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Eduardo Paes
  • Don’t Miss This Video: FIFA Never Thought it’d have to Go on a PR Tour to Sell Football… in Brazil FIFA must do more than send PR representatives to Brazil for damage control ahead of the 2014 World Cup. They must show they are serious about stopping forced evictions. Priscila Néri October 24, 2013
  • Part 2: How 114 Videos Tell One Story about Forced Evictions in Rio We share findings of our curation project, bringing over 100 videos together to tell the story of forced evictions in Rio de Janiero. Priscila Néri October 9, 2013
  • Can 114 Videos Tell One Story about Forced Evictions in Rio? A video curation project brings together over 100 powerful videos to show how forced evictions unfolded across Rio de Janeiro. Priscila Néri October 7, 2013
  • How a Small Brazilian Community Fought Big Powers and Won After 20 years resisting eviction from their homes-- even as the threat level reached Olympic heights this year-- the Rio community of Vila Autodromo wins a concession from the Mayor. Eviction is off the table. Viva a Vila! Priscila Néri August 15, 2013
  • Two Years After Forced Eviction, Community Fights for Compensation in Rio de Janeiro Yesterday marked two years since government bulldozers arrived at the Restinga community in Rio de Janeiro to demolish the homes and small shops belonging to 153 families. Priscila Néri December 18, 2012
  • VIDEO: Meet Elisângela, the Other Face of Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic Legacy Elisângela wasn't home when they arrived. Her 17-year-old daughter called her cellphone, frantic, to break the news: "There are several men from the municipal government here at our door; they're saying they're going to demolish our house." Elisângela raced home to try to negotiate, to no avail. In a few hours, the home she and her family had spent years building was now a pile of rubble. Priscila Néri June 21, 2012
  • New Video the Government of Rio de Janeiro Doesn’t Want You to See Roughly 170,000 people are either at risk, or have already been subjected to, forced evictions throughout the 12 Brazilian cities gearing up to host the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games. Priscila Néri December 14, 2011
  • Join the Call: No More Evictions for Rio 2016 Olympics We’ve joined forces with our local partners in Rio and Amnesty International to call on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to address the complaints of hundreds of poor families that have been (or are at risk of being) forcibly evicted from their homes under the pretext of the XXXI Summer Olympic Games to be held in Rio in 2016. Priscila Néri November 15, 2011