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Follow the pENCE?
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https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1305642555854524419
Who is financing?
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>Follow the pENCE?
Former Governor of Indiana
Spencer Cox
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What happens when people in positions of power are sympathizers to the cause or part of that same ‘organization’ themselves?
What is a ‘safe zone’?
Why are riots conducted in specific [D] controlled locations?
What happens when elected officials[governors/mayors] handcuff the officers instead of criminals?
What happens when elected officials[governors/mayors] refuse to call in the national guard or other federal assistance?
Sacrificing the lives and well-being of the community for a calculated political gain [or other]?
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/crime/man-arrested-for-starting-at-least-7-brush-fires-along-i-205/283-a659a1ed-db3b-4f03-9583-a9fee05a5033
Does ANTIFA fear prosecution?
Would they continue to operate if they did?
What organized group(s) are bailing out rioters within 24-hours of arrest?
What happens post bailout?
Do charges remain enforced or dropped by DA?
https://ktvz.com/news/oregon-northwest/2020/08/11/portland-da-announces-new-policy-wont-prosecute-protest-charges/
DA: will not act re: “low-level’ arrests
Have all refusal to bring charges been related to “low-level” arrests?
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1294487845810233345
Sympathizer?
Other?
What happens when prosecutors, board of county commissioner members, volunteer firefighters, etc. are sympathetic to the cause?
What happens if the organization [ANTIFA] itself is aware?
Infiltration not invasion.
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>Follow the pen. Follow the financing. Who helped encourage Charlie Kirk assassination? George Soros? Left wing. Media. Follow the money who is manipulating the youth? Programming young people in universities? Your decode is way off. Figure out who is brainwashing America. America needs to act now before violence is pervasive.
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>Former Governor of Indiana
>S__pen__cer Cox
American News Apr 26, 2024
Democrat donors back GOP Utah Gov Cox's campaign for reelection
The governor has previously gotten a $75,000 donation from theNational Education Associationin 2020.
Democrat donors back GOP Utah Gov Cox's campaign for reelection
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Apr 26, 2024 2 minute read
Incumbent Utah Governor Spencer Cox's 2024 campaign in the Beehive state has beenbankrolled by left-wing Democrats.
In December 2024, Cox was given two $50,000 donations fromDavid E. Cumming as well as John Cumming, both of whom register their address in Wyoming withthe Cumming Foundation,as reported first by the Federalist.
The foundation's vice president Annette Cumming has also previously been the chair on the board ofPlanned Parenthoodin Utah and now sits on the current Planned Parenthood Federal Political Action Committee.
John Cumming was one of theDemocrats' “biggest donors” during the 2020 election cycle, according to data on Open Secrets with nearly $370,000 in donations. The only other Republican to receive funding from the left-wing donor is SenatorMitt Romney.
David Cumming's previous contributions include the likes of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama during their presidential runs.
Cox has raised $1.7 million this election cycle, as reported by Deseret News.
Previously in 2020, Cox also received the large sum of $75,000 from the largest teacher's union in the country, the National Education Association, making the NEA one of the Utah governor's largest donors, according to Follow the Money.
The organization frequently supports left-wing candidates with donations and has pushed for teachers to read books such as Gender Queer and White Fragility.
Early in the governor's tenure in the Beehive state, he was heavily criticized for pushing back against conservative actions. One such example is whenhe vetoeda bill that would have barred trans-identified males from playing in girls' sports. The veto was overruled in the state legislature and become law.
During a speech at the University of Utahfor Turning Point USA,earlier this year, college swimmer Riley Gaines slammed Cox for the veto on the law.
One of his first acts in office was to sign and push the "Utah Compact on Racial Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion" when he took office. He has been taken to task online by many criticisms over not being conservative in one of the more conservative states in the nation.
More recently, Cox has taken a tact against DEI leading into the upcoming governor's race in Utah and has said that required diversity statements are "bordering on evil" for college hiring.
The left-wing Utah outlet the Salt Lake Tribune, seized on this comment in reports, however, the Utah governor's senior advisor of communications, Jennifer Napier-Pearce, was formerly an executive editor for the outlet.
