The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Monument in San Francisco. By Marina Garde

Posted on October 18, 2017November 15, 2017

Marina Garde Political scientist and Executive Director of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) “What we have created here is an antidote to amnesia” Peter N. Carroll, historian Nine years ago, on March 30th, 2008, a national monument to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade was unveiled in San Francisco. Forty feet long and eight feet high, …

Aljube Museum. Musealization of a «difficult heritage». By Luís Farinha

By EUROM Posted in Sightseeing

Posted on October 10, 2017November 15, 2017

Luís Farinha Director of the Aljube Museum Resistance and Freedom The Aljube Museum appeared four decades after the fall of the New State, as a result of an awakening from an apparent amnesia of an authoritarian regime that imposed censorship on the thought and creativity of millions of Portuguese people, that deported them and …