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The '''Progressive Student Network''' ('''PSN''') was a national, multi-issue, progressive college student activist organization in the United States. It was founded at a conference in 1980<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://leftspot.com/blog/?q=book%2Fexport%2Fhtml%2F83 |title=Pamphlet: What is the Progressive Student Network? |access-date=2020-05-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071215103123/http://leftspot.com/blog/?q=book%2Fexport%2Fhtml%2F83 |archive-date=2007-12-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref> as a merger of the [[Revolutionary Student Brigade]], the Midwest Coalition against Registration and the Draft (Mid-CARD), and the Student Coalition Against Nukes Nationwide (SCANN). The founding of the PSN commemorated the 10 year anniversary of the [[United States National Guard|National Guard]] killing student anti-war protesters at [[Kent State shootings|Kent State]] and [[Jackson State killings|Jackson State]] in 1970. The PSN quickly grew and attracted many new progressive student activist groups motivated to protest against the shift to the right in U.S. politics when [[Ronald Reagan]] was elected president in 1980.<br />
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Through the 1980s and into the early 1990s the PSN worked on many issues including organizing against U.S. military intervention in the [[Central America]]n countries of [[Nicaragua]] and [[El Salvador]] (the PSN supported the [[Sandinistas]] and the [[FMLN]]); organizing to kick the [[CIA]] off university campuses; the movement against [[apartheid]] in [[South Africa]]; organizing against the [[ROTC]] presence on college campuses; defending women's [[reproductive rights]]; and others. PSN groups also led numerous struggles against instances of racism, sexism and homophobia that came up on their campuses. PSN organized a large conference in 1990 at [[Kent State]] to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 1970 [[Kent State]] and [[Jackson State]] student killings.<br />
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==''PSN News''==<br />
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The PSN published a newspaper called ''PSN News'', which came out sporadically, but usually at least a couple times per semester. In the early years ''PSN News'' was published by the UMass Amherst Radical Student Union and the George Washington University Progressive Student Union.<ref>[https://library.gwu.edu/ead/rg0134.xml Progressive Student Union records, 1966-2008 -- Biographical/Historical note]</ref> Then for most of the 1980s it was published by the University of Iowa PSN chapter, ''New Wave''. In the 1990s it was published by the University of Wisconsin - Madison Progressive Student Network chapter.<br />
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* Some history of the PSN was adapted from the document [https://web.archive.org/web/20091027000757/http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/6353/new_psn.htm Building a New National Progressive Student Activist Organization; A Proposal Submitted for the Consideration of the U.S. Student Movement] by Eric Odell, November 1997<br />
* [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/misc.activism.progressive/$20$20$20$20$20$20$20$20$20$20$20$20$20Progressive$20Alliance$20ClearingHouse$20--$20Part$20II/misc.activism.progressive/lhbNxDNIfVg/bmBSTPLUi94J Progressive Alliance ClearingHouse -- Part II], 1992 re-post of 1989 proposal for Progressive Student Newspaper (PSN) Electronic Network (PSN-EN), by HarelB [http://www.thenation.com/article/first-article-we-ever-published-about-internet/], co-founder of internet's first moderated activism/politics usenet group (misc.activism.progressive [https://web.archive.org/web/20130507031442/http://cyber.eserver.org/talking.txt], founded March 1991)with appendix by Charlie Forcey, editor of Princeton's Progressive Review.<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050212214855/http://www.etext.org/Politics/Progressive.Student.Network/ Archive of some PSN documents from the early 1990s]<br />
* [http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/students/psn.html Kent State University library PSN collection]<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070222004220/http://leftspot.com/blog/?q=node%2F82 Progressive Student Network archive on Left Spot]<br />
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