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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, […]

#CommunityMedia

The Peculiar Story of Rio’s Jailed Governor’s Home Theater, Now at a Home for Minors

By Fabio Leon • Translation by Theodora Saclarides • June 11, 2018

Clique aqui para Português Tinguá is a rather bucolic region of Nova Iguaçu, in Greater Rio de Janeiro, surrounded by hills with dense vegetation and areas of environmental protection. What breaks with this vision of […]

#MarielleLegacy

Marielle Franco’s Letter to the ‘Bastard Students’ of Exclusive Rio University

By Cheyne Bull, Marielle Franco • Translation by Cheyne Bull • June 7, 2018

Clique aqui para Português Nearly three months after the March 14 assassination of Rio City Councillor Marielle Franco, police have yet to provide a definitive answer to “Who killed Marielle?” A black, bisexual mother from […]

#MonitoringCrivella

New Municipal Digital Platform Connects Favela Projects and Businesses in Maré

By Edmund Ruge • May 31, 2018

Clique aqui para Português On May 25, Rio de Janeiro municipality’s urban planning and research institute, the Pereira Passos Institute (IPP), presented its city-wide information sharing platform, Rede Comunitária Integrada (Integrated Community Network, or RCI) to an […]

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Paloma Gomes: ‘I Am Because Marielle Will Always Be’ #MarielleLegacy [INTERVIEW]

By Edilano Cavalcante • Translation by Sharonya Vadakattu • May 29, 2018

Clique aqui para Português In the two and a half months since the assassination of Marielle Franco, hundreds of articles, protests, meetings, and tributes have been organized in honor of the councilwoman who surprised Brazil […]

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