Around 50 people gathered at the courthouse this morning, as the 45th president of the United States read his inaugural speech.

Judging from what they were saying on the radio, the rain started falling on the Mall in Washington D.C. at just about exactly the same time as it did on the steps of the Humboldt County Courthouse, where around 50 people had gathered to proclaim — as the big banner had it — that “Humboldt Stands Against Hate.”

There was a speakers’ platform up at the top of the steps, and as Donald J. Trump addressed the masses, promising to restore America’s greatness and make it shiny, the speakers in Eureka spoke of Native American rights, the plight of undocumented immigrants, and resistance to the Trump agenda.

The centerpiece of the rally was a “wall” constructed of cardboard boxes, each inscribed with what ralliers would have considered an undesirable aspect of the Trump campaign, or of the coming Trump administration — “fear,” “hate,” “xenophobic,” “sexism,” and others. At the end of the event, children were invited to come up and tear down the wall.

Full video of the rally, via Facebook citizen video, below:

Reminder: The county’s largest Trump protest — the Women’s March on Eureka — begins tomorrow at 1 p.m., at Eureka’s C Street Plaza.