In recent coverage, the Tribune reported campaign donations of the candidates, but primarily took aim at the Cox's primary Republican challenger, Phil Lyman, who has been critical of the governor for being soft on immigration as well as other issues.
https://thepostmillennial.com/democrat-donors-back-gop-utah-gov-coxs-campaign-for-reelection
Early life and education
Cox grew up in Fairview, Utah and he graduated from North Sanpete High School in Mount Pleasant. He enrolled at Snow College in Ephraim andcompleted a mission to Mexico for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints while he was a student. During that time, he married his high-school sweetheart, Abby, who also graduated from Snow College. After graduating with an associate's degree, he attended Utah State University in Logan, Utah (USU), graduating in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science.[2] At USU, Cox was named Student of the Year and graduated with a 4.0 grade point average.
Cox was accepted by Harvard Law School but instead chose to enroll at Washington and Lee University School of Law. He was a member of the Washington and Lee Law Review and graduated in 2001 with a Juris Doctor degree with honors.[2][3]
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>>23599193, >>23599223 Lindsey LeBaron serves as the Communications Manager for Utah's Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity
>Mormons in Mexico: A brief history of polygamy, cartel violence and faith
>Lindsey LeBaron serves as the Communications Manager for Utah's Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity, a role she has held during Spencer Cox's time as governor
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Personal life
Cox with his wife Abby in 2024
Cox is the oldest of eight children and grew up on a farm in Fairview.[2] He and his wife, Abby, have four children and live on their family farm in Fairview.[3] His father, Eddie, served on the Utah Transportation Commission and was also a Sanpete County commissioner.[9]
Cox plays bass guitar in a garage band.[7][9] His brother-in-law, Travis Osmond, the son of Merrill Osmond, taught him to play bass.[65] State Senator Mike McKell is also a brother-in-law.[2] Cox's fourth cousin, Jon Cox, succeeded him in the Utah House of Representatives.[66]
Cox is a fan of the band The Killersand in 2018 recorded a cover of The Killers' song "Read My Mind" with his band. At a 2024 campaign event, he crowdsurfed during a Brandon Flowers performance.
Show Up is an initiative of the Utah's First Lady Foundation, a non-political 501c3 that supports the work of Utah First Lady Abby Cox.
Thanks to the generous support of private donors, Show Up promotes the expansion of Special Olympics Unified Sports, elevates Utah's educators, promotes the importance of service, and surrounds foster families with love and connection.
>whatever member of this trans community who took the shot… must have been doing some training. It will come out.
Local Stories July 24, 2024
Conversations with Armed Queers Salt Lake City
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Today we’d like to introduce you to Armed Queers Salt Lake City
Hi Armed Queers Salt Lake City, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
We are a socialist queer organization that emerged in the summer of 2020 when a new consciousness had drawn masses of people into the streets, and to our struggles. During this time, we also witnessed a rise in violence and vigilantism against trans people, particularly black and brown trans women, and recognized the need to protect our community.
For 4 years we have provided defense to community members threatened by right-wing vigilantes and state violence. We have organized, educated, and agitated within LGBTQ, anti-imperialist, and labor movements towards a socialist future. We continue to do so with a love for our community and a commitment to serve it.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Nothing worth fighting for ever is. We’ve faced slander and conflict at nearly every turn. Organizing is by no means easy, yet it’s only when we dare to struggle that we dare to win. No challenge will outweigh our persistence for our struggles.
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
While we specialize in security, we recognize the equal importance of political education both within our party and outside it. We publish information on a range of subjects, which has included Utah’s supplying of genocide in Palestine, Utah pride’s corporate sellout, and radical queer history and our place in it. We are proud of the connections and solidarity we’ve been able to build with people across Utah. Actively organizing in different movements, and in cities that perhaps don’t receive as much outreach (we had recently gone to Vernal Utah,and St. George, working with local organizers out there). Our ability to resonate, and build relationships with, people from all different communities makes our work unique, and significantly stronger.
We’d love to hear about how you think about risk taking?
