January 26, 2020
In 2018, PPro provided financial support to Noah Mihan ’19 , Founder of the Princeton Conservation Society, for his documentary Where the Buffalo Roamed (which was filmed in Montana in 2018 and later aired on PBS – see https://vimeo.com/305757278). PPro proudly believes that this now young alumnus is going places […]
November 26, 2019
“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 […]
September 5, 2019
– 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 […]
July 24, 2019
As a nation, we have witnessed an assault on reproductive health care. Despite the overwhelming support for safe legal abortion, anti-abortion legislators have enacted cruel, dangerous and unconstitutional abortion bans. Reproductive health services for members of the LGBTQ community are also under attack as a result of the administration’s regulation […]
June 18, 2019
On June 19, PPro’s Princeton chapter sponsored a conversation with the USA’s first Muslim American woman mayor, Dr. Sadaf Jaffer, Princeton post-doc and Mayor of Montgomery Township. Dr. Jaffer does research in Islamic Feminist studies, and has sort of become her own research topic, as she is the first Muslim […]
June 18, 2019
Criminal Justice Reform Efforts on Campus and Beyond Pro’s Reunions panel, co-sponsored with Students for Prison Education and Reform (SPEAR), took place on Friday, 31 May, from 1 to 230pm in the Maeder Hall Auditorium. It featured Larry Hamm ’78, Jim Farrin ’58, Naomi Shifrin ’21, Kiki Gilbert ’21, and […]
June 18, 2019
The Spring 2019 issue of The Prog, the progressive undergraduate magazine supported in part by PPro, is now available for downloading (in pdf format) here. See their website, and an archive of back issues, here.
June 18, 2019
Please join Princeton University’s Students for Prison Education and Reform (SPEAR) in their current Voting Rights Campaign by phone banking key New Jersey legislators in early May to push for pending legislation that would allow all formerly and currently-incarcerated individuals in NJ the right to vote, even if on probation or parole. […]
June 18, 2019
PPro is proud to have been able once again to feature Doug Rushkoff ’83, a leading voice in the application of social media to economic and social justice, on 21 March 2019. After a period of mingling at Civic Hall in Manhattan, Rushkoff expanded on the ideas in his most recent book, Team […]
May 19, 2019
PPro is supporting Princeton IX Now, a group currently carrying out sit-ins and protests at Nassau Hall, primarily over the University’s handling of sexual assault allegations, and calling on the University to improve its implementation of Title IX. More information is available here. More about the walkout at the #MeToo Forum […]