#encampmentsupport — Public Fediverse posts

This week we brought a hot meal of chicken, peas, and pasta, canned goods, snacks, water, clothing, blankets, and harm reduction supplies to the encampment. On our mobile distro we brought sandwiches, snacks, wound care kits, waters, socks, toiletries, hot drinks, and harm reduction supplies to folks around downtown, the Common, South Station, and Back Bay.

We build trust with community members we serve by consistently showing up week after week with the same supplies. It is essential to our work that encampment residents know exactly where their dinner will be coming that night and that they’ll each get a case of water every week. We hear frequently from folks on mobile routes that they were waiting for us to come by because they knew we’d be coming by with new needles and sandwiches.

It is always a gift to be trusted by another person, and we do not take it lightly. We’re only able to consistently show up each week because of our incredible volunteers and donors. We are endlessly grateful for our volunteers who spend their free time making sandwiches and meals, tabling at events, and of course, doing distros.

#WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #EncampmentSupport #MutualAid

#WarmUpBoston #SolidarityNotCharity #EncampmentSupport #MutualAid #ServicesNotSweeps

#WarmUpBoston #SolidarityNotCharity #EncampmentSupport #MutualAid #ServicesNotSweeps

#WarmUpBoston #SolidarityNotCharity #EncampmentSupport #MutualAid #ServicesNotSweeps

#WarmUpBoston #SolidarityNotCharity #EncampmentSupport #MutualAid #ServicesNotSweeps

We are constantly reminded in this work of the monopoly the state has on power and protection of property. While one arm of the state prosecutes people living in deep poverty for shoplifting from multi-billion dollar corporations to survive, another arm of the state comes in with bulldozers to destroy people’s homes and belongings. Capitalists will claim that only they respect people’s right to personal property. What this really means is that the state protects the property of places like Walmart ($648 BILLION in revenue for 2024), while destroying the property of people who cannot afford to live inside.
While our goal is eventual destruction of this unjust system, in the meantime we’re left to provide where the state has failed. If you’re able to chip in to purchase new tents (~$60 for a used tent, ~$250 for a new one) for residents after this latest sweep, please use the link in our bio.

#WarmUpBoston #EncampmentSupport #MutualAid #SweepsAreViolence #FuckTheTentBan #SolidarityNotCharity

It’s about that time of year where we unofficially become Cool Down Boston! Fighting the heat is extra hard for folks who live outside like our neighbors at the encampment. Lack of access to things like drinking water, air conditioning, and refrigerators adds extra challenges to basic survival needs like nutrition, hydration, and staying cool enough. Additionally, sweeps generally increase in the summer leading to belongings getting confiscated or damaged and making it harder to meet basic needs.

During the summer, we add ice to our usual distro goods and try our best to give extra water. We’ve also increased the number of meals and other supplies in recent weeks to try to meet increased needs. Unfortunately, this is all somewhat limited by a general drop in donations, both monetarily and in supplies provided by other community groups.

This morning we responded to a sweep that residents were told would be tomorrow, and we are in the process of trying to replace things like tents, tarps, and bedding. Stay tuned for a more detailed update.

If you’d like to help your unhoused neighbors beat the heat during this upcoming heat wave and the next, please use the link in our bio to become a regular donor!

#SweepsAreViolence #EncampmentSupport #MutualAidBoston #WarmUpBoston #FuckTheTentBan

Our comrades returned to the encampment this week to drop off essential supplies for survival. This included a chili, cases of water, along with other requested items.

Our solidarity with the homeless begins on the most human level, to make sure everyone has the means to survive before anything else. It has become immensely normalized for us to simply look the other way. This is in fact, not normal. This is drilled into us from a young age that some people in this world just can't support themselves. They leave out the landlords, bosses, and cops who push us out onto the street. And they sanctify the rampant neglect of our politicians to do anything substantial about it.

Our solidarity with the homeless begins on this human level, but it is driven home when we see that we ourselves are only a few paychecks away from being in their position. A great many homeless people will tell you how easy it is for one thing to happen after another and you find yourself without housing and without help.