Being able to be an organization committed to defense for oppressed communities will always mean that we to some extent may be putting our own lives at risk. However, our commitment to something much bigger than ourselves, to people’s struggles against racism, transphobia, and capitalism, means much more to us than any risk.
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https://voyageutah.com/interview/conversations-with-armed-queers-salt-lake-city/
>Conversations with Armed Queers Salt Lake City
Growing from Radical Roots: 2022 Pride in Salt Lake City
Members and allies of the LGBTQIA+ community gather for the Pride Rally at Capitol Hill in Salt Lake City on Sunday, June 6, 2021 (Photo by Brooklyn Critchley | The Daily Utah Chronicle)
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Members and allies of the LGBTQIA+ community gather for the Pride Rally at Capitol Hill in Salt Lake City on Sunday, June 6, 2021 (Photo by Brooklyn Critchley | The Daily Utah Chronicle)
By Kayleigh Silverstein, Special Projects Managing Editor, News Writer
May 25, 2022
The week of May 29 to June 5 marks Pride Week in Utah. This year, the Utah Pride Center expects to have the largest festival and parade in 30 years. Leading up to their three main events on June 4 and 5, there are 11 other events people can participate in.
“Over the last three years that we haven’t been able to do this, it has been a challenge to know how many people out there support the LGBTQ+ community, to know who our allies are … It’s easy to feel alone in times where we can’t gather,” said Kevin Randall, the communications manager of the UPC. “So now that we’re able to do this, I think people are just really thirsty for it.”
Gathering Again, Proudly
Pride Week is occurring just a few months after the Utah legislature overrode Gov. Cox’s veto of H.B. 11, which would ban transgender girls from participating in sports aligning with their gender identity, and weeks after it was revealed the United States Supreme Court plans to overturn Roe v. Wade.
One event of Pride Week is an LGBTQ+ film screening put on by the UPC, where participants can watch “Changing the Game,” a film about transgender inclusion in sports, for free at the Salt Lake City Library.
Randall said this film is ever important in Utah in 2022 because it has been difficult for transgender youth to hear their rights debated constantly.
“Knowing some of these youth myself, personally, it’s been difficult to hear their stories — in fact, one kid I know had to leave school on the day that the legislature overturned the governor’s veto on H.B.11,” Randall said. “He said he just couldn’t be in school anymore.”
On the first day of June, which marks 23 years since Pride Month was officially recognized by the U.S. Government, the pride flag will be raised at the Salt Lake City and County Building to commemorate the month. This also marks the first day of the UPC’s Pride Story Garden Exhibit, which will be at the library atrium for 17 days. The exhibit attempts to share LGBTQIA+ histories, stories and communities with attendees.
“We want people to know what the story is,” Randall said. “We want people to know how much people have fought for the rights and freedoms that we enjoy today, rights and freedoms that actually could be rolled back if we’re not careful.”
Through its activities ranging from youth pride to 21+ events at clubs and various free opportunities, the UPC is trying to have an all-inclusive Pride Week, Randall explained.
“We just want everyone to come and enjoy it, just to be there, be together and also take pride in contributing to the Utah Pride Center itself,” he said.
According to Randall, all money raised through their Pride Week events directly supports the UPC efforts, including mental health and wellness programs.
“Having the Pride Festival back and seeing the community support, it makes us feel even more confident that we can continue those services and support our community,” he said.
The UPC festival will be two days, starting on June 4, with more than 60,000 people expected to attend. There will be food trucks and exhibitor booths. The following day, June 5, marks the end of Pride Week, where participants in the Utah Pride Parade can march to the second day of the festival.
The University of Utah will have a walking delegation in the Pride Parade, supported by the LGBT Resource Center on campus, among other collaborators.
Clare Lemke, the director of the LGBT center, said the U is a sponsor of the 2022 Utah Pride Fest.
>Growing from Radical Roots: 2022 Pride in Salt Lake City
“It’s a way for the university to show its commitment to supporting LGBTQIA+ community members and also for the commitment for advocating for equity for LGBTQIA+ students, faculty and staff,” Lemke said.
Lemke encourages people to look into pride celebrations happening in other areas of Utah as well for the rest of June.
