West Oakland Punks With Lunch
West Oakland Punks With Lunch

West oakland

Punks With Lunch

 
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Our Mission:

We are a non-profit organization run by volunteers dedicated to building community by providing life-saving services, along with harm reduction resources to underserved and marginalized individuals.

What Do
We Do?

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Syringe Access Services to one fixed site and mobile outreach to multiple curbside communities in West Oakland.

Food & Basic Necessities are provided at each Needle Exchange and mobile outreach.

Narcan Trainings free or sliding scale based for businesses, nonprofits, and community members.

Tabling at shows and community events where we provide safer drug use supplies, fentanyl drug testing, safer sex supplies, and Narcan.

Community Cleanups around the neighborhoods we serve.

Advocacy and uplift voices of people who use drugs and people experiencing homelessness in Oakland.

 

How
to
Support

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 Look out for shows we book to help fund our programs.

There are many ways that you can donate and support us.

 

Where to Find Us

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35th and Peralta

Sundays: 3:30-5:30pm
Rain, Shine, Covid-19, or Smoke — We will always be there

Grab some food, narcan, syringes, hygiene (basic & menstrual), dog food, masks, and hand sanitizer!

Every 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month, Curbside Care Clinic will be providing herbal wound care for abscesses or whatever your wound needs are and self care kits.

We operate on a needs based model. Whatever you need is what we will give you.

We ask that all participants practice physical distancing and wear masks when engagin with us.

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Mobile Outreach

Thursdays: 5th and Filbert, West Oakland BART — 6pm-7:30pm

Sundays: 35th and Telegraph, 35th and MLK, 45th and Telegraph —3:30pm-5:30pm

It is difficult to say when we will be there, but expect us between those times.

We provide syringe access, food, narcan, and whatever else we can fit into our cars

