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On Vila Autódromo Evictions Museum’s Second Anniversary: Website Launch, Keys to Resistance

By Sophy Chan • May 24, 2018

Clique aqui para Português On the night of May 19, Vila Autódromo‘s Catholic Church—a small, quaint, canary yellow building—opened its doors to celebrate the Evictions Museum’s second anniversary. Despite the heavy rain that preceded the […]

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Entering and Exiting Complexo do Alemão in Times of Violence and State Bankruptcy

By Tânia de Oliveira • Translation by Melinda Gurr • November 23, 2017

Clique aqui para Português On November 14, 2017, the BRICS Policy Center launched the publication, Nobody Enters, Nobody Leaves—Urban Mobility and the Right to the City in Complexo do Alemão, the result of a partnership between […]

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Street Cinema Club in Maré Exhibits Films ‘For the English to See’

By Juliana Portella • Translation by Sharonya Vadakattu • September 25, 2017

Clique aqui para Português Last Saturday, September 16, a Session of Short Films “For the English to See” took place in Vila do Pinheiro, in Complexo da Maré in the North Zone. During the event—named after […]

*Highlight

LEDUB: The Laboratory for Studies of Transformations in Brazilian Urban Law

By Juliana Torres, Roseli Franco • Translation by Emma Platais • September 7, 2017

Clique aqui para Português On August 11, the Brazilian School of Higher Studies (CBAE) hosted the launch of the Laboratory for Studies of Transformations in Brazilian Urban Law (LEDUB), “a point of convergence for students, […]

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The Truth About Rio’s Olympic Legacy: Favelas Share Struggles and Victories at PACS Report Launch

By Gigi Ong-Alok • August 7, 2017

Clique aqui para Português Last Monday, July 31, the Institute of Alternative Policies for the Southern Cone (PACS Institute) launched their latest publication, “Post-Olympic Rio: The legacy of the Games one year later” at Casa […]

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