{"id":36650,"date":"2017-05-26T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=36650"},"modified":"2017-05-31T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T14:34:00","slug":"mare-residents-take-to-the-streets-after-deadly-start-to-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=36650","title":{"rendered":"Mar\u00e9 Residents Take to the Streets After Deadly Start to the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Mar\u00e9<\/em> means ‘the tide.’ The name comes from when the favela community was first started<\/a> in a wetland area with many of the houses built on stilts to withstand the waters. In Portuguese, mar\u00e9<\/em> can also be used in a figurative sense meaning the force behind human actions that sometimes advances, and other times retracts. Residents of Mar\u00e9 have long faced adversity starting first with the tide, but have always persevered, flourished, and fought for better lives for future generations.<\/h4>\n

Around 4,000<\/a>\u00a0people took to the streets Wednesday, May 24, to protest violence and stand in solidarity with the residents of Mar\u00e9<\/a>, in the North Zone<\/a> of Rio de Janeiro. During the event, March Against Violence – A Different Mar\u00e9 is Possible<\/a>, two large groups of protesters made their way through the community and joined together in a location known for rival gang fighting, for performances, motivational talks by family members of victims, and a space to discuss and heal. All of this to protest extreme violence that has already claimed 18 lives<\/a>\u00a0and injured at least 16 this year; one of whom was 7-year-old<\/a> resident Fernanda Adriana Caparica Pinheiro who was killed by a stray bullet playing with Barbie dolls outside of her friend\u2019s house near Parque Uni\u00e3o<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

Mar\u00e9 residents are no strangers to dealing with violence<\/a>. Drug trafficking gangs have long fought over territory in the community, and the police have taken to committing quick and lethal one-day operations<\/a> before completely leaving the favela. This was before the military occupied<\/a> the community in preparation for the World Cup<\/a> and Olympic Games<\/a>. However, once the Games ended, residents were left with the old one-day operation tactics which saw 33 completed operations in 2016 and 14 already completed<\/a> this year alone.<\/p>\n

\"Protesters<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the police enter the community, it is really difficult because you have two concrete axes of violence: the traffickers and the police, both. Because when the police come, the trafficking doesn\u2019t stop, it just adds one more problem,\u201d remarked local activist and actor Gabriel Horsth. This is what Mar\u00e9 residents live with daily. A local health clinic worker said that it was hard to live in the community. \u201cWe are going through various difficult situations, we even had to close the health clinic because of violence. The clinic closes, the schools close<\/a>, everything closes. Today you don\u2019t have privacy, even at your front door<\/a>, you no longer have the right to come and go<\/a>, which I think is basic for every person. We no longer let our children play here, a shootout could start at any moment,\u201d she commented.<\/p>\n

Police operations are regularly announced the day they are scheduled to take place which has caused the community to cancel classes<\/a>\u00a028 days since the beginning of the school year and close the public health clinics for 20\u00a0days, well on the way to beating last year\u2019s numbers.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a><\/p>\n

Policing in Rio de Janeiro, and Mar\u00e9 specifically, has come in waves<\/a>, with different governors and mayors trying different things. Mar\u00e9 residents have seen it all, and the historical distrust runs deep<\/a> and for good reason. \u201cWhen the Military Police<\/a> come, they kill, and this is totally against what it was really made to do constitutionally in this country,\u201d said Horsth. Mar\u00e9 resident Simone had this to add: \u201cThe police come just to visit, and when they come, they bring a lot of violence.\u201d While it is impossible to know every policy decision made about policing and important to note how the complex history of each community<\/a> plays into the situation, the reality for residents on the ground is simple. As Gabriel put it, \u201cThis population has always suffered violence that is legitimized by a State that actually kills us, everyday.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Protesters<\/a><\/p>\n

However, during the event one could notice that despite the difficulty of life in Mar\u00e9, residents had hope and a love for their community<\/a> and one another. \u201cI love this place<\/a>. It\u2019s a way of life that supports me, but at the same time kills; and at the same time it\u2019s my only refuge when the sadness comes, when my brothers left us…\u201d Gabriel said. And at the end of the day one thing was clear, residents\u2019 main hope for their community was peace. \u201cI want to live. I want my friends to live too. I want this place to keep on living<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Protesters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas Mar\u00e9 means ‘the tide.’ The name comes from when the favela community was first started in a wetland area with many of the houses built on stilts to withstand the waters. […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":36652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1288,1290,1333,335,329,336,1329],"tags":[756,280,125,25,918,37,362,17,18,809,270,1011,268,30],"writer":[2431],"translator":[],"illustrator":[],"photographer":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-highlight","8":"category-civilsociety","9":"category-event-reports","10":"category-policies","11":"category-solutions","12":"category-violations","13":"category-by-international-observers","14":"tag-community-organizing","15":"tag-complexo-da-mare","16":"tag-drug-traffic","17":"tag-human-rights","18":"tag-military-police","19":"tag-north-zone","20":"tag-parque-uniao","21":"tag-police-brutality","22":"tag-protest","23":"tag-public-security","24":"tag-resistance","25":"tag-right-to-come-and-go","26":"tag-state-violence","27":"tag-urban-violence","28":"writer-tyler-strobl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36650"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwriter&post=36650"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftranslator&post=36650"},{"taxonomy":"illustrator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fillustrator&post=36650"},{"taxonomy":"photographer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fphotographer&post=36650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}