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University in Crisis: Affirmative Action Students Excluded from the Right to Education [OPINION]

By Aline Galdino • Translation by Felicity Clarke • April 20, 2017

Clique aqui para Português In the favela where I live, the government spends thousands of reais for the Military Police to come in with war tanks and heavy weaponry. Who cares if stray bullets kill innocent people? […]

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Who and What are Academic Studies on Favelas For?—A New Epistemology is Possible!

By Fransérgio Goulart, Rodrigo Calvet • Translation by Kathleen Brauer • April 19, 2017

Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Fransérgio Goulart and Rodrigo Calvet in Portuguese published by Canal iBase click here. Before discussing academic studies of favelas that aim to understand how the relationships between favela […]

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At Teach-In, Legal Experts Express Dismay at President Temer’s Regularization Measure

By Laura Bachmann • March 31, 2017

Clique aqui para Português Last Friday, March 24, Urban League Cooperative and others organized a public teach-in on Provisional Measure 759/2016 (MP 759). MP 759, published last December, is a presidential decree stated to facilitate land regularization […]

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Brazilian Universities Are Only Truly Open to the Privileged [OPINION]

By Gizele Martins • Translation by Carolyn Oliveira • February 16, 2017

Clique aqui para Português In Brazil, historically, academia is a space occupied only by the privileged: the rich our sliver of a middle class. We who are from the urban periphery and the favelas have only had access for […]

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Living Together With the Olympics: The Evolution of Vila Autódromo’s People’s Plan

By Clare Huggins • October 31, 2015

Clique aqui para Português Today, October 31, the United Nations invites individuals, communities and countries worldwide to celebrate World Cities Day. The annual event was developed in 2013 with the aim to “promote the international community’s […]

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