#mobiledistro — Public Fediverse posts

We saw many familiar faces and some new ones on this morning’s mobile distro. It’s a heartwarming feeling when members of the community that we serve recognize us and are eager to point out where other folks in need are hanging out. Their generosity extended beyond themselves as many folks asked for extra sandwiches and supplies to share with friends or loved ones not present when we came around.

In total, we handed out 47 sandwiches, 16 poptarts, 2 cases of water, toothbrush & toothpaste kits, socks, wet wipes, and a handful of hot hands hand warmers. #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #MutualAid #MobileDistro #HarmReduction

Rain or shine, we are out here, week after week, bringing valuable resources to our unhoused neighbors. It’s always harder to find where folks go to stay dry. Every day we find a new spot along a route we’ve walked for months. This week we supplied folks with ham or turkey subs, PB&J sandwiches, chicken noodle, tomato soup, hot chocolate, hygiene items, hot hands, harm reduction items, snacks, socks, water. #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #MutualAid #MobileDistro #HarmReduction

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

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

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

Yesterday morning we provided folks in the downtown area with the services we provide. This time around we went out with ~70 sandwiches, water, Gatorade, capri sun, cereal bars, and some clementines. We also provided folks with tissues, body wipes, socks, mouth wash, and deodorant. For the first time ever, someone who saw what we were doing donated $35 to keep up the good work. If you happen to follow this account, thanks again!

This work gets done the correct way by having your feet on the ground, engaging with the people, and hearing their needs.
#WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #MobileDistro #MutualAid #Boston

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

Today we had another mobile distro in the #DowntownCrossing area in #Boston. By expanding our work, we are seeing how much #gentrification and the carceral system is impacting #houselessness as well how much the for-profit healthcare system impacts substance use. We had a worker donate some turkey (thanks comrade) that was used to hand out sandwiches. On top of that we passed out two cases of water, toothpaste and brushes, chap stick, menstrual products, and some harm reduction items. #WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #SurvivalProgram #MobileDistro #HarmReduction #MutualAid

Warm Up hasn’t done a mobile distro since the early days. We decided we had enough volunteers to start covering more ground and finally living more up to our name. We handed out turkey and Swiss sandwiches, water, cookies, and harm reduction supplies to folks in the Downtown Crossing area. We learned that our sandwiches were better than the bologna ones that they get from other groups and got to meet a quite a few folks in that area. We’re looking forward to expanding our work to other areas of the city. Expanding our work also means, we need donations coming in. We get a lot of donations in the winter, but not nearly as much in summer. If you have a few dollars to spare, consider buying a t-shirt or donating to our Ko-Fi. You can find nothing by clicking on the link in our bio.
#WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #MobileDistro #SurvivalProgram #MutualAid #DowntownCrossingBoston #DTXBoston