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Princeton Progressives is both thrilled and immensely relieved that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been elected the next President and Vice President of the United States.  It took an enormous collective effort on the part of countless dedicated progressive and Democratic organizations and individuals to achieve this critical historic […]

Divest Princeton is a coalition of students, faculty, and alumni calling on Princeton University to divest the University’s endowment from fossil fuel companies and reinvest responsibly.​ Learn more here.

Please join the NJ Prison-Engaged Network on September 25th at 5pm EST for the inaugural session of the Fall 2020 Critical Conversations series with the inimitable advocate and organizer Mark Hopkins. To access the link for the session, please register using the form linked here: https://tinyurl.com/criticalconvo1 Mark Hopkins is a […]

PPro is happy to support and promote the work of Divest Princeton, which is “bringing together current students, alumni, faculty, and others to urge Princeton to divest from fossil fuels.” They are doing this chiefly by urging alumni to agree to withhold donations until the University does divest itself. More […]

On Friday, March 6, Bread and Puppet Theater performed its “Diagonal Life: Theory and Practice” show for a large audience of Princeton students, faculty (and their children), and community members in the Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall. The twenty-member ensemble (which included Class of 2018 valedictorian Kyle Berlin) began the […]

In keeping with our mission of educating the broader Princeton community in the merits and methods of community activism, civic engagement, and making positive change through grass-roots organizing, Princeton Progressives endorses the candidacy of Larry Hamm ’78 for United States Senate, representing New Jersey. Larry has spent his entire life […]

This event has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. PPro will try to reschedule it for later this year. Stay safe! Join us in NYC Tuesday, March 24, 7:00, to hear Mike Signer and Rev. Malcolm Byrd, pastor of Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in conversation. $75 admission […]

“SENTENCED TO SCIENCE: One Man’s Story and the Uncovered History of Prison Experimentation,” featuring Allen Hornblum and Yusef Anthony, jointly sponsored by PPro, SPEAR (Students for Prison Education and Reform), and the Department of African American Studies. During the 20th century, incarcerated people were often exploited by medical researchers. In […]

– Esteemed Fellow Princeton Progressives – We have a great September cooked up for our Central Jersey PPro Chapter. Like any good stew, it has little bit of many things. Sept 7 – 8: First off there is Voter Registration in Super State PA! Yes – PA has been studied […]