Housing marches on 31 October: in Lisbon at 16:00 from Largo de Camões to Rossio, in Porto at 16:00 from Praça da Batalha
Today, 31 October, at 16:00, members of the Acampada de Lisboa tent protest will gather in Largo de Camões in Chiado and march to Rossio, where they plan to pitch their tents again and stay the night. The march's slogan is "We have no homes, so the tents stay" (DN). The meeting point has changed: on Wednesday, 28 October, participants voted to start from Marquês de Pombal, but the organisers have since announced Largo de Camões instead (Observador).
In Porto the march also starts at 16:00, from Praça da Batalha, and will go through the city centre to Praça D. João I, where protesters have been gathering since 10 October. They decided not to stay there overnight on Friday and to come back during the day instead (Notícias ao Minuto).
The police are still not allowing tents in the squares. At about 18:10 on Friday, two PSP officers ordered that even a toy tent be removed from the children's corner in Rossio, citing an order that no tents may be put up in the street. It was taken down a few minutes later (Observador).
On the night of 25 October the police used batons and dogs to break up the previous overnight camps in Rossio and in the square in Porto. On Friday the Minister of Internal Administration, Luís Neves, accepted "political responsibility" for this and called for Saturday's protests to take place "calmly and within the law" (Notícias ao Minuto, DN).
The protesters' demands have not changed: repeal the new rental law, stop evicting people who have nowhere else to go, limit home purchases by investment funds, build more public housing and cap rents at affordable levels.
