Author Archive for James D. Fernández

Even more photos, Ciudad universitaria, Jarama, etc.

October 26, 2011
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Even more photos, Ciudad universitaria, Jarama, etc.

A beautiful album, courtesy of the AABI (Asociación de Amigos de las Brigadas Internacionales) with images from: Inauguration of the monument to the International Brigades at Madrid’s Ciudad Universitaria. Concert/homage to the IB Visit to the Fuencarral Cemetery Visit to the Jarama battlefield Luncheon at Rivas Vaciamadrid in honor of the IB. See album...
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Remarks at Inauguration of the IB Monument, Ana Pérez

October 24, 2011
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Remarks at Inauguration of the IB Monument, Ana Pérez

Translation of remarks made by the President of the Asociación de Amigos de las Brigadas Internacionales (AABI), Ana Pérez, at the inauguration of the monument to the International Brigades at Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid, Spain.  October 22, 2011. A monument to the International Brigades is, above all, a monument to international solidarity.  And in this...
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There’s a Valley in Spain…

October 23, 2011
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There’s a Valley in Spain…

Today,a group of about twenty “Friends and Family of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade” and three ALBA Board members (J. Fernández, G. Herrman and Marina Garde), visited the Jarama battlefield.  From the vantage point of an appropriately makeshift memorial to British volunteer Kit Conway and other fallen British volunteers, we surveyed the valley and points of...
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Ciudad Universitaria, 75 years later

October 22, 2011
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Ciudad Universitaria, 75 years later

On October 22, 1936, exactly 75 years ago, President Largo Caballero signed the decree which brought into existence the International Brigades.  Today, several hundred people, including four IB veterans, three representatives of ALBA, and a considerable contingent of Friends and Family of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, attended the inauguration of a monument to the...
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Channeling the Lincoln Vets in Zucotti Park

October 17, 2011
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Channeling the Lincoln Vets in Zucotti Park

A hundred-year-old man is helped up on to a plastic milk crate, and prepares to address the crowd at Occupy Wall Street. “Mic check” shouts the facilitator, and her words are repeated by the crowd in a kind of reverse echo, moving in concentric circles from the milk crate out in all directions. The...
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Review of Cold War Exiles in Mexico: US Dissidents and the Culture of Resistance

October 12, 2011
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(Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2008) Review published in American Studies, Vol 50, Nos 3/4, Fall/Winter, 2009. This is an impressive piece of scholarship, which combines admirable bibliographic and archival research with clear, engaging prose.  Throughout the book’s five main chapters, Schreiber painstakingly reconstructs the biographical and artistic trajectories of a talented and diverse...
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Same war, different battle…

July 26, 2011
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Same war, different battle…

On the Norwegian island of Utoya, scene of that horrific massacre of young members of the Labor Party by a right-wing Christian terrorist, there is a plaque, tacked on to a tree, honoring the four Norwegian members of the International Brigades who were killed in the Spanish Civil War.  Apparently, the young campers had...
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Caveat Lector: In the Archives

July 14, 2011
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Caveat Lector:  In the Archives

Over the years, I’ve had a chance to help a significant number of high school and college students and teachers wade into the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives.  Visitors are almost always taken by the immediacy of the primary sources contained in ALBA.  For folks used to the apparent omniscience and neutrality of history textbooks,...
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Letter Sent to the New York Times

July 7, 2011
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Letter Sent to the New York Times

Re: Spain Confronts Years of Pain Over Lost Babies Congratulations are due to the New York Times for your excellent front-page coverage of this terrifying story.  Many of us hope you might be able to give similar prominent coverage to a much larger and related story:  that of the over 100,000 victims of the...
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Blue Telegram From Spain

June 27, 2011
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Blue Telegram From Spain

The Dartmouth Alumni magazine just ran this tribute I wrote a long time ago to one of my undergraduate mentors, Robert Russell. I thought it might be of interest to you ALBA blog readers as well. Salud. Why Blue?
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