“There used to be people with clipboards signing students up. They aren’t here anymore.” Ralph Nader ‘55 made this remark in Princeton’s Whig Hall Senate…
Two local activists, Antonne Henshaw and Alexis Miller, recently spoke about their experiences in community organizing at the first workshop of a three-part series this fall. Student organizers Amanda Eisenhour and Rafi Lehmann weigh in on the series and on interorganizational capacity building.
I look forward to protests of striving towards the resilient new, rather than ones that seem driven by their bringing of the nightmarish past into the nightmarish present, amplifying the grating power of both to the point of near insurmountability. If the past is not past, when can we move past it?
For two years, I have led a Community Action (CA) orientation trip in Newark, where first years navigate their entry to Princeton through a five-day…
On April 5th, Jennicet Gutiérrez, an immigrant rights and transgender rights activist, spoke at Princeton University about injustice of immigrant detention centers, organizing for social…
If you dig through Princeton files long enough, you will find a plain Microsoft document entitled “FINE WINES AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: A Manual for the…
The Workers’ Rights Organizing Committee (WROC) came at the turn of the century, when Princeton’s campus was flooded with human rights concerns, including the anti-sweatshop…
This June, the popular North American socialist magazine Jacobin published an article by Freddie deBoer titled “Student Activism Isn’t Enough: Eight reasons why universities can’t…
When walking through Princeton University, one can’t help but admire its quaint footpaths lined with lampposts, pockets of trees, rolling lawns, and scattered buildings in…
In the tenth grade, my teacher introduced me to the notion of what she called “good trouble”: political action that is disruptive, erratic, or even…