Clique aqui para Português Sunday, August 5 marks the second anniversary of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. This is the second article in a six-part series that comprises the book chapter entitled “Not Everyone Has […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the first article in a six-part series that comprises the book chapter entitled “Not Everyone Has a Price: How the Small Favela of Vila Autódromo’s Fight Opened a Path […]
Clique aqui para Português As of 2015, the City of Rio’s own data showed that 22,059 families (an estimated 77,000 individuals) across the city had been evicted from their homes since 2009, whether in the […]
Clique aqui para Português On Saturday night, June 30, Vila Autódromo residents held their annual arraiá, a traditional June cultural festival. The community played host to around forty attendees from neighborhoods near and far. Throughout the evening, […]
Clique aqui para Português On the night of May 19, Vila Autódromo‘s Catholic Church—a small, quaint, canary yellow building—opened its doors to celebrate the Evictions Museum’s second anniversary. Despite the heavy rain that preceded the […]