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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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An ALBA Tribute to Edward K. Barsky (1895-1975)

November 22, 2024
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An ALBA Tribute to Edward K. Barsky (1895-1975)

The Volunteer is thrilled to honor Dr. Barsky on the fiftieth anniversary of his death.
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Teachers from New York and Elsewhere Join ALBA Workshop

November 22, 2024
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Teachers from New York and Elsewhere Join ALBA Workshop

On Election Day, ALBA held its annual workshop for New York teachers on “The United States and World Fascism: Human Rights from the Spanish Civil War to Nuremberg and Beyond.” The full-day workshop drew participants not just from New York City but also from other parts of the United States, as well as Spain...
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ALBA Joins 18by Vote in Pre-Election Campaign

November 22, 2024
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ALBA Joins 18by Vote in Pre-Election Campaign

This election season, ALBA joined 18by Vote, winner of the 2024 ALBA/Puffin Award, in a campaign to draw young voters to the polls. ALBA’s contribution included a social media blitz and video messages from members of the ALBA board and honorary board, including Karen Nussbaum.
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ALBA’s Popular Spanish Civil War Film Series Continues

November 22, 2024
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ALBA’s Popular Spanish Civil War Film Series Continues

ALBA’s new film series, hosted as part of the Peter N. Carroll Antifascist Education Fund, continues on December 18, at 4 pm ET, with a discussion of Ken Loach’s Land and Freedom (1995), led by Lisa Berger, a Barcelona-based producer who collaborated with Loach on the film. Anyone registering for the event will receive...
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New Film: The Grandchildren of Lincoln Volunteers Speak

November 22, 2024
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New Film: The Grandchildren of Lincoln Volunteers Speak

In late 2023, we sent out a call to the ALBA community requesting short videos from grandchildren of Brigadistas. Given the quality of the testimonies, we decided to create an 18-minute compilation, which will be premiered on December 7.
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Special Edition of Joe Dallet Letters for ALBA Donors

August 28, 2024
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Special Edition of Joe Dallet Letters for ALBA Donors

As a gift to those who donate $125 or more to ALBA, we offer a facsimile reproduction of the 1938 pamphlet Letters from Spain by Joe Dallet to his Wife. The pamphlet includes 30 letters from Joe to Katherine Puening-Dallet relaying his experiences in Spain and his hopes for a better world. After Joe’s...
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