June 5, 2020
PPro, along with so many other Americans of good will, is horrified by the unconscionable sustained excessive force used by Minneapolis police officers resulting in the asphyxiation death of African American George Floyd on May 25th. The long history of such police brutality in America, which disproportionately affects people of […]
June 2, 2020
We’ve updated our page listing alumni candidates for office in the 2020 elections, here. Please contact us if you know of any alumni candidates who who fit our progressive criteria and aren’t yet included.
June 2, 2020
Cathy is a progressive Democrat running for Congress in West Virginia’s 2nd district; her website is here. There is a virtual fundraiser (co-hosted by other Princeton graduates) coming up on June 18th; information is here.
May 12, 2020
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 […]
March 23, 2020
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 […]
February 25, 2020
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 […]
February 24, 2020
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 […]
February 14, 2020
Trump’s and McConnell’s War on Democracy at Home and Abroad
Charlie Barber '60
The Last Word, The High Plains Reader, Fargo, ND, February 12th, 2020
Charlie Barber '60
The Last Word, The High Plains Reader, Fargo, ND, February 12th, 2020
February 4, 2020
PPro is supporting the Alliance of Jewish Progressives, which is hosting at Campus Club on Thursday, 6 February 2020, from 730pm to 930pm, a workshop with the founders and hosts of Treyf, a Jewish anarchist podcast based in Montreal. The workshop will focus on contemporary antisemitism, contextualizing and critiquing the […]
January 28, 2020
Bread and Puppet Theater, a politically radical puppet theater troupe that was founded in New York City in 1963, and is now based on a farm in northern Vermont, will be coming to Princeton on Friday, 3/6/2020 for a performance of Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis. The show explores contemporary concerns about […]