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Favelas Offer the Cheapest Vote on the Market: An Interview with André Luiz Lima from Manguinhos, Part 2

By Edilano Cavalcante • Translation by Sharon Gogar • July 20, 2018

Clique aqui para Português This is the first article in a two-part series covering an interview about Brazil’s upcoming elections produced by community media group Fala Manguinhos! for RioOnWatch. Read the first part here. In anticipation […]

#ParticipationWatch

Favelas, the Cheapest Vote on the Market: An Interview with André Luiz Lima, Part 1

By Edilano Cavalcante • Translation by Sharonya Vadakattu • July 19, 2018

Clique aqui para Português This is the second article in a two-part series covering an interview about Brazil’s upcoming elections produced by community media group Fala Manguinhos! for RioOnWatch. Read the second part here. Every two years, favelas […]

#CommunityMedia

Lethality in Rio and the Baixada Demands the Construction of a ‘Pact for Life’

By Fabio Leon • Translation by Sharonya Vadakattu • July 17, 2018

Clique aqui para Português  Disposable subjects, criminalized by poverty, unworthy of life. Neither the facts produced by academic studies nor the calls of activists from human rights movements seem to matter. The impression is that […]

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Teenager from Penha, 2018 Street Child World Cup Champion, Shares Impressions from Moscow

By Ana Clara Ferreira da Silva • Translation by Melinda Gurr • July 15, 2018

Clique aqui para Português The 2018 World Cup in Russia is coming to an end, but 15-year-old Ana Clara Ferreira da Silva and her friends from Penha, in Rio’s North Zone, have already won the championship […]

#CommunityMedia

#FavelaLivesMatter Protest in Rio: ‘I sent him clean to school, he returned covered in blood’

By Rithyele Dantas • Translation by Sarah Jacobs • July 4, 2018

Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Rithyele Dantas published by Jornalistas Pretas click here. Last Thursday, June 28, hundreds of people gathered in Cinelândia, downtown Rio, to march on the […]

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