On Sunday, July 12, the community of Quilombo da Gamboa held a memorable ceremony in one of the Vizinha Faladeira samba school sheds to celebrate the signing of a rare cooperatively-built Minha Casa Minha Vida public housing contract in the […]
For the original in Portuguese, by Célio Gari, published in Outras Palavras, click here. Many garis (trash collectors) have been persecuted after winning historic victories for their rights as workers. The City has dismantled leadership and favored subcontracting […]
On February 12, the Marvelous City saw a new street parade, or bloco, join the other 456 blocos of carnival. Participants assembled in Largo da Carioca, in the city center near the Carioca metro station. This bloco was an […]
On Thursday August 28, the Favela Observatory hosted a seminar in Complexo da Maré to launch the official publication of the Right to Communication & Racial Justice project. The project promotes community access to media production […]
A debate held on August 20 at Rio’s Fluminense Federal University (UFF) sought to explore the issues of police violence and the criminalization of poverty and social movements in the wake of the widely disputed […]