Author Archive for Sebastiaan Faber

Spaniards at Occupy: One year in

October 1, 2012
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Spaniards at Occupy: One year in

Amador Fernández Savater was in New York last week to interview four Spaniards who have been involved with Occupy Wall Street. The piece has been published in two parts at eldiario.es: part 1, part 2.
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La guerra antes del gran apagón: Una entrevista con Helen Graham

October 1, 2012
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La guerra antes del gran apagón: Una entrevista con Helen Graham

(English version.) Publicada el 6 de marzo de 2010 en la edición en línea de The Volunteer, como una versión extendida de la entrevista que apareció en el número de marzo de 2010 de la edición en papel de esa misma publicación. Traducción de Sara Plaza (civalleroyplaza.blogspot.com.es/) “Contar grandes historias a través de las...
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Interview with Helen Graham translated

October 1, 2012
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Interview with Helen Graham translated

Sara Plaza and Edgardo Civallero, authors of the blog CivalleroYPlaza, have published an excellent Spanish translation of the conversation that Jim Fernández and I had with Helen Graham two years ago. Read it  here.
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Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012)

October 1, 2012
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Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012)

Eric Hobsbawm, the Marxist historian who was born with the Russian Revolution and became a Communist in Nazi Germany, has died, age 95. Read his obituary in the Guardian, and an appreciation by Tristram Hunt. Hobsbawm, an antifascist if there ever was one, belonged to a generation of intellectuals deeply marked by...
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ALBA/Puffin Award: Accepting nominations

October 1, 2012
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ALBA/Puffin Award: Accepting nominations

ALBA is still accepting nominations for the 2013 ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism. Deadline extended until October 15, 2012. More information here.
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Mexican Suitcase documentary available for viewing

October 1, 2012
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Mexican Suitcase documentary available for viewing

The Mexican Suitcase, a documentary by Trisha Ziff about the circuitous fate of the 4,500 negatives of Spanish Civil War photographs shot by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David "Chim" Seymour, will be available for viewing on iTunes on October 9. More details here.
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Spaniards demand Truth Commission to deal with Francoist crimes

September 30, 2012
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Spaniards demand Truth Commission to deal with Francoist crimes

At a manifestation held today at the central Plaza del Sol in Madrid today, several thousand Spaniards--including lawyers, victims, family members, and public intellectuals--demanded the creation of a Truth Commission to properly deal with the unresolved judicial and human-rights legacy of the crimes against humanity committed during the Spanish Civil War and the Franco...
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Protesters surround Spanish parliament

September 26, 2012
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Protesters surround Spanish parliament

Yesterday, thousands of protesters expressed their indignation and dissatisfaction with the current government–and the political class as a whole–by peacefully surrounding the Spanish parliament in Madrid. Protests continue unabated today; follow events live on MásPúblico. Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! have the details on the events of yesterday: Thousands of people surrounded the Spanish...
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Nancarrow honored at Berkeley

September 26, 2012
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Nancarrow honored at Berkeley

The work of Conlon Nancarrow, experimentalist composer and Lincoln Brigade veteran, will be featured in  an extensive program at UC Berkeley to mark the fact that he was born 100 years ago. Details here, tickets here, highlights below: Join us for Nancarrow at 100, a three-day centennial celebration honoring the life and work of...
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Guernica as Aesthetic Realism

September 24, 2012
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Guernica as Aesthetic Realism

Dorothy Koppelman reads Picasso’s masterpiece through the lens of Aesthetic Realism, a movement founded by Eli Siegel on the idea that humanity should engage with the world through aesthetics: Here, in Pablo Picasso’s angry yet monumental memorial to Guernica, sudden and wanton killing is presented in flat, clearly outlined, yet agonizingly cut off shapes....
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