As candidates running for the Salt Lake City Council, we oppose the decision to charge the 14 people who protested the Utah inland port. We call upon everyone in the Salt Lake area to support dropping the charges.
For months, we have heard accounts of diligent civilians resisting the inland port. The protesters, many of whom are disabled, women, people of color, and working-class, have taken risks because they know that the inland port represents a political system that ignores and silences their voices.
Resistance, as the protesters understand, includes adopting peaceful strategies that expose immoral laws upholding this system.