Honoring Merriman: Berkeley's Hero in the Spanish Civil War

Merriman memorial plaque installed in Corbera d’Ebre (Tarragona)
$19,247
40%
Raised toward our $47,000 Goal
45 Donors
89
days left
Project ends on August 01, at 11:59 PM PDT
Project Owners
Rank State Gifts
1 CA 35
2 OR 2
2 TX 2

Jason

Lewis

3 days ago

Anonymous

3 days ago

Anonymous

3 days ago

Joyce

Cole

$100

3 days ago

Ken

Jacobs

$100

4 days ago

Anonymous

4 days ago

Miquel

Ferrer

$200

4 days ago

Shifra

Gaman

4 days ago

Linda & Steve

Lustig

$500

Apr 26, 2024

Mark

Wieder

$100

Apr 26, 2024

Claude

Potts

$520

Apr 23, 2024

TODD

TRESCOTT

$1,000

Apr 22, 2024

Steve

Katz

$100

Apr 18, 2024

Anonymous

Apr 10, 2024

Martha

Jarocki

$100

Mar 27, 2024

Roberto

Perezdiaz

$50

Mar 26, 2024

Matt

Winkler

Mar 16, 2024

Peter

Glazer

Mar 15, 2024

Anonymous

Mar 14, 2024

Len & Nancy

Tsou

$500

Mar 14, 2024

Judith

Berlowitz

$1,036

Mar 14, 2024

Leslie

Airola-Murveit

Mar 14, 2024

Benjamin

Pratt

$60

Mar 14, 2024

Peter

Hartzman

$100

Mar 14, 2024

Christopher

Stone

$2,550

Mar 14, 2024
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Our way
of Thanking You

$2,000

Visit to ALBA Monument in SF

A guided visit of the San Francisco Monument to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade installed at the Embarcadero Plaza in 2008. The translucent stone squares in the steel structure show scenes from the war and the faces of some U.S. volunteers in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), as well as words about the period from writers like Langston Hughes, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Neruda, and Alvah Bessie. It was designed by Ann Chamberlain and Walter Hood, and donated by the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives together with the Veterans and Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. 6 person max.

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Estimated Delivery: August 2024

$2,500

Merriman's UCB Walking Tour

Join the Merriman Plaque project coordinators on a tour of one of Robert Merriman's favorite places to study, potential locations where the plaque will be installed, and a stroll to the apartment building where he and Marion lived in the 1930s. 6 person max.

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Estimated Delivery: August 2024

$3,500

Zoom Webinar on SCW Music

Peter Glazer, emeritus professor in UC Berkeley's Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and a professional director and playwright whose adaptations and collaborations include Woody Guthrie’s American Song and Heart of Spain: A Musical of the Spanish Civil War, has offered a 90-minute Zoom webinar on the music of the Spanish Civil War.

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Estimated Delivery: August 2024

$5,000

Curated visit Bancroft Library

Curated tour of the Bancroft Library's Spanish Civil War and Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Bay Area Post Records collection at UC Berkeley. Includes correspondence, administrative files, photographs, posters, postcards, artifacts, clippings, articles, scrapbooks, artifacts, biographical material, broadsides and organizational information. 4 person max.

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Estimated Delivery: August 2024
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