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Portugal: Riots in Lisbon after police kill father of two

Portugal: Riots in Lisbon after police kill father of two

While the community highlights a pattern of racism, violence, and police impunity, authorities have responded by ramping up police presence ~ Mateo Sgambati ~ Nights of unrest have unfolded in Lisbon for the past week, following the police killing on 21 October of Odair Moinz, a 43-year-old Cape Verdean father of two. Authorities initially claimed

Theme park and living laboratory: Lisbon and Porto’s territorial nightmares

Theme park and living laboratory: Lisbon and Porto’s territorial nightmares

Avalanche examines changes wrought on Portugal’s twin capitals by elites’ accelerated and brutal reconstruction of their geographies — and how communities can survive and resist amid the rubble. For some years now the issue of gentrification has been at the core of different actions and struggles with the involvement of anarchists around Europe. These changes