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GatoMÍDIA Host Favelado 2.0 Media and Technology Residency in Complexo do Alemão

By Felicity Clarke • March 17, 2016

Clique aqui para Português From March 1 to 12, Complexo do Alemão media collective GatoMÍDIA hosted an intensive media and technology residency to empower favela youth to make their own culture and “build hacks for the future.” […]

#GentrificationWatch

Vito Giannotti Occupation Continues Renovating and Plans to Develop Housing in the Port Region

By David Robertson • March 14, 2016

Clique aqui para Português On Sunday March 6, residents and social movement leaders at the Vito Giannotti Occupation in Santo Cristo in Rio’s Port Region held the third mutirão event to renovate the occupation space. Mutirão translates loosely to ‘collective […]

#EvictionsWatch

Raquel Rolnik Launches ‘War of Places’ Book in Vila Autódromo

By David Robertson • March 12, 2016

Clique aqui para Português “Not all authors, not all professors or researchers have the privilege to launch their book exactly in the place and in the situation about which the book is talking.” These were […]

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Here is My Place: Women, Work and Family in the Baixada Fluminense [VIDEO]

By Stephanie Reist • March 8, 2016

Clique aqui para Português The short film Here is My Place begins with a common refrain: there are two Rio de Janeiros. There’s the Rio of “beaches, samba, Carnival and beautiful women,” and the “less glamorous” […]

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Community Leader Uses Social Media to Unite Residents of Vila Cruzeiro

By Fania Rodrigues • Translation by Sarah Jacobs • March 7, 2016

Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Fania Rodrigues in Portuguese published in Brasil de Fato click here. The idea seemed simple: to create a Facebook page to share information among residents of the community […]

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