Broadcasting with Democracy Now! from Germany, ALBA Activist Award-winning Amy Goodman interviews the Spanish human rights attorney Juan Garcés, who worked as an advisor to Chilean President Salvador Allende until his death in the 1973 coup, and who was a key player in the 1998 indictment and arrest of General Pinochet, as...
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The Art Daily reports:
Tate Modern will present the first major retrospective of Joan Miró (1893–1983) to be held in London for almost 50 years. Opening on 14 April 2011, Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape will bring together over 150 paintings, works on paper and sculptures...
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Next week at the Cervantes Institute in London: a roundtable discussion featuring Paul Preston and Julián Casanova. Date and venue: 21 September 2010, 6.30 p.m. at the Instituto Cervantes, 102 Eaton Square, London, SW1W 9AN (near Victoria Station). More here.
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Alex de la Iglesia's new Spanish Civil War film, Balada triste de trompeta (The Last Circus), has just won a Silver Lion for direction and the award for Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival, Variety reports. See also De la Iglesia's blog (in Spanish).
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The Friends & Family of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (FFALB) report:
Almost seventy people attended a ten oʼclock screening of “The Good Fight” in Portland, Maine, on August 26th. Sponsored by Activists Forever! Friends & Family of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (FFALB), it was one of four films shown at...
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A piece in the LA Times calls attention to a series of events surrounding the legendary Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, who fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War:
In a serendipitous convergence of events, Siqueiros is having his biggest Southern California moment in decades: Construction of...
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At an improvised press conference last night, Judge Baltasar Garzón denounced the request from Supreme Court Justice Manuel Marchena to have the judicial police investigate his private bank accounts as "lacking all legal foundation" and "very harmful" to him and his family, El País reports. "I have nothing to hide," the Judge...
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Garry Wills and Jim Jump remember the SCW vet and classicist in obituaries for the New York Review of Books and The Independent. Wills:
It is not often that one has a professor who fought guerrilla wars in three different countries (Spain, France, and Italy). To a man left...
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The Earth Times reports:
Legal proceedings against Spanish top judge Baltasar Garzon widened Thursday as the Supreme Court ordered police to investigate his income in connection with corruption allegations against him. The order came two days after the court had confirmed that Garzon could be tried...
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Balada triste de trompeta, Alex de la Iglesia´s new film, partly set during the Spanish Civil War, which premiered at Toronto a couple of weeks ago, is now competing for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Today's El País features a positive review and an interview with the...
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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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Peter Verbergh translated this article from CeSoir describing the arrest of the Dallet-Nelson Group. “The Interrogation of the Passengers of the Sans-Pareil”, CeSoir, March 29, 1937 (From our Special Correspondent) Perpignan March 28 (By Telephone) Yesterday morning around 10am, The Coast Guard Vessel Cebère docked in the port of Port-Vendres alongside the torpedo boat...
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Only five veterans of the Spanish Civil War are known to be buried in Virginia outside of Arlington National Cemetery: two in Richmond, two in Norfolk, and one in Big Stone Gap. ALB Tribute visited the graves of Harry Edward Farris and Thomas Moore in Richmond as well as Manuel Lizarrago and Crawford Morgan...
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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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On Friday April 26, 2024, as part of my work with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Tribute Project I set out to visit the grave of Harry Farris in North Henrico, VA. I located the cemetery easily but my search for his grave proved a bit more complicated. I had the section he is buried...
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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...
Read more »
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 places are...
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