July 18 Day of Condemnation of the Franco terrorist regime
The Federation of Forums for Memory has relaunched its campaign this week to get the July 18 is declared Day of Condemnation of the Franco terrorist regime.
The first step in this campaign is to achieve a public and institutional condemnation of the Franco terrorist regime, which, over 38 years after the restoration of democracy, has not yet occurred.
To achieve this, the Federation of Forums for Memory has published an open letter to all municipalities in the state, urging them to pass motions condemning the coup of 1936 and the Franco terrorist regime. The proposal is accompanied by the action of public awareness and mobilization on social networks # 18JYoCondeno, which starts for the second consecutive year.
Among the requests to municipalities made in the open letter, is also the withdrawal of honors military coup and Franco's repressive, and remove all Francoist terrorist symbols in towns and cities.
Replace the Franco street for names of people who stood out for his anti-Franco militancy
After over 10 years of campaign Clean your streets of fascism, which has spearheaded the annual civil disobedience action around the July 18, the Federation of Forums for Memory welcomes some newly formed municipalities have committed publicly removing symbols in compliance with the law and international obligations Memory for Truth and Repair.
An example is the city of Madrid, where the federated association Forums for Memory of the Community of Madrid, has withdrawn twenty plates on streets named after Franco criminal Vallejo-Najera, General Yagüe, General Moscardo, Captain Hague, Gutiérrez Mellado, Fallen of the Blue Division ... in addition to demanding the renaming of public facilities such as Manuel Fraga Iribarne school or sports General Moscardó.
"Our work in cities like Madrid will focus on supporting those municipalities to identify and replace the fascist symbols. For that reason, as a sign of confidence, this year we will not perform the action of removing plates, waiting to check effectively enforced. In recent days, they have circulated several lists of possible streets to remove. In that sense, the proposal of the Federation of Forums for Memory has always restricted to public spaces tribute to military putschists and politicians repressive dictatorship.
In addition, our proposal is to replace the Franco street for names of people who fought the Franco regime, and are working on a concrete proposal to be presented in key municipalities. "Said the president of the Federation of Forums for Memory, Arturo Peinado .
Other forums and associations that are part of the Federation of Forum for Memory have sent letters to the newly formed municipalities, and are holding and arranging meetings with groups and municipal officials.