“So really, what pride means, is different LGBTQIA+ communities making this celebration and also this observance of people’s activism and people’s refusal to be silenced or to be invisible, really honoring the communities that they’re in through their local celebrations and what it looks like for them to celebrate pride in their spaces,” Lemke said.
Queer Liberation and Revolutionary Spirit
Ermiya Fanaeian, the founder of Armed Queers Salt Lake City, said pride should be centered in its radical roots. The first pride parade happened in 1970, one year after the Stonewall Riots, where individuals protested police raids of the Stonewall Inn, a club and place of refuge for New York’s gay community.
This fight against police brutality, according to Fanaeian, is often forgotten in the corporate attempt to honor LGBTQ+ histories.
“Over the years, nonprofits that have taken on the LGBT struggle, have done so in ways that have been incredibly capitalistic and filled with corporate-centered greed, instead of our radical roots,” she said.
Fanaeian will be speaking at Salt Lake Community Mutual Aid’s Pride Without Police event on June 10 — this event advocates for queer liberation rather than assimilation and the revolutionary spirit characterizing pride movements historically.
“Unlike the rainbow capitalists who actively invite cops into queer spaces, we stand with great revolutionaries like Marsha P, Sylvia Rivera, and Harry Hay in recognizing that the police state has always been and will always be an enemy of the queer liberation movement,” the group’s Instagram post read.
The UPC Pride Festival and Parade will have police presence. Randall said they will serve as escorts and security.
“We have chosen to include the police in this festival but we also empathize with people who struggle with that, because in the past, police have harmed our community, and we understand that,” he said. “But we, as of today, have a good relationship with the police department, and want to maintain that, we want to have an all-inclusive festival for everyone, and that includes law enforcement.”
According to Fanaeian, the Pride Without Police event is essential to “honor the true anti-capitalist, anti-police, radical, revolutionary roots of the queer and trans struggle.”
Armed Queers is a socialist group fighting for communal defense of the queer community. This, Fanaeian said, is necessary, because the police do not protect them.
“I will be talking about the need for queer and trans people to arm ourselves in the moment of hostility and the moment of political tensions growing against us and really defer [to] communal defense and communal protection of one another,” she said.
In addition to celebrating pride’s radical roots and anti-police history, Fanaeian said pride represents liberation.
“It’s a time to really grow that organizing in ways that we aren’t able to grow in maybe other times of the year,” she said. “It’s about growing the struggle and growing our movements.”
The event will have speeches from queer organizers, free food, music and dancing. Independent queer artists can direct message the SLCMA’s Instagram to table at the event.
Fanaeian said pride is not for corporations, so instead they should realize how they have contributed to the need for pride celebrations in the first place.
“[Corporations] need to allow for their queer and trans workers to unionize and to be able to stand up against many of the oppressive ways that they treat them,” she said. “I think they need to recognize that they are the reason behind much oppression and exploitation against us.”
https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2022/05/25/utah-pride-2022/
>Ermiya Fanaeian, the founderof Armed Queers Salt Lake City, said pride should be centered in its radical root
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Humans of the U: Ermiya Fanaeian
"I'm a political organizer by nature and before I graduated from high school, I co-founded a non-profit organization called March for Our Lives Utah—working with young people across the country focusing on gun violence prevention. I've had amazing opportunities with legislators inviting me to talk about bills and what I find to be effective or not effective in the legislation they're introducing."
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“I’m originally from Iran, a country where LGBT people are facing severe persecution. They don’t have legal protections and they can’t obtain educational degrees, so to be at the U is incredibly liberating. And it’s a great opportunity to represent the student body as an ASUU elected assembly representative. I represent the undergraduate constituency through listening to students’ concerns, working on campus reform and enacting legislation.
From a young age, I’ve been involved in politics.I worked on numerous campaigns, including Congressman Ben McAdams 2018 congressional campaign.
I’m a political organizer by nature and before I graduated from high school, I co-founded a non-profit organization called March for Our Lives Utah—working with young people across the country focusing on gun violence prevention.
