1.1-mile march to Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill for a rally.
“One person made this happen,” she said as she scanned the crowd, consisting mostly of women but with a healthy dose of children and men. “What does it mean to me? It means everything. It’s so freeing and powerful. It gives you hope.”
Elston, like others, said she was glad to have a productive outlet for her feelings of despair at the election of Donald Trump as the nation’s 45th president.
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