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ALBA Welcomes New Board Members and Staff

May 16, 2025
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ALBA Welcomes New Board Members and Staff

New additions to ALBA's Board, Honorary Board, and staff.
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Peter Carroll Remembered in New York and SF Bay Area

May 16, 2025
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Peter Carroll Remembered in New York and SF Bay Area

On March 9, one of several memorial gatherings for Peter N. Carroll, ALBA’s chair emeritus, was held in New York City, in the presence of his partner Jeannette Ferrary and his children, Natasha and Matthew. The event included fragments of a long biographical interview with Peter by Sebastiaan Faber that was filmed in the...
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Events Coming Up: Pride Event with Spanish Senator and ALBA Film Series

May 16, 2025
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Events Coming Up: Pride Event with Spanish Senator and ALBA Film Series

The Spanish Senator Carla Antonelli will discuss the role of the LGBTQ movement in the anti-fascist movement. ALBA’s film series continues on June 5.
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ALBA/Puffin Award Goes to Jews for Racial and Economic Justice

May 16, 2025
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ALBA/Puffin Award Goes to Jews for Racial and Economic Justice

On May 3, the nonprofit Jews for Racial & Economic Justice received the 2025 ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism at a ceremony in New York City. Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Community (JFREJ) is a 6,000-member grassroots organization, widely considered to be the home of New York’s Jewish Left.
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ALBA Offers More Film Workshops and Honors Dr. Barsky

February 22, 2025
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ALBA Offers More Film Workshops and Honors Dr. Barsky

While ALBA's online film workshops continue apace, we also honored Dr. Edward Barsky on the 50th anniversary of his death.
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Robert Merriman Monument to Be Installed on Berkeley Campus

February 22, 2025
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Robert Merriman Monument to Be Installed on Berkeley Campus

The crowdfunding for the installation of a plaque honoring Robert Merriman, the legendary commander of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, has reached its goal. The plaque, which will be affixed to a boulder and placed at the center of campus near Memorial Glade honoring Berkeley veterans of World War II, is a copy of one...
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ALBA and Puffin Foundation Poised to Announce 2025 Human Rights Award

February 22, 2025
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ALBA and Puffin Foundation Poised to Announce 2025 Human Rights Award

As this issue is going to print, ALBA’s Human Rights Committee is hard at work to finalize the process of selecting this year’s winner of the ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism. Keep an eye on your email and social media for an announcement. One of the largest monetary awards for human rights in...
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Grandchildren of Lincoln Vets Gather in Tribute

February 22, 2025
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Grandchildren of Lincoln Vets Gather in Tribute

On Saturday, December 7, the ALBA community gathered in Lower Manhattan for “A Grand Tribute”, an event focused on first-person video testimonials of the grandchildren of the antifascist volunteers who fought fascism in Spain. The centerpiece of the event was the world premiere of the film based on their videos, also entitled, A Grand...
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The Volunteer in pdf (Vol. 41, No. 4, Dec. 2024)

November 22, 2024
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Spanish Citizenship: AABI Awaits Royal Decree

November 22, 2024
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Spanish Citizenship: AABI Awaits Royal Decree

The Friends of the International Brigades (AABI) has expressed concern about the inexplicable delay affecting article 33 of the 2022 Law of Democratic Memory, which allows descendants of International Brigade volunteers to apply for Spanish Citizenship. The 166 applications AABI has helped prepare to date are in bureaucratic limbo as long as the Boletín...
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