Author Archive for Sebastiaan Faber

Garzón challenges Spanish Supremes in European Court of Human Rights

March 25, 2011
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Garzón challenges Spanish Supremes in European Court of Human Rights

Yesterday the Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón brought a case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg challenging the lawfulness of his criminal prosecution in Spain for having opened an investigation into serious crimes committed during the Franco era, following a request by families and representatives of victims of the regime,. The...
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Marjorie Cohn: Stop bombing Libya

March 23, 2011
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Marjorie Cohn, who gave ALBA's annual Susman lecture last month, calls for the US to stop bombing Libya:

There is no doubt that Muammar Qaddafi has been brutally repressing Libyans in order to maintain his power. But the purpose of the United Nations is to maintain international peace and security. The...
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Article on Dora and Hans Kaiser

March 23, 2011
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Article on Dora and Hans Kaiser

Irene Filip has just published a detailed essay on Dr. Hans Kaiser and his wife Dora, the two Austrian Jewish volunteers who helped run the International Brigade hospital at Benissa. Read the article, which has appeared in the yearbook of the Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes, here (in German).
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Obama: No apologies for Pinochet coup

March 22, 2011
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Obama: No apologies for Pinochet coup

Visiting Chile, President Obama stopped short of offering an apology for the US role in the overthrow of President Salvador Allende in 1973, leading to the bloody military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet--an episode about which then Secretary of State Colin Powell said in 2003 "it is not a part of American history that...
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Recent SCW radio shows

March 22, 2011
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Alan Entin, nephew of Bernard "Butch" Entin, has been working with his local radio station on a documentary about his uncle: "Uncle Bernard and The Abraham Lincoln Brigade" in the series "Hidden Histories" (27 min, available in mp3 here). Also in Hidden Histories, three 2-minute segments on the Spanish Civil War with Jack...
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Human Rights Film Festival: Impunity, Colombia, Garzón

March 21, 2011
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Human Rights Film Festival: Impunity, Colombia, Garzón

Ten days ago, at the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) in Geneva, Switzerland, the screening of Impunity, the new documentary by Juan José Lozano and Hollman Morris on the peace process in Colombia (website; trailer), Baltasar Garzón joined in a panel discussion on the question of impunity in relation to...
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CP leader’s archive donated to Salamanca

March 19, 2011
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Tiempo de Historia reports that a digital copy of the personal archive of José Díaz Ramos, secretary general of the Spanish Communist Party from 1932 to 1942, has just been donated to the Centro de Memoria Histórica in Salamanca:

La donación de este fondo para el Centro Documental de la Memoria Histórica...
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One year anniversary online Volunteer & ALBA Blog

March 18, 2011
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One year anniversary online Volunteer & ALBA Blog

This month marks the one-year anniversary of the online Volunteer and the ALBA blog. Some statistics: Total number of visits: 27,229. Total number of page views: 58,932. Unique visitors: 18,481, from 141 countries. Most read pages, posts and articles: ALBA Blog, Helen Graham, Cartier Bresson, Picasso and Delaprée, Oliver Law, Video,...
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Gripping new documentary on stolen Spanish babies

March 18, 2011
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Gripping new documentary on stolen Spanish babies

Montse Armengou and Ricard Belis, the pair of Catalan documentary filmmakers that brought us Les fosses del silenci (The Spanish Holocaust, view part 1part 2), Els nens perduts del franquisme (The Lost Children of Francoism, part 1 - part 2), and Memòria per llei (Memory by Law, view) returned last month...
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4,500 SCW photos catalogued in Barcelona

March 18, 2011
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4,500 SCW photos catalogued in Barcelona

The blog of the Pabellón de la República, at the University of Barcelona, just announced the catalogization of a stunning collection of 4,500 photographs shot between 1934 and 1938  by legendary photographer Agustí Centelles, collected in a 133-page scrapbook assembled in the late 1970s by the photographer himself, for the purpose of establishing...
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