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Mae Blue just wanted to help, and the only thing she says she knows how to do well is cook and feed people.
Blue is among dozens who remain inside Seattle's occupied protest zone, where they have been for weeks demanding changes and police reform.
Police have abandoned a precinct in the area, and the city has yet to come in and clear out the protesters.
Instead they're letting them stay camped out on sidewalks while shutting down streets in the area.
Blue opened up her Riot Kitchen, which cooks up warm meals for protesters and homeless free of charge and operates 24 hours.
Located under makeshift tents adjacent to a community garden in the area, volunteers work to keep the protestors fed while food banks and others provide the basic staples for use in the kitchen.
"Feeding people is what I've always done. It's the only way I know how to help," Blue told the Associated Press.
"This is, I guess, how we protest, by feeding people," she said.
Mayor Jenny Durkan has been in talks with the protesters to meet some demands, reopen the space and clear the area but so far, the city has not done anything to make them leave.
The collective of protesters, activists, educators and volunteers in the so-called Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone was born after clashes with police who tear-gassed people protesting the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

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