Archive for October, 2010

Remembering Sam Lesser (cont.)

October 11, 2010
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Remembering Sam Lesser (cont.)

Photographer Peter Marshall pays tribute to the recently deceased SCW vet.
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Bilbao pays tribute to SCW journalist

October 11, 2010
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Bilbao pays tribute to SCW journalist

EITB reports:

Bilbao city hall inaugurates a street dedicated to the Times journalist George Steer, who informed about the bombing of Gernika in the Basque Country in 1937.The ceremony took place on Friday, October 8th and was attended by the mayor of Bilbao Iñaki...
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New Yorker announces Seeger ALBA benefit

October 11, 2010
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New Yorker announces Seeger ALBA benefit

This week's New Yorker's Goings On section includes the announcement of the Puffin-hosted benefit performance this coming Saturday October 16 by Pete Seeger, Patti Smith, and Guy Davis at the Museum of the City of New York. Order tickets here. Download the press release with all the details here.
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Exiles’ descendants receive citizenship

October 11, 2010
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More than 112,000 descendants of Spanish Civil War exiles have requested and received Spanish citizenship, Europa Press reports, taking advantage of a provision to that effect included in the Law of Historical Memory that was adopted in December 2007.
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Annulled or not?

October 11, 2010
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Annulled or not?

Professor Rafael Escudero has criticized the Spanish Attorney General (fiscal), Público reports, for misinterpreting the legal consequences of the Law of Historical Memory, which was adopted in December 2007, and which declares Francoist sentences "illegitimate," without going so far as to annul them altogether. As families of several prominent victims of Francoism--notably the poet...
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A Danish Trotskyist in the SCW

October 11, 2010
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An oral history account of Åge Kjelsø, who served in the Thälmann Battalion and was arrested after the May 1937 events, published in Danish in the mid-1970s and recently translated:

From Albacete I went to the Andalucian front in southern Spain, and in the war of manoeuvre there we came...
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New SCW blog

October 11, 2010
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NYU student Melissa Howley blogs about her adventures in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade archival collection:

I looked through the Milton Wolff collection on this trip to the Tamiment Library. Immediately upon opening the box and scanning the folders I was drawn to the Hemingway Correspondence.

More here.
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Loach to receive Spanish film prize

October 11, 2010
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Loach to receive Spanish film prize

Acclaimed director Ken Loach, whose Land and Freedom (1995) loosely follows George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, will be awarded a Goyesca award for his Spanish Civil War film at a new Spanish festival for political cinema that will take place in November in Ronda, The Olive Press reports. See Loach's film in...
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Land and Freedom (Ken Loach, 1995)

October 11, 2010
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Ken Loach is making his films available for free online. See his Spanish Civil War film Land and Freedom (1995) here.
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More media coverage of Mexican Suitcase show

October 11, 2010
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More media coverage of Mexican Suitcase show

The Spanish Civil War photography exhibit with rediscovered images from Capa, Taro, and Chim, continues to attract media attention worldwide. In addition to Public Radio International, see the Financial Times, BW Gallerist, Huffiington Post, and Mexico City's El Universal.
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