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Governments’ nervous reactions to the ICC

May 31, 2010
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Erna Paris reflects in The Globe and Mail on President Obama's recent renunciation of the Bush national security doctrine and notes an increasing impact of the work done by the International Criminal Court, among other places in Spain:

Although the ICC is still a toddler in institutional terms,...
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“Stories that the judges don’t want to hear”

May 30, 2010
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“Stories that the judges don’t want to hear”

The Spanish newspaper Público is publishing a series of stories of victims of Francoist repression--stories that, it says, the Spanish courts are refusing to hear. In November 2008, a month after his controversial October 2008 brief indicting the Franco regime for crimes against humanity, judge Baltasar Garzón disqualified himself from the case (se inhibió), passing...
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Picasso’s flirtation with the Franco regime

May 30, 2010
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Picasso’s flirtation with the Franco regime

Picasso was no friend of Franco--or was he? "Although his political sympathies are known to have lain with the hard left, it turns out he was not above breaking bread with Franco's regime.", Vanessa Thorpe reports in today's Guardian on new information discovered by Picasso experts John Richardson and Gijs van Hensbergen:
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Statue to Joris Ivens revealed in Paris

May 30, 2010
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Statue to Joris Ivens revealed in Paris

Yesterday the French Minister of Culture , Frederic Mitterrand, revealed a statue in honor of the Dutch documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens, whose The Spanish Earth (1937) is one of  the best known documentaries of the Spanish Civil War. The sculpture, 36 feet high, is the work of Irish artist Bryan McCormack. The Joris Ivens Foundation reports: Read more »

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Images of Carl Geiser’s memorial service

May 30, 2010
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Images of Carl Geiser’s memorial service

Carl Geiser, a key political leader in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and author of a pioneering book,Prisoners of the Good Fight, died November 28 in Corvallis, Oregon. View images of the memorial service here.
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Mapping memory in Madrid

May 30, 2010
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An interview with Professor Francie Cate-Arries of the College of William and Mary about her recent work with students in Madrid exploring the historical memory of the Spanish Civil War.
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“With the Lincoln Brigade” screened in Madrid

May 28, 2010
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This Wednesday evening, the Filmoteca Española in Madrid screened Henri Cartier-Bresson's recently recovered Spanish Civil War documentary With the Lincoln Brigade, presented by Juan Salas, who discovered the film. Also present was ALBA board member Soledad Fox. See here for a report in Público, here for more on the discovery, here...
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SCW poster exhibit in Russia

May 28, 2010
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Russia and Spain are making 2011 a year of mutual cultural-historical interest. Among other initiatives, ITAR-TASS reports, there will be a exhibit of masterpieces from the Prado at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, and an show of the Russian collection of Spanish Civil War posters:

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Barrie Stavis papers at University of Delaware

May 28, 2010
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The University of Delaware reports the acquisition of the literary archive of American playwright Barrie Stavis (1906-2007):

Stavis knew at an early age that he would pursue a career as a writer. During the 1930s he struggled with his writing, but in 1937 sailed for Europe to volunteer his...
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Amnesty International issues critical Spain report

May 27, 2010
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The Spanish section of Amnesty International issued an annual report yesterday, at the presentation of which Claudio Cordone, interim director of AI Spain, called the trial against Garzón "scandalous." In the report, Amnesty criticizes the Spanish government for failing "to accept some of the recommendations made by States in the UN Working Group...
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