Protest at the Stemilt Grand Parade on May 2, 2026

Normally we’d be protesting our Representative Kim Schrier, but she’s not on the lineup this year!

After two years of Wenatchee for Palestine protesting her appearance at Apple Blossom, she’s too afraid to face her constituents because she knows that her support for Israel and her vote for the Laken Riley Act are deeply unpopular!

So this year, we are going to be focusing our protest on more local politicians instead. We’ll be handing out Palestine and Mexico flags as well as flyers (provided below).

Anyone is welcome to join us and stand/sit with us in the crowd, or to stand somewhere else along the route and shout at our politicians from there. You can find us by the giant Palestine-related banners and flag!

First up on the Stemilt Grand Parade lineup: Mike Poirier, City of Wenatchee Mayor, and Jerrilea Crawford, East Wenatchee Mayor, at number 47 and 48 respectively.

We are protesting both mayors for their complicity in Wenatchee’s and East Wenatchee’s decisions to remove the Pride banners in June. Join us in shouting: “Hey, Mayor, you can’t take our Pride!” when they come by.

Next up: Mike Steele, State Representative, Keith Goehner, 12th District State Senator, and Brian Burnett, Washington State Representative, at numbers 56, 72, and 82 respectively.

We are protesting Goehner because he voted against SJM 8014, which would have demanded an investigation into Israel’s murder of Washington resident Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi in 2024. Steele and Burnett also didn’t help pass the Ayşenur bill. None of them have supported divesting our state funds from apartheid Israel or placing limits on ICE.

Join us in shouting: “Justice for Ayşenur (eye-sha-nor)!” “No funds for genocide!” when they come by.

Also, we were contacted by a member of Ayşenur’s family, and the family is really grateful for what we’re doing. The “Justice for Ayşenur” signs that we will have are designs that were provided to us by Ayşenur’s family. So if you join us in participating in this protest, know that if nothing else, it’s personally really meaningful for Ayşenur’s family that we are doing this!

Please stick around after our state reps go by in the parade to cheer for our friends in the Rainbows delegation: Out NCW, “NCW Justice Coalition – Rainbows” and Confluence Indivisible, “NCW Justice Coalition – Rainbows”, numbers 100 and 101 in the lineup!

Also, we encourage everyone to wear rainbow/Pride colors to the parade if you can! Let’s help spread the rainbow beyond just the parade procession.

If you’d like to print your own flyers for the parade, we have them available here:

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Anti-Chevron Day postcards and picket

For this day of action, we’re taking a leaf from Bellingham BDS, and we’re combining a gas station picket with a postcard campaign!

In the lead-up to Anti-Chevron Day on May 21, we’re going to be encouraging people to bring in postcards to the Chevron gas station in person. The postcards contain a QR code/link to a letter to the Chevron company from franchisees demanding that Chevron end its business in apartheid Israel. This is one of the two asks that BDS is requesting from gas station owners.

We’ll be picketing the Chevron from 5:30 to 6:30 PM on Wednesday, May 21. The Chevron is located at 1041 N Miller St.

We will have some signs available for people to borrow, but people are welcome to bring your own! We can bring a chair if anyone wants to participate, but is unable to stand for an hour (just let us know if you need one!). Also, we will be requiring masks worn by everyone who is medically able to do so as a covid safety precaution. If you don’t have a mask of your own, we will have free masks available to anyone who needs one.

Our hope is that the postcards combined with the picket (this will be our third time picketing the Chevron gas station) will make the owners of the gas station feel more inclined to want to sign the letter.

If you would like to help us out by bringing a postcard to the Chevron, you can print your own here (get your friends to bring the extras!). Bringing them before May 21 is preferable, but whatever works!

And if you can, please come join us at the picket! We’re joining dozens of other cities from multiple countries for this day of action (see the map here). Our own Action Network page is here.

Protest at the Stemilt Grand Parade on May 3, 2025

We’ve been waiting very patiently for the Stemilt Grand Parade lineup to be published on the Apple Blossom Festival website because we’ve been wanting to confirm if Representative Kim Schrier was going to be present at the parade this year or not. Well, the lineup is finally out, and she is going to be there after all!

We’re hoping to respectfully be at the parade, but protest when she passes by.

Some of you might remember seeing us at the parade last year (more about that here). Wenatchee for Palestine was a lot smaller then, and a group of us attended the parade and stood in the crowd with our Palestine flags and protest signs. When Kim Schrier came by, we yelled some protest chants at her, highlighting her role in perpetuating the genocide. That was the only time during the parade that we were vocally disruptive; the rest of the time we just quietly held our signs.

Not long after the parade, Ruby at Kim Schrier’s Wenatchee District Office reached out to us and wanted to meet with us. That meeting was the only time we received any sort of concessions from Schrier. It didn’t lead to anything concrete; she didn’t change how she was voting, and we were not able to meet with Schrier herself. But we certainly managed to get her attention.

This year, we’re hoping to do something even bigger than last year, and we need your help to do it!

We’re hoping to get more people along the parade route chanting at Schrier rather than just our one corner of the route. We think this would send a very strong message both to Schrier herself and to the Wenatchee community as a whole that our community strongly supports Palestine and immigrants (since Schrier also voted for the Laken Riley Act, which allows ICE to target immigrants without due process).

We’re going to try to grab the same spot we had last year, which was at the corner of Orondo Avenue and Wenatchee Avenue facing the oncoming parade procession (so, we’ll be standing in Orondo Avenue). We’ll have the Wenatchee for Palestine banner and Palestine flags and such, so we should be easy to find!

If you would like to pick up Palestine and Mexico flags and chant sheets from us to use in the parade, feel free to stop by! Anyone is welcome to also stand with us for any part of the duration of the parade, though we welcome folks to stand anywhere along the route and chant at Kim Schrier from any location.

The plan is simple: when Kim Schrier comes by, wave your Palestine and Mexico flags, and if you’d like, join us in chanting at her! Feel free to wave the Palestine and Mexico flags during the rest of the parade, too. We think it would be awesome if all of the photography for the parade featured Palestine and Mexico flags in the background.

Chant list:

Kim Schrier, you can’t hide,
you supported genocide!

Viva viva Palestina!

Kim Schrier, go away,
immigrants are here to stay!

El pueblo, unido,
jamas sera vencido!

If you would like to print your own chant sheet, we have it available to print here in English or Spanish:

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