Tonight! The Spanish Civil War and Picasso's Guernica with L. Jarach of Anarchy Magazine

Thursday, November 17, 2005 (7:00-9:00 PM)
>Student Union Buuilding (Upper level/Room 208)
>City College of San Francisco
>50 Phelan Avenue, San Francisco
>[See campus map on the CCSF website.]
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>The Anarchist Library, in collaboration with three other CCSF clubs: Cafe
>Musee, Historia and the Hot Rod Conversion Club, invites you to a
>presentation on the Spanish Civil War.
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>On April 26, 1937, the small Basque town of Guernica was destroyed by Nazi
>bombers at the service of Spanish Nationalists, right-wing insurgents who
>wanted to overthrow the new Government, known as "Popular Front". This
>first methodical attack (at least in Europe) against civilians
>--an ominous prelude to the conflict that would soon engulf the world--
>outraged intellectuals, leftists, and anarchists of all Western
>democracies. Sympathetic to the young Spanish Republic and to the cause of
>International Communism, Picasso responded to the bombing of Guernica by a
>twenty-six-foot canvas that made his experience of the tragedy a universal
>one.
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>Works by Picasso, Miro and Dali as well as anonymous posters and press
>photos will recreate this tormented period, with its horror and heroism,
>hope and despair.
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>* Keynote speaker: Lawrence Jarach, co-editor for the periodical "Anarchy:
>A Journal of Desire Armed."
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>* Renee Morel, CCSF instructor, will present a slide show about the
>Spanish Civil War and the genesis of Picasso's tribute to its dead,
>"Guernica."
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>Refreshments will be served. Many thanks to Chris Kendrick and Max Raynard
>for organizing this event and to Darren Villegas, VP of Cultural Affairs,
>for his much-appreciated sponsorship!
>
>Suggested donation: $5-$10 to financea hot rod bio-diesel conversion
>project [No one will be turned down for lack of funds.]
>