A few hundred are out today at SLC’s Washington Square Park in response to SCOTUS’ decision to overturn Roe v. Wade #utpol
Utah is one of a handful of states with a “trigger” ban that takes effect after an official certifies that all or part of the landmark decision has been overturned #utleg
Crowd has mobilized, heading toward the Capitol, where it’ll converge with @ppacutah’s rally
Chants of “Whose streets? Our streets” and “2, 4, 6, 8 f-ck the church and f-ck the state” fill the air, as the group makes its way past the SLC temple
Outside the state Capitol, the crowd for today’s reproductive rights rally is in the thousands #utpol#utleg#roevswade
A few more scenes from the Utah Capitol, as residents from Salt Lake City — and beyond — showed up in the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning Roe v. Wade #utpol
As the Capitol rally wound down, organizers took it to the street once more, and marched back toward the City and County Bldg.
SLC’s third reproductive rights rally today ended without incident. @threadreaderapp: unroll
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The event, which gives way to a march to the City and County Bldg., gives a political tinge to this weekend’s Pride 🏳️🌈 festivities
.@slcCouncil member @DarinMano, dressed in what he called his “gay clothes,” recalled his first #Pride experience, when he didn’t feel brave enough to get out of his car, and celebrated everyone present #utpol
Following the tragedy in Uvalde, Utah Sen. @derekkitchen announced plans to open a bill aiming to raise firearm-purchasing age to 21. Optics aside, the red state's political system will ensure it doesn't happen #utpol#utlegmedium.com/@EnriqueLimon/…
Yes, the time for comprehensive gun reform is now, and it shouldn't take yet another violent event to bring the subject to the table. There are, however, other floor-level factors to consider before considering the headline-grabbing nature of Kitchen’s bill ideation.
Factors like, as @GiffordsCourage points out, include a pressing need for universal background checks, adequate waiting periods before purchasing a firearm (in Utah, it’s none) and the implementation of extreme risk protection orders: giffords.org/lawcenter/gun-…
Second reproductive rights rally at the Capitol this week. This one organized by local media platform @redhiveco#utpol#utleg
On Tuesday, the same spot played host to more than 1,000 reproductive rights supporters who came out following the #SupremeCourt leaked draft opinion on Roe v. Wade threadreaderapp.com/thread/1521641…
A few hundred are here today, some carrying signs emblazoned with slogans like “Mind your own uterus” and “Keep abortion legal in Utah.” The State is one of a handful with trigger laws set in place should the landmark decision be overturned
Protest at the Utah Capitol in response to the leaked draft opinion that suggest the Supreme Court plans to overturn Roe v. Wade #utpol#utleg
Hundreds of people are at the Capitol building, some carrying signs emblazoned with messages like “Mind your own uterus” and “I will not go silently back to the 1970s”
This was the @UUtah's emblematic Block U sculpture dressed in vibrant Progress Pride colors before it was vandalized 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
The structure, which had received the temporary wrap in honor of #PrideWeekAtTheU, is back to its usual red hue ahead of schedule after unidentified subjects defaced it with duct tape and tagged the messages “F*** transectionalism” and “Don’t listen to the CCP propaganda."
"It’s hard to reconcile a hostile act against this symbol of LGBTQIA+ power and community... It’s harder to know this vandalism exists in a larger culture of transphobic, homophobic, and racist acts that target our communities," the university's @UofULGBTRC said in a statement.
Spring clean up going on at the police brutality murals in SLC's Granary District #utpol
In June 2020, a monumental depiction of George Floyd appeared overnight on the exterior of a city-owned building located at the corner of 800 South and 300 W.
Soon, the anonymous collective of artists behind it had populated surrounding walls with depictions of Bernardo Palacios, Patrick Harmon, Cindreia Europe, Breonna Taylor and more than 20 other victims of police brutality.