A triste razão porque ele pode dizer isto sem cair no mais atroz ridículo
Passos Coelho, ontem na AR
Eu nunca disse e jamais direi que as próximas legislativas serão um passeio mas digo e redigo que Passos Coelho só pode afirmar isto sem receber uma monumental gargalhada porque os jornais que publicam sondagens e carradas de comentadores (até pessoas sérias) nunca se dão ao trabalho de ir fazer a comparação dos resultados atribuídos ao PSD e ao CDS e os seus anteriores resultados eleitorais. Remetendo de passagem os leitores para o que (muito sozinho) já disse aqui, aqui e aqui sobre os resultados da coligação nas últimas autárquicas e europeias, só venho lembrar que a última sondagem do Expresso dava 27,8% ao PSD, o que significaria o seu quarto pior resultado nas 14 legislativas realizadas depois do 25 de Abril, e dava 35,5% à soma de PSD mais CDS, ou seja menos 15 pontos do que somaram em 2011.
Mas, enfim, parece que dá muito trabalho ir ao sítio da CNE e fazer umas contas...
Apresentação: The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery
activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our
understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of
extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian once again
reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom.A
deeply entrenched institution, slavery lived on legally and commercially
even in the northern states that had abolished it after the American
Revolution. Slaves could be found in the streets of New York well after
abolition, traveling with owners doing business with the city's major
banks, merchants, and manufacturers. New York was also home to the
North’s largest free black community, making it a magnet for fugitive
slaves seeking refuge. Slave catchers and gangs of kidnappers roamed the
city, seizing free blacks, often children, and sending them south to
slavery.
To protect fugitives and fight kidnappings, the city's
free blacks worked with white abolitionists to organize the New York
Vigilance Committee in 1835. In the 1840s vigilance committees
proliferated throughout the North and began collaborating to dispatch
fugitive slaves from the upper South, Washington, and Baltimore, through
Philadelphia and New York, to Albany, Syracuse, and Canada. These
networks of antislavery resistance, centered on New York City, became
known as the underground railroad. Forced to operate in secrecy by
hostile laws, courts, and politicians, the city’s underground-railroad
agents helped more than 3,000 fugitive slaves reach freedom between 1830
and 1860. Until now, their stories have remained largely unknown, their
significance little understood.
Building on fresh
evidence—including a detailed record of slave escapes secretly kept by
Sydney Howard Gay, one of the key organizers in New York—Foner elevates
the underground railroad from folklore to sweeping history. The story is
inspiring—full of memorable characters making their first appearance on
the historical stage—and significant—the controversy over fugitive
slaves inflamed the sectional crisis of the 1850s. It eventually took a
civil war to destroy American slavery, but here at last is the story of
the courageous effort to fight slavery by "practical abolition," person
by person, family by family.»
A Idade dos Mídia, programa de Ruben de Carvalho na Antena Um, dedicou dois programas ao Underground Railroad
No Público de hoje, exactamente no final de uma entrevista a Rui Tavares os jornalistas Leonete Botelho e Nuno Sá Lourenço acabam com desabafo abaixo sublinhado.
Os leitores devem saber mas, pelo sim pelo não, informo que esta falsificação já aqui foi desmondada ene vezes, a última das quais aqui.