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The audience listens to panelists discuss MP 759 at a teach-in on the December 2016 Interim Measure
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At Teach-In, Legal Experts Express Dismay at President Temer’s Regularization Measure

By Laura Bachmann • March 31, 2017

Clique aqui para Português Last Friday, March 24, Urban League Cooperative and others organized a public teach-in on Provisional Measure 759/2016 (MP 759). MP 759, published last December, is a presidential decree stated to facilitate land regularization […]

Round table discussion. From left to right: Nilo Ovídio Passos, Dr. Julianelli, Luiz Paulo da Rocha, Sebastião Soares, José Stelberto Soares, Paulo Ramos, and Sérgio Ricardo Verde. Photo by Fernando Alvim
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Rio Engineers and Representatives Criticize Water Utility Privatization at Roundtable on World Water Day

By Lisa Godde • March 26, 2017

Clique aqui para Português Wednesday, March 22 marked World Water Day. With the support of the Engineers and Architects Society of the State of Rio de Janeiro (SEAERJ) and NGO Baía Viva, the Engineering Club took […]

Vila Autódromo March 14, 2017
#EvictionsWatch

Vila Autódromo Is Realizing Its Vocation as a Model for Resistance

By Phie van Rompu • March 24, 2017

Clique aqui para Português On Tuesday, March 14, RioOnWatch visited Vila Autódromo, the community that became internationally known during its determined fight against evictions due to its proximity to the Rio 2016 Olympic Park. Those residents who fought to […]

Professor Leonel Ponce introducing event
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Week-Long Exchange Shares Sustainable Infrastructure Strategies in New York and Rio

By Ki'Amber Thompson • March 23, 2017

Clique aqui para Português On Thursday March 16, in collaboration with Catalytic Communities, urban planning and architecture Masters students from Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute’s Programs for Sustainable Planning and Development, City and Regional Planning, and Sustainable Environmental Systems—led […]

#GentrificationWatch

Brazil’s New Land Regularization Law: A Territorial Attack on Several Fronts

By Luciana Bedeschi, Paulo Romeiro • Translation by Adam Lee • March 13, 2017

Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Luciana Bedeschi and Paulo Romeiro in Portuguese published by Nexo click here. What is being sold as an attempt to reduce bureaucracy and increase efficiency in the […]

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