I’ve had amazing opportunities with legislators inviting me to talk about bills and what I find to be effective or not effective in the legislation they’re introducing. That’s a great shift. They’re starting to listen to the young people because we are mobilized more than ever and know what’s happening in our communities and we do have a voice. I want to help cultivate our city and cultivate our political landscape here and at the university.
I feel this communal energy on campus. People want to be involved in something bigger and it brings us together. We’re not a campus that’s divided. we recognize the similarities that we have, and regardless of our differences, there are so many things that unite us. We have so much more in common than we often think.”
—Ermiya Fanaeian, a freshman at the U, studying business
>>Ermiya Fanaeian, the founderof Armed Queers Salt Lake City, said pride should be centered in its radical root
How a Utah gun control advocate changed her mind and launched a pro-gun group
‘This is a form of empowerment for me,’ says woman rekindling Utah’s Pink Pistols chapter
Published: Nov 27, 2020, 5:00 p.m. MST
Ermiya Fanaeian, director of the Salt Lake City chapter of Pink Pistols, an organization that promotes self-defense and responsible gun ownership for people who identify as LGBTQ and their allies, poses for a picture at TNT Guns & Range in Murray on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. Steve Griffin, Deseret News
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By Kyle Dunphey
SALT LAKE CITY — Ermiya Fanaeian looks down the barrel of her AR-15, sighting the pink paper target hanging about a dozen yards in front of her.
She fires off five rounds, exhaling each time before she pulls the trigger and the bone-rattling crack of the gunshot rips through the indoor shooting range. Keeping the rifle pointed forward, she slides the safety lever up and disconnects the banana-shaped magazine, placing them both on the counter before her. Then, she presses a button to her left, sending the target, fixed to a track on the ceiling, rocketing back toward her booth.
The first time Fanaeian shot a gun was three months ago.
“I’ve definitely gotten better,” she says as she inspects the target. One bullet hole sits a few inches above the white X in the center of the target, another slightly to the right.
“Not too bad, not the best.”
Ermiya Fanaeian, director of the Salt Lake City chapter of Pink Pistols, an organization that promotes self-defense and responsible gun ownership for people who identify as LGBTQ and their allies, fires an AR-15 at TNT Guns & Range in Murray on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. | Steve Griffin, Deseret News
In July, Fanaeian, a 20-year-old business student at the University of Utah, reopened the Salt Lake Chapter of the Pink Pistols, a pro-gun, pro-LGBTQ group “dedicated to the legal, safe and responsible use of firearms for self-defense of the sexual-minority community.”
Fanaeian is an unlikely candidate to spearhead a pro-Second Amendment group like the Pink Pistols, which was founded in 2000 and has since grown to include 45 active chapters across the country, according to its website.
At 17, Fanaeian co-founded the Utah chapter of March for Our Lives, a nationwide, student-led campaign born out of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 dead.
She helped organize a massive event where roughly 8,000 protesters met at the state Capitol to demand stricter gun laws. Many held signs calling for a ban on assault weapons — like the AR-15 that Fanaeian now owns.
At first, Fanaeian felt intimidated diving into the gun world.
“The left’s idea of a ‘gun nut’ typically is white men who are upper class and see this as a hobby that will make their egos bigger,” she told the Deseret News. “But the reality is this is a form of empowerment for me.”
Fanaeian said being involved in movements like March for Our Lives taught her a lot.
“As working-class people, we should not be disarmed,” she said. “There is everlasting violence against LGBTQ people that oftentimes politicians, on whatever side of the aisle, are not addressing, and we need to be able to protect ourselves. And because of that, I came to this understanding that the March for Our Lives goals do not align with my goals.”
In addition to her involvement in March for Our Lives, Fanaeian spent several years working for the campaigns of Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Ben McAdams, making inroads in Utah’s Democratic Party and activism scene — communities seeking some measure of gun control.
Though the Salt Lake City chapter of Pink Pistols dates back to 2016, originally started by Matt Schlentz, it became inactive and was rekindled by Fanaeian in July.
Still in its fledgling stages, the Pink Pistols have seen some pushback.
