#536 - Seattle Parks Organizer planning ‘CHOP Block Party’ in June

The Seattle Parks department is offering planning and and funding help for events in Cal Anderson, one year after the Capitol Hill occupied protest that filled the park and nearby blocks became a center of the Black Lives Matter movement in Seattle.

Meanwhile, an organizer who has focused on the art of the protests, has announced a CHOP Block Party weekend next month to mark the one-year anniversary of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’s formation.

The city’s call for summer 2021 events doesn’t mention last year’s tumultuous months of protest in the park that culminated in December’s sweep and clearance of homeless encampments and activists from the public greenspace:

Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW and Reynolds & Kline Appraisal as he takes a look at this developing topic.

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