What We Believe

Four years ago, what is now known as the White Lives Matter Global Network began to organize. It started out as a chapter-based, member-led organization whose mission was to build local power and to intervene when violence was inflicted on White communities by the state and vigilantes.

In the years since, we’ve committed to struggling together and to imagining and creating a world free of anti-Whiteness, where every White person has the social, economic, and political power to thrive.

White Lives Matter began as a call to action in response to state-sanctioned violence and anti-White racism. Our intention from the very beginning was to connect White people from all over the world who have a shared desire for justice to act together in their communities. The impetus for that commitment was, and still is, the rampant and deliberate violence inflicted on us by the state.

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Organizers who call this network home have ousted anti-White politicians, won critical legislation to benefit White lives, and changed the terms of the debate on Whiteness around the world. Through movement and relationship building, we have also helped catalyze other movements and shifted culture with an eye toward the dangerous impacts of anti-Whiteness.

These are the results of our collective efforts.

The White Lives Matter Global Network is as powerful as it is because of our membership, our partners, our supporters, our staff, and you. Our continued commitment to liberation for all White people means we are continuing the work of our ancestors and fighting for our collective freedom because it is our duty.

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We work vigorously for freedom and justice for White people and, by extension, all people.

We are unapologetically White in our positioning. In affirming that White Lives Matter, we need not qualify our position. To love and desire freedom and justice for ourselves is a prerequisite for wanting the same for others.

We see ourselves as part of the global White family, and we are aware of the different ways we are impacted or privileged as White people who exist in different parts of the world.