Immigration Rally

This extensive gallery of tall aspect ration photographs presents a variety of images from the May 1, 2019 U.S. Immigration Policy March and Rally held in Seattle, Washington on that day. This year's incarnation of the annual May Day immigration politics march and rally included a march along Seattle streets from Judkin's Park in south Seattle through parts of Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, and then through parts of Seattle's downtown business core. The March concluded with two different sets of speeches, the first made in front of amazon.com headquarters and the second set of speeches made from a portable stage setup in front of the federal courthouse at 7th Avenue and Stewart Street. The immigration policy march and rally paused in front the amazon.com headquarters on 7th Avenue, where various speakers, including Seattle City Council member Lisa Herbold expressed their perspectives and concerns about the working conditions of employees of companies who contract with amazon.com to provide various types of services to amazon.com, such as security. The march portion of the immigration politics rally was led through the streets by the well known Aztec traditional dancing troop Ceatl Tonalli, whose dancers wear brightly colored traditional Aztec costumes as they conduct formal group dancing to the beat of a drum team. The photographs in this gallery are presented primarily in chronological order.

May Day in Seattle is a tale of two rallies. In this series of photographs from the May 1, 2015 rally held by various immigrant rights groups, a series of indigenous American people, men and woman, wore a traditional festival dancing costume. During the march and rally this group stopped and performed numerous times. This dance group is a mainstay at political rallies in Seattle regarding immigration politics.