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Student Peace Action Network was formed in 1995. Originally called the Peace Action Campus Network, it officially became the Student Peace Action Network in 1996. Its earliest actions included a campaign for Human Rights in Mexico with a concentration on the crisis in Chiapas and also a campaign to close the [[School of Americas]].
SPAN was also active in the [[anti-globalization movement]], offering nonviolence training for IMF/World Bank protesters, and organizing contingents in several IMF/World Bank protests.
In 2001 after the September 11th attacks in the US SPAN was at the forefront of leading the anti-war charge looking at the intersections of oppression and ways in which war most gravely effects brown, black, poor and woman. The SPAN youth activist saw the broad effects of war and violence at home and abroad. A conference was held at the Claremont Colleges in Pamona CA which brought together a broad coalition of student leaders and youth organizers. The conference’s highlighted a panel of speakers who were survivors of the Hiroshima Nagasaki bombing as well as anti-racist trainings, direct action trainings, permaculture trainings and alternative to fossils fuel exhibits including; solar panel install information and a vegetable oil powered bus. [http://students.syr.edu/span/history.htm [6]][https://web.archive.org/web/20020928021811/http://www.studentpeaceaction.org/campaigns.html [7]]
In the response to the [[War on Terror]] SPAN helped form the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition along with other prominent student groups. As a reaction to the George Bush’s plans to invade Iraq, SPAN organized [[teach-in]]s against the war on October 7, 2002. [http://www.studentpeaceaction.org/teach-in.html [8]]
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