● About

A better local Utah

The Wasatch Assembly was founded by En Canada who moved to Utah in 2021. They attended city council meetings for years to understand how local government could be weaponized against oppressive systems and help the material conditions of the community. Over that time, they achieved significant policy victories at Salt Lake City Council. Their knowledge and victories were the foundation for The Wasatch Assembly. Now, we are expanding their framework to cities across Utah.

We believe that local government is best vector for political transformation in our state.

Who We Are

We aim to create a new Utah—ethnically diverse, compassionate, and just—where communities hold real political and economic power; freedom is collective, not hierarchical; difference is a source of strength rather than exclusion; and the land, water, and non-human life that sustain us are protected from exploitation for future generations.
The assemblypeople of the Wasatch Assembly are building a new Utah that is matriarchal, pro-Global Majority, prosperous, and environmentally habitable.
The Wasatch Assembly’s mission is to use city and county power in Utah to build a local society without patriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalism that is quickly able to meet the needs of our community.

What We Commit To

Our Principles

1
Democracy

We believe democracy is meaningless without the ability to depose the government.

2
Systems

We dismantle white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, and heteronormativity.

3
Conflict

We believe conflict is a necessary feature of democracy, not a failure of it.

4
Tangibility

We translate ideology into tangible policy goals.

5
Anti-Eurocentrism

We decenter European economic and political models in favor of culturally relevant Indigenous and Black American ones.

6
Catharsis

We transform our difficult feelings into concrete, actionable policy. We recognize this is not a space for emotional processing, but a space to harness our feelings to transform the present and the future.

Glossary

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A gender-egalitarian society where women are understood as natural leaders, power is shared, and gender differences are respected without creating hierarchies. Unlike patriarchy, matriarchies do not discriminated against or marginalize men and other genders.
The current system of the United States of America that favors capital over the well being of the community.
A collective term for Black, Asian, Brown, Indigenous, and mixed-heritage people, who make up approximately 80–85% of the world's population.
The belief that white people constitute a superior race and should therefore dominate society, typically to the exclusion or detriment of other racial and ethnic groups.
A system that creates a standard for defining heterosexuality as the normal sexual behavior, dictating that male–female differences and binary gender roles are the natural and immutable essentials in normal human relations