For the original by Henrique Coelho in Portuguese, published in G1, click here. On Tuesday November 4, more than 350 families completed their fourth day of occupation of a 60,000m² area in São Gonçalo, located in the […]
Clique aqui para Português Activists, students and community members gathered last Sunday November 2 at Rua Alcindo Guanabara in Cinelândia, Central Rio, to celebrate the 7th anniversary of the Manoel Congo occupation. Organized and led […]
Clique aqui para Português The first major act of resistance by Vila União de Curicica, a community that lies on the path of the TransOlimpica Bus Rapid Transit line, took place on Saturday September 27. Originally marked to receive […]
On Saturday August 23 over 4000 revelers gathered at the top of Morro da Babilônia in Rio’s South Zone for the Hanging Garden festival, an annual celebration which aims to promote the dissemination of inclusive arts and culture. […]
Clique aqui para Português Historically defined as communities of fugitive slaves, quilombos represented areas of resistance and freedom for Afro-descendent Brazilians in the last country in the Western hemisphere to abolish slavery. Under the 1988 […]