November 15, 2020
Divest Princeton is a seven-year old campaign which seeks to compel Princeton University to divest itself of investments in fossil fuels. Almost 1,700 students, alumni, faculty, and staff have signed an open letter to President Eisgruber to that effect, and numerous organizations including PPro have endorsed Divest Princeton. PPro supports […]
November 11, 2020
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 […]
November 5, 2020
Please support the new Welcome Home Initiative.
October 18, 2020
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.
September 23, 2020
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 […]
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 […]