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Fifa Draws Protest

Saturday morning, July 30th, the World Cup/Olympics Popular Committee (Comitê Popular da Copa e das Olimpíadas), a coalition of diverse organizations, organized a march and rally starting in Largo do Machado and ending near Marina da […]

Policies

Public square as a community right

Last week, O Centro Loyola de Fé e Cultura from PUC University hosted the last part of a lecture series entitled “Builders and the Built – the spaces of human relations” which set out to […]

Civil Society

Verdejar: Alemão’s Fountain of Love

Member of the Urban Agriculture, Agroecology, and Economic Solidarity Movements, Luiz Poeta exudes love, peacefulness, and wisdom through his social activism. We visited him on a sunny afternoon at the center of his own organization, […]

Altair Guimarães, president of the Vila Autódromo community association, addresses the crowd
Event Reports

A Public Defense of Rio’s Public Defenders

On Friday, February 25, a group of concerned citizens gathered along Avenida Marechal Câmara, in front of the Headquarters of Rio de Janeiro’s Public Defenders to protest the increasing proximity of the Mayor Eduardo Paes’ […]