“A lot of the perspectives come from this idea that guns are going to harm people, that getting more guns to queer and trans people is not the answer, that ultimately to protect queer and trans people, we need to ban guns,” she said.
>How a Utah gun control advocate changed her mind and launched a pro-gun group
Membership remains light, in part due to a pandemic that makes in-person meetings difficult. But with a growing social media presence, she’s hoping to expand the group’s foothold along the Wasatch Front.
“We’ve had folks from all different walks of life in all different parts of the state reach out to us,” she said. “They express their wants to finally be able to defend themselves, defend their families and defend their communities. … They didn’t know it was an option for LGBTQ folks to do so.”
Anyone can join the Pink Pistols, and Fanaeian says the group is currently made up of college-age people of all races and sexual orientations, including Ashton Leve, a graduate student who joined the group as an ally about a month ago.
“With all the things that are going on in the world, there’s a lot of hate. Every voting period seems to bring out the worst in people,” said Leve who, like Fanaeian, has been a gun owner for less than a year.
“It never really occurred to me that (LGBTQ people) get hit or assaulted just for being who they are,” he said. “I felt like this was a good way to reach out and address some of these issues.”
A 2018 FBI report showed that 1,364 of the 7,120 hate crime “incidents” — nearly 1 out of 5 — reported that year targeted someone’s gender identity or sexual orientation. That’s compared to 1,249 in 2017, and 1,200 the year prior. Hate crimes directed at trans and gender-nonconforming people spiked from 119 incidents reported in 2017, to 148 in 2018.
And for many, the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, at the time the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, was a wake-up call. In the days following, the Pink Pistols membership grew from 1,500 to 6,500 nationwide, Rolling Stone reported.
“Gun ownership among our community has been growing ever since the Pulse nightclub shooting. And a lot of people after that began to understand the need to protect ourselves,” Fanaeian said. “We can’t talk about empowering marginalized communities while simultaneously trying to disarm marginalized communities.”
Troy Williams, executive director of Equality Utah, the Beehive State’s “premier LGBTQ civil rights organization,” said, “Many LGBTQ Utahns own guns, either for sport or self-defense. Many don’t.”
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“As an organization we support the Second Amendment. We draw the line, however, at military grade weapons in the hands of civilians. We’re talking about weapons like the SIG MCX semi-automatic that was used to murder 49 LGBTQ people and wound 53 more at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. These deadly weapons of war belong in the hands of soldiers, not civilians,” Williams said.
Fanaeian, on the other hand, wants to see community-based solutions to stop gun violence, rather than what she calls “restrictive gun control.”
“As far as legislatively trying to do things such as ban assault weapons, or ultimately make it harder for regular everyday folks to access guns only so rich elitist people can access them … I’m completely against those initiatives.”
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School occurred in 2017. It happened in 2018.
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Ermiya Fanaeian is a Trans liberation and Feminist political organizer whose work has included organizing around the abortion struggle, working with the ACLU to secure the rights of Trans youth in the education system, organizing to criminalize conversion therapy in the state of Utah, working on electoral campaigns, and creating research studying the conditions of gender oppressed people at the hands of state institutions.
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Your girl is headed to grad school!
This will truly be a bittersweet summer as I say goodbye to SLC. The people and movements of Salt Lake City helped raise me, and shaped me into the woman I am today! I’ve been organizing, teaching, and building in these streets for many years, but now it’s time to head to a new city! Excuse my many tears in advance as I slowly say my goodbyes these next couple of months 🥲🥹😭.
I’m very excited to start my doctoral program at Howard University!! D.C. friends and comrades, I can’t wait to join you. Let’s go get this PhD! 💅🏻❤️❤️
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Langley:Leftist Student Organizations Need Better Organization
(Graphic by Madelyn Foulger | The Daily Utah Chronicle)
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By Jeffrey Langley Jr., Opinion Editor
November 23, 2022
The University of Utah houses over 600 clubs and student organizations that range in focus from community service and advocacy to plain fun.
