Saturday, 08 March 2014  UN in your language  When social
protest and active citizenship take over city walls  grafitiAs
the economic crisis became deeper and public debate on possible
solutions more heated, the walls of some cities in Portugal were
once more populated with political paintings and graffiti.
Portuguese street art specialist Ricardo Campos explains that
public space and the walls in particular have been used by
people to communicate with others since remote times because it
is cheap and easy. “It is, we can say, the most democratic
resource, for it is accessible to all citizens. Citizens that
have no voice in conventional media favour the walls especially
in times of crisis.”   “Wall work” goes from simple sentences
with a political or philosophical message, to more elaborate
works that may even be considered art. According to Ricardo
Campos what is more commonly found on the streets of our cities
is graffiti, usually associated with hip-hop culture, which
appeared in the seventies in the US an