{"id":2344,"date":"2023-03-03T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agendaescolar.lenguasdearagon.org\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2023-05-22T14:08:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T12:08:23","slug":"democratic-memory-day-of-aragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agendaescolar.lenguasdearagon.org\/en\/democratic-memory-day-of-aragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Aragon Democratic Memory Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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PLATED MEMORY <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What a nerve my boyfriend has. He keeps saying that he doesn’t remember what happened a year ago. He doesn’t refer to anything in particular, he says it in general. Event X happens, then the days start to pass and, when they reach 360, it’s over. He forgets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first I thought it was funny, we laughed together: fuck the past, let’s live in the present! But the other day something happened that made me rethink everything: the guy goes and stops doing the dishes when it’s his turn.
At first I took it as an innocent thing, he must be busy, I thought, and I did them myself, but the days went by and it kept coming back. Day after day. Over and over again. When I noticed that sometimes he would lie on the sofa, I realised that it wasn’t a busy season or anything like that. So I did the only thing I could do: I stopped scrubbing them too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a fortnight, when we’d been eating off disposable plates for three days, my neighbour came round, convinced that the awful smell meant she was going to find dead bodies on the living room floor. I reassured her: “It’s just a plate war”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I showed her the kitchen so she wouldn’t call the police. You could barely make out the worktop behind the pile of dishes that was starting to go out the door into the hallway. I realise now that I was wrong, because far from relaxing, he came out shouting that he was going to call the health department, the mayor and the High Court of Justice if necessary. If you think I was exaggerating, it’s because you haven’t seen what that kitchen was like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moved by the prospect of the GEOS showing up at my house to stop the madness, I decided to talk to my boyfriend, who answered me in no uncertain terms, asking me what he knew about having to do the dishes. I refreshed his memory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Don’t you remember the big fight we had when we moved in together?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Well, that was over a year ago, wasn’t it? Nothing, I don’t remember any more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OK, maybe my cheeky boyfriend does it on purpose so he doesn’t do the washing up, but he made me think about something interesting: If you don’t remember the mess you made that time you tried, I don’t know, for example, to fix your bike without help, even if you had no idea, or to fix your friend’s love life without knowing the whole story, how are you going to avoid making a mess again? And that’s when I saw the importance of what they call democratic memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What do you think? Do you think it is important to remember what happened in Alca\u00f1iz on 3 March 1938 in order to do everything possible to prevent it happening again? Do you know what happened? Read on to find out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Description<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The 3rd of March has been established as the Day of Democratic Memory of Aragon. It is a day to remember that the democratic state in which we live today owes much to people who risked their lives for freedoms, in a framework of dictatorship and repression. It is also a recognition of the innocent lives lost in conflicts such as the civil war of 1936-1939.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is precisely in recognition of the latter that this Day was conceived. A date which, in itself, is an exercise in reparation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The details<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

On 3 March 1938, in view of the imminent rupture of the Aragon front, the Italian air force supporting the rebel army against the Republic bombed the city of Alca\u00f1iz, sowing terror among the civilian population and causing hundreds of casualties among them. An event that was silenced for decades has now regained its place in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 The objectives and contents of this proposal can be related to the<\/em> <\/em>International Day in Memory of Victims of the Holocaust and Prevention of Crimes against Humanity<\/a> (January 27).<\/em> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Democratic memory, in law<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Law 14\/2018 of November 8, of the Democratic Memory of Aragon,<\/a> states in its preamble:<\/p>\n ‘More than three decades of democratic exercise and autonomy in Aragon have settled a political culture tolerant and open enough to address in a serene and mature way the relationship with the traumatic past linked to the civil war and Franco’s dictatorship. Building a democratic memory based on the memory of that past and the most rigorous historical knowledge is the best way to nourish our democracy with the ethical and moral principles that will strengthen it against the discourses of exclusion and intolerance, and ultimately to ensure our future of coexistence and peace.

It is essential, in this sense, to remember and pay tribute to the lives and experiences of those who strove to achieve and defend a democratic regime in Aragon, such as the Second Spanish Republic, those who suffered the consequences of the civil war, those who suffered unjust punishment, persecution or death at the hands of the Franco dictatorship for opposing it or being suspected of it, or for defending democracy and freedom.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
A reflection<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
The regulation and normalisation of memory, its public management and its inclusion in schools testify to a maturity to confront the past with its shadows, and to lay the foundations for “freedom of thought” as opposed to “single thought”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Places of memory<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Law 3\/1999 of 10 March, on Aragonese Cultural Heritage, establishes a broad typology of assets of cultural interest (BIC), inventoried and deserving of different figures of protection, among which are the sites of cultural interest. To these spaces (historic complex, historic garden, historic site, palaeontological zone, archaeological zone, place of ethnographic interest) have been added the Places of democratic memory<\/strong>. These are spaces, constructions or immovable elements whose historical significance is relevant (according to Law 14\/2018 of Democratic Memory of Aragon) “for the explanation of Aragon’s past in terms of participation, defence and struggle in favour of democracy in the face of intolerance and dictatorship in the historical framework of the Second Spanish Republic, the Civil War and the Franco dictatorship”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Route\u201cVestiges of the Civil War and the Post-war Period”<\/a> 
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 [Tourism of Aragon]. Democratic Memory Routes <\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Suggestions for consultation \/ Suggestions for teachers<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Given the scarce treatment that has been given to the history of Spain and Aragon in the 20th century in social sciences subjects (especially in ESO) (often because they are programmed for the end of the course, when the contents are dealt with in a more hurried way), it may be useful to select proposals such as the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n