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[ June 21, 2025 ] ‘We’re Working at the Micro Level Because There Are People Destroying Things on a Macro Scale’: In Rio de Janeiro, ‘Green Roof Favela’ Engages Popular Culture on World Environment Day Civil Society
[ June 20, 2025 ] Get to Know ‘Gaia Space’, A Network of Women Fighting for Environmental Justice and Obstetric Dignity in Greater Rio de Janeiro *Highlight
[ June 10, 2025 ] Groundbreaking Oral History Project—‘Favela Climate Memory’—Launches Final Exhibition, Fostering Emotional Connection Between Climate, Nature and Community [Video] *Highlight
[ June 7, 2025 ] ‘Being a Black Woman Running a Museum Means Facing the Past, Eye to Eye… It’s Reparation in Motion’: Sinara Rúbia’s Full Speech at Brazil’s 1st Seminar on Anti-Racist Museums *Highlight
[ June 5, 2025 ] ‘A Museology That Doesn’t Serve Life Serves No Purpose’: ‘Unconventional’ Favela Museums Lead First Seminar of Rio de Janeiro’s Social Museology Network *Highlight

Under Threat of Imminent Eviction, Horto Residents Mobilize

By Lucas Smolcic Larson • September 15, 2017

Clique aqui para Português As night fell on Wednesday, September 13, residents of the Horto community in Rio’s South Zone met at an urgent meeting to discuss new circumstances in their ongoing fight against eviction. Community leaders from […]

Three Reasons Charlottesville Could Happen in Brazil

By Lucas Smolcic Larson • August 24, 2017

Clique aqui para Português Over the weekend of August 12, the US city of Charlottesville, Virginia, played host to violent clashes between white supremacists attending a “Unite the Right” rally and anti-racist counter-demonstrators. Provoked by […]