Black Women Against the Apocalypse: How Whitewashed Narratives of Climate Collapse Silence the Voices and Strategies That, Each and Every Day, Put Off the End of the World [OPINION]
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by Clau Guimarães
4d ago
Housing activist Camila Moradia and family at the 8M Black Women’s March in Rio de Janeiro in 2022. Photo: Press ReleaseClique 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 for RioOnWatch. Narratives perpetuated by traditional and corporate media industries, such as Hollywood, have been constructing a collective memory and narrative that reinforce the idea ..read more
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World Water Day 2024: Rio’s Favelas Report Worsening of Service Since Privatization [VIDEO]
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by Clau Guimarães
6d ago
 Clique aqui para Português On this World Water Day, March 22, 2024, this video-report with English subtitles brings testimonials from residents of various communities, showing that access to and the quality of water have been deteriorating among Rio’s favelas since the privatization of CEDAE and under the responsibility of private utility Águas do Rio. These are some of the many complaints that RioOnWatch has received and accompanied in various favelas across Rio de Janeiro over the past two years. This video-report brings images from the latest local data launch from the report “Water and E ..read more
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Brussels Community Land Trust Guarantees Affordable Housing For Vulnerable Communities, Including Immigrants and Refugees, and in One of Europe’s Most Expensive Cities
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by Clau Guimarães
2w ago
The residents’ General Assembly of the Community Land Trust Brussels (CLTB). Photo: Community Land Trust Brussels (CLTB)Clique aqui para Português This is the latest in a series of articles about Community Land Trust (CLT) experiences around the world. We selected a few cases based on their potential to inspire others. These examples show how varied CLTs are despite always having the same basic structure: a nonprofit organization made up of residents owns the land in an area, while residents own or rent the homes themselves. Our objective is to present lessons learned from international experi ..read more
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Climate Anxiety in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas Is the Echo of Environmental Racism, Say #VoicesFromSocialMedia
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by Clau Guimarães
1M ago
Dona Norma de Morais, 70, an elderly retired woman living in Jardim América in the North Zone of Rio, sits alone on the sofa at home and observes, in disbelief, the destruction she sees in her living room, in January 2024. Photo Source: Personal ArchiveClique 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 for RioOnWatch. It is also part of RioOnWatch’s ..read more
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‘Survivors’ Guilt’ Video Slam: Youth from Outskirts of Rio de Janeiro Reflect on Words and Bodies as Territory [VIDEO]
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by Felicity Clarke
1M ago
Clique aqui para Português A scream emerges from the trenches of a silent war. Straight from the Nova América neighborhood in the city of Nova Iguaçu, in Greater Rio de Janeiro’s Baixada Fluminense region, two young survivors find their sword and shield in art, reflecting on the spoken word and the body as territory by a State that reads their bodies as foreign, ready to be expelled at any moment, as has happened with their peers. The above poetry slam on film, Survivors’ Guilt, speaks of the sense of responsibility that comes with being a turning point within one’s community, of opening path ..read more
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Art, Resistance and Ancestral Struggle at Carnival, Part 3: ‘Se Benze Que Dá’ Bloco Closes Maré Favela’s 2024 Carnival
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by Clau Guimarães
1M ago
The Se Benze Que Dá carnival bloco parading through the streets of Maré on February 15, 2020. Photo: AF Rodrigues / Social Media Bloco Se Benze Que DáClique aqui para Português This is the third in a series of three articles about carnival traditions in Rio’s favelas and peripheries, respectively: the Bate-Bola clowns, an indelible tradition in the North and West Zones, and Greater Rio’s Baixada Fluminense region; the Bronze and Silver Series access groups, mostly samba schools from favelas; and Bloco Se Benze Que Dá (SBQD), a street carnival parade from Complexo da Maré. The three represent t ..read more
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Art, Resistance and Ancestral Struggle at Carnival, Part 2: Silver and Bronze Series Samba Schools and Favela Associations Resist and Occupy Intendente Magalhães
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by Clau Guimarães
1M ago
Parade at Intendente Magalhães during Carnival 2020. Photo: Gabriel Monteiro/RioturClique aqui para Português This is the second in a series of three articles about carnival traditions in Rio’s favelas and peripheries, respectively: the Bate-Bola clowns, an indelible tradition in the North and West Zones, and Greater Rio’s Baixada Fluminense region; the Bronze and Silver Series access groups, mostly samba schools from favelas; and Bloco Se Benze Que Dá (SBQD), a street carnival parade from Complexo da Maré. The three represent the unequal and disparate Rios that persist in (re)existing within ..read more
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Art, Resistance and Ancestral Struggle at Carnival, Part 1: Exploring Rio’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Through the Traditional Bate-Bola Clowns of the Peripheries
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by Clau Guimarães
1M ago
The Bate-Bolas or Clóvis are intangible heritage of Rio de Janeiro, a cultural manifestation from the peripheries and favelas of the North and West Zones, as well as Greater Rio’s Baixada Fluminense. Muquiço Favela, 2022. Photo: Ratão DinizClique aqui para Português This is the first in a series of three articles about carnival traditions in Rio’s favelas and peripheries, respectively: the Bate-Bola clowns, an indelible tradition in the North and West Zones, and Greater Rio’s Baixada Fluminense region; the Bronze and Silver Series access groups, mostly samba schools from favelas; and Bloco Se ..read more
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Carnival of Literature! Spaces of Black Resistance, Rio de Janeiro’s Samba Schools Host Literary Festivals that Boost Racial Literacy
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by Clau Guimarães
1M ago
The first edition of FLIC Mangueira, in 2023, held at the samba school’s court. Photo: Event Promotion / MangueiraClique aqui para Português February 9, 2024—Afro-Indigenous Brazilian literature is a growing source of inspiration for samba schools as they organize Rio de Janeiro’s carnival parades. During the 2024 carnival, which starts today, a number of traditional samba schools will celebrate Brazilian Afro-Indigenous literary works in the Sambadrome. Portela created its plot based on A Color Defect, a novel by Minas Gerais-born writer Ana Maria Gonçalves. Grande Rio prepared a parade inspi ..read more
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Brazilian Government Formally Recognizes ‘Favelas and Urban Communities’ As the Official Term for Informal Settlements Nationwide
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by Clau Guimarães
1M ago
The designation “Subnormal Agglomerations” will be replaced by “Favelas and Urban Communities.” Photo: IBGE Collection Clique aqui para Português For the original press release in Portuguese, published by Brazil’s census bureau, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), click here. The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) is substituting the term “Subnormal Agglomerations,” adopted for its censuses and research since 1991. The new designation, extensively discussed by the institute with social movements, the academic community, and various government bodies ..read more
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