James Fernandez

Dec 4, 2024 | peoplesworld.org | James Fernandez

The journalist Emilio Silva Barrera (born in Elizondo, Navarra, Spain, in 1965) belongs to the generation of grandchildren of those who experienced the Spanish Civil War as adults. His grandfather and namesake, a politically moderate small business owner in a small town in Northwestern Spain, was first harassed and extorted, later arrested, killed, and thrown into an unmarked mass grave by local fascist thugs in October of 1936, just a few months after the coup d’état of July 17-18.

Nov 22, 2024 | albavolunteer.org | James Fernandez |Peter Carroll |Sebastiaan Faber

My grandfather (Nana), Suresh, moved to the United States in 1959 as a young man on a student visa pursuing his master’s degree. His parents, my great grandparents, sought value in being ‘foreign educated’ and bringing his education home – to Mumbai, India to run their family business. 2 years after my Nana moved... Read more » Peter N. Carroll, a respected and prolific writer, poet, and US historian, died after a short illness on September 16, surrounded by his family. He was 80.

Nov 22, 2024 | albavolunteer.org | James Fernandez |Peter Carroll

When Dr. Edward K. Barsky passed away, in February 1975, his New York Times obituary described him as the doctor “who left his post as a surgeon in New York to join the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War”; who “helped Spanish republican refugees” after the war; and who “was convicted of contempt of Congress in 1947 for refusing, with other members of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, to turn over the group’s records” to the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Sep 18, 2024 | albavolunteer.org | Sebastiaan Faber |James Fernandez |Peter Carroll

Peter N. Carroll, a respected and prolific writer, poet, and US historian, died after a short illness on September 16, surrounded by his family. He was 80. Born in New York City in 1943 to a secular Jewish family, Peter grew up in the Bronx and Queens, where his father worked as a composer, arranger, and high school music teacher. Peter, a talented trumpet player, alternated first chair in the high school band with Alan Rubin and watched Miles Davis jam at the Blue Note.

Aug 29, 2024 | albavolunteer.org | Sebastiaan Faber |James Fernandez |Peter Carroll

LA RÉPUBLIQUE -QUOTIDINEN DE COMBAT RADICAL ET SOCIALISTE, February 5, 1938 Foreign Volunteer Arrested On March 27 last, 29 North Americans were arrested on board the boat Sans-Pareil while they were attempting to reach the Spanish Coast. They were sentenced to a prison term for violating the decree of February 18, 1937 on the...