However, with groups like Turning Point USA entering the scene, bigotry and right-wing extremism grow within this campus. Accepting these things as appropriate, especially in a red state, opens the door to discomfort for minority groups and circulates misinformation. The administration lacks insight into the effects groups like these can have. Furthermore, their flippant approach to administration allows other injustices to occur. Despite this evident inability to perform, leftist student organizations do little to rally students and advocate change. In the leftist tradition, it is the duty of these organizations to fight injustice wherever it may appear. Doing nothing sets a terrible example.
Left-wing student organizations at the U must organize themselves to promote real political change and make a difference. Byleaving TPUSA and groups akinto them unopposed, we give them the power to be the de facto majority. Otherwise, more problems may arise in the future.
Who Currently Voices Their Opinions on Campus
Right-wing organizations have nested themselves here in the U.TPUSA,for example, is an up-and-coming organization on campus, but it has an infamous history.
As pointed out recently by fellow Chronicle Opinion Writer Elle Cowley, TPUSA haspromoted vile and unfounded ideassince its inception in 2012. Many knowCharlie Kirk, the founder of TPUSA, to be a peddler of conspiracy theories and racially inflammatory comments. He also denies climate change, a widely accepted scientific phenomenon. While most, including myself, cannot imagine why anyone would agree with, let alone join, an organization led by this man, some lack a grounded worldview.
Another right-wing group on campus is The Federalist Society. While claiming the aim of maximizing individual liberty, this group supports such things as the overturning of Roe v. Wade, transphobia, racism and the platforming of white supremacists.
With this sort of activity happening on campus, it shocks me to see so little action from leftist or moderate student organizations. We cannot make room for racism, and students must start advocating against these groups. Otherwise, how will we safeguard our more progressive ideals and even the lives of our minority students?
Leftists in Utah are Already Under-Represented
Outside of campus, being progressive in Utah can have its difficulties. Utah is a deeply red state and has been for decades.
Because of Republican dominance in Utah, congressional voting districts have gotten blatantly gerrymandered. This splits Salt Lake City, the most liberal area of Utah, into four districts. In simple terms, it is extraordinarily difficult for Democrats to compete in Utah regardless of how much support they receive.
As college students, who are statistically more liberal than most groups, we must recognize this disenfranchisement. It can feel defeating to be in our position, but we can only achieve future victory through solidarity. These right-wing groups on campus are not the grassroots advocates they claim to be. They are instead agents of those who already oppress us.
An Interview with Ermiya Fanaeian
Ermiya Fanaeian, an organizer with the Party of Socialism and Liberation and the Armed Queers of Salt Lake City, was quick to speak out against the right-wing activity here on campus. “Their goal is to ensure that younger people, specifically college students, move to the right and see an alternative to leftist movements and leftist causes,” Fanaeian expressed. However, she invalidates their efforts by explaining how “[right-wing politics] is not what younger people, college students and certainly not people on a national level are wanting.”
Despite this conflict of interests, Fanaeian spoke to how our administration caters to these groups. She said, “The University of Utah as an institution has very much favored right-wing organizations over leftist ones. We’ve seen this with the way the police handles things. We see this with the way that administration handles things.” Because of this, “At the University of Utah campus, we can definitely do more. I think that there, in fact, needs to be more established and developed efforts against right-wing forces.” Fanaeian reasoned that outside of campus, “activism has been at its all-time high,” as was seen in the multitude of protests over the last two years.
She recommends students get involved by “organizing protests, organizing demonstrations, holding forums, educating people in our local communities as much as we can.” And, of course,by “engaging in revolutionary parties [and] __revolutionary __organizations.”While some may feel anxious or hopeless about our situation, Fanaeian said that “Right now is not the time to agonize. Right now is the time to really organize and build a collective movement that’s going to ensure people power and that requires arevolutionaryoptimism.”
In this turbulent era of growing oppression, there is little time to do what we should have done long ago. Students and their organizations must take up the responsibility to fight against the growing illness of right-wing extremism and bigotry here on campus. The current administration is not willing or able to clean the mess they’ve made, but we have the tools to do so. Our cause will lead us to victory, and there is a world to win.
https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2022/11/23/langley-leftist-student-organizations-right-wing-extremism/