{"id":25653,"date":"2015-12-04T09:51:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T12:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=25653"},"modified":"2016-04-06T02:26:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T05:26:27","slug":"favelas-in-the-news-november-2015-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=25653","title":{"rendered":"Favelas In the News: November 2015 Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

This year’s Black Awareness Month has been a critical moment for Brazil’s black community, with protests against ongoing structural racism as well as celebrations of Afro-Brazilian heritage. It has also been an exciting month for women as key issues are finally receiving deserved attention.\u00a0To help our readers digest the major news\u00a0and themes of the past month, we\u2019ve summarized the stories we published here on RioOnWatch along with a few other must-reads in the media.\u00a0Access all our monthly summaries\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and full digests here<\/a>.<\/h4>\n

November is Brazil’s Black Awareness Month<\/a>, an annual occasion to celebrate the country’s Afro-Brazilian heritage and resistance to\u00a0oppression. An interactive timelapse\u00a0map\u00a0documents the Atlantic Slave Trade<\/a> from 1545 to 1860 and highlights the unparalleled scale of Brazil’s involvement. A Studio-X event<\/a> this month discussed the culture of modern quilombos\u2014originally\u00a0communities of escaped slaves\u2014and\u00a0ongoing efforts to develop the African Heritage Circuit<\/a> in Rio’s Port.\u00a0One of the legacies of Brazilian slavery is the stark segregation and increased racial tensions<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0Rio de Janeiro today, recently captured in new maps of\u00a0the city’s racial distribution<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Activists at a Popular Committee event<\/a> argued that\u00a0poor, black areas of the city are disproportionately suffering from the militiarization of the\u00a0city ahead of the Olympics. The New York Times <\/em>published an exceptionally produced video<\/a> on the heartbreaking consequences of violent struggle in Rio’s favelas, focusing on the case of\u00a0ten-year-old Eduardo killed by police\u00a0in Alem\u00e3o in April. First investigators found police acted in ‘legitimate self-defense<\/a>,’ but then the State Public Prosecutor’s Office made a potentially landmark decision\u00a0to prosecute an officer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Black women, in particular, have\u00a0been at the forefront of conversation this month, in large part due to the 10,000-strong Black Women’s March<\/a> in Bras\u00edlia on November 18 in the context of newly published\u00a0data on violence<\/a> against women in Brazil. In honor of Black Awareness Month the\u00a0Afro-Brazilian Museum in S\u00e3o Paulo celebrated author Carolina de Jesus,<\/a>\u00a0Brazil\u2019s only favela writer to be published in English during\u00a0the 1960s. November also saw protests against abortion restrictions and social media campaigns against harrassment, making the month\u00a0an exciting moment for gender equity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, pressure continues to build\u00a0on Vila Aut\u00f3dromo next to the Olympic park,\u00a0where this month the City destroyed\u00a0the community’s\u00a0ping pong table<\/a>. Fearing that the attack on already limited public spaces is part of the City’s strategy to further intimidate\u00a0them, residents and allies organized a day of collective action<\/a>, as well as day-long cultural occupation<\/a>, to revitalize the playground and broader community.<\/p>\n

Other exciting community initiatives this month included two you can support directly: the Museu de Favela’s fundraising campaign<\/a>\u00a0to take its\u00a0‘Women Warriors’ exhibit\u00a0on\u00a0tour around Brazil, and\u00a0the eight diverse organizations in Complexo do Alem\u00e3o that\u00a0have\u00a0joined together to crowdfund a powerful\u00a0package of services to support\u00a0the community<\/a>\u00a0and raise visibility for\u00a0their work. Several communities organized events around sustainability during Rio’s first Zero Waste Week<\/a>, which took place shortly before a\u00a0discussion on issues facing residents of areas near\u00a0the polluted Guanabara Bay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Finally, November also marked the 118th birthday of\u00a0Provid\u00eancia<\/a>, Rio’s oldest favela, and residents celebrated the culture of Provid\u00eancia as well as favela culture more broadly. The vibrancy of daily life\u00a0in Rio’s favelas is the subject of stunning photos by the\u00a0Imagens do Povo <\/em>collective’s\u00a0archivist-documentarian photographers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Look out for our next summary of articles from December as we wrap up 2015 and reflect on the year. For more information and links to favela news from the month, see our full Favela Digest for November\u00a02015<\/a> here. You can subscribe to receive the\u00a0Favela Digest straight to your inbox each month here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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