Who We Are
Beyond Trenches is building a movement to abolish the police and carceral state and build systems that are rooted in community care, accountability, and healing. We divest from the current carceral state by reinvesting in the Black incarcerated community through building agency, equity, opportunity, rehabilitation, and transformative justice. With a foundation built on mutual aid, Beyond Trenches exists with the unapologetic understanding that we will see abolition and liberation happen during our lifetime.
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At Beyond Trenches, we envision a prison-free world, one where Black bodies can experience every day with softness and ease. As we uncover the lifetimes it will take for our people to rehabilitate from mass incarceration, we implement strategy through resource-cultivating, coalition-building, programming, mutual aid, and narrative shifting. We strive for a world where cages do not exist and Black folks can truly embody rest, joy, community, peace, security, and safety!
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We divest from carceral culture and provide routes of communal longevity for all Black people impacted, both directly and indirectly, by mass incarceration. We carve these routes and fuel our divestment through abolitionist alternatives that include mutual aid, coalition-building, narrative shifting, and social research.
