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Illegal Tactics and Cover-Ups as Civil Police Fire from Helicopter into Maré Favelas

By Edmund Ruge • June 12, 2018

Clique aqui para Português On Monday, June 11, at 6:30am residents of Complexo da Maré awoke to thunderous high caliber rounds. A police helicopter strafed low over rooftops in the favelas of Nova Holanda, Parque União, […]

#InterventionWatch

Intervention Observatory Report Shows Uptick in Deaths, Military’s Misdirection; Proposes Changes

By Hari Pannum • May 3, 2018

Clique aqui para Português Two months into the (at least) ten-month federal military intervention in Rio de Janeiro, the Intervention Observatory held an event on April 26 to present its first report and launch its new site. […]

#CommunityMedia

The Solution for the Crisis is in the Favelas and Peripheries [INTERVIEW]

By Luís Brasilino • Translation by Júlia Hara Medeiros • April 30, 2018

Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Luís Brasilino published by Le Monde Diplomatique Brasil click here.  Who are the new collectives tackling the collision of crises that has affected Brazil these […]

#InterventionWatch

Young Leading Human Rights Defenders from Favelas Talk About Marielle Franco

By Matias Maxx • Translation by Jiselle Steele • April 9, 2018

Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Matias Maxx published on VICE click here. VICE spoke to black activists and communicators, women, and transgender people from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro […]

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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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