Latest news and stories about activism in Portugal for expats and residents.
Lokas Cruz, a doctor, activist, and member of the medical care team at Acampada Porto, told PÚBLICO what these days have been like at Praça D. João I. A first-person account.
Who cares about a woman who died caught in a loom when there is 24-hour live coverage of the campers in the centre of Lisbon and Porto? The tent in Rossio is the ISCTE version of the Big Brother house.
A new camp-out is expected at Rossio, in Lisbon, this Saturday. CNN Portugal reporter Daniela Rodrigues is on site.
The documentary “Baldio” by Vera Moutinho and Inês Rueff will be presented this Saturday at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. It is a film that follows personal trajectories linked to climate action and civic participation in Portugal.
Democratic parties would be very ill-advised to remain deaf to the “How dare you!” coming from the streets and if their response to youth activism continues to be police repression. Opinion by Álvaro Vasconcelos
The commandment imposes itself: the police will always and for eternity be the enemy to be taken down in current fiction, there they are always 'bad'. They only 'charge', 'advance against', 'crack down', 'use maximum violence'.
In an interview with Lusa, Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters claims that the wave of protests across Europe shows the continent is “on fire” because people are tired of the governing elite. Speaking alongside Palestinian artist Mona Miari ahead of their performance at the Escritaria literary festival in Penafiel, Waters calls for a rebirth of the world where empathy prevails over profit, while Miari highlights the global fight for freedom and the importance of continued activism in the face of injustice.
Described as “horizontal”, the encampments in Lisbon and Porto have moderators, but not always agendas. Protesters say that “true democracy belongs to the streets”. However, some who speak end up being booed.
A discussion event focusing on political and social challenges from France to Portugal, scheduled for October 24th.
It would be so desirable for the decent left not to collude with activism that attacks, that nauseates, and that will leave city squares filthy on the day they grow tired and move on to something else!
As for Monday, many of the activists in Lisbon are already discussing how to balance work and the protest. The night at Praça D. João I was quiet, with the exception of a dumpster fire, and the morning began with clean-up efforts.
Protesters celebrate the “success” in the movement's participation levels.
The movement, which began before the peak of climate protests, remains active, but other youth activist groups with a lighter approach to the climate struggle have emerged, says the researcher.
Bianca Castro was convicted following a protest against the airport in Alcochete.
Born in Lisbon to an Angolan mother and a São Toméan father, Raquel Lima grew up on the south bank of the Tagus, amidst a childhood marked by precariousness, family breakdowns, and early losses, which would become the living material of her writing. A poet, researcher, art educator, and activist, her literary signature has spanned various formats, from spoken word to academia.
Portuguese activists are scheduled to return to Portugal this Friday following a period of significant unrest.
Two Portuguese doctors were on board the flotilla.
While many insist on reducing Romani women to figures without political awareness or a mystical destiny, this year, a non-partisan movement of Romani women is taking part in the 25th of April parade. Opinion by Maria Gil
“We refuse to remain silent when Israel’s genocidal violence serves as a soundtrack and silences Palestinian lives.” More than a thousand artists from various countries have signed an open letter calling for a boycott of the Eurovision Song Contest, scheduled for May, due to Israel’s continued participation.
“We are the generation that has talked the most about the environment, but we still need to do much more.” In the new episode of Geração 2000, Manel Rosa talks with Bianca Castro, one of the most active voices of her generation in the fight for climate justice. Born in Lisbon but raised in a village near Odemira, Bianca grew up surrounded by nature, music, and a curiosity about the world.
An Israeli newspaper also reports that settlers allegedly raped a Palestinian man.
A group of settlers is suspected of invading a Palestinian village, sexually abusing a man, and assaulting and threatening women and children.
Climáximo activists accuse the new President of remaining 'on the side of disaster by refusing to act on the root cause of these catastrophes' and of 'selling' the future of young people 'to the fossil fuel industry'.
