Clique aqui para Português Saturday, February 9 was a day of celebration and struggle for Vila Autódromo, the community that vehemently resisted pre-Olympic evictions next to the 2016 Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro. The cultural occupation […]
Clique aqui para Português Students occupying public high schools across Rio state have faced increasing levels of violence and harassment since May 6 from groups of students against the movement. The occupation at the Mendes […]
Clique aqui para Português The number of public schools occupied by students more than doubled in just four days, with 45 schools occupied by Friday April 15. On the same day, Rio de Janeiro’s state […]
On Saturday November 9, the ninth edition of Raízes em Movemento (Roots in Movement) Institute’s Circulando event took place in Complexo do Alemão in Rio’s North Zone. Subtitled “Dialogue and Communication in the Favela,” the day’s […]
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 […]