Lisbon Camp prepares for rain next week

Athe weather forecasts for next week focused today on the popular assembly of the Lisbon Camp for Housing, in the broad of Rossio, in Lisbon, with the participants to consider what to do in case of rain.

The participants voted on a proposal to keep symbolic tents in Rossio even when they are not camped or spend the night and urgently asked for suggestions on what to do about the rain forecast for next week.

Only one intervention was explicit to argue that rain and cold should not demobilize any protestor.

Another intervention was to get pallets to put under the tents.

The tents, about 60, continue today mounted in the square D.Pedro IV, centre of Lisbon, where there are a few hundred people tonight.

The tents returned on Tuesday to the site and remained there all day, without incident.

By the 21.00s, almost at the end of the popular assembly, they clapped at the horns of passing cars and the presence of police was not visible.

The current protests against the housing crisis began in Porto on October 10 and have expanded to Lisbon, but have also motivated concentrations in other cities.

The intervention of the PSP to disperse the camps and remove the tents in Rossio, in Lisbon, and in Praça D. João I, in Porto, culminated in police loads and throwing objects, causing more than two dozen wounded between protesters and police.

The protesters demand, among other things, the reversal of the new rental law, a stop to housing purchase by real estate funds and “truely accessible” roofs to income.