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  • [ September 13, 2026 ] ‘I Moved Back to the Favela So I Wouldn’t Starve in the Housing Project’: An Ethnographic Account of the Olympic Resettlement Experience in Parque Carioca #EvictionsWatch
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  • [ August 28, 2026 ] From Concrete to Food: Collective Action Transforms Abandoned Reservoir Into Community Garden in Complexo do Alemão [IMAGES] *Highlight
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From Concrete to Food: Collective Action Transforms Abandoned Reservoir Into Community Garden in Complexo do Alemão [IMAGES]

By Bárbara Dias • Translation by Nicole Vaiani • August 28, 2026

Clique aqui para Português The garden beds at the João Bosco Community Garden, in Complexo do Alemão, received care and affection from 30 volunteers on August 8 during a revitalization collective action organized by Josefa […]

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Agroecological Collective Action Brings Fishing Community Together With Partners to Plant and Launch Remanso Beach Fair in Suruí, Magé

By Bárbara Dias • Translation by Sia Kulkarni • August 6, 2026

Clique aqui para Português The Agroecological Collective Action held at the headquarters of the Remanso Beach Fishers’ Association (APAR) in Suruí, Magé, a municipality in Greater Rio de Janeiro’s Baixada Fluminense region, brought together residents, […]

John Mussington speaks at an exchange between Rio leaders and global CLT and land practitioners in Raízes do Brasil. Photo: Barbara Dias
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‘We Belong to the Land’: An Interview With John Mussington on the Urgency of Learning from Barbuda’s Communal Land System [VIDEO]

By Marj Osagie • May 27, 2026

 Clique aqui para Português In April 2026, Barbudan environmentalist, community leader and activist John Mussington visited Rio de Janeiro for the 2026 Global Community Land Trust Peer Exchange organized by Brazil’s Favela Community Land […]

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10 Years After Rio’s Most Notorious Pre-Olympic Forced Eviction, Women-Led Collective Action Preserves the Memory of Vila Autódromo

By Alexandre Cerqueira • Translation by Sia Kulkarni • May 13, 2026

Clique aqui para Português This article is part of our series reflecting on the impacts of mega-events on Rio de Janeiro 10 years after the 2016 Olympic Games. Ten years after the end of the […]

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Award-Winning Middle School in Penha Favela Hosts Gardening Collective Action Engaging Passionate Young Environmental Leaders

By Amanda Baroni Lopes • Translation by Alyssa Oliver • March 29, 2026

Clique aqui para Português Two years ago, classes at the Brant Horta Technological Municipal School (GET Brant Horta), located in Penha, a complex of favelas and surrounding neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone, resumed […]

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