“MEMORY IS DEMOCRACY” Radio 5 All News
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The memory on the radio
“Memory is Democracy“It is a radio time that meets, in accordance with the Democratic Memory Law, with a double objective. On the one hand, it aims to promote knowledge of the democratic stages of our contemporary history and of those people and groups who, with great sacrifices, built the links of democratic culture that allowed us to reach the agreements of the Constitution of 1978, and the current Social and Democratic State of Law.
On the other hand, “it seeks to preserve and maintain the memory of the victims of the Spanish War and the Franco dictatorship, through the knowledge of the truth, as a right of the victims, the establishment of justice and the promotion of reparation and the establishment of a duty of memory of the public powers, to avoid the repetition of any form of political violence or totalitarianism” (Preamble I, Law 20/2022, of October 19, on Democratic Memory).
Understanding history and memory is a good starting point for building a society in which democracy and respect for human rights are the fundamental value. Because Memory is Democracy and oblivion is not compatible with a democratic society.
“Memory is Democracy” airs on Thursdays, at 11:45h, on Radio 5 All News RTVE. Editorial and voiceover, Débora Álvarez.