The Politics of Pacification in the Favelas
You don’t respect me as a citizen with full rights. I don’t respect your initiatives, and laws which I didn’t participate in creating. Favelas are the greatest proof that we can progress free of what […]
You don’t respect me as a citizen with full rights. I don’t respect your initiatives, and laws which I didn’t participate in creating. Favelas are the greatest proof that we can progress free of what […]
For the original article by Artur Voltolini in Portuguese for Observatório de Favelas, click here. Data collected by sociologist Michel Misse, in partnership with the Brazilian Bar Association of Rio de Janeiro (OAB/RJ), show the unreasonable […]
Mário Lucas, 18, was brutally murdered by two plainclothes police officers in his own home in Morro da Fazendinha, in Complexo do Alemão on the morning of November 26, 2012. Two days later, a curfew […]
For the original by Elenilce Bottari in Portuguese in O Globo click here. They have no doubt that “what they did to Bull was a great cruelty.” This is how residents, friends and family have described […]
For the original by William de Oliveira in Portuguese on Viva Favela click here. William de Oliveira is a Rocinha resident and former Resident Association president. The disappearance of a resident from the Rocinha community of Rio […]