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What Is The Right to the City?
Clique aqui para Português This post is a contribution to Blog Action Day 2013 in which bloggers around the world reflect on this year’s theme, Human Rights. Over the last few years there have been […]
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Rocinha and Alemão Plan to Sue the State Over Cable Car
For the original by Cláudia Freitas in Portuguese for Jornal do Brasil click here. Residents of both communities are against the construction and want continuity of Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) works Star of an international soap […]
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Favela Não Se Cala Mobilizes Residents in Complexo do Caju
“The solution to your problems does not come from the outside!” André Constantine proclaimed before a group of residents at a meeting in Complexo do Caju on Sunday, October 6. “We are here, also ‘favelados,’ […]
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Vila Autódromo Steadfast Against Removals in Mayoral Negotiations
Clique aqui para Português On Wednesday night, over 160 Vila Autódromo residents and leaders filled the local São José Operário church to discuss their upcoming meeting with Mayor Eduardo Paes on Sunday. The mayor promised […]
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Resistance and Court Orders in Providência: A Resident Update
Clique aqui para Português The injunction that froze the Morar Carioca construction projects in Providência (the site of an intense battle over forced evictions on the site of Rio’s first, and most historic, favela) was […]