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(19 Nov 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Madrid - 19 November 2025
1. Various of reenactment performance
2. Mid of woman with sign, pan down UPSOUND (Spanish) chanting "Free abortion"
3. Mid of Juilete Arranz with another woman
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Julieta Arranz, 65-years-old, Social Worker:
"Well, it has changed remarkably in an extraordinary way. We have advanced in rights, in rights, and we cannot take a step back, right? We have the right to association, the right to expression. We demand and continue to demand the right to free and legal abortion and so many other things." ++AUDIO FADES++
5. Mid of Artemis Perea and others holding flyers
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Artemis Perea, 18-years-old, Student:
"And today, I believe that women still cannot study everything we want, but it is true that there is more freedom when it comes to studying. And then also, for example, before you couldn't even open a bank account, right? Unless it was with the permission of the father, brother, or husband. And now she can. So I think there has been progress, but we should continue progressing."
7. Various of reenactment
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Francisco Martin Aguirre, Central Government Delegate to Madrid:
"We have promoted, within the framework of the 50 years of freedom in Spain, this performance through the streets of Ciudad Universitaria today. It aims to honor the student struggle, social movements, and the taking of the streets when it was not allowed, when freedom had not yet reached Spain, and there were citizens who took to the streets, often risking their lives, to defend the reality of freedom." ++AUDIO FADES++
9. Various of reenactment

STORYLINE:
A group of amateur actors gathered outside Madrid's Complutense University Wednesday to reenact the student movement of the 1970's that demanded democracy and greater freedoms in Spain during the final years of Franco's regime.

The reenact took place a day before the 50th anniversary of the death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco on the 20th November 1975.

Dressed in clothes in the style of the mid-seventies, the amateur actors - from the La Rueda social theatre - walked from the faculties of medicine and chemistry to history and geography.

The group carried placards and shouted slogans demanding the right to abortion, the right to vote and freedom for political prisoners.

Universities across Spain became protest hotspots during the final years of Franco's 40-year regime with frequent clashes between student protesters and the police.

Francisco Martin Aguirre, a local government official, said the performance honors "the student struggle, social movements, and the taking of the streets when it was not allowed, when freedom had not yet reached Spain."

"There were citizens who took to the streets, often risking their lives, to defend the reality of freedom," he said.

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