We are blessed to have that capacity to help these folks out in which ever ways they want our help. Not only does their day become easier, but we also get to act on that more natural response we all have to make sure we all have the means to survive before anything else

#WarmUpBoston #EncampmentSupport #MutualAid #FuckTheTentBan #HousingNotHandcuffs

Our comrades returned to supply the encampment this week with soup, snacks, cases of water, harm reduction supplies, clothing, and items essential for day to day living.

The residents have recovered somewhat but not completely from their forced removal last week. The stress, the tension, the exhaustion persists; everything is made harder when you have to start all over again and again. This is how the state responds to homelessness. Half hearted and half assed services or harassment under threat of handcuffs.

While we gather our forces to fight for housing for all, we will continue to support our neighbors directly. We are currently accepting donations for the following items!

• T-shirts
• Shorts
• Light pants
• New/unopened underwear
• New/unused socks

To support our work, please consider a small monthly donation to one of the platforms found in the link in our bio. To take part in the fight for housing first and for all, feel free to DM us here!

#WarmUpBoston #EncampmentSupport #MutualAid #FuckTheTentBan #HousingNotHandcuffs

Our comrades this week returned to the encampment to distribute necessary supplies for survival. This included a hot meal, 7 cases of water, snacks, fruit, croissants, as well as requested items such as clothing, cleaning supplies, and harm reduction supplies.

We do this work not as an act of charity, but as an act of solidarity with our neighbors that our healthcare system and housing market fails. The cities, state, non-profits, and other agencies all agree on a housing first model. Yet they actively under fund and under serve as they over promise. They consistently side with the landlords, insurance companies, land owners, and bosses when they allow thousands to suffer a daily crisis. Through this work we aim to create an alliance between housed and unhoused folks to build a strong community ready to fight for the basic protections we owe to each other on a human level. That's why we say strong communities begin with warm meals!

Thank you to all our online donors, you are driving this organization to accompmish so much! We have multiple ways for you to donate in our bio in our linktree. We also thank all of our comrades on the ground, we need both to make this happen. If you are looking to take part in distributions and gain experience organizing, please dm us on here and we'll get you started! #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #EncampmentSupport #SolidarityNotCharity #MutualAid

Yesterday, we distributed warm meals, blankets, waters, harm reduction, snacks, and more to our community members who have repeatedly had their homes destroyed by DCR and BPD acting on the tent ban.

As a Warm Up harm reduction coordinator explained at Northeastern today, the violence students have faced recently is the daily reality of unhoused folks. We commend everyone standing with Palestine and urge you all to continue showing the same solidarity with unhoused community members.

The tent ban is designed to enact violence on those the establishment wishes to keep silent and invisible. Mayor Wu’s tent ban must go!

#DecriminalizeSurvival #MaterialAid #FreePalestine #SolidarityNotCharity #WeKeepUsSafe #ACAB #EncampmentSupport

This past Sunday we conducted our weekly mobile distro. Despite the busy streets and crowds of green hindering our ability to get to some of the places we typically serve, we still found folks in the hiding places they told us about. We are thankful that the community trusts us with their hideaways; we can do our job better that way.

Since this distro happened on a day when many people were celebrating their Irish heritage, we wanted to highlight the struggles the Irish people went through and explain how the famine and mass displacement suffered by the people of Ireland, and the famine and mass displacement currently happening in Gaza are connected. They are connected because of a root cause: colonialism.

British colonialists and landlords in 19th century Ireland displayed genocidal intent as they exported millions of pounds of food to other countries while the Irish people were starving to death, and landlords destroyed their properties and evicted tenants just to get out of paying “famine relief” taxes. The genocidal intent of the IOF has never been more clearly articulated than today, in bombing and starving millions of Palestinians; but the roots of this famine and displacement go much deeper, starting with stripping the native populations of their food sovereignty through settler colonialism.

