Warm Up Boston
@warmupboston.bsky.social
A radical survival program serving the unhoused community on occupied Massachusett and Wampanoag land.
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We refuse to run reading groups for years before taking action, and we refuse to ignore the vast knowledge left to us by the revolutionaries of the past. If you’re interested in the intersection of theory and practice, DM us and come to distro!
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
We refuse to run reading groups for years before taking action, and we refuse to ignore the vast knowledge left to us by the revolutionaries of the past. If you’re interested in the intersection of theory and practice, DM us and come to distro!
We know that theory becomes purposeless if it is not connected with revolutionary practice. We also know that endless practices walk in circles in the dark until its path is illuminated by revolutionary theory.
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
We know that theory becomes purposeless if it is not connected with revolutionary practice. We also know that endless practices walk in circles in the dark until its path is illuminated by revolutionary theory.
At every reading group, we have discussed the theory through the lens of our weekly practice, where we spend countless hours ensuring that our twice weekly distros that serve 100+ unhoused members of our community happen every week without exception.
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
At every reading group, we have discussed the theory through the lens of our weekly practice, where we spend countless hours ensuring that our twice weekly distros that serve 100+ unhoused members of our community happen every week without exception.
Every day, our most dispossessed neighbors face harassment from special bodies of armed men at the orders of the ruling class.
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Every day, our most dispossessed neighbors face harassment from special bodies of armed men at the orders of the ruling class.
Right now, we are working through Lenin’s State and Revolution. We are learning about the State as an element of violent repression of one class by another, and discussing how we see this truth show up in our work.
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Right now, we are working through Lenin’s State and Revolution. We are learning about the State as an element of violent repression of one class by another, and discussing how we see this truth show up in our work.
- Mao’s “Combat Liberalism” to help us correct mistaken ideas in ourselves and our comrades, in order to maintain the working class character of our organization so that we can best serve our people.
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
- Mao’s “Combat Liberalism” to help us correct mistaken ideas in ourselves and our comrades, in order to maintain the working class character of our organization so that we can best serve our people.
- The Communist Party of the Philippines’ “Mass Work” to learn about the Massline. In our context, the Massline is the idea that we must learn the needs of our neighbors from our neighbors, take the best solutions we have to our neighbors, learn from their critiques/feedback.
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
- The Communist Party of the Philippines’ “Mass Work” to learn about the Massline. In our context, the Massline is the idea that we must learn the needs of our neighbors from our neighbors, take the best solutions we have to our neighbors, learn from their critiques/feedback.
- Mao’s “On Practice” to understand the proletarian theory of knowledge that liberated 500 million people.
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
- Mao’s “On Practice” to understand the proletarian theory of knowledge that liberated 500 million people.
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@warmupboston
and our Kofi is ko-fi.com/warmupboston. And please feel free to DM or email us with any questions, concerns, or to volunteer with us.
September 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Our Venmo is
@warmupboston
and our Kofi is ko-fi.com/warmupboston. And please feel free to DM or email us with any questions, concerns, or to volunteer with us.
@warmupboston
and our Kofi is ko-fi.com/warmupboston. And please feel free to DM or email us with any questions, concerns, or to volunteer with us.
We're able to continue this level of support and increase the efficacy of our weekly distros through mutual aid and we would greatly appreciate any spare change you may be willing to send our way. These contributions would go towards purchasing tents and other vital supplies.
September 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
We're able to continue this level of support and increase the efficacy of our weekly distros through mutual aid and we would greatly appreciate any spare change you may be willing to send our way. These contributions would go towards purchasing tents and other vital supplies.
-- move while “clean up crews” destroyed their homes. Are bullets and handcuffs a public health intervention?
We are a working class organization that fights against the harms of capitalism. An attack on the unhoused is an attack on everyone that works for their bread.
We are a working class organization that fights against the harms of capitalism. An attack on the unhoused is an attack on everyone that works for their bread.
September 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
-- move while “clean up crews” destroyed their homes. Are bullets and handcuffs a public health intervention?
We are a working class organization that fights against the harms of capitalism. An attack on the unhoused is an attack on everyone that works for their bread.
We are a working class organization that fights against the harms of capitalism. An attack on the unhoused is an attack on everyone that works for their bread.
The State wields this power through special bodies of armed class traitors with a monopoly on violence: the police and military. We were forced to face this fact during the sweep, when 5 men armed with guns and 60+ rounds of ammunition each showed up to force our neighbors to --
September 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The State wields this power through special bodies of armed class traitors with a monopoly on violence: the police and military. We were forced to face this fact during the sweep, when 5 men armed with guns and 60+ rounds of ammunition each showed up to force our neighbors to --
Let us be perfectly clear: the State is an organ of class rule, an organ for the oppression of one class by another. This is no clearer than at a sweep. The State is an illusion of so-called “order”, which legalizes and enacts this violence against workers.
September 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Let us be perfectly clear: the State is an organ of class rule, an organ for the oppression of one class by another. This is no clearer than at a sweep. The State is an illusion of so-called “order”, which legalizes and enacts this violence against workers.
Warm Up was able to deescalate some of these verbal attacks on our neighbors, but the stress and trauma from this violence inscribes itself into the body. We were able to enlist help to change wound dressings and refer folks to the hospital as well.
