They demand that Almeida replace the Eastern Cemetery Memorial

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The Platform in Defense of the Memorial of the Eastern Cemetery of Madrid (PEDM) has called a rally next Thursday, June 23, at 9:00 p.m., in front of the Madrid City Hall (Plaza de Cibeles) to demand the restitution of the Memorial of the East of Madrid. Eastern Cemetery. The 3,000 murdered on the wall of the Almudena cemetery Relatives of the victims, Madrid political representatives, social groups and memorialists will participate in this event. Likewise, the historian Mirta Núñez, among others, will attend the event; Enrique Villalobos, president of the Regional Federation of Neighborhood Associations of Madrid (FRAVM); Uge Sangil, president of the State Federation of.

Lesbians, Gays, Trans, Bisexuals, Intersexuals and more Estrella Aranda, President of the Women's Democratic Movement (MDM). During the event, several poems will be read and it will conclude with a musical performance by Salvador Amor. May their names not be erased in history On November 18, 2021, the current government Active Phone Number List team of the Madrid City Council led by José Luis Martínez-Almeida removed the names of nearly 3,000 people executed in the first years of the Franco dictatorship in the Eastern Cemetery. Memorial of the victims of Francoism in the Almudena Cemetery The withdrawal, which caused serious damage to some of the tombstones, meant “a new humiliation and the revictimization of the victims' relatives,” who had been waiting for decades for the recognition of.



Democracy for the people murdered there between 1939-1944. “An action that represents one more attack by the municipal government on Memory policies,” the groups point out. "A unilateral, urgent and harsh paralysis" Since then, the Platform, made up of relatives of the victims and various memorial, social, union, political and cultural groups, has held a dozen public events , including rallies on the wall of the Eastern Cemetery of Madrid and in front of the City Hall, and He has participated in various social mobilizations, such as the demonstration on March 8. This is why they demand the restitution of the 2936 names in the Memorial , as well as the beautiful verses of the town's poet, Miguel Hernández, which accompanied the names of those who were retaliated agains.