Our struggles here with food insecurity might not be at the same proportion as the examples above, but they too are connected. When food and housing are not viewed as necessary to life, but rather a means to produce profit for the ruling class, the system by design creates great inequality and suffering. The ruling class and the billionaires who control them have all the money and the power to end war, to end genocide, to end famine, to end homelessness, but they don’t. They will always prioritize profits over people. From Boston to Ireland to Palestine, the struggles of the oppressed are one struggle. #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #MutualAid #HarmReduction #MobileOutreach #EncampmentSupport #StPatricksDay #StPatricksDayBoston #Ireland #Palestine

Earlier this week, a few Warm Up organizers met with some senior-year high school students of New Mission High who were awesome enough to spend their lunch break with us. We taught them about mutual aid, why it’s necessary, who and what influenced us to do this work, and how our work differs from state programs or church organizations. We were thrilled to answer their thought-provoking questions and were exceptionally thrilled about their desire to help participate in our cause. We look forward to seeing what these students come up with and working together with them in the coming weeks.
#WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #MutualAid #HarmReduction #MobileOutreach #EncampmentSupport #WUBIsForTheChildren

At this week’s encampment distro, we delivered hot meals, cookies, canned food, snacks, fruit, 5 cases of water bottles, means to keep warm, batteries, superglue, blankets/sleeping bags, and assorted clothing, including some that had been requested, to the residents. We’re grateful to consistently be seeing high numbers of volunteers at each of our distros, to the point where we’ve had to cap attendance some weeks. As we’ve noted, we are turning our eye towards expansion and adding new volunteer opportunities to channel the rising energy we’re seeing in our dedicated volunteer base.

The residents we serve have been consistently shunted from place to place over the last few months. This week, we learned they’ve once again been told to move, though they’ve been given inconsistent timeframes and instructions that seem intentionally vague and difficult to follow. As though it’s not enough to be unsheltered with the weather still getting so cold, they’re given increasingly opaque directions that seem to have an end goal of them disappearing into thin air. We are keeping an open line of communication and preparing to assist in whatever comes next for them. If you’d like to be a part of that effort, please reach out. #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #EncampmentSupport #MutualAid

We had a great turnout at last week’s distro, including a few new volunteers. We delivered hot meals (buffalo mac and cheese), 4 cases of water bottles, snacks and canned soup, means to keep warm, requested clothes and socks, hygiene and wound care supplies, and trash bags. We are thrilled to be reaching such a large volume of people who are ready and willing to come out with us in cold, rain, or snow, ready to do the work providing aid for vulnerable members of our communities. If that sounds like you, don’t hesitate to reach out for more information. #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #EncampmentSupport #MutualAid

We were glad this week to have ample time and decent enough weather to chat with some encampment residents about their needs after a few weeks of increased instability. We brought burrito bowls, canned food and snacks, water bottles, means to keep warm, warm clothes and accessories, blankets, pillows, harm reduction supplies, and socks. Despite the continued stress and trauma from frequent sweeps, spirits seemed pretty high this week and we got a chance to consult about their needs going forward.

The constant, aimless shunting around of unhoused communities by the state can make it difficult to maintain the necessities in life, which is why we’re glad to be out providing aid multiple times a week. If you’re interested in volunteering or donating, please reach out. #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #EncampmentSupport #MutualAid

This Thursday, we went out in the bitter cold to deliver supplies to our unhoused neighbors. We brought hot lasagna, snacks, canned goods, water bottles, blankets, means to keep warm, cleaning supplies, socks, and warm clothing to encampment residents. We were able to use donated funds to provide a solar-powered generator and dehumidifiers, as well. We are extremely grateful to our volunteers and supporters who allow us to meet the needs of the people week after week, throughout every season and any kind of weather. #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #EncampmentSupport #MutualAid

In anticipation of today’s snowstorm, we went out this week to deliver necessary supplies to encampment residents. We brought canned goods, snacks, bottled water, warm clothes, hot hands, tarps and shower curtains for tent insulation, and means to keep warm. Continuing to onboard new volunteers throughout the winter season has been very encouraging in terms of our ability to expand our efforts and reach more and more communities in the city and beyond, as well as responding to specific needs and conditions for those we already serve. #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #EncampmentSupport #MutualAid

