Climate activists in Seattle are protesting the Blue Angels, the famous U.S. Navy flight demonstration squadron, ahead of a planned appearance at the city’s Seafair festival this coming weekend.
An alliance of activist groups known as the Airshow Climate Action Coalition recently put up a billboard on Seattle’s south side reading “Say No To Blue Angels!” It shows city residents covering their ears in discomfort alongside the words “Too Loud,” “War Trauma,” and “Pollution.”
“We don’t oppose Seafair. We do oppose the continued Boeing-sponsored airshow with the Blue Angels,” Mary Paterson, a volunteer with 350 Seattle and a member of the Airshow Climate Action Coalition, told KCPQ-TV in Seattle…