Most of those who hit the streets or gathered in opposition to new President Donald Trump did so peacefully, even though the most gripping photos depict the slim minority who smashed windows and set cars and garbages ablaze downtown.

Hundreds of people gathered at the permitted “convergence space” for DisruptJ20. The space featured a bevy of speakers, musicians, art, workshops, and tabling, who mingled largely without incident.

Earlier in the morning, groups of protesters greeted 12 of the Secret Service security checkpoints for the inauguration ceremony, each with its own movement. Organizers called them all “blockades,” but some of the actions did not actually block attendees from accessing the entrance.

DisruptJ20 spokesperson Lacy McAuley says that four of the entrances were blocked for “significant periods in the morning”—the Standing Rocking protest at 13 and F St. NW, the climate change protest at 3rd and D St. NW, the Future is Feminist action at 10 and E St, NW, and the Black Lives Matter and Showing Up For Racial Justice protest at John Marshall Park. No arrests took place at the blockades.

Other checkpoints saw other kinds of protest. The Qockblockade Brigade, for instance, threw a queer dance party at 13th and E St NW, which temporarily blocked the entrance.

After that, many protesters marched to Union Station, and there was opposition at the International Trump Hotel and down by the Mall.

McAuley says that, at some checkpoints, protesters noticed that the people going into the official ceremony had anti-Trump signs, and they decided not to block the entrance because it was “a better idea to realize some of those people are our allies.” The official proceedings occurred without any major disruptions.

Whether at the security checkpoint blockades, McPherson or Franklin squares, or near the Mall, people expressed their dissatisfaction with some kind of posterboard. And fine, not all of these are technically signs, but it’s the poster that makes the fashion statement.