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Draft Resolution No 330 /X

More than three decades spent on the topple of the dictatorship and considering that the

freedom and democracy are today values that no one questions and are assumed to

reference of our daily life, the time has come to take effective action

for a politics of preservation of memory regarding resistance, dictatorship and

to the fighting for freedom and democracy.

These measures of preservation, research and dissemination of memory are, in the first

place, a political obligation of the State and the elected bodies within the framework of the scheme

political legitimated by the Revolution of April 25, 1974.

They aim to ensure the indispensable research, understanding and transmission to future

generations of the knowledge of an important period in Portuguese history of the Century

XX, through the events, movements and citizens that for decades fought in

defense of freedom and democracy, combat in which many ended up losing the

own life.

Thus, the Deputies, the undersigned, present in the constitutional, legal and

regimental applicable, the following:

Draft Resolution

The Assembly of the Republic, in the terms and for the purposes of Article 166 (5) of the

Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, resolves to recommend to the Government to create

effective conditions, including financial, that make the realization of the

projects of the authorities and civil society, in their varied forms of organisation,

specifically:

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1. Support for musealization programs such as the creation of a Freedom Museum

and of the Resistance whose registered office is to be located in the Historic Centre of Lisbon (old

installation of the Chain of the Aljube) while pole agglutinator that comes to

set up a network of museological nuclei, and may take advantage of others

buildings that are historically identified as relevant in resistance to

dictatorship on par with the valorisation and support of the Resistance Museum installed in the

Fortress of Peniche. The Museum of Freedom and Resistance must constitute itself

as an important dynamic centre, in articulation with schools and with

universities and other institutions and organizations that already today develop

relevant and valuable activity in the collection of documentation and other material with

museological value, research and dissemination of the memory of resistance to

dictatorship.

2. Constitution of a National Roadmap of Freedom and Resistance, through the

places and buildings-simblolo considered to be of national interest, within the framework of

resistance and the struggle for freedom, including, of course, those who are

important references in the victory of the Revolution of April 25, 1974, and, if

possible, the adoption of preservation measures and their use, in the cases

more suitable, such as conservation spaces, research and dissemination of the

historical memory.

3. Promotion and support, together with the authorities, of organizations and institutions of

local and regional character, of a policy of constitution of Roadmaps of scope

local and regional as an important constituent element of the memory in the plan

site, which promotes the investigation, recognition and dissemination of the facts and

local protagonists of the resistance and the civic fighting for freedom and for the

human rights. This action can come to fruition either in the toponymia, or in the

referration of spaces and buildings, in works of art, in public spaces, in

publications, in events and in school-oriented activities.

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4. Concretization and development of a policy of organization and treatment

of Archives based on the Institute of National Archives of the Tower of the Tombo,

taking advantage of the very positive work that has already been being developed,

promoting coordination with other Archives and Documentation Centres

with relevant activity in this area, affecting the resources at its realization.

5. Support for research programmes in History, Sociology, Economics and areas

related purposes to the period of the New State so as to make available to the

interested researchers resources and means of support for their projects in the

framework of the scientific research stimulus programmes.

6. Recommendation for the competent organ to promote, at the level of the teaching,

including at the level of curricular programmes, the values of democracy and

freedom through the knowledge of our contemporary history, with

reference to the period of the dictatorship, to its top-up on April 25, 1974 and to the

process of consolidation of the democratic regime, as input that

allow not only a better understanding of our history and identity

as a free and sovereign parents, but also for the formation of a citizenship

more responsible and enlightened.

7. Edification, in articulation with the Municipality of Lisbon, of a Memorial in

Lisbon which, as a public monument and on a permanent basis, expresses the

homage and national recognition to civic combat and resistance in

benefit of freedom and democracy.

8. They shall also be supported, in particular in articulation with the

local authorities and with civil society, in their varied forms of

organization, memorialistic initiatives elsewhere in the national territory

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that expresses homage and recognition to civic combat and to the

resistance for the sake of freedom and democracy.

9. Development of a policy of cooperation, in the framework of relations between

Sovereign states, with the states arising from the former Portuguese colonies, to

preservation of the common fighting heritage by Freedom, namely the

concentration camp of the Tarrafal.

Palace of S. Bento, May 7, 2008

The Deputies,