Flashback: When The Stranger Helped Organize a Protest at Seattle's Russian Consular Residence

by The StrangerFormer Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn at the protest outside the Russian consular residence in 2013. Dan Savage
Back in 2013, Dan Savage and Dominic Holden, then the paper's news editor, called for Seattleites to join a protest at the Russian consular residence—the home for the person who runs the Russian Consulate of Seattle, which today was shuttered by order of the Trump administration.Why were Dan and Dominic urging people to the Russian consular residence barricades in 2013?