We want to be sure drug user voices -OUR voices - are included & amplified so we have a seat at EVERY table where our lives, health & communities are discussed!
Boston, MA
Joined April 2019
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Boston Users Union retweeted
🚨PEOPLE: It is really happening. The Minneapolis City Council *just* announced their intent to disband the Police Department & replace it w/ a new community-led system that truly prioritizes the safety & health of community. Transformation. Not “reform.”theappeal.org/minneapolis-ci…
Boston Users Union retweeted
Formerly incarcerated women lead by @justicehealing have been seeking a meeting with our governor @CharlieBakerMA since March. More than ever, Baker needs to listen to the experts on incarceration, the women who have been in his jails & prison. Take action tinyurl.com/maweekofaction
ALT ID A black and white photo of Gov Baker with purple text on white #PeopleNotPrisons 1. Contact his office 2. Sign the petition 3. Join the community take back Wednesday (Link included in the tweet) Gov Baker must respond!
Boston Users Union retweeted
1/2 Speaking to MPLS harm reductionists/street medics on USU call right now about supplies to send---they want ppl to amplify again that the bystander/accessory cop said "this is what happens when you use drugs" while murdering him.(Toxicology showed nothing but maybe weed).
Boston Users Union retweeted
The bail posting we did last night was for someone held pre-trial for FIVE years. He's home with family now. Three more bails on deck. We have NEW #FreeThemAll shirts to help us get more people out
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Boston Users Union retweeted
The folks at @ACLU_Mass just released this data tool for tracking police incidents in Boston -- looks pretty sick: data.aclum.org/bpd-incidents…
Boston Users Union retweeted
I am asking Mayors @marty_walsh to call on @MassGovernor to release people from prison, house all people, resource communities most impacted by #COVID19 and reimagine our state without incarceration! #FreeOurFamilies #FreeThenAll4PublicHealth #ReimaginingCommunities
Boston Users Union retweeted
"Our governments have been willing to shut down our entire economy, sparing only those sectors deemed 'essential,'" writes Michelle Alexander. "Shouldn’t we also consider whether it is truly 'essential' for millions of people to be caged?" nyti.ms/3dGUKvm
Boston Users Union retweeted
What we're hearing about Framingham:
*Women are extremely scared and stressed
*People moved to the quarantine unit and not allowed to take ANYTHING not even a bible - why punish people more who are infected?!
*Recirculated air, no fresh air
A total nightmare.
#FreeHer
Boston Users Union retweeted
This is entirely the fault of @MACorrections
All of this unnecessary sickness and suffering. DOC totally refused to release even elderly and sick women,
AND completely mismanaged the prison by screwing up quarantine units, waiting to test, and this brutal ineffective lockdown.
Boston Users Union retweeted
Drug Service Providers are providing a essential life saving service. Check out this thread to see some harm reduction tips for anyone preparing or packaging drugs to be sold during #COVID19. – at Halifax, Nova Scotia
Boston Users Union retweeted
Please share: NOTICE OF CLASS ACTION AND PROPOSED SETTLEMENT - go to bshclassaction.com/ to file your claim.
Boston Users Union retweeted
Our organizer is on the line with our whole caravan sharing her experiences being inside the jail we’re driving by.
She is fighting for all the women still in South Bay.
#FreeHer
Boston Users Union retweeted
Last night we polled the people who currently do not have housing about what they would like to have as options during the Shelter In Place ordinance. Here's what we learned. #askthepeople #listentothepeople #thetimetoactisNOW
Boston Users Union retweeted
The Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Housing Court has issued an order that will postpone most eviction hearings until at least April 21. Thank you to @CityLife_Clvu @BostonLegalAid @LCRBoston @HarvardLegalAid @RepKevinHonan for joining me in advocating for this important step. – at Cambridge, MA
Boston Users Union retweeted
In other words: 166,000 people are being put in solitary confinement for the next two weeks. The trauma this will inflict is unimaginable.
The choice cannot be between mass death and mass solitary confinement. We must release people to be with their families.
Boston Users Union retweeted
Sheriffs have the legal authority to release people right now. All of them deny this. You can just read the laws yourself.
Sheriffs have authority to move incarcerated people to other secure places if a disease breaks out - aka move them to their houses.
G.L. c. 126, § 26
Boston Users Union retweeted
BREAKING: Poor & homeless activists & supporters take over a vacant community centre in Surrey BC, starting the #HothouseSquat. Squatters say they are seizing public property to protect themselves from #COVID19 & call on others to do the same. HTTPS://WWW.REDBRAID.ORG/202…
Boston Users Union retweeted
*ACTION ALERT* Please call your legislators THIS WEEK and ask them to sign on to HD 4963, "An Act Regarding COVID-19 and Decarceration." Fact sheet here: plsma.org/wp-content/uploads…
Boston Users Union retweeted
Check out our submission to Treasury Committee enquiry - protecting ppl who use #drugs is essential, especially in relation to #COVIDー19 #coronavirus
@TransformDrugs @changegrowlive @Humankind_UK @HRInews @recoveringjust1 #harmreduction #publichealth
release.org.uk/publications/…
Boston Users Union retweeted
HUGE new reporting from @WBUR on jail deaths & medical neglect. 195 deaths in #mapoli jails from '08-'18.
Eerily timely reporting giving the crisis of morbidity & mortality our public officials are risking by failing to decarcerate. #FreeThemAll
Read:
wbur.org/investigations/2020…
