Student Action Network (SAN) is a progressive activist group that participates in and supports struggles for social justice, human rights, and equality.

We are opposed to all discrimination based on race, gender, nationality, disability, religion, or sexual orientation.

We also oppose the abuse of police power and the brutality and killing of unarmed citizens, who are disproportionately people of color and low income.

We support the democratic demands for higher wages, better working conditions, equal pay for equal work, a shorter workweek, and the fight against child labor. We support trade union struggles to attain these ends.

We are opposed to corporate lawlessness, the lack of corporate accountability, and the courts' treatment of corporations as entities with the same rights (and none of the responsibilities) as human beings.

We oppose the reckless destruction of the environment by large corporations and their friends in government.

We oppose cuts in welfare programs which will result in more hunger, malnutrition, and homelessness, and which predominately hurt poor and working class women and children.

We support increasing funds for public education, to which all people should have equal access, regardless of income. We want to join the rest of the industrialized world in providing a national health care program, free to all citizens, and a free, national child care program for working parents. We support reproductive choice.

We have a local, national, and international focus because justice and injustice do not recognize artificial boundaries. We oppose the drive of the US to dominate other countries, both physically and culturally, through economic policy, advertising, terrorism, and military aggression.

SAN has the potential to be a powerful and progressive voice for students, but we must continue to build our membership, and make a conscious effort to reach out to people of diverse backgrounds. We must become a truly mass student organization that carries weight and influence, so that we may increase awareness about salient issues, and uphold our principles.

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Last Updated: 3/10/99