Observing Memories Issue 9 December 2025 | Page 51

5. Working session during the Youth and Memory Engagement meeting at the University of Barcelona ensuring that every act, every event, every debate leaves reusable materials, open archives, and tools for schools and communities. This commemoration should not be a peak of programming, but a capacity built for the future.
In short, commemorating 1975 is remembering that freedom was not a given. It was built from below and sustained from above; debated in institutions and fought for in the streets; it was sung, written, filmed, suffered and celebrated. Let us honour that complexity. Let us do it with rigour and joy, with memory and vision. Because democracy is not a trophy in a display case but rather it is a daily practice that must be learned, taught, cared for and, above all, exercised. overview SPAIN IN FREEDOM: 50 YEARS
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