17x17k Labor Day Rally: 17 Miles of Protest (Redwood City to Santa Clara)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Palo Alto will be home for 4.5 miles of our Labor Day 17 mile protest!
(Please note, this site requires a single address; this event is stretched over 17 miles, please go to https://tinyurl.com/historic17x17k to learn more).
Witness us make history again, with plans for the Peninsula’s largest political protest, surpassing our June 14 record-setting event. SEVENTEEN MILES, SEVENTEEN THOUSAND PEOPLE. 17 x 17k Labor Day Rally is coordinated by long-time organizers IdaRose Sylvester and Sally Lieber, of Together We Will, and co-sponsors across the Peninsula. Building on the foundation of the hugely successful 7 x 7k rally on June 14, 17 x 17k Labor Day will be another historic rally, stretching seventeen miles on El Camino Real, between Redwood City and Santa Clara, running through Atherton, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Los Altos, Mountain View and Sunnyvale. This event will take place only on the south side of El Camino, with a couple of exceptions in Athernon.
As in our 7 x 7k No Kings event, organizers plan for seventeen thousand people (or more) to stretch, single file from Redwood City to Santa Clara in an unbroken line of solidarity against authoritarianism and corruption, and to support labor, back environmental protections, promote human rights, and protect democracy and the rule of law. This event is accessible to young and old, to those with mobility issues and to those who have never protested before, but want a chance to stand up against tyranny. This is a peaceful protest, and participants will not block access to intersections, businesses, transit stops, or sidewalks.
17 x 17k is part of the thousands of #SolidaritySeptember and #WorkersOverBillionaires rallies across the country planned for Labor Day. On June 14, we asked for 7000 people to come have their voices heard – we got 20,000. We will keep growing as more and more people know that we all need to take a stand to defend our democracy.

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.