This week, we welcomed some new volunteers for our encampment distro. We brought a prepared meal of fried chicken, saffron rice, fry bread, and cookies, snacks and canned goods, water bottles, blankets, moving bags, and cleaning supplies. Some volunteers went back later to bring hats, gloves, and ponchos, as well. It’s been heartening to hear that, these past few weeks, when we’ve asked some of the residents if there’s anything in particular they need, they’ve said we should just keep doing what we’re doing. We hope to keep it up through the whole of winter with the help of our volunteers and donors. #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #EncampmentSupport #MutualAid

This past week, we delivered a hot meal, snacks, canned food, bottled water, batteries, warm clothes, blankets, hygiene/supply kits, candles, cleaning supplies, and more to a group of our unhoused neighbors. The inhumane conditions inflicted on the unhoused population by an economic system hostile to their survival leads to almost constant crises, and week after week we are doing what we can do resolve them by providing for basic needs. Winter tends to be our busiest months, so don’t hesitate to reach out if you’re interested in donating or volunteering. #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #EncampmentSupport #MutualAid

It was chilly out, so none of our volunteers remembered to take their gloves off to snap a photo. Instead, we have some food prep pictures. On our distro today we handed out 54 sandwiches (turkey, ham & cheese, bologna, and PB&J), 2 cases of water, snacks, hygiene items, and harm reduction supplies. A medic joined us, who cleaned up some wounds for folks. All the new volunteers have been very helpful and are positively impacting the work that we do. We love to see it! All in all, it was a very good distro. #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #HarmReduction #MutualAid #MobileDistro #EncampmentSupport

This week, we delivered a prepared dish of meatballs, vegetables, and mashed potatoes, bagged snacks, canned goods, water bottles, batteries, backpacks, blankets, sleeping bags, and warm clothes to some of our unhoused neighbors. The climate surrounding public camping means that frequent displacement is now more the norm than the exception. We are adapting our methods in order to continue to meet the needs of the people. The very beginning of winter is perhaps the cruelest time for these policies to take place, but we will not allow despair to immobilize us.

There’s never been a better time to get involved. We are eagerly onboarding new volunteers and accepting donations as well. Get in touch today. #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #EncampmentSupport #MutualAid

Just as winter weather has begun to set in, the state has conducted a sweep of a Cambridge encampment, once again displacing residents who were just beginning to recover from previous sweeps and a fire. The residents had little time to prepare for the sweep, and have lost nearly everything. As always, the state has chosen to neglect the people’s material needs, instead acting with cold brutality in service of gentrification and profit. We are attempting to provide material aid in a way that will help residents to stay warm, dry, and fed while they try to recover from this latest injustice. If you are in the Boston area and outraged by this violence, consider coming to visit our table at the @BostonAnarchistBookfair on Saturday 11/11 and Sunday 11/12 from 10am-5pm. We will be accepting material donations at our table! Warm clothing and blankets are highly requested. If you are interested in volunteering with us, you can DM our social media accounts. Donations are much appreciated, and will go directly towards material aid for those that we assist. Donations can be made via PayPal warmupboston @ protonmail dot com or via our Ko-Fi account, which can be found in our bio. #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #EncampmentSupport #MobileDistro #MutualAid #HarmReduction #SweepsAreViolent

Yesterday a few of us participated in our mobile distro and almost immediately we saw a change in the downtown area. There were more new faces than usual, people gathering in spots we haven’t seen folks at before, and a higher than usual demand for harm reduction items. We handed out sandwiches, snacks, socks, and hygiene items. Tonight we are going to do a test build of a DIY tent heater before we build a bunch on Friday. #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #MobileDistro #EncampmentSupport #MutualAid

