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Importance, Challenges of Favela Community Health Agents Celebrated During Special Week

By Renata Queiroz Ramos • Translation by Cheyne Bull • October 19, 2018

Clique aqui para Português  From October 1-5, Community Health Agent Week took place in Manguinhos, organized by local Community Health Agents in partnership with the Manguinhos Community Health Agent Committee (COMACS Manguinhos/RJ). This year’s event focused […]

Willian's mother. Photo by Ian de Farias
#UPPWatch

Two Months After Arrest, Favela Unites to Demand Release of Wrongfully Detained Youth

By Tyler Strobl • October 16, 2018

Clique aqui para Português  On Tuesday, October, 9, around 150 people gathered at the entrance of Morro dos Prazeres favela in Central Rio to protest the wrongful detention of Willian Preciliano Bezerra da Silva. Two months […]

Full group first SFN exchange. Photo by Luiza de Andrade
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1st Sustainable Favela Network Exchange Connects Grassroots Initiatives Across Rio [IMAGES]

By Jessica Depies • October 15, 2018

Clique aqui para Português The Sustainable Favela Network (SFN) is a project of Catalytic Communities (CatComm)* designed to build solidarity networks, bring visibility, and develop joint actions to support the expansion of community-based initiatives that strengthen environmental sustainability and […]

by Community Contributors

‘Scream of the Excluded 2018’ Debates Neoliberalism and Genocide of Black Youth

By Fabio Leon • Translation by Sharonya Vadakattu • October 14, 2018

Clique aqui para Português  Neoliberalism might be the cruelest manifestation of capitalism as its collateral impacts on society are not limited to the economic realm. Its dimensions are diverse and layered, affecting all of the […]

#EvictionsWatch

Evictions Museum Launches Tour Evoking Memories of Olympic Evictions at 12th ‘Museum Spring’

By Taísa Sanches • Translation by Sharonya Vadakattu • October 9, 2018

Clique aqui para Português  On the afternoon of September 23—which marked the beginning of Spring—residents of Vila Autódromo, activists, supporters, and nearly fifty visitors attended ‘Museum Spring’ at the Evictions Museum, reaping the fruits of a project that […]

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