The documentary on the Abraham Lincoln Brigade by Tony Geist and Alfonso Domingo can be viewed online on Google Video.
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Founded by the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
The documentary on the Abraham Lincoln Brigade by Tony Geist and Alfonso Domingo can be viewed online on Google Video.
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Written, produced and directed by Mary Dore, Sam Sills, and Noel Buckner, with major funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, "The Good Fight" (1984, 98 min.), narrated by Studs Terkel, explores this often-ignored part of our history through newsreels, photographs, interviews and Depression-era music. Join a free Q&A with filmmaker Mary...
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Tolerance, in Canada, reports
A state prosecutor Friday recommended that Argentina turn down all lawsuits related to crimes under former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, since they are being dealt with in Spain, a justice official said. "Any country is qualified to prosecute crimes against humanity, but on condition that the country...
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The Reader (Almería, Spain) reports:
Spain will next week have to explain the processes being taken by the Supreme Court against National Court judge, Baltasar Garzón, to the United Nations, following’s Garzón difficulties in investigating crimes and disappearances in the Franco years. On Wednesday Spain’s human rights record is set to...
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From this week's issue:
Garzón is usually assigned a leftist role within Spain's internal disputes, but he has routinely irritated people of all political stripes. He is a postideological idealist, a legal crusader who in his own country tirelessly pursues corrupt socialists and conservatives alike and, beyond his national borders,...
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Leonard Lopate, at WNYC, interviews Juan Salas and Jeanne Houck about Cartier-Bresson's With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
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In addition to ALBA's annual reunion, at the Museo del Barrio at 4:30pm on Sunday, May 2 (some tickets still available!), there is a whole series of other interesting events this week, including appearances by prominent Spanish authors such as Javier Cercas and Bernardo Atxaga. See the Hispanic New York site for...
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Almería's The Reader reports:
Baltasar Garzón had called on Varela to recuse himself after it became known that the Supreme Court judge had advised those placing written allegations against Garzón, the Falange and Manos Limpias, on how to edit those written admissions to make them acceptable.
More here.In contrast with Spain, Argentina's courts are putting an end to impunity. The New York Times reports:
The Supreme Court overturned pardons of a dictatorship-era president and economy minister on Tuesday, paving the way for them to be tried for kidnapping and extortion. Former President Jorge Videla, left, and his...
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Teesside, an industrial region in Northeast England that in the nineteenth century grew to be a center of shipbuilding and iron and steel production, spawned no fewer than thirty International Brigade volunteers. Of the nine who were born in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees, moreover, six played leading roles in Spain: five rose to the rank of Lieutenant...
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The first thirty-six Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for Phase IV were submitted December 30, 2024. Phase IV is intended to focus on volunteers on whom we have minimal information. At some point in the future, I plan to resubmit some volunteers who were returned as not found or on whom no information...
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My grandfather (Nana), Suresh, moved to the United States in 1959 as a young man on a student visa pursuing his master’s degree. His parents, my great grandparents, sought value in being ‘foreign educated’ and bringing his education home – to Mumbai, India to run their family business. 2 years after my Nana moved...
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Peter N. Carroll, a respected and prolific writer, poet, and US historian, died after a short illness on September 16, surrounded by his family. He was 80. Born in New York City in 1943 to a secular Jewish family, Peter grew up in the Bronx and Queens, where his father worked as a composer,...
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LA RÉPUBLIQUE -QUOTIDINEN DE COMBAT RADICAL ET SOCIALISTE, February 5, 1938 Foreign Volunteer Arrested On March 27 last, 29 North Americans were arrested on board the boat Sans-Pareil while they were attempting to reach the Spanish Coast. They were sentenced to a prison term for violating the decree of February 18, 1937 on the...
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The “Spanija” series translates selected autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google translate from Croatian to English and he edited the selections. As this is a machine translation, the idiomatic features of Croatian or Serbian and the translation of names and...
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The Spanija series translates select autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google Translate from Croatian to English and he edited the selections. As this is a machine translation, the idiomatic features of Croatioan or Serbian and the translation of names and...
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Peter Verburgh’s translation from the French Newpaper Le Journal about a group of 29 Americans arrested in France. “29 American Volunteers Arrested in Muret” Le Journal, 5 April 1937 Toulouse, 4 April- The Control services of the Non-Intervention Committee do not remain inactive, especially with the help of the French Police and Gendarmerie. Thus...
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ALBA Board Member Steve Birnbaum made the trek on Memorial Day to the Home of Eternity Cemetary in Oakland, California to pay tribute to ALB veteran Hans Joachim. Joachim was born in Berlin, Germany in 1906 and moved to the US in 1924. He served in Spain with the George Washington Battalion and later...
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Please find attached photos of my visits to the graves of Lester Rowlson and Tersil Obriot last weekend. I left a brigade flag and a fresh white rose at each. ,,, I was also proud to include aspects of my Clapton CFC scarf; you might have heard of this small football club in London that...
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ALBA's project to provide a complete list of the more than 2,800 individuals who left from U.S. territory to fight with the Spanish Republic
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