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Dona Mariza Left Homeless After Eviction in Vila Autódromo Next Door to #Rio2016 Olympics

By Sam Salvesen • December 3, 2015

Clique aqui para Português On October 23 agents from the city government carried out the unannounced demolition of five homes in Vila Autódromo, next door to the 2016 Olympic Park. 60 year-old Dona Mariza do […]

#CommunityMedia

Five Black Favela Youth Machine-Gunned Dead in Car by Military Police

By Felicity Clarke • December 2, 2015

Clique aqui para Português Five youths were machine-gunned dead inside a car by Military Police in the Complexo da Pedreira favela in Costa Barros in the North Zone of Rio. Wilton Esteves Domingos Júnior, aged 20, […]

Favela Culture

Museu de Favela’s ‘Women Warriors’ Exhibition Seeks Support to Tour Brazil

By Aldair Arriola-Gomez • November 30, 2015

Clique aqui para Português Museu de Favela (MUF), a non-profit territorial museum founded in 2008 by community leaders in Cantagalo and Pavão-Pavãozinho in Rio’s South Zone, is promoting a crowdfunding campaign to tour their Mulheres Guerreiras (Women Warriors) […]

Civil Society

Brazil’s First Favela, Morro da Providência, Celebrates 118th Birthday

By Marta Ill-Raga • November 27, 2015

Clique aqui para Português On Sunday, November 22, Brazil’s first favela, the community of Morro da Providência, celebrated its 118th birthday. Though the exact day is unknown, it is popularly understood that Providência was born in November 1897. Following Brazil Black Awareness month events […]

#CommunityMedia

Community Projects in Alemão Hold Collective Crowdfunding Campaign #TodosPeloAlemão

By Nicole Peña • November 26, 2015

Clique aqui para Português Eight community projects in Complexo do Alemão are participating in a joint crowdfunding campaign entitled #TodosPeloAlemão (#AllForAlemão). The campaign began on October 13 and ends on December 15 and has reached 33% of its goal of […]

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