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15th Annual ‘Circulando’ Event in Alemão Favela Unites Local Leaders, Youth, Children [IMAGES]

By Edmund Ruge, Hector Santos • December 3, 2019

Clique aqui para Português The sun shone down on the hills of Complexo do Alemão, on Saturday, November 30, putting an end to a week of rain for the group of favelas in the North […]

Photo credit: Hector Santos/Raízes em Movimento
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Alemão’s 14th Annual ‘Circulando’ Celebrates Artistic Interventions and Creative Resistance [IMAGES]

By Jorge Sanchez Garcia • December 6, 2018

Clique aqui para Português Resistance emerges in innumerable expressions, the diversity of which was highlighted at the “Circulando–Dialogue and Communication in the Favela” event in Complexo do Alemão, in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, last Saturday, […]

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In Alemão, Favela ‘Reinventivity’ Celebrated at 12th Annual Event

By Nour El-Youssef • December 26, 2016

Clique aqui para Português On Saturday, December 10 the Complexo do Alemão-based community organization Raízes em Movimento (Roots in Movement Institute) hosted its 12th annual event Circulating: Dialogue and Communication in Favelas. The event occupied the street in front […]

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Knowledge to Create Solutions in Complexo do Alemão: Instituto Raízes em Movimento

By Ava Rose Hoffman • July 11, 2016

Clique aqui para Português Instituto Raízes em Movimento (Roots in Movement Institute) is a community-based NGO in Complexo do Alemão in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro focused on human rights and local social, cultural and human development. Frequently partnering with other […]

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Even Drug Traffickers Are Demanding an End to Violence

By • Translation by Luana Gama • June 28, 2015

For the original in Portuguese, published in Viva Favela, click here.  “Let’s quit this shooting all around us. This violence is killing residents, no one can take it any more.” This was a request made […]

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