Clique aqui para Português One week ago, on May 26, approximately 2,000 people participated in the “Stop Killing Us!” protest in front of Post 8 at Ipanema’s beachfront, in Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone. Community-based […]
Clique aqui para Português The hill leading up to Quilombo Sacopã, along the street with the same name, is lined with luxury homes. Quilombos are self-identifying communities descended from slaves that can prove their ancestors […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Luís Eduardo Macedo published by Agência de Notícias das Favelas click here. The suffering of the most vulnerable segment of society, most impacted by […]
Clique aqui para Português Nearly two months after Rio de Janeiro’s storms of April 8—the most intense in 22 years—residents of the city’s largest single favela, Rocinha, are still dealing with the aftermath of a […]
Clique aqui para Português This text was originally published by Raull Santiago on his Facebook profile. There are a hundred thousand people in Complexo do Alemão who fall silent in the face of the everyday violence that our […]