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The Volunteer in pdf (vol. 41, no. 1, March 2024)

February 25, 2024
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Grandchildren’s Testimonies Online

February 24, 2024
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Grandchildren’s Testimonies Online

The overwhelming response from the grandchildren of Lincoln veterans to ALBA’s invitation to submit a video testimony has given rise to a webpage featuring 20 moving videos. See alba-valb.org/grand-tribute-project/ for details and stay tuned for an event in the fall featuring these testimonies. You can also click on the thumbnails below.  Tribute to:...
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New ALBA Spanish Civil War Film Club

February 24, 2024
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New ALBA Spanish Civil War Film Club

Starting this spring, ALBA will launch a new series of workshops for teachers and the general public as part of the Peter N. Carroll Fund for Anti-Fascist Education: a Spanish Civil War Film club. Every three weeks, an expert will lead a discussion about a feature film inspired by the war in Spain. For...
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Upcoming Events: Letters from George and Ruth Watt

February 24, 2024
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Upcoming Events: Letters from George and Ruth Watt

On April 14, the anniversary of the Second Spanish Republic, ALBA invites you to attend a theatrical performance of George & Ruth: Songs and Letters of the Spanish Civil War, written by Dan and Molly Watt and based on the letters that ALBA co-founder George Watt and his partner Ruth wrote to each other...
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Howard Zinn, Art Shields, Black Antifascism: ALBA Events Draw Crowds

February 24, 2024
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Howard Zinn, Art Shields, Black Antifascism: ALBA Events Draw Crowds

ALBA Features Art Shields, Labor Reporter & Activist On January 25, ALBA’s Nancy Wallach and Josie Yurek, along with Richard Bermack, hosted a widely attended online event on Art Shields (1888-1988), a labor reporter for the Daily Worker who was in Madrid in 1939 to cover the last stand of the Spanish Republic when...
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From Young Voters to Young Leaders: ALBA/Puffin Human Rights Award Goes to “18by Vote”

February 24, 2024
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From Young Voters to Young Leaders: ALBA/Puffin Human Rights Award Goes to “18by Vote”

The 2024 ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism will be awarded this May 4 to 18by Vote, an organization that creates sustainable civic leadership among young people who have been historically excluded from positions of leadership and power. Founded in response to low youth voter turnout in the 2016 general election, 18byVote has since...
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Following in the Footsteps of Memory: A Tribute to Franco’s Victims

February 16, 2024
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Following in the Footsteps of Memory: A Tribute to Franco’s Victims

In Burgos, Spain, close to 700 people paid tribute to the victims of Francoist repression and the International Brigades. ALBA’s Nancy Wallach was there.
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Biographical Dictionary of Argentine Volunteers in New Edition

November 18, 2023
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Biographical Dictionary of Argentine Volunteers in New Edition

The Biographical dictionary of Argentine volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, by Jerónimo Boragina, has just appeared in its first Argentine edition. The author has also donated his entire archive on the Argentine volunteers and the Spanish solidarity movement in Argentina to the historical archive of the Buenos Aires province. An interview.
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Ybor City Inaugurates an Antifascist Mural

November 18, 2023
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Ybor City Inaugurates an Antifascist Mural

Ybor City’s history of Latino antifascist activism is now memorialized with a permanent historical marker and a stunning public art mural in the heart of the historic district.
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Paul Wendorf’s Letters Published in Spain

November 18, 2023
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Paul Wendorf’s Letters Published in Spain

The letters of Paul Wendorf, a member of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, have been translated and published in Spain by Salamanca University Press.
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