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Chasing the Dream

Members from the DREAM Team and students in the Global Studies department attended an immigration reform awareness march in Washington DC in April. (Alexandra Delano)

Thirteen years ago, when Eugene Lang College student Cecilia Frescas was six years old, her mother led her brood of six children across the border to the United…

Students Meet to Organize Action for Student-Worker Rights

Nearly 35 people packed themselves into room 517 of the 66 12 St building this past Friday to discuss the future of the New School Student Workers (NSSW).

Hip-Hop with a Ukulele

Jon Braman may not sound like the typical hip-hop artist, but his ethos continues the legacy of the genre’s best. Like Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur, he embeds…

Cooper Union: Occupied

Cooper Union students hold signs and banners above the main entrance of the school’s Foundation Building on the December 3 “Day of Action.” (Henry Miller)

An Inside Look at Eleven Students’ Fight For Free Education December 3 was an unusually mild, sunny day in New York, and Astor Place, between Bowery and Cooper…

A Unified Vision Brings Cooper Students Together

While most demonstrations in the wake of last fall’s Occupy Wall Street movement have served as little more than a soapbox for student voices, Students for a Free…

Politics, Activism and Mutual Aid

In Our Hearts hosts several “free stores” in Brookyn and now one on Staten Island on Fridays. This free store was open from noon to six at Herbert Von King Park in Bedford-Stuyvesant. (Henry Miller)

Brooklyn’s In Our Hearts Tries to Redefine a Movement Every Friday — weather permitting — a free shop pops up on the corner of Marcy Avenue and Lafayette at…