Richard Bermack and Jeannette Ferrary have shared their photographs of the 2012 ALBA celebration in the San Francisco Bay Area. See a slideshow here.
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Richard Bermack and Jeannette Ferrary have shared their photographs of the 2012 ALBA celebration in the San Francisco Bay Area. See a slideshow here.
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David Schwittek has just put up the 15-minute video summary of the ALBA's 2012 New York City celebration, held on May 13, including the ceremony for the 2012 ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism, given to Kate Doyle and Fredy Peccerelli. Watch the video here:
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The 75th Anniversary of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion spurs discussion over the fate of Canadian Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. More found here.
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BBC Mundo released a short video interviewing three of the Basque children who were sent to England 75 years ago.
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This Saturday, ALBA celebrates the 76th reunion of the Lincoln Brigade at a special event in Berkeley, CA.
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Alan Warren sends along an announcement about the forthcoming 75th anniversary of the Battles of Quinto and Belchite:
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On Wednesday 30th May 2012 there will be a commemoration at Malgrat de Mar, north of Barcelona to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the sinking of the Ciudad de Barcelona. Four relatives of survivors will be attending and all are welcome. The event will start at Malgrat de Mar ajuntament at 0900 and...
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Investigations continue into the scandal of thousands of stolen and illegally adopted Spanish newborns, a practice that begun during the Franco years but continued well into the democratic period. See last week's CBS item here; previous Volunteer coverage here.
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Philip Kaufman's new film on Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, a significant part of which is set in Civil War Spain, premiers this coming Sunday, May 28, on HBO. The story is picked up by NPR and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others.
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Lydia Syson, author of the forthcoming A World Between Us, which tells the story of the Spanish Civil War to children, was interviewed about her work last week by Michael Rosen. See the video here.
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Although this text by Ivens is little known—and has never been translated before—it offers an eye-opening reflection on the power of his filmmaking.
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Antifascism has long been synonymous with American values. In 1934, student activists at New York’s City College arguably understood this better than many do today.
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After the Nazis occupied the Netherlands, the Seegers family did not hesitate to join the resistance. They had experience fighting fascism: their son Piet had fought for the Spanish Republic. When Tom King started digging into his family history seventy years later, he fell from one surprise into the other.
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Tina Modotti’s short life took her from Italy to North Beach and from there to Mexico, Berlin, Moscow, and civil-war Spain. Rightly known as a pathbreaking modernist photographer, she was also a radical activist. “Modotti spent the second part of her working life fighting for revolution.”
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Kirsten Weld has spent years studying Latin American dictatorships and the citizens who fight to hold them accountable. That experience has proven valuable in her current role as president of the AAUP chapter at Harvard, which, in March, sued the federal government for targeting students and faculty—and won.
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Targeted by the far right, Rutgers historian Mark Bray and his family went into exile in October. Speaking with The Volunteer from Madrid, he reflects on the current political situation. “Fascism shamelessly takes over institutions that, under liberal norms, are supposed to remain neutral.”
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I. In the Beginning Second child, Bernard, born March 1, 1915 Older brother, my father, Jacob (Jack), born June 3, 1912 Younger sister, Roslyn, born (June 1, 1922) disabled, hospitalized, died February 10, 1942 Their father, Abraham, died March 21,1930 Their mother, Nettie, died April 29, 1953 Bernie Brilliant student, graduated High...
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The title of this new occasional feature of The Volunteer is the Esperanto word for “archive.” In it, we will present, translate, and contextualize iconic non-English language documents related to the anti-fascist struggle in Spain.
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In recent years, citizen groups in Leipzig and Madrid have fought to preserve the buildings that were backdrops in two of Robert Capa’s best-known photographs. Their steadfast dedication has created two sites of historical memory whose significance extends far beyond Capa’s original images.
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On November 8, 1937, Salaria Kea, a 26-year-old African American nurse from Ohio, had been in Spain for seven months and one day. The country was in disarray. Half its territory was controlled by fascist rebels. Cities were being bombed, and civilians were killed by the thousands. Thousands more were forcibly displaced. But Kea...
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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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