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The More Police Beat Them, the Stronger Portugal’s Housing Movement Grows
On Halloween night, police attacked peaceful housing protesters in Porto and Lisbon for the third time in a matter of weeks. As state violence escalates, many fear the conversation is being deliberately shifted away from the right to housing and towards the right to protest.
I travelled to Porto to try and understand how the city reached this point, and why its housing movement is growing stronger despite government repression. I meet Francesca, a 24-year-old activist beaten during the police attacks, speak to housing organisers Ruben and José, and hear from older generations who remember…
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