Clique aqui para Português In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, police do not need to claim that their victims had guns for them to justify extrajudicial killings of the mostly poor and Black. Jhonata […]
Clique aqui para Português On July 2, the campaign “We Are from Maré. We Have Rights!” was launched in Vila do João, Complexo da Maré—the first in a series of three events to be held […]
Clique aqui para Português After four months of striking, a majority of the teachers’ union for Rio de Janeiro State, SEPE (Sindicato Estadual dos Profissionais da Educação), overwhelmingly voted to continue the strike at a […]
Clique aqui para Português Residents report how they are forced to hide from gunfire and how the UPP is far from being a project of peace. Since the beginning of June, frightened residents of City of […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Gizele Martins in Portuguese published on her blog A Mareense click here. Once again, life in Maré was interrupted. We heard gunshots from dawn onwards on Monday, June […]