David Cole: Garzón fitting recipient for ALBA/Puffin HR Award

May 12, 2011
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“In the 1930s some 2,800 Americans joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and traveled to Spain to fight to defend democracy and defeat fascism after Gen. Francisco Franco’s right-wing coup,” Georgetown University Law Professor David Cole writes in The Nation. “In 2011 the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA), an educational nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the record and spirit of the brigades, is fittingly awarding its first annual Human Rights Activism award to Baltasar Garzón, a Spanish judge under fire for daring to investigate Franco’s crimes.Read Cole’s full piece here.

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