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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Read Up, Boston! We're a revolutionary left wing multi-tendency organization, and we're committed to furthering our knowledge of revolutionary theory in order to sharpen our revolutionary practice. Over the last few months, our Reading Group has been taking off! We've read....

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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.

A bulldozer and removal personnel with shovels clearing away belongings from our unhoused neighbor’s homes. Text overlay reads: “Another month of state violence: This past month, the State spent $40,000+ destroying everything that our poorest neighbors need to live: tents, stoves, beds, IDs, phones, all...“

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Harm Reduction is a Threat to Fascism 🧵

Gray background color with distressed, concrete-like texture. Sparse red paint splatters adorn the border. A sketchy dark grey hand holding a syringe and needle peeks out from the top left of the slide. Black text reads: "Harm Reduction is a Threat to Fascism. And it isn't Going Anywhere."

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

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!

Text overlay on top of original poster image reads: "EVENT CANCELLED - Due to unforeseen circumstances, we will be postponing this and all future kit packaging events for the rest of this summer. We will be back in the fall!"

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

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.

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

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

Help raise $2000 to purchase supplies for our wound care kits

Have any cash to spare? You can make a difference! Here's how:
$5 covers the full cost of one wound care kits
$25 covers enough saline for 25 kits
$250 covers 100 kits' worth of our most-needed items

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

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.

A WUB member with their back to the camera and a goose emoji covering their head placed their hands on their hips and stands off with a goose next to a bench.

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

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 volunteers walking in the rainy streets of downtown. Their faces are covered with raincloud emojis

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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.

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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

WUB members pose for a photo in a line on a rainy path surrounded by trees, some are holding up peace signs. They are wearing jackets and rain gear and their faces are covered by globe emojis. They are holding grocery bags of supplies.

WUB members gather around bags and carts of supplies. Their faces are covered by star emojis. They are under a large outdoor umbrella and the surrounding area is paved with a cloudy sky in the background.

2 WUB members walk with their backs to the viewer. Their heads are covered with sun face emojis. One person pulls a foldable cart with supplies, the other holds grocery bags.

WUB members in rain gear gather around a mid sized gray dog in a pink harness and blue collar who is looking up at the group excitedly

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

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)

Boston Mayor Wu’s War on drugs is bullsh*t

Last week, Mayor Wu’s office, in conjunction with the Boston Police Department (BPD) and the Coordinated Response Team (CRT), which is functionally an extension of BPD, announced a new plan to criminalize public consumption of stigmatized substances.

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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.

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Tehya (supportHarmRedux) Johnson, NP @tehyajohnsonnp.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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...

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Boston leaders pledge to clean up area of city known for rampant drug use

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, along with other city officials, held a roundtable discussion with business owners and residents Wednesday after concerns were raised about the ongoing drug use in the Downto...

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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)

Candid shot of 5 WUB members with faces covered by sandwich emojis walking down the street on a sunny day in downtown Boston. They are dressed for winter weather with gloves and coats. They are carrying reusable grocery bags with food, clothing, and other supplies.

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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.

A flyer that reads: Stop the Sweeps! Stand with our neighbors. We keep us safe. Art build, speakers! Warm up boston mass meeting, Saturday 2/22 4-6pm, North American Indian center of boston, masks required and provided. At the bottom, an image of two folks holding a banner that reads, criminalization doesn’t end homelessness. Housing and resources end homelessness.

A flyer that reads, stop the sweeps. Meeting schedule: 4-4:25: mingling and refreshments, plus collaborative art project. 4:25-5, speaker program. 5-5:10: break, art build and zine library open. 5:10-5:45, breakout discussion groups. 5:45-6, wrap up and learn how you can stay involved

Flyer that reads, stop the sweeps, accessibility and policies. Masks will be required for this event and will be provided at the door. Four DIY air purifiers will be running to keep the air circulating courtesy of Fan Club MA. If you have been sick or exposed to an ill person, stay home. Refreshments may be consumed outside. There is a ramp at the entrance of the building leading to a short narrow hallway to access the gymnasium space.

A flyer that reads stop the sweeps, accessibility and policies. It will be drafty inside the building. Please dress warm! We will have a limited number of hand warmers and hot drinks. A little sticker of the same banner as before. Then test, we welcome guests to participate and take breaks according to their needs. The art build and zine library can be enjoyed without socialization.

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

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.

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

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)

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

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)

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

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)

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

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)

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

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.

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

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.

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

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.

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

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,

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CourtWatchMA @courtwatchma.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

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

Flier for Holiday Canteen Drive

Give $20 directly to incarcerated women

Love. Care. Reimagining Communities.
tinyurl.com/canteendrive

The National Council and Families for Justice as Healing

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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)

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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

Donate to BSWAC
Show us some love. Our volunteers at Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective work hard to advocate for positive legislation, provide community support and outreach, as well as education, mutual aid, harm reduction, and more. A lot of us are active sex workers and it's a lot of hard work! Your donation will go a long way and will assure we keep moving forward in the fight for sex worker rights in Massachusetts.
Thank you.'
Send donations through CashApp:
$bostonswac

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

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

A table with beaded bracelets and necklaces, and postcards and cards. In the background are bookshelves

A table with a banner that says "warm up Boston." On the table are shirts, stickers, art prints, and zines

A table with patches depicting a variety of anarchist symbols in green, pink, and purple

A large crochet blanket of the Palestinian flag hanging on a wall behind a table with crochet scarves, coasters, and more, as well as tote bags

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

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

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

"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

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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)

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

[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)

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

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)

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Warm Up Boston @warmupboston.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

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

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