National Progressive Student Groups or Efforts (with varying degrees of progressiveness)

• Black Bloc for Dummies (more of a tactic than an organization, but definitely youth based)
• Campus Greens (campus chapters of the Green Party)
• Campus Green Vote (works to promote enviro-friendly politicians and bills)
• Canadian Federation of Students (coalition of canadian student governments)
• Center for Campus Organizing (clearinghouse -- publishes great national progressive student newspaper!!!)
• Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action By Any Means Necessary
• College Democrats
• 180 Movement for Democracy and Education   (formerly known as Democracy Teach-Ins)
• Democratic Socialists of America Youth
• Feminist Majority (started a campus program in 1997)
• FEUQ (moderate Quebec student organization)
• Free The Planet (environmental)
• International Socialist Organization (trotskyite - has a cadre of highly active student/youth members)
  Also checkout the Critique of ISO (and other authoritarian left groups)
• Just Act (youth wing of Overseas Development Network)
• Mouvement pour le Droit à l'Education (radical Quebec student organization)
• Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MECHA - chicano student organization, thirty years old!)
• National Association of Graduate and Professional Students (NAGPS)
• State Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs)
• Student Activist Network (canadian)
• Students Against Sweatshops -- Canada
• Students Transforming and Resisting Corporations
• Student Christian Movement -Canada (liberation theology! w/good page)
• Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC -- awesome environmental justice group!)
• Students for a Free Tibet
• Student Peace Action Network (SPAN)
• Student Sierra Coalition (SSC)
• Students United for a Responsible Global Environmental (SURGE -- new peace/justice network)
• United Students Against Sweatshops new page (USAS) old page
• United States Student Association (USSA)
• United States Student Union (unlike USSA which is fifty years old, this group was formed in the fall of 1999)
• Young Communist League (youth wing of the communist party)
• Young People's Socialist League   (youth wing of the socialist party)
• Youth for Socialist Action (trotskyite -- youth wing of Socialist Action)

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