Clique aqui para Português The last event of the Mobilizations Against Evictions series, or “Occupy City Hall: Feast of the Poor” protest on Friday, December 15 gathered residents of favelas currently threatened with eviction for a demonstration […]
Clique aqui para Português On the night of November 30, community leaders from across Rio converged at the City Council to speak out against evictions. The evening’s panel marked the launch of Rio’s first “Parliamentary […]
Clique aqui para Português A powerful new exhibit is launching in New York this December: Black Brazilian Women: Presence and Power. Organized by a SUNY-New Paltz master’s student, Sandra Coleman, the exhibit tells stories of 49 black Brazilian […]
Clique aqui para Português Hundreds of residents from across Rio de Janeiro gathered in City of God on Monday morning, November 13, to march to Mayor Marcelo Crivella‘s Barra da Tijuca residence in the West Zone in protest of numerous recent […]
Clique aqui para Português “The house was knocked down, Maria da Penha was not.” It was with this phrase, repeated numerous times in a video projected on the wall of the Urban Studies House, that a […]