On Sunday, July 12, the community of Quilombo da Gamboa held a memorable ceremony in one of the Vizinha Faladeira samba school sheds to celebrate the signing of a rare cooperatively-built Minha Casa Minha Vida public housing contract in the […]
Clique aqui para Português On July 14, the Popular School for Critical Communication (ESPOCC) launched its 2015-2016 class on Affirmative Publicity at Observatório de Favelas (Favelas Observatory) in Complexo da Maré, in Rio’s North Zone. Each year, after a […]
Clique aqui para Português On Thursday July 9, the Port Urban Development Company (CDURP) of Rio de Janeiro held the last meeting in the series of weekly thematic sessions on the elaboration of a public […]
Twelve residents—all composing a single extended family of subsistence fishermen—occupy three small houses in Praia do Sossego. The beach lies along the coast of Niterói, the city just across the Guanabara Bay to the east of Rio […]
Clique aqui para Português Indigenous peoples from the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo gathered on the weekend of June 26 for the first national conference on indigenous policies in São Paulo. The […]