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GatoMÍDIA Host Favelado 2.0 Media and Technology Residency in Complexo do Alemão

By Felicity Clarke • March 17, 2016

Clique aqui para Português From March 1 to 12, Complexo do Alemão media collective GatoMÍDIA hosted an intensive media and technology residency to empower favela youth to make their own culture and “build hacks for the future.” […]

#GentrificationWatch

Vito Giannotti Occupation Continues Renovating and Plans to Develop Housing in the Port Region

By David Robertson • March 14, 2016

Clique aqui para Português On Sunday March 6, residents and social movement leaders at the Vito Giannotti Occupation in Santo Cristo in Rio’s Port Region held the third mutirão event to renovate the occupation space. Mutirão translates loosely to ‘collective […]

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‘Imagens do Povo’ Photography Collective Part 3: Resistance Through Beauty

By Andrea Cangialosi • March 10, 2016

Clique aqui para Português This is the final article in a three-part series on the Imagens do Povo photography collective.  “I think we’re living this great conflict: one story or many stories; maintaining the status quo or bringing […]

#UPPWatch

Network of Mothers Against State Violence: An Interview with Mônica Cunha

By Anna Cash • Translation by Elizabeth Gladding, Felicity Clarke, Sheila Taylor • March 9, 2016

Clique aqui para Português Amnesty International’s State of Human Rights in the World Report, released last month, describes Brazil’s ongoing impunity with regard to police violence, and the increase in police violence levels in general, […]

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Here is My Place: Women, Work and Family in the Baixada Fluminense [VIDEO]

By Stephanie Reist • March 8, 2016

Clique aqui para Português The short film Here is My Place begins with a common refrain: there are two Rio de Janeiros. There’s the Rio of “beaches, samba, Carnival and beautiful women,” and the “less glamorous” […]

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