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After Intense Public Pressure, Rio City Hall Backtracks and Maintains Community Land Trust Provision in Master Plan, With Cuts

By Felipe Litsek, Tarcyla Fidalgo • Translation by Annie Swank • June 27, 2023

Clique aqui para Português June 2023 marked a significant step towards victory for housing rights advocates in Rio de Janeiro. City Hall decided to reverse its prior decision and restore a provision to encourage Community […]

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Long-Due Coronation of Maria Conga in Magé: Organizers Respond to Vandalism of Bust of ‘Brazilian Harriet Tubman’

By Bárbara Dias • Translation by Felix Foot • May 3, 2023

Clique aqui para Português Maria Conga was a quilombola leader who led the fight against slavery in the city of Magé in Greater Rio de Janeiro’s Baixada Fluminense region in the early 19th century. She is […]

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Primavera Collective Distributes Chocolate, Solidarity, and Affection for Easter in the Cavalcanti Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

By Vinícius Ribeiro • Translation by Cristina Fornara • April 20, 2023

Clique aqui para Português Rain did not disrupt the Primavera Collective’s Easter activities on April 9. Wearing rabbit masks and calling to children in Morro da Vovó and Rua Tumucumaque in Cavalcanti, a neighborhood in […]

Carmem Camerino speaks by the Jacarezinho River about the annual pattern of flooding in the area. Photo: Bárbara Dias
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‘No More Floods!’ Declares Global Climate Strike Action in Rio’s Jacarezinho and Manguinhos Favelas [IMAGES]

By Bárbara Dias • Translation by Staff • March 13, 2023

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article in a series created in partnership with the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at San Diego State University, to produce articles for the Digital Brazil Project on water issues and the […]

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Days Before Christmas, Court Orders Eviction of the Luiz Gama Occupation in Downtown Rio de Janeiro

By Vinícius Ribeiro • Translation by Staff • December 22, 2022

Clique aqui para Português On Wednesday, December 14, Judge Francisco de Assis Pessanha Filho, 14th Civil Chamber of the Rio de Janeiro Court of Appeals (TJ-RJ), ordered 70 families occupying the building at Rua Alcântara […]

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