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What Is The Right to the City?
Clique aqui para Português This post is a contribution to Blog Action Day 2013 in which bloggers around the world reflect on this year’s theme, Human Rights. Over the last few years there have been […]
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Eight Characteristics of Social Media Fueled Movements: Brazil
Over the past few years unprecedented large-scale movements have challenged states across the globe. From Tahrir Square in Cairo to Zuccotti Park in New York City, and most recently, the streets of Brazil. Common to […]
Civil Society
Act on Demands and Strengthen Civil Society
Click here for the original editorial from Observatorio de Favelas, in Portuguese. It’s been a long time since so many Brazilians have taken to the streets. In major cities more and more people are turning […]
Civil Society
Protests Are Just the Beginning; Change Will Come to Brazil (NYT Brazil Protests Debate in-depth response)
Clique aqui para Português June 19, 2013–CatComm Executive Director Theresa Williamson was invited to engage in a New York Times debate forum on the protests taking hold of Brazil. See original debate here with her response here. Full response follows: Anyone […]
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Favela Citizenship and the UPPs
“I just want to be happy, walk with tranquility in the favela where I was born. And be proud and have the awareness that a poor person has his place… My dear authorities, I don’t know […]