Porto demonstrates in solidarity with Palestine

Responding to an appeal from the Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC), the General Confederation of Portuguese Workers - National Trade Union (CGTP-IN), the Movement for the Rights of the Palestinian People and for Peace in the Middle East (MPPM), and Projecto Ruído - Youth Association, hundreds of people gathered in Palestine Square on Sunday 26 November and marched to D. João I Square accompanied by the drums of the Douro River Seafarers' Association.

With a presentation by Joana Machado, the demonstrators listened to speeches by Maria João Antunes, from MPPM, and Ilda Figueiredo, from CPPC, as well as poetry by Francisco Aguiar, Olga Dias and Pedro Marques.