In a remarkably swift reaction to yesterday's news that Investigate Magistrate Baltasar Garzón has requested permission for a seven-month stint as special advisor to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Hague, this morning Justice Luciano Varela of the Spanish Supreme Court has opened the trial against Garzón for...
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Jane Stillwater at Berkeleyside on Mother's Day the Berkeley way:
“My mom is so Berkeley that she used to take us to reunions of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.”
More here.The Spanish press reports that Baltasar Garzón, under siege in Spain with three cases pending against him, has accepted an invitation from Luis Moreno Ocampo, the Argentinean chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, to begin working as advisor to the Prosecutor's Office there. Although Garzón has already made his...
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To be published this summer by the SEARCH Foundation: George Venturini's The Last Great Cause: Volunteers from Australia and Emilia-Romagna in Defence of the Spanish Republic, 1936-1939. Nine chapters, two appendices, containing names of 65 volunteers from Australia and 431 from Emilia-Romagna.
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The University of Valencia has just published the Spanish translation of Angela Jackson's classic British Women in the Spanish Civil War.
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Carol Strickland for the Christian Science Monitor:
"The reach of his curiosity," Galassi says, "is breathtaking." Not content to make pretty pictures, his goal was to discover the world and, in so doing, expand his – and our – vision.
More here.The Supreme court has rejected Garzón's request that Justice Varela recuse himself in the case related to Garzón's attempt to open an investigation of crimes against humanity during the Civil War and the Franco dictatorship, and does not agree with Garzón that Varela's request of the plaintiffs to "revise and resubmit" their...
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The 74th Reunion of the Volunteers for Liberty: Brigadistas and Activists: A Legacy Without Borders. With Amy Goodman, recipient of the first annual ALBA Activist Award. Sunday, May 2nd, 2010, Museo del Barrio, New York City. Here is a slideshow:
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We are sad to report that long-time ALBA friend and supporter Carmen de Zulueta Cebrián, daughter of the Spanish Republican diplomat Luis de Zulueta, passed away this Saturday. Obituaries here and here.
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The documentary on the Abraham Lincoln Brigade by Tony Geist and Alfonso Domingo can be viewed online on Google Video.
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New information about the New Zealand-born Spanish Civil War surgeon Doug Jolly (1904-1983) has emerged following the recent publication of his biography, Frontline Surgeon.
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On September 24, 1945, Dr. Barsky delivered this speech during the Spanish Refugee Appeal rally at Madison Square Garden.
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In 1944, Barsky wrote A Surgeon Goes to War, an 18-chapter memoir of his time in Spain, which was never published but can be consulted at NYU’s Tamiment Library. This is the first chapter.
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Self-effacing and shy though he was, Dr. Edward Barsky’s experience in Spain made him an outspoken activist, tireless organizer, innovative frontline surgeon, and political prisoner. “Eddie is a saint,” Hemingway wrote. “That’s where we put our saints in this country—in jail.”
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The Volunteer is thrilled to honor Dr. Barsky on the fiftieth anniversary of his death.
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For Edward Barsky, political and humanitarian activism were two sides of the same coin. Those who persecuted him begged to differ.
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The time she spent in civil-war Spain loomed large in the life of Martha Gellhorn, the St. Louis-born war journalist. “The truth is that Martha could not stop thinking, feeling, and writing about her Spanish experiences.” “Objectivity bullshit.” That’s what Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998) called the journalism of her day. Her letters to personalities like...
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Among the thousands of Jewish volunteers who joined the International Brigades were many descendants of the Sephardim. What was it like for them to “return” to Spain? Three case studies: Lini de Vries, César Covo, and Samuel Nahman, aka Manny Harriman.
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How the 22-year-old Jewish American dancer Janet Riesenfeld performed flamenco to help raise money for the Second Republic under fascist attack.
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Why did Jawaharlal Nehru, future prime minister of India, visit civil-war Spain in 1938? As it turned out, the triangular relationship between Britain, Spain, and India had deep cultural and geopolitical implications.
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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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