The Progressive Student Union (PSU) is a student organization at The George Washington University (GW). The PSU was established in the 1980s as a multi-issue, social peace and justice student organization working to combat all forms of oppression. The PSU served as a coalition-building group, a direct action group, a campaign planning group, an event sponsor, and a provider of solidarity. The organization worked on a broad spectrum of social justice issues (including but not limited to racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, ableism, homelessness, poverty, US foreign and domestic policy, environmental destruction, corporate control of the media, corporate control of educational institutions, increasing corporate power globally, exploitative labor policies, union busting, animal exploitation, censorship, free trade agreements, violence, war, and corporate globalization) with a variety of campus, community, national, and international organizations. The PSU was active in national and local movements, beginning with the anti-apartheid/disinvestment campaigns of the 1980s. In the 1980s, it operated as the east coast headquarters of the Progressive Student Network (PSN). After the PSN declined after 1994, the PSU continued to operate as a progressive group, advocating for many issues. In recent years the PSU worked to end GW's contract with the Cocoa-Cola Company, to increase wages for security guards and food service workers, and to support theEmployee Free Choice Act. The PSU works with local as well as national organizations. -- Source: PSU website, 2006.
From the description of Progressive Student Union records, 1966-2008, bulk 1988-1996. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 422511095
