Supporting unhoused community in Bos/Camb area via drop-in, material aid, sweep support & organizing alongside them for transformative solutions #StopTheSweeps
Cambridge, MA
Joined April 2019
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Material Aid and Advocacy Program retweeted
This morning I had the privilege of joining @CBSNews to talk about why we need a public health approach to the overdose crisis. Tariffs and border enforcement will not save lives cbsnews.com/video/drug-polic…
Material Aid and Advocacy Program retweeted
🧵#OverdosePrevention centers (#OPCs), also known as #SupervisedConsumptionSites, have been proven to save lives, improve #PublicHealth, & support the empowerment & well-being of communities in the U.S. & abroad. While recent legislation passed...
bit.ly/MAOPCBill
Material Aid and Advocacy Program retweeted
Kentucky police gave a homeless woman in active labor a ticket for sleeping outside. This is what happens when you try to use police, jails, and fines to address homelessness. It's cruel, and it does not work.
#HousingNotHandcuffs
“I’m waiting for an ambulance. I might be going into labor. Is that okay?”
“You’re being detained because you’re unlawfully camping.”
Chilling body cam footage shows police detaining and citing a homeless woman who is in active labor.
lpm.org/news/2024-12-19/preg…
Material Aid and Advocacy Program retweeted
At least 14,874 people in MA have died of PREVENTABLE OD since 1st #SIFMANOW bill in 2017.
#MApoli again made decision, based on stigma & bias NOT evidence to remove #overdosepreventioncenters from SU bill.
EVERY OD DEATH IS A POLICY FAILURE & CHOICE!
We demand #YestoSCS!
Material Aid and Advocacy Program retweeted
Shamefully, #MApoli pols have AGAIN chosen to ignore evidence, deep need & demand for #OverdosePreventionCenters & made the stigma-based decision to remove OPC from their final SUD bill.
We'll continue to demand #YESTOSCS & fight alongside people who use drugs for #SIFMANOW!
Material Aid and Advocacy Program retweeted
Just one more war, that will bring peace.
One more arrest, that will bring safety.
One more ticket, that will solve homelessness.
One more death, that will bring life.
All. Lies.
It does not have to be this way.
Material Aid and Advocacy Program retweeted
*sheltered
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Material Aid and Advocacy Program retweeted
What a beautiful day demanding better for our people than jail & prison construction!
We’re so grateful for everyone who continues to give their heart + energy towards the struggle and vision for a better, freer future for all of us
Free her, free ourselves! #NoNewWomensPrison
Material Aid and Advocacy Program retweeted
I find it very strange when people post things like “IOAD, hashtag police officer/anything related to police” or put conditions, specifically recovery conditions, on harm reduction. Tell me you don’t actually understand harm reduction/police harm on PWUD without telling me…
Material Aid and Advocacy Program retweeted
ALSO it’s absurd for @MassGovernor to say families should choose respite centers and be kept out of shelter for 6 months, suggesting that 5 days is enough for families to be connected to housing or adequate services
If that were true WE WOULDNT HAVE A SHELTER CRISIS RIGHT NOW
The shelter crisis in Massachusetts has reached a point where homeless families, many of them migrants fleeing strife and despair, are now electing to spend the night on the street instead of inside a state facility that has beds available to them. trib.al/j0mqXeQ
Material Aid and Advocacy Program retweeted
“We just can’t push it along like other people have and just say, ‘We’re going to send this to the next neighborhood,’ because it doesn’t solve the problem.”
Somerville grapples with a rise in unsheltered homelessness
wgbh.org/news/local/2024-08-… @GBHNews @NPR
Material Aid and Advocacy Program retweeted
Incarcerated people are routinely silenced & denied their right to engage with legislators about decisions that affect their lives. Advocates across the country are fighting to change that. Check out @PrisonPolicy's webinar to learn more: buff.ly/4cw2yxZ
Material Aid and Advocacy Program retweeted
.@LACANetwork on the Supreme Court ruling to criminalize homelessness: "They have aligned with a legacy of systemic discrimination reminiscent of Jim Crow laws, Black Codes, Apartheid, and Sundown Towns."
Material Aid and Advocacy Program retweeted
"Going back into session will mean the Legislature will do what it is supposed to: deliberate, legislative, and vote." #mapoli westwoodminute.town.news/g/w…
Material Aid and Advocacy Program retweeted
Drug offenses account for the incarceration of 360,000 people & drug convictions remain a defining feature of the prison system.
To end mass incarceration, we have to change how our society & our criminal legal system respond to drug possession – as well as more serious crimes.
ALT Slice of a pie chart showing that 1 in 5 incarcerated people is locked up for a drug offense
Material Aid and Advocacy Program retweeted
Now hearing from @justicehealing about the crisis of people trying to navigate Central Booking, not knowing who to call, where their loved one is. People arrested in Boston are disproportionately living at the margins, and don't have resources or access to power. #bospoli
Material Aid and Advocacy Program retweeted
Hearing from @MAAPMass about the City's long campaign against people surviving poverty and who use drugs, from #OperationCleanSweep to the present; how increasing criminalization disappears people, cuts them off from medical care & community support, puts them in danger #bospoli
Material Aid and Advocacy Program retweeted
In response to a records request by @justicehealing @massbailfund @maapmass on the number of people admitted to Central Booking, 485 out of 487 were detained prior to arraignment, stuck in county jail.
Only TWO people got access to bail pre-arraignment from Nov-May. #bospoli
Material Aid and Advocacy Program retweeted
MBF Director janhavi madabushi speaks about the work of @MassBailFund, recent state data showing that racial disparities in jails are increasing and pretrial detention in #mapoli has basically only decreased among white people, and increasing investments in jails and prisons.
Material Aid and Advocacy Program retweeted
Director of Organizing @JasminBorges6 of @MassBailFund begins the advocate panel, talking about the dehumanization experienced in jails and prisons, MBF's work in jail lobbies in five #mapoli counties, and the need to move resources to housing & healthcare, not jails & sheriffs.