Clique aqui para Português On Wednesday night, over 160 Vila Autódromo residents and leaders filled the local São José Operário church to discuss their upcoming meeting with Mayor Eduardo Paes on Sunday. The mayor promised […]
For the original in Portuguese on Pela Moradia click here. It was yet another mobilization that secured at least temporary victory and relief for the families of the Quilombo das Guerreiras (Women Warriors’ Quilombo) Occupation. […]
Clique aqui para Português On August 7, 2013, Catalytic Communities‘ Executive Director and urban planner, Theresa Williamson, gave a presentation on land tenure and urban planning in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas as part of a Casa […]
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 article by Ciro Barros in Portuguese in Pública click here. This Saturday, the Rio Popular Committee for the World Cup will host a football championship between members of communities threatened with or […]