Justice for Franco’s Victims: ALBA/Puffin Prize Supports Exhumations

June 11, 2015
By
Justice for Franco’s Victims: ALBA/Puffin Prize Supports Exhumations

Emilio Silva, founding president of Spain’s Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory, was in New York to receive the fifth ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism. Spain’s transition to democracy, he said, failed to address the country’s moral debt to the thousands of victims of violence during the Spanish Civil War and the...
Read more »

Posted in News

New York Event: Photos and Video

June 11, 2015
By
New York Event: Photos and Video

Here is a video summary and a photo gallery of our Annual Celebration and Award Ceremony in New York City, May 9, 2015, at the Japan Society.
Read more »

Posted in News

Letter from ALBA: Why care about the past?

June 11, 2015
By and
Letter from ALBA: Why care about the past?

Why should we care about the past? This is one of the essential questions we ask when we work with students and teachers. We believe it is a question worth pondering, and worth answering thoughtfully.
Read more »

Posted in News

A Letter from the NYC Chancellor of Education

June 11, 2015
By
A Letter from the NYC Chancellor of Education

This letter, from New York City Chancellor of Education Carmen Fariña, was read at the ALBA/Puffin Award ceremony on May 9 in New York. Presenting it was Alyce Barr,...
Read more »

Posted in News

ALBA Teacher Institute travels to MA and OH

June 11, 2015
By
ALBA Teacher Institute travels to MA and OH

In March and April, ALBA’s Peter N. Carroll and Sebastiaan Faber worked with more than two dozen high school teachers in Newton, Massachusetts, and Columbus, Ohio to develop human-rights...
Read more »

Posted in News, Education

Faces of ALBA-VALB: Kelley Brown

June 11, 2015
By
<i>Faces of ALBA-VALB:</i> Kelley Brown

Master Teacher Kelley Brown speaks about the rise of the Common Core and her experience teaching with ALBA’s materials in Massachusetts.
Read more »

Posted in Features

An Underground Landscape of Terror

June 11, 2015
By
An Underground Landscape of Terror

Cultural anthropologist Francisco Ferrándiz has spent the last 13 years of his life studying the impact of Civil War exhumations in Spain, working in close collaboration with groups like the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory. Thanks to their efforts, Spanish citizens have exhumed more than 6,000 bodies since 2000—most of them civilian...
Read more »

Posted in Features

HUMAN RIGHTS COLUMN: Time, Justice, and Death

June 11, 2015
By
<em>HUMAN RIGHTS COLUMN</em>: Time, Justice, and Death

Time and justice are inseparable: it is impossible to do justice without a proper awareness of time. Time does not only pass for the dead; it also passes for the living—the living who are waiting, at the side of the graves, for the return...
Read more »

Posted in Features

Art vs. Tyranny: Pierre Daura, John Rossen, and Herman Bottcher

June 11, 2015
By
Art <i>vs.</i> Tyranny: Pierre Daura, John Rossen, and Herman Bottcher

Pierre Daura, John Rossen, and Herman Bottcher—a Catalan painter, an American factory worker and a German carpenter—forged a close friendship in the trenches of Spain. A Japanese mortar round, a poem, and a painting united their lives, leaving a lasting artistic legacy.
Read more »

Posted in Features

Meet ALBA’s New Chair & Officers

June 11, 2015
By
Meet ALBA’s New Chair & Officers

My formative experiences took place in Italy within a political culture deeply shaped by the values of international solidarity, social justice, and antifascism that motivated the women and men...
Read more »

Posted in News

New Photos of the Chapaiev Battalion

June 11, 2015
By
New Photos of the Chapaiev Battalion

An exhibit in Hamburg displays images of the Chapaiev Battalion taken by soldiers and Gerda Taro, from the collection of Alfred Kantorowicz and the ICP.
Read more »

Posted in News

Poetry Feature: Lessons of History

June 11, 2015
By
<i>Poetry Feature:</i> Lessons of History

I wasn’t even born, never saw a soldier point a rifle into the face of a woman, her hair beginning to gray, run red. I witness from a distance...
Read more »

Posted in Features

César Covo (1912-2015)

June 11, 2015
By
César Covo (1912-2015)

The last known International Brigade veteran in France, César Covo, died in March in Rennes, France, just a few weeks from his 103rd birthday. His death marks the silent...
Read more »

Posted in Memory's Roster

Book Review: Politics as sidelight

June 11, 2015
By
<i>Book Review:</i> Politics as sidelight

Richard Rhodes, Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2015). 


Read more »

Posted in Reviews

Book Review: Puerto Rican volunteers in Spain

June 11, 2015
By
<i>Book Review:</i> Puerto Rican volunteers in Spain

José Alejandro Ortiz Carrión with Teresita Torres Rivera, Voluntarios de da Libertad. Puertorriqueños en defensa de la República Española 1936-1939 (San Juan: Ediciones Callejón, 2015).


Read more »

Posted in Reviews

Join the Jarama Society

June 11, 2015
By
Join the Jarama Society

What you leave to friends and loved ones–and the causes you champion– are ways of expressing your hopes and dreams for the future. Help perpetuate your part in the...
Read more »

Posted in News

Leo Grachow – by Bob Steck

April 14, 2015
By and

Editor’s note: At the initiative of ALBA board member Chris Brooks, who maintains the online biographical database of US volunteers in Spain, the ALBA blog will be regularly posting...
Read more »

Tags: , ,
Posted in Blog

Thomas Danek: Life and Death – by Benjamin Goldring

April 28, 2015
By and
Thomas Danek: Life and Death –  by Benjamin Goldring

Editor’s note: At the initiative of ALBA board member Chris Brooks, who maintains the online biographical database of US volunteers in Spain, the ALBA blog will be regularly posting...
Read more »

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Blog