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Day 4b: ‘Beyond Numbers,’ The Baixada Screams for a Critical Analysis of the Atlas of Violence

By Chloe Villalobos, Gigi Ong-Alok • July 24, 2017

Clique aqui para Português As part of Black July week, the Human Rights Center of the Nova Iguaçu Diocese, and the Fórum Grita Baixada held a panel to discuss the recently published Atlas of Violence 2017, a study on violence […]

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Day 4a: International Solidarity on the Militarization of Lives in Palestine, Haiti and Brazil

By Chloe Villalobos, Raine Robichaud • July 23, 2017

Clique aqui para Português As part of Black July week, representatives of the Mães de Maio movement, Mães de Manguinhos, Network of Communities and Movements Against Violence, and resistance in Haiti and Palestine gathered to discuss militarization and state violence […]

"The museum is the means, not the end." - Luiz Antonio de Oliveira, Maré Museum
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What is Heritage? Community Museums are Reclaiming Rio’s Cultural Heritage

By Chloe Villalobos • July 16, 2017

Clique aqui para Português On Saturday July 8, the Tear Art Institute, with representatives from the Maré Museum, Samba Museum, New Blacks Institute (IPN), and the Sepetiba Ecomuseum, hosted a colloquium entitled Memory Routes which explored the question of […]

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Alemão Collective Creates Shootings and Celebration Calendars in Response to Police Violence

By Chloe Villalobos • June 26, 2017

Clique aqui para Português On June 2, Coletivo Papo Reto, an independent youth media collective from Complexo do Alemão in Rio’s North Zone, created two complementary resistance calendars as a response to the heavy police violence the community […]

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Social Museology in Vila Autodromo: A New Way of Thinking About Museums

By Chloe Villalobos, Claire Jones • May 25, 2017

Clique aqui para Português Fighting to continue to make space for often-silenced voices, the Evictions Museum, Vila Autodromo and the Network of Social Museology of Rio de Janeiro partnered to offer a three-day course entitled “Social Museology: Poetics […]

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