Inside the SJP Walkout for Palestinian Liberation: a closer look at Monday’s student action in the UC

Demonstrators sat in front of the turnstiles at Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall on East 12th Street this Monday. Photo by Olivia Young

On Monday morning, approximately 100 New School community members walked off campus toward Union Square North to join the Walkout for Palestinian Liberation organized by The New School’s…

Censorship at the Welcome Center: How an Instagram post turned into a controversy

A Palestinian flag hangs from a broken store sign. Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem. Photo by anonymous student worker, from now-deleted Instagram post.

The New School Welcome Center’s Instagram page is known for its casual posts that give their followers insight into daily life around New York City. But on Wednesday,…

How the Vera List Center brings art from all over the world to The New School’s galleries

The Vera List Center brings and exhibition by the Australian art collective proppaNOW to the New School. proppaNow’s art exists in dialogue with this poster collection archiving Australian aboriginal communities and resistance movements. Pictures is a poster installation by Gordon Hookey. Photo by Avery Palmer

This story was updated on Nov. 19 at 5:21pm. From Oct. 12 through 14, the Vera List Center (VLC) hosted its annual forum culminating with the exhibition opening…

“Who are you?”: Reflections from a university student jailed and tortured in Maduro’s Venezuela

Illustration by Erica Kruse

In 2018, then-22-year-old Victor Navarro was arbitrarily and illegally detained in El Helicoide, “Venezuela’s largest and more notorious torture center,” according to the Human Rights Foundation (HRF). As…