Rally and Sign-waving in Shoreline "To save our country"

Rally and protest

N 175th St and Aurora Ave N, Shoreline, WA

September 1, 2025, 1:30pm to 3:00pm

Story and photos by David Carlos

This rally was billed as "Workers Over Billionaires," but it was really a collection of issues such as No Kings, ICE, Epstein Files, Palestine, and Ukraine.

Organizers advertised this event as: "Patriots across the country will be demonstrating their commitment to the Constitution, and to our proud history of fair play for the people who keep the engine of our economy humming."

Organizer Sandy Labyris of Every Day Activists said, "We're doing this, of course, on Labor Day, which has a long history of supporting unions and the fact that if labor that built the country and that continues to keep the country going, we are the engine of all of this. But of course, what the Trump administration is doing is cutting protections."

She continued, "He just took away protection from federal workers just last week. So he's really cutting into workers rights and we need to stem that."

Sandy estimated that as of 2:15pm, there were 350 participants in the rally.

One driver at a red light started a conversation with a protester. The driver said, "So you think we'd be better off?" The protester answered, "With Kamala? I think we'd be better off with just about anybody. Elmo, for instance."

The driver responded: "You people are obsessed with Trump." The protester answered back: "Yes, we are. I think we're obsessed with our country."

When asked what she hoped to accomplish by being at the rally, one protester simply said, "To save our country."