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Documentary screening in New York: Monday, April 18, 2011
Spain in/and the United States Screening and discussion of two documentaries about Spaniards in the US. NYU’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese and its King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, together...
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Bay Area honors Bradley Manning and human rights struggles; vet present
Jeff Paterson described the persecution of Bradley Manning by the military and the distortions of his case by the Obama adminstration and the media. Photo Richard Bermack The 75th Bay Area reunion,...
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Turley, Cox, and Ratner Praise Baltasar Garzón
Jonathan Turley in conversation with Baltasar Garzón, recipient of the 2011 ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism. New York City, 14 May 2011. Photo Richard Bermack Among the distinguished guests...
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World media cover ALBA/Puffin Award
The First Annual ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism attracted widespread interest among the media in Europe and the Americas. Among the highlights: David Cole in The Nation; Dan Kaufman in The...
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Marjorie Cohn: Focus on torture
Majorie Cohn delivering Susman Lecture. Photo by Richard Bermack Editor’s Note: Marjorie Cohn is a criminal defense lawyer, former president of the National Lawyers Guild, and currently professor at...
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From the Director: 75 years later
October 2011 marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the International Brigades. To properly honor the brave men and women who fought to save the Spanish Republic, programs of appreciation and...
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Impugning Impunity: ALBA and Human Rights organizations honor Garzón with NY...
Five major new documentaries on historical memory and transitional justice in Spain, Latin America, and Africa! That is how, this November 3-5, ALBA, the Puffin Foundation, the Center for...
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ALBA co-sponsors major show of Spanish war photographer Centelles
The first major exhibit featuring the Spanish Civil War work of Catalan photographer Agustí Centelles (1909-1985), co-sponsored by ALBA, is opening at NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center on...
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Mexican Suitcase film triumphs at festivals, in media
Trisha Ziff’s new documentary Mexican Suitcase, on the photography and historical memory of the Spanish Civil War, has been selected for the New York and Los Angeles DocuWeeks, the San Sebastián Film...
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Belafonte, Sarandon, Baldwin, and Sheen invite you to join us in NYC
Harry Belafonte, Susan Sarandon, Alec Baldwin, and Martin Sheen are among the members of the Honorary Committee inviting you to join us at the annual event in New York City honoring the volunteers of...
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Solidarity Forever! Join us on Oct. 5 in Berkeley
Pete Seeger in concert, Feb. 1986, Photo Josef Schwarz, CC BY-SA 3.0 Join us for ALBA’s Bay Area Reunion! Sunday, October 5, 2014 2:00 PM (doors open at 1:00 PM; tickets) Freight & Salvage...
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Las maestras de la República
[Welcoming remarks to screening of "Las maestras de la Républica" at the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, March 27, 2015. Followed by Q+A with the director, Pilar Pérez Solano] On behalf of NYU’s...
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ALBA’s Bay Area Celebration and Other Fall Events
Impugning Impunity: ALBA’s 5th Human Rights Film Festival October 26-28, 2015 Instituto Cervantes New York 211 E. 49th Street New York, NY 10017 79TH Annual Celebration honoring the Abraham Lincoln...
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Brooklyn at War: Spain, 1936-1939
Brooklyn College In the spring of 1937 some twenty students from Brooklyn College volunteered to fight in Spain. This unique exhibit, curated by Prof. Alejandro Alonso, in partnership with ALBA, will...
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Bay Area Commemorates 80th Anniversary of the Spanish Civil War
Please join us in September and October for a full slate of Spanish Civil War-related events in the San Francisco Bay Area, closing with ALBA’s annual celebration on October 23 at the Zellerbach...
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Spanish Civil War program in Torrance, CA
The Foreign Language Department’s Spanish program at El Camino Community College (Torrance, California) is commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War with a series of activities and...
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