On Oct. 18, three identical banners — each 18 feet wide and painted with the words “We the People” — unfurled in three different cities at once. In Washington, D.C., Chicago and Seattle, marchers — both Vashonites and strangers — held the edges, carrying the scroll through the cities.

The synchronized display was the work of the Backbone Campaign, a nonprofit activist collective from Vashon Island whose protest art has appeared in demonstrations across the state and country for more than two decades.

The “We the People” scrolls — hand-painted reproductions of the Constitution’s preamble on muslin — have been used in demonstrations across the country and featured prominently in national media coverage. They’ve appeared on front pages and television screens from The Daily Show to The Rache

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