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The Never-Ending Eviction: Demolition, Protest and Police Violence Once Again Rock Favela do Metrô

By Felicity Clarke • January 9, 2014

Clique aqui para Português Versão em português Early Tuesday morning, January  8, representatives from the City arrived unannounced at Favela do Metrô-Mangueira to demolish homes, causing panic and despair amongst the hundreds of people currently […]

#EvictionsWatch

Quilombo das Guerreiras Ensures Partial Victory As Repossession for Trump Towers Project is Suspended for 120 Days

By Pela Moradia • Translation by Margó Hufstetler • September 21, 2013

For the original in Portuguese on Pela Moradia click here.  It was yet another mobilization that secured at least temporary victory and relief for the families of the Quilombo das Guerreiras (Women Warriors’ Quilombo) Occupation. […]

#CommunityMedia

‘Quilombo das Guerreiras’ Occupation Threatened by Trump Towers Development

By Léo Lima • Translation by Nate Lawrence • March 16, 2013

For original post by community journalist Léo Lima in Portuguese on Favela em Foco, click here. Last Saturday afternoon, March 9th, people mobilized around the issues of housing and the Right to the City met […]

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The Making of an Urban Occupation: Manoel Congo [VIDEO]

By Mary Allison Joseph • May 31, 2012

Clique aqui para Português A night of occupation On the eve of World Habitat Day, October 1, 2007, organizers from the National Movement of Housing Vindication (Movimento Nacional de Luta pela Moradia—MNLM) gathered 126 people on […]

Event Reports

#OccupyRio Begins: “This is Where It’s At!”

By Mark Waterman • October 17, 2011

As it began, Occupy Rio looked set to follow an all-too-predictable pattern amongst leftist movements: the descent into partisan bickering. A small group had gathered at Cinelândia on a gray and rainy afternoon in Rio, […]

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