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Pedala Queimados: Biking to ‘Change the Zip Code of Opportunity’ [PROFILE]

By Ben Bildsten • September 3, 2019

Clique aqui para Português Initiative: Pedala Queimados (“Cycle Queimados”) Contact: Facebook | Instagram | Email Year Founded: 2016 Community: Queimados (Baixada Fluminense) Mission: To stimulate the use of cycling as a means of transportation, democratize land […]

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Five Rio de Janeiro Cities Rank Among Brazil’s Worst for Basic Sanitation

By André Trigueiro • Translation by Edmund Ruge • August 5, 2019

Clique Aqui para Português  For the original article in Portuguese by André Trigueiro published in G1 click here. The study considered the hundred largest municipalities in the nation. Five in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan […]

by Julia from MTST
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5 Major Takeaways from the Public Hearing on Niterói’s Housing Crisis

By Tyler Strobl • April 25, 2019

Clique aqui para Português  On Monday, April 8, residents, community organizers, civil society organizations, and politicians gathered for a public hearing at Niterói’s City Hall to discuss the low-income housing crisis in the city across […]

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Greater Rio’s Participatory Planning Process to ‘Model the Metropolis’

By Luisa Fenizola • Translation by Júlia Hara Medeiros • June 28, 2018

Clique aqui para Português Metropolitan integration As it was with Brazil’s 1988 Constitution that recognized cities as sites of planning and decision-making, granting them more autonomy, today there is a growing movement to recognize that there […]

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‘Our Dead Have a Voice’ Documentary Tackles State-Sponsored Violence in the Baixada

By Edmund Ruge • April 5, 2018

Clique aqui para Português In late March 2005, state Military Police gunned down 29 people in the neighborhoods of Queimados and Nova Iguaçu, in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan region of Baixada Fluminense, in what […]

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In May 2010, Catalytic Communities launched what was originally Rio Olympics Neighborhood Watch (hence RioOnWatch), a program to bring visibility to favela community voices in the lead-up to the 2016 Rio Olympics. This news site, RioOnWatch.org, grew into a much-needed and unique reference featuring favela perspectives on the urban transformation of Rio. With diverse and deeply interlinked articles by a mix of community reporters, resident opinions, solidarity reporters, international observers, and academic researchers, we work to engender a more accurate picture of favelas, their contributions to the city, and the potential of favela-led community development in Rio and around the world.

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