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Bolsonaro and the death of social housing
The Bolsonaro government freezes funding for self-managed social housing construction, destroys the Ministry of Cities and tries to declare the housing movements as terrorists …
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Brasília: Homeless Workers Occupy Federal Cities Ministry
Thousands march against increase in violence, mass evictions and criminalization of social movement leaders On June 5, bus caravans arrived in Brasilia from across …
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The Paysandu Fire and the Right to the City
By Brian Mier. In the early morning of May 1, a 24 story building on Paysandu square in central São Paulo caught fire and …
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A Tragedy Foretold: FLM leader Osmar Silva Borges on the Paysandu Fire
Although squatters are frequently treated as criminals in the national and international media, according to article 5 of the 1988 Brazilian Constitution, any citizen …
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When Living is a Privilege, Occupying is a Right
According to the Brazilian Constitution of 1988, land banking is a crime. Unlike in, for example, the United States, it is illegal for a …
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MTST Occupies Notorious “Lava Jato” Penthouse Apartment
Guaruja, São Paulo. This morning a group of activists from the Homeless Workers Movement (Movimento de Trabalhadores Sem Teto/MTST) and People Without Fear (Povo …
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URGENT: A call for solidarity against forced evictions of MST camps in northern Brazil
Dear Comrades An aggressive attack is being waged against MST landless peasants in the northern state of Pará, Brazil. Large-scale landowners along with local …
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Inside the MNLM Squatters Movement
By Brian Mier. When the Brazilian Military Dictatorship ended in 1985, citizens began a nation wide campaign to petition for people’s amendments to the …
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Guardian Criminalizes the Urban Poor in Rockefeller-Sponsored Series on São Paulo
The Guardian kicked off a week of coverage about São Paulo today, as part of its Rockefeller Foundation sponsored “Cities” Series. Although part of …
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Radical Reform and the Right to the Brazilian City
The Rise, Success and Decline of the PT Party’s Virtuous Cycle Model of Urban Governance. By Brian Mier. In 1964, the US helped overthrow …