Yesterday an encampment we serve was subject to a fire that took the entire encampment out in a matter of minutes according to residents. All residents have been accounted for, so everyone made it out of the fire. There are only a few cases of minor burns. Everyone living there lost everything: from clothes, blankets, and sleeping bags, to ID’s, birth certificates, and bikes they use for transportation. Right now we are doing everything we can to keep the residents warm and dry without burdening them with too much stuff. Commonly requested items have been blankets, sleeping bags, socks, hoodies, sweatshirts, and sweatpants. We already have people working on collecting some of those items. We will do our best to keep our followers updated on what is still needed after our volunteers and distro leads check up on the residents today. If you have any money to spare, donations are urgently needed as we try to help with the situation. You can send money via our cashapp $warmupboston, via PayPal warmupboston @ protonmail dot com, or via our Ko-Fi account which can be found in the link in our bio. #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #EncampmentSupport #Solidarity #MobileDistro #MutualAid

We got completely cleaned out on this distro. We ended our distro with only one size small sweatshirt and a few hygiene items. We started our sweatshirt distribution program. This program put dozens of sweatshirts on the bodies of folks who need them for the upcoming colder months. We can’t thank #SpeakeasyPrintshop enough for helping us make that happen! A volunteer we haven’t seen in awhile made some ziti and meatballs for folks longing for a warm meal. Our regular distro leads and volunteers nourished folks with bean burritos, PB&J, Nutella, and bologna sandwiches. We had plenty of snacks and drinks for folks, too. On top of that plenty of harm reduction supplies were distributed.
We are expecting there to be massive changes in how we do this work as the city begins taking measures to criminalize camping. We will do our best to keep up. We are thankful to have such an amazing community who is willing to support us so we can Serve The People.
#WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #MobileDistro #EncampmentSupport #HarmReduction #MutualAid #FuckSweeps

This week we handed out over 50 sandwiches! We handed out ham, bologna, chicken, PB&J, and Nutella. In addition to the sandwiches, we handed out water, lemonade, capri sun, apple sauce, and cereal bars. We handed out a ton of harm reduction supplies and hygiene products. I snapped a few pictures of the sandwiches I made this morning, which is good because we forgot to take our famous shot of a bunch of bags on a bench, table, or stoop. We’re really feeling like we have some legitimacy in the downtown area. Folks remember us and are coming to us with ideas. #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #EncampmentSupport #MobileDistro #MutualAid

Thanks to help from #SpeakeasyPrintshop we will be able to distribute 75 of these hoodies to folks so they can prepare themselves for the colder months ahead. We are so thankful to have such an amazingly caring screen printer in our community because this project would not be possible without him. This project cut our funds in half and we would like to recoup as much of that as possible so we can buy more stuff to prep our unhoused community for the fall and winter. We would like to ask the community to consider making a donation to our Ko-Fi. After all the fees that get taken, every $17 dollar donation you make will put a hooded sweatshirt on someone who needs it in the Boston area. If you can spare it, please consider donating. Our Ko-Fi can be found in the link in our bio. If you can’t share please repost. #WarmUpBoston #Boston #Cambridge #Salem #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #EncampmentSupport #MobileDistro #MutualAid #Socialism #Communism #Anarchism #Community

With the help of #SpeakeasyPrintshop in #Salem, we will be providing 75 unhoused folks in #Boston and #Cambridge with hooded sweatshirts in order to help prepare our community for the fall and winter months ahead. We got a really good deal on the sweatshirts, but this still cost us $1000. We still have some funds left, but it would be awesome if some folks in our community had some money to spare to help us recoup. While sweatshirts will be a huge help to people, the winter months are the most draining on our budget. We do what we do on ~$400/month. If you have some money to spare, please consider donating to Warm Up via our #kofi. #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #MobileDistro #EncampmentSupport #Solidarity #Community #MutualAid https://ko-fi.com/warmupboston