Stay Tuned for updates about New sites or outreach sites

INSTAGRAM

One bottle of hand sanitizer and a mask in each covid kit handed out today. ✅ [slide 1: a gallon of hand sanitizer on a wooden table top next to empty 3 ounce bottles and a bag of their lids. Side 2: a volunteer with blue gloves on is opening up plastic bags to pack next to filled bottles of the 3 ounce bottle of hand sanitizer and blue and black masks]
One bottle of hand sanitizer and a mask in each covid kit handed out today. ✅ [slide 1: a gallon of hand sanitizer on a wooden table top next to empty 3 ounce bottles and a bag of their lids. Side 2: a volunteer with blue gloves on is opening up plastic bags to pack next to filled bottles of the 3 ounce bottle of hand sanitizer and blue and black masks]
✊🏼 #upthelunch #anarchistmemes [image: a punk is standing with an anarchist flag over their shoulder and red fabric covering their mouth, the red fabrics is being adjusted by their mom who’s saying “you be careful out there and follow black leadership. Anarchy does not mean chaos it means community care and support” with the punk responding “yes mama”]
✊🏼 #upthelunch #anarchistmemes [image: a punk is standing with an anarchist flag over their shoulder and red fabric covering their mouth, the red fabrics is being adjusted by their mom who’s saying “you be careful out there and follow black leadership. Anarchy does not mean chaos it means community care and support” with the punk responding “yes mama”]
TONIGHT! #Repost @antipoliceterrorproject ・・・ Family, JOIN US Wednesday night 6/3 at 8:05 pm as #TheTown Sits OUT the Curfew We’ll be sitting down in the intersection of 14th and Broadway to say an unequivocal “F***k your curfew!” We're in this with @blackorganizingproject @community_ready_corp @ellabakercenter @curyj510 @bayrisingaction @oaklandrisingaction and you + your loved ones. Spread the word! More info at LINK IN BIO NOTE: We remain committed to offering to post bail for Black & Brown folks arrested while protesting. Please contact us if you know of anybody arrested and held who needs this support. PANDEMIC REMINDER: Wear your mask. Hold 6 foot distance as much as possible. Bring sanitation supplies such as hand sanitizer for yourself, and more if you have enough to share. 📸 @sunshinevelascoimages
TONIGHT! #Repost @antipoliceterrorproject ・・・ Family, JOIN US Wednesday night 6/3 at 8:05 pm as #TheTown Sits OUT the Curfew We’ll be sitting down in the intersection of 14th and Broadway to say an unequivocal “F***k your curfew!” We're in this with @blackorganizingproject @community_ready_corp @ellabakercenter @curyj510 @bayrisingaction @oaklandrisingaction and you + your loved ones. Spread the word! More info at LINK IN BIO NOTE: We remain committed to offering to post bail for Black & Brown folks arrested while protesting. Please contact us if you know of anybody arrested and held who needs this support. PANDEMIC REMINDER: Wear your mask. Hold 6 foot distance as much as possible. Bring sanitation supplies such as hand sanitizer for yourself, and more if you have enough to share. 📸 @sunshinevelascoimages
Yesterday our volunteers created an altar for the black lives recently lost to racist violence. We see you, we honor you, and we will continue to fight for you.🕯 #blacklivesmatter [image: a graffitied freeway column has printed flyers of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Tony McDade taped to it with one flyer reading “end police brutality, black lives matter, no justice no peace”]
Yesterday our volunteers created an altar for the black lives recently lost to racist violence. We see you, we honor you, and we will continue to fight for you.🕯 #blacklivesmatter [image: a graffitied freeway column has printed flyers of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Tony McDade taped to it with one flyer reading “end police brutality, black lives matter, no justice no peace”]
#Repost @movementphotographer ・・・ OAKLAND TONIGHT: People sleeping in tents mere feet from OPD’s armored tank as scores of police from multiple counties stage in the parking lot of the Volkswagen dealership in Oakland’s wealthy “auto row," preparing for tonight’s protests. The unhoused beg the city for money for #HotelsNotHospitalBeds to safely ride out the pandemic, while the OPD apparently has ample money for war toys to brutalize black and brown youth demanding an end to police executions. [image: an armored vehicle sits in the street across from a green and gray tent that’s on the sidewalk] #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #JusticeForBreonnaTaylor #JusticeForTonyMcDade #BlackLivesMatter #ICantBreathe
#Repost @movementphotographer ・・・ OAKLAND TONIGHT: People sleeping in tents mere feet from OPD’s armored tank as scores of police from multiple counties stage in the parking lot of the Volkswagen dealership in Oakland’s wealthy “auto row," preparing for tonight’s protests. The unhoused beg the city for money for #HotelsNotHospitalBeds to safely ride out the pandemic, while the OPD apparently has ample money for war toys to brutalize black and brown youth demanding an end to police executions. [image: an armored vehicle sits in the street across from a green and gray tent that’s on the sidewalk] #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #JusticeForBreonnaTaylor #JusticeForTonyMcDade #BlackLivesMatter #ICantBreathe
While we mourn the deaths of #GeorgeFloyd, #BreonnaTaylor, #TonyMcDade, and #AhmaudArbery we stand in solidarity with black lives. White supremacy is insidious, overt, systemic, communal, and cultural. This is why we say black lives matter, black lives matter, black lives matter. [black text with a white background reading “please I can’t breath. George Floyd”]
While we mourn the deaths of #GeorgeFloyd, #BreonnaTaylor, #TonyMcDade, and #AhmaudArbery we stand in solidarity with black lives. White supremacy is insidious, overt, systemic, communal, and cultural. This is why we say black lives matter, black lives matter, black lives matter. [black text with a white background reading “please I can’t breath. George Floyd”]
Shoutout to our furry friends for keeping us company during this difficult time, helping sooth our anxieties and provide 24/7 company for those of us who are able to quarantine at home. Here are a few outtakes from our 2020 “Pets with Lunch” themed calendar. Any suggestions for 2021’s theme? [photo 1: volunteer Anna bagging cottons while looking at Wasabi the cat. Photo 2: volunteers Dan on a bike attached to a trailer that Tommy is sitting on with Junie the dog sitting on his lap. Photo 3: Fiona laying in her bathtub with her cat Larry as the tub is filled with condoms.]
