"I was in church yesterday and I wept for my country," said former U.S. Congressman David Skaggs who organized the protest. "We need to take a deep breath and gather our courage and stand up for what we know is right.

The gathering, sparked by mass layoffs at the agency, was also used to protest other Trump administration moves.

More than a thousand people demonstrated Monday, March 3, outside the Boulder offices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in protest of President Donald Trump’s mass layoffs at the federal weather agency.