Author Archive for Sebastiaan Faber

Unforgettable

October 23, 2010
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Unforgettable

On Saturday, October 16th, Pete Seeger, Patti Smith, and Guy Davis performed at an unforgettable fundraising event for ALBA, "Songs for the Cause: Music, Education, and Activism," sponsored by the Puffin Foundation and hosted at the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY). (See photos by Alan Entin here.)...
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Amnesty: Spain losing ground in fight against impunity

October 16, 2010
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Amnesty: Spain losing ground in fight against impunity

In a press release coinciding with the twelfth anniversary of Judge Garzón's request for detention of Augusto Pinochet (1998) and the second anniversary of his brief (auto) opening an investigation into Francoist crimes against humanity, the Spanish section of Amnesty International has decried Spain's increasingly lackluster record in the fight against impunity,...
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Brazilian solidarity for Garzón

October 13, 2010
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Brazilian solidarity for Garzón

The Brazilian Bar Association (Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil) has launched a solidarity campaign on behalf of the embattled Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón, who has been suspended from his duties at Spain's National Criminal Court in the wake of his attempt to open an investigations of crimes against humanity committed during the Civil...
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The pot calling the kettle black?

October 13, 2010
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The pot calling the kettle black?

Spanish Supreme Court Justice Manuel Marchena, who is prosecuting Judge Baltasar Garzón for alleged irregularities related to courses taught at New York University in a program cosponsored by some Spanish banks and corporations, has himself frequently given talks and classes paid for by some 25 different corporate sponsorships, Público reveals. Moreover, neither Marchena...
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Tribute to IBs in Valencia, Oct 29-Nov 7

October 13, 2010
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Robert Llopis sends along the program for the Fifth Tribute Week to the International Brigades, which will be celebrated in Benissa (País Valencià) from October 29 to November 7, 2010.
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Brossa string quartet plays IB songs

October 12, 2010
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Brossa string quartet plays IB songs

The renowned, boundary-pushing Brossa String Quartet (Brossa Quartet de Corda) has just released a new CD with songs from the International Brigades, including "Si me quieres escribir," "Los cuatro generales," "Viva la Quince Brigada," and "Tango del Camp d'Argelers." The album can be bought here. See here for a video of...
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Memory Association celebrates 10-year anniversary

October 12, 2010
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Memory Association celebrates 10-year anniversary

Next week the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica, ARMH), founded and led by Emilio Silva, will be celebrating the tenth anniversary of its first exhumation of a mass grave, which took place on October 23-24, 2000 in Priaranza del Bierzo (León), Público Read more »

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Spanish TV news covers La Colonia

October 11, 2010
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Spanish TV news covers La Colonia

Yesterday the Telediario of Spanish national television covered La Colonia: Spanish Immigrants in New York, 1898-1945,a photography exhibit curated by ALBA Board member James D. Fernández, and co-sponsored by ALBA. The segment can be viewed here(beginning at the 01:01:18 mark.) The show has already received a good amount of coverage in the Spanish media. More video interviews here.
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SCW Memory Project posts video

October 11, 2010
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The Spanish Civil War Memory Project of the University of California at San Diego--whose library hosts one of the world's largest collections on the subject--has posted a first video with an introduction and victims' testimonies (in Spanish).
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Remembering Sam Lesser (cont.)

October 11, 2010
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Remembering Sam Lesser (cont.)

Photographer Peter Marshall pays tribute to the recently deceased SCW vet.
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