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IB Monuments around the world (2)

September 21, 2010
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IB Monuments around the world (2)

Kirkcaldy, Scotland. (Map.) Erected by Kirkcaldy District Council and Friends of the IBA, May 1980 and September 1986 (IBMT). More on NamesOfTheFallen. Recent Photos by Jack Deighton here.
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IB Monuments around the world (1)

September 21, 2010
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IB Monuments around the world (1)

The first in a new series of posts highlighting monuments to the International Brigades worldwide. Canberra, Australia; S 35° 18.012 E 149° 07.201 (map). Inaugurated in 1993.  From Waymarking.com:

The memorial is a wall of sandstone blocks with red brick courses. ...  The bronze map was made by Dr Ross...
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New biography of Otto Katz

September 21, 2010
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Patrick Skene Catling, writing in the Irish Times, critically reviews a new biography of the man who worked with Willi Münzenberg and Arthur Koestler to organize the International Brigades, and who is said to have inspired the movie Casablanca:

Otto Katz (1895-1952) was a Stalinist agent of first-magnitude international stardom. He...
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Former Chief Prosecutor lambasts Spanish Supreme Court

September 17, 2010
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Former Chief Prosecutor lambasts Spanish Supreme Court

In a strongly worded op-ed piece in today's Público, Carlos Jiménez Villarejo, former Chief Prosecutor for corruption cases,  chides the Spanish Supreme Court for the cavalier way in which it recently dismissed Judge Baltasar Garzón's appeal. (More background here.) According to Jiménez, the Supreme Court should have given much more serious consideration to...
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Alex de la Iglesia on his new SCW film

September 17, 2010
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Alex de la Iglesia on his new SCW film

Alex de la Iglesia and Carolina Bang speak to Little White Lies about the Balada triste de trompeta, which just won several prizes in Venice and is now showing at the San Sebastián festival:

Everybody in Spain has a father or grandfather who was involved in the war. Everybody...
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Remembering Bernard Knox, ctd.

September 17, 2010
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Remembering Bernard Knox, ctd.

The Telegraph published an obit of the SCW vet classicist yesterday:

Though left for dead in a pool of blood, he somehow managed to make it to a dressing station, his will to live miraculously restored by the appearance of the journalist Claud Cockburn with a bottle of scotch.

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NYT covers “Nueva York” show

September 17, 2010
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The Times' Edward Rothstein writes about Nueva York, 1613-1945, in which ALBA collaborated and for which James D. Fernández has curated an accompanying exhibit which opens today:

Instead of viewing the city and its past along an East-West axis and seeing its conflicts and culture through interactions with...
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Opening this Friday: La Colonia

September 16, 2010
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Opening this Friday: La Colonia

La Colonia: Spanish Immigrants in New York, 1898-1945, a photography exhibit curated by ALBA Board member James D. Fernández, and co-sponsored by ALBA, is opening this Friday, September 17, at 6:15pm at NYU's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (53 Washington Square South). In the early decades of the twentieth century, New York experienced a substantial influx...
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Garzón receives award

September 16, 2010
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Garzón receives award

Judge Baltasar Garzón Real, who has been suspended from his post at Spain's National Criminal Court for his investigations of possible crimes against humanity committed under the Franco regime, has been honored with the Hrant Dink Award, named after the prominent Armenian journalist who was assassinated by a Turkish nationalist in January 2007....
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Amy Goodman talks to Juan Garcés

September 16, 2010
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Amy Goodman talks to Juan Garcés

Broadcasting with Democracy Now! from Germany, ALBA Activist Award-winning Amy Goodman interviews the Spanish human rights attorney Juan Garcés, who worked as an advisor to Chilean President Salvador Allende until his death in the 1973 coup, and who was a key player in the 1998 indictment and arrest of General Pinochet, as...
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