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What Is The Right to the City?
Clique aqui para Português This post is a contribution to Blog Action Day 2013 in which bloggers around the world reflect on this year’s theme, Human Rights. Over the last few years there have been […]
Year: 2013
Solutions
Vila Laboriaux Builds Momentum to Achieve Goals
On Sunday October 6, members of Vila Laboriaux joined together in a day-long celebration of their community’s vitality and to look to the future. Perched at the top of Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio […]
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Rocinha and Alemão Plan to Sue the State Over Cable Car
For the original by Cláudia Freitas in Portuguese for Jornal do Brasil click here. Residents of both communities are against the construction and want continuity of Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) works Star of an international soap […]
#EvictionsWatch
Favela Não Se Cala Mobilizes Residents in Complexo do Caju
“The solution to your problems does not come from the outside!” André Constantine proclaimed before a group of residents at a meeting in Complexo do Caju on Sunday, October 6. “We are here, also ‘favelados,’ […]
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Vila Autódromo Meets the Mayor [IMAGES]
Clique aqui para Português Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013, 9am–Four years to the month after they discovered their community was a target for eviction in name of the 2016 Rio Olympics, a coalition of residents of […]