Editing Seattle Liberation Front (section)

==Demonstrations==
SLF planned a demonstration to be held at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Seattle on February 17, 1970.  It is commonly referred to by former SLF members as "The Day After" or "TDA."  The roughly 2,000 protesters in attendance escalated their protests into violence, throwing rocks and paint bombs at both the courthouse and at police responding to the scene. Twenty were injured in the riot, and 76 were arrested. [[Michael Lerner (rabbi)|Michael Lerner]] stated that it was a different sequence of events: "when it [the demonstration] was attacked by police, it turned into a riot." In March 1970, the Seattle Liberation Front, UW Black Student Union, and the Weathermen organized hundreds of protesters at the University of Washington's campus.<ref name="seattletimes.nwsource.com">{{Cite news|last1=Boswell|first1=Sharon|last2=McConaghy|first2=Lorraine|date=1996-10-06|title=Outrage and rebellion 'Boomers' bring battle of Vietnam to American Soil-and a counterculture is born.|work=[[Seattle Times]]}}</ref> The groups wanted the university to sever its athletic links with Brigham Young University, a Mormon school that was accused of racism.  Seattle Liberation Front and Black Student Union supporters initiated a riot that moved through eleven buildings at the University of Washington's Seattle campus.<ref name="time.com"/> Around 200 chanting demonstrators left a trail of damage throughout the campus.<ref name="seattletimes.nwsource.com"/>  Members of the SLF collective based at 814 South Weller Street spoke at a design hearing for the then-proposed I-90 freeway in June 1970, denouncing the project as "racist" and advocating revolution.