September 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Warm Up was able to deescalate some of these verbal attacks on our neighbors, but the stress and trauma from this violence inscribes itself into the body. We were able to enlist help to change wound dressings and refer folks to the hospital as well.
Residents of the encampment were forced to stay awake for THREE DAYS in order to have a chance at keeping their belongings. All the while, armed police officers yelled at them to pack up and leave or risk further "intervention” from the State.
September 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Residents of the encampment were forced to stay awake for THREE DAYS in order to have a chance at keeping their belongings. All the while, armed police officers yelled at them to pack up and leave or risk further "intervention” from the State.
Warm Up Boston spent $500 and ~100 volunteer hours to try and mitigate the harm caused by this violence. We were able to physically help residents move, transport some of their belongings, and provide food and water.
September 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Warm Up Boston spent $500 and ~100 volunteer hours to try and mitigate the harm caused by this violence. We were able to physically help residents move, transport some of their belongings, and provide food and water.
![Very dark grey, almost black, background color. Red title text reads: "References". White text list reads: "[1] Shira Hassan; Saving Our Own Lives
[2]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24374889/
[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38128362/
[4]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29934549/
[5]https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2007.01859.x[
[6]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38335867/". Beneath the text, a sketchy dark grey hand holding a bubble pipe peeks out from the bottom left of the slide.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xqh3goywbfrnfqp7ocwejsio/bafkreiedohtsqvvrxfze2oe45ft7ohlyo3deq7bqol4idw23wsvfff6mye@jpeg)
Administrations can cut funding and limit legal scope, but they cannot stop us from fighting to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe. Their policies will kill, and we will do everything we can to limit that. Please, support your local harm reduction programs.
August 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Administrations can cut funding and limit legal scope, but they cannot stop us from fighting to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe. Their policies will kill, and we will do everything we can to limit that. Please, support your local harm reduction programs.
For those of us who use drugs and those of us who love people who use drugs, harm reduction is a beacon of hope in dark times. Harm reduction came from the people who needed it and has been maintained by those same people.
![Very dark grey, almost black, background color. Yellow title text, with white subtext, reads: "Harm Reduction Works! (some of the many successes)". White text bullet points read: "- Syringe Service Programs reduce transmission of HIV and blood borne infections among people who inject drugs [2]
-Injection alternatives (sniffing, smoking, boofing) reduce injection related overdose, illnesses, and injuries [3]
- Medication-Assisted Treatment (like methadone and buprenorphine) reduce opioid overdoses and other causes of death [4]".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xqh3goywbfrnfqp7ocwejsio/bafkreih4by3kgtr557rbjo7my6piw5unwbfwd6jqbmqc7giafal5ymzf7a@jpeg)
![Very dark grey, almost black, background color. Yellow title text, with white subtext, reads: "Harm Reduction Works! (some of the many successes)". White text bullet points read: "- Safe consumption sites reduce overdose, needle sharing and reuse, and discarding of needles in public places [5]
- Safer supply programs reduce overdoses, improve physical and mental health, and improve quality of life among clients [6]
- Overdoses were down 24% in 2024, thanks in part to naloxone and evidence-based prevention and treatment programs [7]".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xqh3goywbfrnfqp7ocwejsio/bafkreidnkpn5da2p2a7whdougxjkk2545hryk5dssbsoyxgjpmukgg6awy@jpeg)
August 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
For those of us who use drugs and those of us who love people who use drugs, harm reduction is a beacon of hope in dark times. Harm reduction came from the people who needed it and has been maintained by those same people.
Policy failures kill. The increase of exterminationist policies by both the Trump administration and our local government is killing people who use drugs. Failed policies based in the racist War on Drugs will kill people who use drugs and incarcerate so many more.
![Very dark grey, almost black, background color. Paragraph white text reads: "Liberatory Harm Reduction has, from its origin, been based in transforming the root causes of harm in our lives. This includes active opposition to capitalism, racism, misogyny, the prison industrial complex, and other fascist tools of control [1]." A block-color light grey broken chain decal is pictured below the text.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xqh3goywbfrnfqp7ocwejsio/bafkreihlwehdf53lqjrpqkeoe2n3s2znb3vceasvkokdxview7qym4f2ie@jpeg)
![Very dark grey, almost black, background color. Red title text reads: "Harm reduction doesn’t encourage (Or discourage) drug use". Paragraph white text reads: "Harm reduction sees that drug use can have both benefits and consequences. It empowers us to identify patterns and create outcomes we want, focusing on what we want to add or provide, not what we want to take away [1]. For some this can mean a form of recovery. For others it could mean something like more community involvement, deepening connections with loved ones, or improving self-care."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xqh3goywbfrnfqp7ocwejsio/bafkreige42dzuyvmkh2xue5d4st6zhwmtitf26cizrpvwvrt2sfd7d4lea@jpeg)
August 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Policy failures kill. The increase of exterminationist policies by both the Trump administration and our local government is killing people who use drugs. Failed policies based in the racist War on Drugs will kill people who use drugs and incarcerate so many more.
Hi! I will ask the team and get back to you on this :)
August 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Hi! I will ask the team and get back to you on this :)