Clique aqui para Português On August 30, at Arena Dicró in Penha, in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone, the Sustainable Favela Network’s “Savory Wisdom” Roundtable took place, featuring eight community organizers from Greater Rio favelas, all ..read more

Clique aqui para Português This is Part 2 of a two-part article on the achievements of representation for Black Brazilian women at the 2024 Olympics.  The Olympic achievements of Beatriz Souza, Rebeca Andrade, Ana Patrícia ..read more

Clique aqui para Português This is Part 1 of a two-part article on the achievements of representation for Black Brazilian women at the 2024 Olympics.  The Olympic Games have a complicated and often harmful history ..read more

Clique aqui para Português This is the latest in a series of articles about Community Land Trust (CLT) experiences around the world. On June 18 and 20, 2024 the 4th Annual Favela Community Land Trust ..read more

This article is part of a series of profiles of initiatives in Rio de Janeiro’s Sustainable Favela Network. Initiative: Agroecological Providência (Providência Agroecológica) Contact: Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Email | WhatsApp +55 (21) 994659760 ..read more

Clique aqui para Português This article summarizes some of the findings from the ongoing doctoral study ‘Collective Ownership and Housing Self-Management in Latin America: Contemporary Challenges and Horizons,’ by Pedro Lima, advised by Professor Raquel ..read more

Clique aqui para Português On Saturday, July 27, the ninth edition of Black July took place over a traditional countryside breakfast at Raízes do Brasil, space of the Small Farmers’ Movement (MPA) in Santa Teresa ..read more

Clique aqui para Português This article is part of a series created in partnership with the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at San Diego State University, to produce articles for the Digital Brazil Project on environmental justice in the favelas ..read more

Clique aqui para Português This article is part of RioOnWatch‘s series on Memories of Favela Power, which documents and celebrates the history of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas through narratives and reports from residents’ collective memory, in their [...] The post Between Alleys and Lanes, Lesbian Memories and Casa Resistências: The Lives of Gay Women in Rio’s Maré Favela appeared first on RioOnWatch ..read more

 Clique aqui para Português This article is part of RioOnWatch‘s series on Memories of Favela Power, which documents and celebrates the history of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas through narratives and reports from residents’ collective memory, in [...] The post Capoeira — The Sublime Art of Subversion [VIDEO] appeared first on RioOnWatch ..read more