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Sustainable Favela Network 5th Annual Full-Network Meet-Up: Connecting, Planning, and Ancestry in Morro do Salgueiro [VIDEO]

By Sustainable Favela Network • Translation by Staff • January 5, 2023

 Clique aqui para Português On Sunday, November 27, 2022, the Sustainable Favela Network (SFN)* held its first in-person full network meet-up since 2019, taking over the Raízes da Tijuca Carnival Bloco headquarters in Morro do […]

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Brazil’s First Favela Celebrates 125th Anniversary With Celebratory Breakfast and Discussion Among Elders

By Juliana Pinho • Translation by Yasmin Quaife • December 13, 2022

Clique aqui para Português On Saturday November 16, the Providência Gallery Project—founded in 2017 and located in the Leonel de Moura Brizola Popular Market—organized a breakfast to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Brazil’s first favela, […]

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Educational Event Celebrates the ‘Old Guard’ Who Led the Resistance Against Evictions 45 Years Ago in Vidigal [IMAGES]

By Mariana Gomes • Translation by Staff • November 22, 2022

Clique aqui para Português On October 14, 2022, youth from the Almirante Tamandaré State School got together to hear from older residents who fought against evictions in the favela of Vidigal during the military dictatorship […]

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‘The Climate Is One of Change’ Event Questions the Detachment of COP and Calls for Climate Justice for Indigenous, Black, Favela Populations

By Isaac Goodwin • November 14, 2022

Clique aqui para Português On November 6, The Climate is One of Change coalition hosted a full-day event at the iconic Rio de Janeiro concert venue, Circo Voador, in Lapa, Central Rio. Four organizations hosted […]

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Rio de Janeiro’s Sustainable Favela Network Holds World CleanUp Day Teach-In in Vila Cruzeiro Favela with Transvida Recycling Cooperative [VIDEO]

By Sustainable Favela Network • November 9, 2022

Clique aqui para Português On September 17, World CleanUp Day, Rio de Janeiro’s Sustainable Favela Network (SFN) members came together with community youth in Vila Cruzeiro, in the Penha Complex of favelas in the city’s […]

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    By Antonio Alonso, Iamni Torres Jager • Translation by Trisha Ponti • November 1, 2021
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    By Jaqueline Suarez • Translation by Saskia Wright • August 1, 2021

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