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Month: December 2015

Rio de Janeiro mayor-elect Eduardo Paes
#EvictionsWatch

City Government Lays Pressure on Vila Autódromo with Eight Months to Rio’s Olympic Games

By Sam Salvesen • December 22, 2015

Clique aqui para Português “If you don’t leave out of love you will leave out of pain.” This was the message from the Sub-Mayor of Barra da Tijuca, Alex Costa, according to Vila Autódromo residents still […]

#ParticipationWatch

Activists Explain Low Favela Participation in Fight against Dilma Impeachment “Coup”

By Favela 247 • Translation by Cara D’Rosario • December 21, 2015

Clique aqui para Português For the original in Portuguese published by Brasil 247 click here. The demonstration against the impeachment of President Dilma Rouseff and in favor of the fall of Brazil’s congressional president, Eduardo Cunha […]

#ParticipationWatch

Women in Manguinhos and Caju Map Violence in Their Communities

By David Robertson • December 19, 2015

Clique aqui para Português Wednesday marked the launch of the publication of urban mapping done by more than 30 women in the Caju and Manguinhos favelas in Rio’s North Zone with guidance from well-respected historic NGO FASE, the […]

#GentrificationWatch

A Critique of Rio’s Museum of Tomorrow, Set to Open This Weekend

By Marta Ill-Raga • December 17, 2015

Clique aqui para Português The Museum of Tomorrow, one of the most ambitious works of the Porto Maravilha Port revitalization program, is due to open its doors this Saturday, December 19. Occupying the pier that enters the Guanabara […]

#EvictionsWatch

Determined to Remain, Vila Autódromo Prepares to Build Long-Awaited Daycare Center

By Sam Salvesen • December 16, 2015

Clique aqui para Português Residents, students, and volunteers gathered in Vila Autódromo on Saturday, December 12 to measure the area that will become the community’s daycare center. The daycare, or creche in Portuguese, is a […]

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