Today we walked around downtown in the rain looking for places where folks were staying dry. It didn’t take long before we found a couple familiar faces who took us down an alleyway to find a gathering of folks who told us some other areas where we could find folks. Our volunteers this week made bologna and cheese, Turkey and cheese, PB&J, and Nutella sandwiches. We also provided folks with tissues, body wipes, deodorant, nail clippers, and water. We have a lot of new volunteers who are incredibly impressive. If you’re looking to help out, please just send us a message. We love connecting with our community. #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #MobileDistro #EncampmentSupport #MutualAid

We had yet another successful mobile distro earlier today. We handed out 32 sandwiches (tuna and PB&J), 2 cases of water, roughly 60 pairs of socks, deodorant, hand wipes, and almost an entire box of nail clippers. We could have used more sandwiches. Folks have said some other services that walk around haven’t been coming around for a couple weeks now, so many people were happy we came.
Capitalism claims to improve the quality of life, but we say it only improve the quality of life of CEOs and their shareholders. It certainly isn’t improving the life of the people we serve. #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #MobileDistro #EncampmentSupport #MutualAid

This is a combo post of our encampment distro this past thursday and mobile distro from yesterday. It has been great starting new projects and branching out to help more people.

Thank you so so much to everyone who has been donating, it has done so much to make this work possible. If you would like to help but can't make it to our distros, you can donate to our ko-fi in our bio. #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #EncampmentSupport #MobileDistro #SurvivalProgram #MutualAid

We are expecting in the next week to be assisting encampment residents with recovering from the recent sweep activity that stole and destroyed many of their belongings. On Sunday, we brought with us pasta salad, bagged snacks, water bottles, bags of ice, batteries, socks, and hygiene supplies to distribute. If you’re able, please consider donating something to our Ko-Fi to help with resettling efforts for our neighbors or reach out to volunteer/cook a meal. Volunteers and fundraising efforts tend to slow down in the summer months, so your contributions are needed and appreciated. #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #EncampmentSupport #MutualAid #SweepsAreViolent

We’ve been checking in on displaced residents every day while the sweep is underway. Our presence seems to have made a positive impact on their mental health in comparison to previous sweeps where we had a smaller volunteer base, resulting in less visits. We’ve brought pizza and made sandwiches. Thanks to everyone who has made a donation. The donations will be coming in handy VERY soon. #SweepsAreViolent #WarmUpBoston #EncampmentSupport #SurvivalProgram #MutualAid

Sweeps are underway. We were able to bicker with the pigs and buy some more time for residents to move. We were able to help residents move some of their belongings. There are a lot of tears and a lot of frustration, but we are doing our best to reduce stress for folks. #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #EncampmentSupport #MutualAid #SweepsAreViolent

This Sunday, in anticipation of an imminent sweep, we wanted to bring as much food and supplies to encampment residents as possible so that they could concentrate on preparing themselves. We brought wraps and three bean salad, a ton of muffins and pastries, hygiene products, harm reduction supplies, water, water flavoring, and some bags of ice.

We now know that a dumpster full of their things has been taken already today and that the sweep will continue tomorrow. We are raising funds to help them rebuild after this act of state violence and accepting donations of tarps and clothes, which are most urgently needed. Links to our KoFi for general donations and to our bail fund GoFundMe can be found at our Linktree, which is linked in our bio. We hope to be able to address the needs of those displaced by a system antagonistic to their continued survival during times like these when it’s most crucial and beyond. #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #EncampmentSupport #MutualAid #SweepsAreViolent

Sooner or later the unhoused in this country are forced into trouble or trouble finds them. It is well documented that police readily and happily criminalize and incarcerate people forced to stay outdoors. This nearly unavoidable displacement by state forces has begun hitting encampment residents. We fear we are witnessing the beginning of a trend we have seen happen before.

This bail fund will reduce harm done by the state which is what little power we have. Nevertheless it is monumental to these unhoused folks to know they have an entire community's support behind them to live decent lives. With your help we can keep encampment residents from the dungeons of u.s. empire. https://fundly.com/warm-up-bail-fund #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #EncampmentSupport #SurvivalProgram #MutualAid #BailFund