{"id":23890,"date":"2015-08-17T13:49:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T16:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=23890"},"modified":"2016-06-04T23:38:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T02:38:13","slug":"i-will-leave-my-house-but-not-the-struggle-jane-nascimento-during-eviction-from-her-home-in-vila-autodromo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=23890","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI will leave my house, but not the struggle\u201d \u2013 Jane Nascimento, during her eviction from Vila Aut\u00f3dromo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas<\/a><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jane is one of the most important figures in the fight against favela evictions<\/a>\u00a0in Rio de Janeiro today.<\/span><\/p>\n

She has always been tireless in her fight: speaking out not just in activities in <\/span>Vila Aut\u00f3dromo<\/a>, her community, but alongside residents of other favelas and social movements too. For years she has been attending debates and meetings with public authorities (organized in favor of and against Vila Aut\u00f3dromo), helping to organize protests, documents and letters. She has collaborated, in many ways, in building the mobilization against the city of\u00a0Rio de Janeiro’s evictions policies.<\/span><\/p>\n

These evictions, marked by extreme violence<\/a>, both physically and symbolically, caused her to feel an agony that splits across the many roles she plays: community leader, mother, worker. And this obviously leads to tiredness. But this never stopped her from continuing. It was this capacity to stay strong that made her keep moving forwards, a capacity that is often not verbalized, but shown simply through her activities, gestures and affection. Jane did this many times, from giving attention to residents who came to her in search of information about whether they would or wouldn\u2019t be leaving, or simply by giving them a bit of attention in the context of pressure and suffocation, even by making banners, into which she put her strength and the strength of the community. <\/span><\/p>\n

At the beginning of August, after a decade-long struggle, Jane left the house which she had fought so hard to acquire and build. The area around her house demonstrated the asphyxiation to which she had been subject over the course of months. On one side, the rubble of her neighbors\u2019 demolished houses. On the other, a huge building which reflected the struggle of the small pitted against the mighty, and the destructive force of the latter. But it also reflected resistance.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHomes\u00a0are not built with money, they are built with love.\u201d – Jane Nascimento, on being removed from her house in Vila Aut\u00f3dromo.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As she was being removed, Jane said to those who were present that \u201chouses are not built with money, they are built with love<\/a>.\u201d I could sense a bit of this when, four years ago, even though slightly clumsily, I helped her reconstruct her house (under the direction of our building work master Jorge Santos), brick by brick, after the first destruction of her house was carried out by Cedae, the State water and sewerage company. Because of this and all that I have mentioned above, when her house was demolished recently, I also felt like my own house was being demolished.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Jane<\/a>
Jane watches the demolition\u00a0of her own house (August 1, 2015)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Over all this time, we went to many different favelas at risk of eviction\u00a0together. During this period she transformed. I transformed too. We saw at close hand, she much more than I, violence perpetrated by the State down to the smallest details. I could feel, though not as strongly as those who were directly affected, the harshness of this process. The physical, moral and symbolic violence of this process. And this affects us. It affects us deeply.<\/span><\/p>\n

This short account is not about describing\u00a0somebody undergoing a process of bending over under the weight of things that cannot be changed. On the contrary, it exposes the victory of a woman<\/a> from a modest background, from the favela, who never sold her dignity. Who always stood up to the rotten authorities with her head held high. Who fought for her favela and who will continue fighting. As she said herself, when she was being evicted: \u201cI will leave my house, but I won\u2019t leave the struggle.\u201d And she\u00a0continues to fight.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vila Aut\u00f3dromo resists<\/a>!
\n<\/span>
\nAlexandre Magalh\u00e3es is a sociologist and author of the doctoral thesis: \u201cTransformations in the \u2018favela problem\u2019 and the reactualization of evictions\u00a0in Rio de Janeiro.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

See some photos of recent moments in Jane\u2019s story:<\/span><\/h3>\n
\"Jane<\/a>
Jane in front of her house, with building works next door (March 11, 2015)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jane\u2019s<\/a>
Jane\u2019s house (March 11, 2015)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Jane<\/a>
Jane giving testimony to the Human Rights Commission of the Rio de Janeiro State Legislative Assembly (ALERJ) (May 5, 2015)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Psychological<\/a>
Psychological pressure only increased with the tumult of the building works next to Jane\u2019s house (June 17, 2015)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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