PALMS UNHOUSED MUTUAL AID


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Demands
The City Must  
  1. End Criminalization Laws (41.18)
  2. Provide Harm Reduction
  3. Put Housing Offers in Writing
  4. Audit Private No-Bid Partners
  5. Build Social Housing
  6. Include Wraparound Services
  7. Permanent Housing First Model
  8. Defund Cops 
  9. Close Jails and Stop Cash Bail 
The US Must       
  1. End Landlord Ownership
  2. Abolish Police and Prisions
  3. Dismantle the US Empire
  4. Fund Social Services and Programs



    Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid —
    Ethos
    1. Working towards a socialist future is the only way to end the housing crisis. Capitalism and its agents, prioritize the profit of corporate and landlord development and ownership. While the working class organizes for a better future, we focus on meeting the survival needs of unhoused individuals who suffer the most under the capitialist system. Understanding that care is more effective than carcerality.
               
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    1. About PUMA




               Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid, or PUMA, began in late May 2020 during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and in the same month as the murder of George Floyd on 5/25/20. PUMA is an abolitionist network of care. Some early activities included power-up tables, survival work, actions, and occupations. Our first official action was taking supplies and political education materials to folks in Downtown LA during the protests of George Floyd’s murder. We noticed that many unhoused folks were not being engaged with or being dismissed, even as those same folks were part of the movement. Our power up tables were set up near/at encampments on the west side to offer people crucial supplies and a charge for their devices, as well as PPE and public health information, even as the world was on lockdown.

    In the years since, PUMA has focused on building community with our unhoused neighbors through weekly distro and outreach, coalition building, sweep defense, art, harm reduction, political education, and advocacy. The Homeless Industrial Complex repeatedly fails unhoused folks. The city promises services, yet accessing even the most basic casework proves all but impossible. For years, our communities have faced violent displacement through repeated sweeps, the theft of their items, homes, and vehicles, criminalization, and a cycling through of hotel programs that fail to provide even adequate food to participants, much less mental health services and housing navigation, despite the city’s insistence that people are ‘service-resistant’. We reject this lie and everything it entails.

    Our distros are on Monday, Wenesday, and Thursday. Follow Instagram for more.