Check out the complete Series of community media profiles here. “I never took courses in layout, design, branding or audiovisual presentation,” Michel Silva will tell you. “I learned everything on the go.” When Silva founded the online community […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original by Michel Silva in Portuguese, published in Fala Roça, click here. Access to clean water and sanitation is an essential human right, acknowledged most recently and thoroughly in a United Nations Resolution in […]
Clique aqui para Português Resident account on the state of violence in the community of Complexo do Alemão. Today I woke up reflecting on what is going on in my favela. I started to realize that […]
The subject of militias has grown recently in local and international media coverage of Rio, amid concerns of lack of democracy and coercive votes in the controlled areas during this election season. While these concerns are genuine, an OsteRio […]
A screening of À Queima Roupa (At Point-Blank), followed by a debate on police violence, was part of Rio International Film Festivel 2014 on Friday September 26. The documentary produced and directed by Theresa Jessouroun is an investigation […]