Umbrella message appears on Portland’s Burnside Bridge during ‘No Kings’ rally

Portland’s balloon-letter artist Mike Schneider pulled together a people-centered art project amid Saturday’s “No Kings” rally downtown.

Volunteers clutching umbrellas on the Burnside Bridge together spelled the message, “We keep us safe.”

In an interview with The Oregonian/OregonLive earlier in the week, Schneider told reporter Lizzy Acker he needed approximately 600 volunteers to spell the 12-letter phrase, with each letter needing roughly 50 people with umbrellas…

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