{"id":32963,"date":"2016-09-22T15:19:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T18:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=32963"},"modified":"2018-03-18T14:50:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T17:50:38","slug":"favela-candidates-participate-in-city-council-members-we-want-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=32963","title":{"rendered":"Favela Candidates Run for Office, Among ‘City Council Members We Want’ [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

On Saturday, September 17, the campaign Vereadores Que Queremos<\/a>, or City Council Members\u00a0We Want, hosted an evening of interviews, debate, and roundtable<\/a> discussion with 18\u00a0candidates running for City Council in the Rio de Janeiro municipal elections<\/a> on October 2. The gathering took place at Casa Coletiva<\/a>, a networking center for cultural movements, alternative media production, and social activism in Santa Teresa<\/a> in central Rio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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With the\u00a0elections fast approaching, the non-profit organization Rede Livre<\/a>\u00a0(Free Network) recently launched the Vereadores Que Queremos campaign (#VereadoresQueQueremos<\/a>) to\u00a0provide visibility and media resources on select candidates running for city council in various municipalities throughout Brazil. The platform collaborates with candidates from various political parties who are committed to collective, democratic and grassroots processes. The hope is to encourage active citizenship<\/a> and achieve an honest, socially and\u00a0ethically\u00a0committed assembly of council members that reflects the cultural diversity and plurality of Brazilian society. The central question of the debate at Saturday\u2019s event was, \u201chow can we make our city more democratic?\u201d<\/p>\n