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Residents’ Perceptions of a Favela River: Memory, Environmental Recovery and Community Belonging on the Banks of the Cascata River

By Renan Oliveira • Translation by Ezra Spira-Cohen • July 31, 2023

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article in a series created in partnership with the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at San Diego State University, to produce articles for the Digital Brazil Project on water issues and the LGBTQIAPN+ […]

#EvictionsWatch

Police Brutality Marks Forced Eviction of Homes and Businesses in Rato Molhado Favela in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone

By Bárbara Dias • Translation by Staff • May 30, 2023

Clique aqui para Português Last Wednesday, May 24, a “shock order operation” [aggressive program to crack down on public disorder] by the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Public Order Secretariat (SEOP) demolished 25 wooden and brick […]

Climate Justice

Water and Energy Justice in Mesquita Favelas: Sustainable Favela Network Launches Data from Jacutinga, Coreia and Cosmorama

By Janaina Tavares • Translation by Ezra Spira-Cohen • May 15, 2023

Clique aqui para Português On World Water Day, March 22, the Sustainable Favela Network (SFN), Favelas Unified Dashboard (PUF),* Grassroots Social Education in Solidarity Economy Nucleus (NESPES), Edson Passos Women’s Association (AMEPA), and the Fusion Social Center […]

#ParticipationWatch

Rio de Janeiro’s ‘Governor of Massacres’ as an Affront to the ‘Right to the Favela’

By Tatiana Lima • Translation by Staff • May 7, 2023

Clique aqui para Português The ‘right to the favela’—a social, political and pedagogical position in defense of the right to life, development, and rootedness in the favelas—is disrupted daily by the ‘right to public security’ […]

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Long-Due Coronation of Maria Conga in Magé: Organizers Respond to Vandalism of Bust of ‘Brazilian Harriet Tubman’

By Bárbara Dias • Translation by Felix Foot • May 3, 2023

Clique aqui para Português Maria Conga was a quilombola leader who led the fight against slavery in the city of Magé in Greater Rio de Janeiro’s Baixada Fluminense region in the early 19th century. She is […]

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