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Spanish media cover ALBA/Puffin Award

May 15, 2011
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All the major Spanish papers covered the news of Judge Baltasar Garzón's acceptance of the ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism yesterday in New York City, as well as his conversation with Professor Jonathan Turley: El País, ABC, El Mundo, Público, as well as El Diario in New York.
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Horton’s Gitmo story wins National Magazine Award

May 10, 2011
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Scott Horton's investigative piece on the suicides at the Guantánamo detention facility has just won the National Magazine Award. Horton, who writes for Harper's, has also been one of the most perceptive U.S. followers of Baltasar Garzón's work (see previous Volunteer coverage here). Guantánamo will be one of the topics covered by Prof. Jonathan...
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Getting ready for the NYC annual celebration

May 9, 2011
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Getting ready for the NYC annual celebration

Preparations for ALBA's annual celebration in New York City this Saturday May 14 are entering the final stretch. Some tickets are still available for the lunch with ALBA-Puffin Human Rights awardee Baltasar Garzón and Prof. Jonathan Turley (12-2pm) and for the award ceremony--with music, speeches, and commemorations of the Lincoln vets we lost...
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Coixet documentary available online

May 4, 2011
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Manuel Rivas's interview with Garzón, filmed by Isabel Coixet last fall and screened at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, is now available for viewing online at Filmin.es for a modest fee (90 min., Spanish, 2.95 euros). See it here.
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Spanish commentator confirms ALBA hypothesis

April 17, 2011
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Spanish commentator confirms ALBA hypothesis

In yesterday's Público, Ernesto Ekaizer laid out the same hypothesis that we proffered on the ALBA blog last week, in an op-ed appropriately titled "The Judicial Puzzle."  The hypothesis is the following: One of the main reasons the Supreme Court Justice in charge of the Gürtel case is making so much haste...
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May 14 Award Event Details: Turley, Ratner, Cox, Rosenstein, Sarandon, Belafonte, Farrell

April 12, 2011
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May 14 Award Event Details: Turley, Ratner, Cox, Rosenstein, Sarandon, Belafonte, Farrell

ALBA has just issued a press release (versión en español) with further details on the May 14 annual celebration, featuring ALBA/Puffin Awardee Baltasar Garzón:

A pre-event benefit will feature a question-and-answer session and the opportunity to meet Judge Garzón over a light lunch.   Judge Garzón will be interviewed by Jonathan Turley,...
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Something’s Rotten in the State of Spain

April 12, 2011
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A news item buried  in yesterday's edition of the Spanish e-paper El Plural called attention to a little-known case pending in Spain's Constitutional Court, whose outcome could have definitive repercussions on two of Garzón's three cases. There is an anomalous figure in Spanish law known as "acusación popular", which allows unharmed citizens to press...
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ALBA Annual Celebrations: tickets now available!

March 17, 2011
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ALBA Annual Celebrations: tickets now available!

Tickets for ALBA's annual celebrations in New York and the Bay Area can now be purchased online.  The New York program–on May 14th, at the Eisner/Lubin auditorium on Washington Square, New York City (tickets here)–will feature Judge Baltasar Garzón, who will receive the first ALBA-Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism, alongside Michael...
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SF Chronicle covers Spanish WikiLeaks angle

March 6, 2011
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Today in the Chronicle, Bob Egelko reviews the ramifications of the WikiLeaks revelations regarding US pressure on foreign governments and judiciaries to block legal investigation of US officials, including the Guantánamo torture case opened by Baltasar Garzón:

The documents also quoted U.S. diplomats as urging Spain to transfer the case from Judge...
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New Digital Archive of SCW and Francoism

March 4, 2011
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New Digital Archive of SCW and Francoism

The Spanish Civil War Memory Project, an initiative of the University of California at San Diego in collaboration with several Spanish civic associations, seeks to build a digital Archive of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist repression. Since the summer of 2007 several teams of graduate students have been recording audiovisual testimonies of...
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