Lisbon ‘Right to Housing’ Encampment Stages Protest Outside Web Summit
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"No waiting list, unlike municipal housing", distinguishes the organization, emphasizing that it is enough to reserve place on the ground, to listen to several people on behalf of a single speaker: the people who live in Portugal. "Free entry. Income, unfortunately, remains expensive," he notes.
Camping Lisbon will concentrate at 5:30 p.m. on the Alameda dos Oceanos, next to the entrance to the Web Summit.
Hours after they said they were suspending activities for two days because of the Charles storm, organizers announce an event in the Pavilion of Portugal. Web Summit, next door, denounced as a symbol of those who want Lisbon transformed into a "mountain of luxury on the seashore planted where people who live on their wages cannot pay the rent."
Camping in Lisbon wants to raise awareness of "the right city and digital technologies to serve democracy". It will set up a tent in front of Web Summit, in a concentration starting at 5.30 p.m. this Thursday.
"They want us to die. And I won't admit it. I won't be interrupted," says activist Priscila Valadão, who says she is being threatened in Portugal for claiming the right to housing in Lisbon. She has become the spokesperson for a popular movement called Acampada, composed mainly of young people from different social groups. Read more (11/11/2026
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