Demand SLC Mayor Erin Mendenhall and SLC County Mayor Jenny Wilson Ban Homeless Abatements
The Issue
I am a current candidate for Mayor of Salt Lake City, but this is not about an election, it's about justice and human rights!!!
It's time Salt Lake City chooses compassion over human rights abuses, cruelty, barbaric policies, and violence against our most vulnerable homeless population.
It's time all of Salt Lake City and Utah demand Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall and Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson forever ban homeless abatements and setup sanctioned camping in the Salt Lake Valley.
I support sanctioned camping for everyone on the streers and have been very outspoken about the human rights violations currently happening against the homeless. We are demanding justice, respect, and protection for the homeless community.
We can't wait until November to forever ban homeless abatements, we must do it right now. Erin Mendenhall and Jenny Wilson are not stopping the cruelty and have just conducted another abatement yesterday, July 27th 2023. They continue to carry out abatements with no sight of halting unless we the people demand they do so by demanding compassion, kindness, and justice through sanctioned camping.
The Health Department claims abatements are about cleaning up areas and preventing the spread of disease, but that doesn't explain or justify police coming into homeless communities, throwing away the only belongings that homeless people have under the threat of force, arrest, and violence.
The United Nations has even recently said that Israel displacing Palestinians and forcing them from their homes are war crimes and crimes against humanity. So what is it when homeless folks get their tents bulldozed and displaced at gunpoint by our police and our public tax dollars here in Utah? Why are we allowing crimes against humanity to happen in our city, in our own backyard?
Demand Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall and Salt Lake County Mayor ban abatements NOW AND FOREVER and setup sanctioned camping. Demand our Mayors do their jobs and serve and protect the most vulnerable people in our valley, demand accountability.
If they continue to ignore the people they work for, to continue to use public tax dollars to attack their own communities, then these abatements are now their abatements. They can be remembered for a legacy of human rights violations, cruelty, and injustice, two Mayors who choose inhumanity over fulfilling their most basic duties of their oath of office.
Also Demand that Mayoral Candidate Rocky Anderson (And all Salt Lake City Council candidates) speak out and support the immediate ban of abatements and setting up of sanctioned camping.
Right now, not after an election, not after November.
(Photos by Robin Pendergrast)
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The Issue
I am a current candidate for Mayor of Salt Lake City, but this is not about an election, it's about justice and human rights!!!
It's time Salt Lake City chooses compassion over human rights abuses, cruelty, barbaric policies, and violence against our most vulnerable homeless population.
It's time all of Salt Lake City and Utah demand Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall and Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson forever ban homeless abatements and setup sanctioned camping in the Salt Lake Valley.
I support sanctioned camping for everyone on the streers and have been very outspoken about the human rights violations currently happening against the homeless. We are demanding justice, respect, and protection for the homeless community.
We can't wait until November to forever ban homeless abatements, we must do it right now. Erin Mendenhall and Jenny Wilson are not stopping the cruelty and have just conducted another abatement yesterday, July 27th 2023. They continue to carry out abatements with no sight of halting unless we the people demand they do so by demanding compassion, kindness, and justice through sanctioned camping.
The Health Department claims abatements are about cleaning up areas and preventing the spread of disease, but that doesn't explain or justify police coming into homeless communities, throwing away the only belongings that homeless people have under the threat of force, arrest, and violence.
The United Nations has even recently said that Israel displacing Palestinians and forcing them from their homes are war crimes and crimes against humanity. So what is it when homeless folks get their tents bulldozed and displaced at gunpoint by our police and our public tax dollars here in Utah? Why are we allowing crimes against humanity to happen in our city, in our own backyard?
Demand Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall and Salt Lake County Mayor ban abatements NOW AND FOREVER and setup sanctioned camping. Demand our Mayors do their jobs and serve and protect the most vulnerable people in our valley, demand accountability.
If they continue to ignore the people they work for, to continue to use public tax dollars to attack their own communities, then these abatements are now their abatements. They can be remembered for a legacy of human rights violations, cruelty, and injustice, two Mayors who choose inhumanity over fulfilling their most basic duties of their oath of office.
Also Demand that Mayoral Candidate Rocky Anderson (And all Salt Lake City Council candidates) speak out and support the immediate ban of abatements and setting up of sanctioned camping.
Right now, not after an election, not after November.
(Photos by Robin Pendergrast)
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Petition created on July 28, 2023