Princeton students @ XL Dissent protest

PPro, with your help, was able to support twelve Princeton students, members of Princeton United Left, who were among the more than a thousand students protesting on 2 March against President Obama’s failure so far to carry through on his promises to make environmental concerns determine his final decision on approving or disapproving the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. This protest involved an act of peaceful civil disobedience at the White House fence and gate, for which 398 students (including nine Princetonians) were arrested and released after paying fines.

Participating Princeton students were:
Mason Herson-Hord
Dayton Martindale
Katie Horvath
Lucie Wright
Alex Bi
Courtney Reyes Perales
Nikolaus Hofer
Parth Parihar
Divya Farias
Damaris Miller
Rachel Parks
Thaddeus Weigel

General coverage is on the XL Dissent website here.

An article from The Daily Princetonian about the arrest of nine students is here.

An article from Princeton Alumni Weekly about the arrest of the nine students, and about a subsequent “die-in” at Frist Campus Center, is here.