When Gerrie Richards filled out the form to reserve the Peace & Justice Plaza for a Chapel Hill location of Saturday’s national protests against President Donald Trump’s administrative actions, she initially gave a conservative estimate. But as the RSVPs rolled in, she quickly realized it was going to be much bigger. “I put down 50,” Richards told Chapelboro about her initial estimate on the reservation form. “Then I connected with the national hotline for [Hands Off!], and it quickly went up to 100. That, I thought, would be it… but every day, I kept seeing more people signing on until I had close to 850 people that had signed [up on] that one website.” Ultimately, the “Hands Off!” protest — locally sponsored by Richards’ Chapel Hill chapter of the National Organization of Women — drew even more people than that Saturday afternoon. Not only was the Peace & Justice Plaza packed with supporters, but people holding signs and leading chants lined a block of East Franklin Street on the ...