Clique aqui para Português On Sunday March 6, residents and social movement leaders at the Vito Giannotti Occupation in Santo Cristo in Rio’s Port Region held the third mutirão event to renovate the occupation space. Mutirão translates loosely to ‘collective […]
Clique aqui para Português The body set up to investigate human rights violations of the military regime says the militarization of daily life and forced removals of residents are practices of the past that are […]
Clique aqui para Português The atmosphere was tense on the evening of Monday January 18 as nearly 30 people gathered in a circle in an abandoned hotel in the neighborhood of Santo Cristo in Rio’s Port Region. This […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Thiago Guimarães published on BBC Brasil click here. During this final stretch to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, deadlines become shorter and pressure mounts on communities that […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Tiago Dantas and Márcio Menasce published in O Globo click here. Five years after the first Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV, or My House My […]