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What Happened to Our Swimming Pool? Manguinhos Residents Want Answers

By Fransérgio Goulart • Translation by Sarah Jacobs • December 26, 2014

For the original by Fransérgio Goulart in Portuguese, published in Viva Favela, click here. Residents have to jump over the wall to reach the swimming pool In 2008, the teenager Cristiano Pereira Tavares, then aged 13, […]

#EvictionsWatch

Nova Tuffy Occupiers in Alemão Evicted With Nowhere to Go

By Nicole Froio • December 18, 2014

Clique aqui para Português Hundreds of families were evicted from the Favela Nova Tuffy occupation in Complexo do Alemão on Tuesday December 16. Over 2,000 people had been living in the abandoned factory owned by […]

#EvictionsWatch

EcoModa in Fogueteiro: Urgent Call for Donations Following Fashion Project’s Eviction

By Nicole Froio • December 16, 2014

Clique aqui para Português Every weekday morning, ten women sit learning how to sew and design clothes in a basement in Morro do Fogueteiro, in Santa Teresa, Center of Rio. Through the project EcoModa, they have been […]

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If This Villa Weren’t Mine: New Documentary Tells Story of Vila Autódromo [FILM REVIEW]

By Ian Waldron • December 11, 2014

Clique aqui para Português Se Essa Vila Não Fosse Minha (If This Villa Weren’t Mine) is a new documentary produced by Felipe Pena which tells the story of Vila Autódromo and its fight against eviction. The favela is adjacent to […]

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Community Media Profile: ‘Favela em Foco’ Photography Collective

By Cerianne Robertson • December 6, 2014

Clique aqui para Português When Germany celebrated the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, the date meant something different to the members of Favela em Foco (Favela in Focus). […]

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