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Resistance Rally from 3:00 to 4:30PM, at Bothell City Hall Plaza on Saturday, April 8th. Speakers include representatives from Planned Parenthood, Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action (PSARA), Science March, Indivisible North Seattle, Luis Saul Moscoso & Hillary Moralez from 1st LD District Democrats, and Bill Moyer from Backbone Campaign,
Please join us! Then at 4:30, head over to the Tsuga Gallery for the 'Protest Art' art show grand opening.
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The Rally will start at 3:00PM on the plaza of the new Bothell City Hall, 18415 101st Ave NE, Bothell. Dissatisfaction, if not outrage, at the new Trump administration agenda has energized public debate, and as with the Women's March, this is a continuation of peaceful persuasion for Women’s Rights and Respect, Health Rights, Immigration Rights, Education Policy and A Voice for the Environment/Earth. Post your Resistance Rally selfies on our Facebook page and all over social media! \n\nLive music: 3:00 - 3:30\n\nGhanaian-born Mohammed Shaibu leads his African band Soyaya, with virtuoso acoustic guitar, dynamic talking drums and endearing vocals. The name Soyaya means love and affection in his native language of Hausa in West Africa. The music of Soyaya is a combination of Palmwine and Highlife, and is the indigenous rhythm and blues. Mohammed has played with other well-known African artists such as O.J.Ekemode and the Nigerian Allstars the original Afro Beat master/ Tony Allen of Fela Kuti's band/ Shakata Ghana band/ I.K.Diaro the master of juju music of Nigeria/ Baba Olatunji the master drumer from Nigeria and lot more. Here is a video of the band recently at Colombia City Theater: https://youtu.be/3vfV_HbpimM\n\n\nSpeakers\t\t\n\nJared Leising \tCascadia College\nLuis Moscoso\t\tFormer WA state Representative for 1st LD\nShelley Kloba\t\tWA state Representative for 1st LD\nDerek Stanford WA state Representative for 1st LD\nBill Moyer\t\tBackbone Campaign\n\nBreak Live Music\n\nBobby Righi\t\tPuget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action \nNicole Bradt\t\tIndivisible North Seattle\nSolveig Whittle Indivisible Bothell\nLiz Warfield\t\tScience March Organizer\nHillary Moralez\t1st Vice Chair of the Snohomish County Democrats. \n\nLive Music 4:30 - 5:00\n\nJim Page is well known singer-songwriter from the local Seattle folk scene. He frequently performs his original music at coffeehouses, public rallies and events. He has performed with many other musicians and collaborated with various ensembles and has releasing multiple studio albums. Jim was one of the founders of the Pike Market Performers Guild, and he ran the first and only Seattle Busker Festival. His songs have been covered by the Doobie Brothers, Christy Moore, The Moving Hearts, Dick Gaughan, Roy Bailer, David Soul, Leftover Salmon and Michael Hedges. His music has been included on the Grammy-nominated, \"Best of Broadside\" compilation. \"If you're ever going to get the message, this is the messenger to get it from,\" Utah Phillips on Jim Page. https://youtu.be/eCHLYq2NhtA\n\nThe ‘Protest Art’ art show will have its grand opening reception in Tsuga Gallery, 10101 Main St., Bothell (also on Saturday, April 8) from 4-7PM with a ‘Resistance’ poetry reading afterwards, from 7 – 8:30PM. The show will be up from April 8 – 15th and will then move to Cascadia Community College, Saturday, April 15th – May 1. CCC Opening Ceremony Tuesday, April 18th, 4 – 6PM. And American Art Gallery in Tacoma, all July, 2017.\n\nThe following fine artists are proud to present their work:\nNorma Baum, Liana Bennett, Jennifer Bowman, Dennis Brandt aka: ‘Whoretense’, Ellen Busteed, Kathy Collins, Monika Dalkin, Julie Fisco, Jan Flynn, Daniel Gonzales, Suzanne Griscom, Tula Homes, Eden Hopkins, Aleli Howell, Lyla Jacobsen, Jannelle W. Loewen, Jane Meyer, Larey McDaniel, C.A. Pierce, Carol Ross, Amanda Rusch, Joanne Shellan, Yael Zahavey-Mittleman. \n\nQuote: “A pall of dread has fallen over our country and the world. With creativity, sanity and peaceful means we can once again be the truly civilized ‘Light on the Hill’ our America has come to represent. This is a time for everyone to ‘wake up’ to see how important involvements in our political processes are.” JWL\n\nFree parking is available under City Hall, at the Bothell Park & Ride, and street parking.", "icon"=>"https://www.facebook.com/images/icons/event.gif", "type"=>"event"}}