Shoutout to our furry friends for keeping us company during this difficult time, helping sooth our anxieties and provide 24/7 company for those of us who are able to quarantine at home. Here are a few outtakes from our 2020 “Pets with Lunch” themed calendar. Any suggestions for 2021’s theme? [photo 1: volunteer Anna bagging cottons while looking at Wasabi the cat. Photo 2: volunteers Dan on a bike attached to a trailer that Tommy is sitting on with Junie the dog sitting on his lap. Photo 3: Fiona laying in her bathtub with her cat Larry as the tub is filled with condoms.]
🌾✨ (tag the creator) [image: a beige desert with mountains in the background and cracks in the vast foreground, small purple and yellow flowers grow from the cracks in the ground going all the way to the mountains)
🌾✨ (tag the creator) [image: a beige desert with mountains in the background and cracks in the vast foreground, small purple and yellow flowers grow from the cracks in the ground going all the way to the mountains)
Today is Roary Racquel's birthday, and for her birthday she wished to help raise money for West Oakland Punks with Lunch! Please checkout her GoFundMe and donate! Check out the sweet shout out from Kathleen Hanna from Bikini Kill in the video. Link in IG bio! [black and white drawing of a punk girl petting a bunny under a freeway overpass outside a tent with the words “Roary's Birthday Benefit Bash”; Black border with “West Oakland Punks with Lunch, Any Donation Helps”]
Today is Roary Racquel's birthday, and for her birthday she wished to help raise money for West Oakland Punks with Lunch! Please checkout her GoFundMe and donate! Check out the sweet shout out from Kathleen Hanna from Bikini Kill in the video. Link in IG bio! [black and white drawing of a punk girl petting a bunny under a freeway overpass outside a tent with the words “Roary's Birthday Benefit Bash”; Black border with “West Oakland Punks with Lunch, Any Donation Helps”]
Taking care of community 💕 #upthelunch [image: the top of a sharps container sits on the sidewalk next to a porta potty with “community bio bin put used syringes in here please leave at porta potty for everyone to use will be picked up on Sunday punks with lunch“ written in red sharpie on the white lid]
Taking care of community 💕 #upthelunch [image: the top of a sharps container sits on the sidewalk next to a porta potty with “community bio bin put used syringes in here please leave at porta potty for everyone to use will be picked up on Sunday punks with lunch“ written in red sharpie on the white lid]
One bottle of hand sanitizer and a mask in each covid kit handed out today. ✅ [slide 1: a gallon of hand sanitizer on a wooden table top next to empty 3 ounce bottles and a bag of their lids. Side 2: a volunteer with blue gloves on is opening up plastic bags to pack next to filled bottles of the 3 ounce bottle of hand sanitizer and blue and black masks] ✊🏼 #upthelunch #anarchistmemes [image: a punk is standing with an anarchist flag over their shoulder and red fabric covering their mouth, the red fabrics is being adjusted by their mom who’s saying “you be careful out there and follow black leadership. Anarchy does not mean chaos it means community care and support” with the punk responding “yes mama”] TONIGHT! #Repost @antipoliceterrorproject ・・・ Family, JOIN US Wednesday night 6/3 at 8:05 pm as #TheTown Sits OUT the Curfew We’ll be sitting down in the intersection of 14th and Broadway to say an unequivocal “F***k your curfew!” We're in this with @blackorganizingproject @community_ready_corp @ellabakercenter @curyj510 @bayrisingaction @oaklandrisingaction and you + your loved ones. Spread the word! More info at LINK IN BIO NOTE: We remain committed to offering to post bail for Black & Brown folks arrested while protesting. Please contact us if you know of anybody arrested and held who needs this support. PANDEMIC REMINDER: Wear your mask. Hold 6 foot distance as much as possible. Bring sanitation supplies such as hand sanitizer for yourself, and more if you have enough to share. 📸 @sunshinevelascoimages Yesterday our volunteers created an altar for the black lives recently lost to racist violence. We see you, we honor you, and we will continue to fight for you.🕯 #blacklivesmatter [image: a graffitied freeway column has printed flyers of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Tony McDade taped to it with one flyer reading “end police brutality, black lives matter, no justice no peace”] #Repost @movementphotographer ・・・ OAKLAND TONIGHT: People sleeping in tents mere feet from OPD’s armored tank as scores of police from multiple counties stage in the parking lot of the Volkswagen dealership in Oakland’s wealthy “auto row," preparing for tonight’s protests. The unhoused beg the city for money for #HotelsNotHospitalBeds to safely ride out the pandemic, while the OPD apparently has ample money for war toys to brutalize black and brown youth demanding an end to police executions. [image: an armored vehicle sits in the street across from a green and gray tent that’s on the sidewalk] #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #JusticeForBreonnaTaylor #JusticeForTonyMcDade #BlackLivesMatter #ICantBreathe While we mourn the deaths of #GeorgeFloyd, #BreonnaTaylor, #TonyMcDade, and #AhmaudArbery we stand in solidarity with black lives. White supremacy is insidious, overt, systemic, communal, and cultural. This is why we say black lives matter, black lives matter, black lives matter. [black text with a white background reading “please I can’t breath. George Floyd”] Shoutout to our furry friends for keeping us company during this difficult time, helping sooth our anxieties and provide 24/7 company for those of us who are able to quarantine at home. Here are a few outtakes from our 2020 “Pets with Lunch” themed calendar. Any suggestions for 2021’s theme? [photo 1: volunteer Anna bagging cottons while looking at Wasabi the cat. Photo 2: volunteers Dan on a bike attached to a trailer that Tommy is sitting on with Junie the dog sitting on his lap. Photo 3: Fiona laying in her bathtub with her cat Larry as the tub is filled with condoms.] 🌾✨ (tag the creator) [image: a beige desert with mountains in the background and cracks in the vast foreground, small purple and yellow flowers grow from the cracks in the ground going all the way to the mountains) Today is Roary Racquel's birthday, and for her birthday she wished to help raise money for West Oakland Punks with Lunch! Please checkout her GoFundMe and donate! Check out the sweet shout out from Kathleen Hanna from Bikini Kill in the video. Link in IG bio! [black and white drawing of a punk girl petting a bunny under a freeway overpass outside a tent with the words “Roary's Birthday Benefit Bash”; Black border with “West Oakland Punks with Lunch, Any Donation Helps”] Taking care of community 💕 #upthelunch [image: the top of a sharps container sits on the sidewalk next to a porta potty with “community bio bin put used syringes in here please leave at porta potty for everyone to use will be picked up on Sunday punks with lunch“ written in red sharpie on the white lid]