ALBA in the News

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Here's what others are saying about us:

* New York Times
Spain Offers Citizenship to Exiles’ Kin
Rachel Donadio, December 29, 2008
The descendants of those exiled from Spain during the Spanish Civil War and the fascist dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco may claim Spanish citizenship under legislation that went into effect over the weekend.

* Berkeley Daily Planet
Taps for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Don Santina, November 20, 2008
There were about a hundred veterans left in August 2000 when the late San Francisco supervisor, Sue Bierman, introduced a resolution to the board to honor the Abraham Lincoln Brigade with a monument on the waterfront....Eight years later, on Sunday, March 30, 2008, the first American government-sanctioned monument to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade was dedicated with much fanfare on San Francisco’s Embarcadero.

* New York Times
Papa’s Gift to the Fire-in-the-Belly Crowd
David Margolick, November 1, 2008
Robert Jordan is the hero of Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, an American fighting Franco’s Fascists in the Spanish Civil War. And despite his radical roots, he’s a literary sensation during this election season. Senator Barack Obama told Rolling Stone that Hemingway’s novel, published in 1940, is one of the three books that most inspired him. As for Senator John McCain, few men, real or fictional, have influenced him as much as Jordan...

* New York Observer
Papa, Mac, and Barack
Dan Kaufman, July 29, 2008
Lincoln Vets George Sossenko and Matti Mattson weigh in on Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls being McCain and Obama's favorite book.

* Democracy Now! 
Review of Fighting Fascism: The Americans - Women and Men - Who Fought  In the Spanish Civil War
Monday, April 30, 2007

* New York Times 
Review of Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War
Edward Rothstein, March 24, 2007

* Village Voice
War and Remembrance: Children Draw the Battle Zone
Review of They Still Draw Pictures
Carol Cooper, March 23, 2004