ALBA News: Pride Event, Socialism 2025, Looking for DNA
Save the Date: ALBA’s End-Of-Year Gathering
On December 7, in the afternoon, ALBA will hold its annual end-of-year gathering at La Nacional on West 14th Street. More details to follow!
ALBA at Socialism 2025
Dennis Meaney with Dean Burrier and Jeff Balch
In July, ALBA Executive Assistant Dennis Meaney attended the Socialism 2025 conference in Chicago to connect ALBA’s work with the revived leftwing movements in the US and to situate our historical memory and our educational work within these movements. He attended several of the stimulating panels to speak about the movement and ALBA’s place in it. While in Chicago, Dennis met with several relatives of Brigadistas, including Amanda and Michael Klonksy, Dean Burrier Sanchis, and Jeff Balch.
ALBA Celebrates Pride Month with Spanish Senator
Carla Antonelli in 2003. Wikimedia Commons.
ALBA’s annual event celebrating Pride Month featured the Spanish Senator Carla Antonelli in conversation with Carmen Hernández-Ojeda, who in addition to both being from the Canary Island have been lifelong LGBTQ+ advocates. Among other topics, they discussed the role of LGBTQ+ activists in the anti-fascist movement from the anti-Francoist resistance to the present. A well-known actress, Ms. Antonelli holds the historic distinction of being the first openly transgender person elected to the Cortes Generales, as well as the first to serve in a regional legislature in Spain. Visit ALBA’s YouTube channel for a recording of the event.
DNA Sought to Identify ALB Volunteers
Our friends at the Alvah Bessie Project in Catalonia have informed us that they are prepping for archaeological work and exhumation of the mass grave at La Bisbal de Montsant. Among the Lincoln volunteers who died and were possibly buried in the mass grave were Milton Gale from New York and Granville Paine from Everett, Washington. We are looking for any known familial relations of Gale and Paine that could be used for DNA identification. Please email us at info@alba-valb.org.
