Before the attention goes away remember that occupation & sustained demonstration is v much a part of Seattle's civil rights tradition which—whether #CHOP #CHAZ knows it—they've inherited. So a brief & incomplete list of occupations that shaped the city if you're new or forgot:

1963: The Central District Youth Club held the first sit-in in the city, occupying the mayor's office for 24 hrs. This led to the formation of @HumanRights206. They occupied again later for equitable rep & Seattle's first open housing ordinance banning housing discrimination 2/n

1967: Former King County Councilmember, then a leader of @UWSeattleBSU Larry Gossett occupied the UW President's office on the 100-yr anniversary with the governor in attendance with 5 demands, among them being the formation of the Af-Am Studies Dept. All demands were met. 3/x

1968: Gossett & @UWSeattleBSU led a sit-in at Franklin HS demanding the re-instating of Black students who'd been subject to racist suspensions, adoption of a curriculum acknowledging the historic contributions of BIPOC & hiring of staff/admin of color. 4/n

One of the first Black Power demonstrations in Seattle, city officials tried to make an example of Gosset & the BSU leaders, who were put on trail & locked up the night of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. They tamped down calls for rioting within the jail. 5/n

1970: Bernie Whitebear & 100 more occupied the old military base Fort Lawton—which was granted to the City as Discovery Park for free—demanding that the 1865 US-Indian treaty be observed & land returned to original owners. We know this as Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center. 6/n

1972/3: 50+ Chicanos & allies occupied the abandoned Beacon Hill Elementary School, city council chambers & mayor's office demanding the building be conveted into a community center. After a months-long delayed/bad faith negotiations by the city, @elcentro72 was born 7/n

1969-75: For years Tyree Scott led minority contractors to shut down construction sites at King County Admin Building, Harborview, UW, SeaTac airport, I-90, Seattle Central College, culminating in a 1974-75 Rainier Valley sewer project standoff where 62 were arrested. 8/n

This is by no means a complete list. I'm still researching Seattle's Queer activist & women's rights history. If you know more, plz add. This is just say the City has historically been on the side of injustice. Ppl make change but we should know the histories of how. #DefundSPD