Ken Loach is making his films available for free online. See his Spanish Civil War film Land and Freedom (1995) here.
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Land and Freedom (Ken Loach, 1995)
“La Colonia” videos
Some videos of interviews made by El País at the opening La Colonia: Spanish Immigrants in New York, 1898-1945, the stunning photography exhibit curated by ALBA Board member James D. Fernández and co-sponsored by ALBA, on display till the end of 2010 at the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center in New York....
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Gabriel Jackson Interview Video
Gabriel Jackson spoke with Sebastiaan Faber in April 2010. See here for the written interview.
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Sneak Preview of May 2 event footage: Amy Goodman
A 25-minute address by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, recipient of the 2010 Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives Activist Award, at the 74th Reunion of the Volunteers for Liberty, Museo del Barrio, New York City, May 2, 2010.
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Sneak Preview: May 2 event footage
The June issue of the online Volunteer will feature some clips of our May 2 reunion event in New York City. Here are some previews.
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The War Before the Lights Went Out: An Interview with Helen Graham
On a Sunday evening in January Helen Graham, one of the most prominent English-speaking historians of twentieth-century Spain today, sat down to discuss her life-long fascination with the war, Spain’s attempts at “recovering” its historical memory, and the skewed way in which the war is still viewed by many U.S. scholars and intellectuals.
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Matti Mattson, Citizen of Spain
Last August, Matti Mattson became the third surviving Lincoln vet to acquire Spanish citizenship. (Video)
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Preston’s “Spanish Holocaust” reviewed in Times
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Adam Hochshild reviews Paul Preston's monumental The Spanish Holocaust for the New York Times (read an excerpt from the book in The Volunteer; other reviews here and here):
An eminent and prolific British historian of modern Spain, Preston says this was “an extremely painful book to write.”...
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Capa and Taro: A love story
The Observer's Sean O'Hagan reviews the translation of Susana Fortes's novelized version of the love affair between Spanish Civil War photographers Gerda Taro and Robert Capa, the film rights for which have been bought by Michael Mann:
Fortes's short novel is essentially a historical romance that concentrates on the relationship between...
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Recovering memory in Spain and Indonesia
The electronic artist Grey Filastine connects efforts in Spain and Indonesia to confront a dictatorial past and achieve justice in the present, the Jakarta Globe reports:
“They’re excavating the mass graves, they’re going through the political process of changing the history books, of removing big statues of Franco, like all...
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Basque refugee children remembered
A plaque has been unveiled in Sussex to commemorate the 4,000 Basque children brought to the county 75 years ago, the BBC reports:
The children were escaping the Spanish Civil War, and arrived on a ship from Bilbao. The ceremony took place in Blackboys, near Uckfield, where 20 children and...
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Spanish and Latin American press cover Peccerelli award
The work done by ALBA/Puffin Award winner Fredy Peccerelli and his team is absolutely essential, says his colleague José Suasnavar of the Guatemalan Association of Forensic Anthropology (FAFG), EFE reports In an interview with the prestigious Latin American academic institution FLACSO, Suasnavar describes the Guatemalan exhumation process in detail. Read it
Salon calls ALBA/Puffin Award winner “human rights detective”
Jefferson Morley writes in Salon:
Kate Doyle’s job isn’t exactly journalism, though she’s nailed more big stories than many Pulitzer Prize winners. Her work does not quite qualify as law enforcement either, though a few bad guys living in confined quarters rue the day she came into their lives. “Human rights detective”...
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PRI’s “The World” interviews Kate Doyle
Lisa Mullens interviewed ALBA/Puffin Award winner Doyle on the Public Radio International program The World. Doyle discusses her work in Guatemala and Peru. You can listen to the full hour-long program, or just the interview with Kate, titled “Documenting Latin America’s Painful Past.” “Yes, it is scary to go up against human rights criminals," Doyle tells...
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More photos from the New York event
Richard Bermack's photographs of the 2012 ALBA celebration in New York, including the ALBA/Puffin Award ceremony and the reception, can be viewed here.
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Photos from the annual ALBA event in New York
Len Tsou has posted his photographs from yesterday's annual ALBA celebration and ALBA/Puffin Award ceremony. View them here.
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CNN covers ALBA/Puffin Award
CNN Latin America interviewed Kate Doyle and Fredy Peccerelli this morning about their 2012 ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism, which was awarded to them yesterday in New York. Watch the video here.
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