Henry Chu reports from Madrid:
Gonzalo Martinez-Fresneda, an attorney for Garzon, said even the temporary suspension would have a "devastating symbolic effect." "If Garzon has to leave with all his boxes from his office, it's like the Lehman Bros. bankruptcy — there's no way back," Martinez-Fresneda said. "It would be a...
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The International Center of Photography in New York is gearing up for the much-anticipated exhibit of images from the "Mexican Suitcase," the archive of almost 4,000 images from the Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David "Chim" Seymour that were recovered two years ago, and by now all been...
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The Art Daily reports:
The New-York Historical Society and El Museo del Barrio this week announced details of their major upcoming collaboration, Nueva York—the first exhibition to explore how New York’s long and deep involvement with Spain and Latin America...
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The six-part documentary on the Spanish Civil War produced by Granada Television in the 1980s, with Neal Acherson, can be viewed online.
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Miren Gutiérrez interviews Francisco Etxebarria, the forensic scientist who has worked with Spain's the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory:
”The three rights of victims are truth, justice and reparations, and these have not been forthcoming” in the case of the roughly 200,000 victims of murder and forced disappearance...
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A 25-minute address by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, recipient of the 2010 Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives Activist Award, at the 74th Reunion of the Volunteers for Liberty, Museo del Barrio, New York City, May 2, 2010.
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The June issue of the online Volunteer will feature some clips of our May 2 reunion event in New York City. Here are some previews.
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The decision, yesterday, by the Spanish General Council of the Judiciary (Consejo General del Poder Judicial, CGPJ) that there are no legal impediments to Garzón's taking up a position as special advisor to Luis Moreno Ocampo, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands, has not stopped the debate...
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Pierre Assouline, biographer of Henri Cartier-Bresson, reflects in his blog at Le Monde on the importance of Juan Salas' discovery of a long-lost Spanish Civil War film (clip here):
It is hard to watch these silent images without being reminded of Cartier-Bresson's great regret: to have...
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The self-chosen "political exile" to The Hague of investigative magistrate Baltasar Garzón has been unexpectedly approved by Spain's General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ)--albeit not as a formal leave of absence (excedencia). Garzón had requested a seven-month leave to serve as special advisor on crimes against humanity to the Chief Prosecutor of the...
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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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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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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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