{"id":3975,"date":"2012-06-14T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=3975"},"modified":"2020-08-19T11:04:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T14:04:03","slug":"rio20-peoples-summit-in-the-favelas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=3975","title":{"rendered":"Rio+20 People\u2019s Summit in the Favelas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

For the original article in Portuguese published in Observat\u00f3rio de Favelas\u00a0click here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The People\u2019s Summit, a side event of Rio+20, is also happening in Rio\u2019s favelas. This Saturday, June 16th in Mar\u00e9, and next Tuesday, June 19th in Alem\u00e3o, residents, activists, and organizations from within the communities and from outside will meet to reaffirm their right to the city. The meetings will take place at the same time that world leaders are coming to Rio to discuss environmental problems caused by the current model of development.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Favela on the Social and Environmental Rights Agenda\u201d is a joint initiative of the Observat\u00f3rio de Favelas, Verdejar Socioambiental, Redes de Desenvolvimento da Mar\u00e9, Instituto Raizes em Movimento, Cooperativa de Reciclagem Eu Quero Liberdade, and Fase \u2013 institutions created or working in favelas. The main goal of the exercise is to promote an exchange of experiences, practices and proposals, taking as reference two favelas situated along Avenida Brasil that share a strong history in the struggle for rights: Mar\u00e9, with more than 130,000 residents, and Alem\u00e3o, with nearly 70,000.<\/p>\n

According to Edson Gomes, director of Verdejar \u2013 which works in the Serra da Miseric\u00f3rdia, where the Associated Favelas of Alem\u00e3o is located \u2013 it is an opportunity to show the world the contributions the people are making to conservation and the restoration of the environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have worked to develop social technology to address the socio-environmental problems of these communities. We imagine building a new society based on the reality of the favela, not based on avoiding the topic or solutions taken from distant realities. For many people like me, raised in favelas, to imagine this new society does not mean to run away from the favela,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The right to the city will be the central issue for discussion. In the time since Brazil was chosen to host the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016, the state has implemented large urban projects, summarily expelling entire communities from land that rightfully belonged to the residents.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemoval is a word and an act that residents of Rio\u2019s favelas have known for over a century. To hinder the presence of favelas by forcibly transferring people to distant places means to try to take from the communities the legitimacy of their historical struggles to live in the city,\u201d says Jorge Barbosa, general director of Observat\u00f3rio das Favelas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Favela on the Social and Environmental Rights Agenda\u201d is one of the activities organized by the People\u2019s Summit that will produce proposals for the People’s Assembly \u2013 a global civil society gathering that will take a stand before the official Rio+20.<\/p>\n

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AGENDA HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

The 16th in MAR\u00c9 | Galp\u00e3o Bela Mar\u00e9 – Rua Bittencourt Sampaio, 169, Mar\u00e9, from 2pm<\/div>\n
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The 19th in ALEM\u00c3O | Travessa Soldado Adelino C\u00e2ndido de Oliveira, Morro da Esperan\u00e7a (Pedra do Sapo), from 9am<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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