Author Archive for Sebastiaan Faber

The Volunteer in pdf (Vol. 42, No. 2, June 2025)

May 22, 2025
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International Brigades Play to Premiere in Brooklyn

May 16, 2025
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International Brigades Play to Premiere in Brooklyn

From June 12 to 29, Brooklyn’s MITU580 will premiere At the Barricades, a new play by James Clements and Sam Hood Adrain set among the international Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. Directed by Federica Borlenghi and supported by script supervisor Skye Pallo Ross, the project was developed through a residency at NYU's Espacio...
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“It Took Me Years to Understand My Work as Part of a Cultural Battle.” Roc Blackblock, Catalan Muralist

May 16, 2025
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<em>“It Took Me Years to Understand My Work as Part of a Cultural Battle.”</em> Roc Blackblock, Catalan Muralist

The Barcelona-born muralist Roc Blackblock, who started painting walls 25 years ago, takes his inspiration from photography to put the spotlight on historical struggles against fascism, for democracy, and for human rights as a way of intervening in the political present. “Having a good photograph to work from makes a huge difference.”
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Letter from ALBA: Liberation through Solidarity

<em>Letter from ALBA:</em> Liberation through Solidarity

“The courage and fortitude the Lincoln Brigade exemplified is desperately needed today. They saw the writing on the wall and didn't wait until the powers that be caught up with them to take what J. Edgar Hoover preposterously described as premature anti-fascist action.” Audrey Sasson, the Executive Director of Jews for Racial and Economic...
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Shirley Mangini (1946-2024)

February 22, 2025
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Shirley Mangini (1946-2024)

Shirley Mangini, a professor emerita of Spanish at California State University, Long Beach, who served as ALBA Board member and Volunteer book review editor, passed away on October 11, 2024. Born near Pittsburgh, she lived in Madrid in the early 1970s before earning her graduate degrees at the University of New Mexico. After teaching...
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Peter Stansky, Historian: “George Orwell Was Politically Naïve.”

February 22, 2025
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Peter Stansky, Historian: “George Orwell Was Politically Naïve.”

The way we think about George Orwell today was profoundly shaped by the Cold War—and by the groundbreaking work of Peter Stansky, who started writing about him shortly after his death. When the Spanish Civil War broke out in the summer of 1936, Peter Stansky was four years old—and although he lived in Brooklyn,...
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Letter from ALBA: Indignation and Disbelief

February 22, 2025
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<em>Letter from ALBA:</em> Indignation and Disbelief

Dear Friends, We know that many of you are working hard to transform your indignation and disbelief at political developments in our country into the mobilizing energy needed to build a new Popular Front against fascism. At ALBA we are well aware of the small but significant role we play as an educational organization...
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The Volunteer in pdf (Vol. 42, No. 1, March 2025)

February 15, 2025
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Letter from ALBA: A Time of Loss—and Determination

November 22, 2024
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<em>Letter from ALBA:</em> A Time of Loss—and Determination

Dear Friends, The past couple of months have been marked by losses. As we were still reeling from the sudden passing of Peter Carroll, longtime ALBA chair and editor of The Volunteer, we had to find a way to process the outcome of the elections—in the runup to which we partnered with 18by Vote...
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ALBA News: Paul Robeson, Marion Nestle, and the Watt Award

November 22, 2024
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ALBA News: Paul Robeson, Marion Nestle, and the Watt Award

On November 20, Marion Nestle gave ALBA’s annual Susman lecture, reflecting on her upbringing as a red diaper baby. A leading nutrition scholar and the author of award-winning books on food politics, Marion Nestle is professor emerita at NYU. Her father, Ted Zittel, was a labor publicist, most notably for the strike against the...
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