SWEEPS ARE VIOLENCE. This past month, on September 3rd and September 19th, the State spent tens of thousands of your tax dollars to steal and destroy the basic survival items that our poorest neighbors need the most.

Harm Reduction is a Threat to Fascism 🧵

Unfortunately, our kit making event will not be occurring tomorrow (Saturday 8/16). We’re sorry for any inconvenience this may cause to folks planning to attend. Another kit making event is in the works. Date coming soon!

As encampments continue to be criminalized here in Boston and across the US, we hear the same tired lies recycled from 311 complaints to Reddit comment sections.

Help us raise $2000 to purchase supplies for wound care kits! 🩹❤️‍🩹

One of the cool things about Warm Up is that we believe everyone has their own unique talents and abilities to contribute. There are many ways for people to participate in mutual aid and solidarity, beyond what may be expected or assumed at first glance.

It’s officially May, and we’re feeling the spring weather! Our rain-soaked volunteers showed up on Sunday to hand out supplies (including ponchos!) and food to folks downtown.

Warm Up Boston loves education! We just finished reading We Do This Till We Free Us by Mariame Kaba and met four times to discuss the book, abolition, and how Kaba’s writings apply to the work we do.

Thank you to all of our new volunteers who have stepped up to be in community with the residents of this city who the housing market and city government constantly endanger! #MutualAid #Boston

On Wednesday February 26th, Mayor Wu in conjunction with BPD and the Coordinated Response Team (functionally an extension of BPD) announced a new plan to criminalize public consumption of stigmatized substances. Under the new plan, (1/5)

Today is the anniversary of the historic and heroic 1973 AIM takeover of Wounded Knee. For 71 days, Indigenous resisters from Pine Ridge and many other places stood strong for treaty rights, justice and #landback.

Im gonna say this loudly for everyone in the back 📢 forcing people into treatment has been proven to not only be ineffective but also increases risk of death. #bospoli don’t pretend this is about helping people www.wcvb.com/article/bost...

This week at the encampment we handed out chili with cornbread, tents, blankets, socks, and more. On our mobile route, we gave out sandwiches, toiletries, gloves, hats, socks, hot drinks, and more. On both distros, we always hand out harm reduction supplies. (1/6)

We look forward to welcoming you to our first mass meeting tomorrow! Please find additional information about activities and policies in the slides above, and message us with any questions. Dress warm, and come ready to make progress toward a future without homelessness.

While we prepare for our mass meeting and increase our time spent organizing, our twice-weekly distributions do not waver, even in freezing rain. We bring hot meals, water, harm reduction, wound care, snacks, and survival supplies to the encampment every week.

We are calling this mass meeting to bring the community together to address the immediate dangers facing our neighbors and arm ourselves with the knowledge to keep us safe from forced displacement. (1/9)

This past Tuesday morning, allegedly on orders from the Governor’s office, state police, DCR, and Cambridge PD swept Goose Park and the side of Soldier’s Field Road. (1/10)

Looking for other ways to support our work or folks experiencing homelessness? @speakeasy_printshop is still running the Buy 1, Donate 1 Hoodie sale featuring a classic black hoodie with the Warm Up Boston logo hand screen printed on the front. speakeasyprintshop.com/warm-up-bost... (1/3)

We called and you answered! Boston turned out on Wednesday morning to answer our call to stop the sweep of a local encampment. (1/7)

On the darkest, coldest days of the year we’ve continued to distribute hats, gloves, socks, hoodies, coats, blankets, hand warmers, hot meals and hot coffee+hot chocolate every week downtown and at the encampment. Anything we can do to warm up our neighbors.

As we wrapped up our services in 2024, some of our volunteers also documented the latest (and longest) sweep against the encampment 2 weeks ago. Ironically, this sweep happened right before Homeless Day of Mourning.

Today is Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day. Each year, it's observed on the solstice to mark the longest night of the year to reflect on the needless loss of life our society has deemed acceptable.

The past 2 weeks Warm Up volunteers have brought hot meals, canned goods, snacks, water, clothing, blankets, and harm reduction supplies to the encampment. On our mobile distros we have handed out sandwiches,

This holiday season, please contribute to the Families for Justice as Healing/National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls canteen drive. 🔗 tinyurl.com/canteendrive This is an annual tradition of love and community care for incarcerated women. #mapoli

It's Giving Tuesday! When you donate to Warm Up Boston, all of the funds go directly to material aid for the unhoused community. Everything we provide is on our supply lists because of direct asks from community members. (1/4)

Today is #GivingTuesday! If you want to support our work advocating for SWs in Massachusetts, we’d be grateful for your donation! We’ll use these funds to create community care kits for vulnerable SWs in Boston, with harm reduction & hygiene supplies. CashApp: $bostonswac Or: donorbox.org/bswac

Craft fair/mutual aid fundraiser going through 5 pm today at the Lucy Parsons Center in Jamaica Plain!

Some things you can do if you can't make it to National Day of Mourning. #NDOM2024 #NoThanksNoGiving

"Since 1970, Native Americans have gathered at noon on Cole's Hill in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the US Thanksgiving holiday. Many Native Americans do not celebrate the arrival of the pilgrims and other European settlers. /1

"Show your 'solidarity' w ppl in jail/ prison, w Palestine, w colonized people, through your ACTIONS today, not just your words. Words are meaningless when they are not backed up with real action. Continue to resist, resist, & resist."

This week we brought a hot meal, canned goods, snacks, water, clothing, and harm reduction supplies to the encampment we support. On our mobile distro we handed out burritos, sandwiches, snacks, waters, socks, toiletries, hot drinks, and harm reduction supplies. (1/5)

[Original post from 10/29 on our Instagram account.] In response to police action and a 48 hour notice to vacate placed on the encampment we support, Warm Up Boston took to a rotary along Memorial Drive to show the people of Cambridge and Boston (1/8)

Homelessness is a punishment for being poor. No matter your life decisions, health emergencies, or criminal record, being housed should never be put into question. Our homes are what allow all other aspects of life. Housing is the most basic human need beyond air, water, (1/9)

Warm Up Boston, founded in 2020, is a radical survival program serving, supporting, and empowering Boston’s unhoused community through solidarity rather than charity. Learn more on our website: warmupboston.org #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #MutualAid #SolidarityNotCharity #HarmReduction