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In Brazil’s favelas, activists find common ground with Palestinians in Gaza

Residents of Brazil’s poorest neighbourhoods say they see their struggles reflected in Israel’s treatment of Gaza.

Cosme Felippsen’s nephew was 17 years old when he was killed by Brazil’s military police in a Rio de Janeiro alley nicknamed the Gaza Strip.

“Almost every favela in Rio has an area residents call Gaza,” Felippsen said, pointing to the bullet holes along the alley walls. Residents have used the name for at least 15 years, he added. “It designates the area where most of the gunfire is concentrated at any given time.”

The neighbourhood where Felippsen’s nephew, José Vieira, died in 2017 is called Morro da Providência. It is one of hundreds of impoverished communities — or favelas — strewn across the city.

Activists and residents say the violence they have seen in the favelas has given them unique insight into the urban warfare currently unfolding in Gaza, a Palestinian territory under Israeli siege. And the parallels they perceive are motivating them to take action.

“Militarisation, armed groups executing inhabitants — many things that happen in Palestine also happen in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro,” said Felippsen, a local politician and tour guide who specialises in Black history.

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In Brazil’s favelas, activists find common ground with Palestinians in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Cosme Felippsen’s nephew was 17 years old when he was killed by Brazil’s military police in a Rio de Janeiro alley nicknamed the Gaza Strip.

“Almost every favela in Rio has an area residents call Gaza,” Felippsen said, pointing to the bullet holes along the alley walls. Residents have used the name for at least 15 years, he added. “It designates the area where most of the gunfire is concentrated at any given time.”

The neighbourhood where Felippsen’s nephew, José Vieira, died in 2017 is called Morro da Providência. It is one of hundreds of impoverished communities — or favelas — strewn across the city.

Activists and residents say the violence they have seen in the favelas has given them unique insight into the urban warfare currently unfolding in Gaza, a Palestinian territory under Israeli siege. And the parallels they perceive are motivating them to take action.

“Militarisation, armed groups executing inhabitants — many things that happen in Palestine also happen in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro,” said Felippsen, a local politician and tour guide who specialises in Black history.

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"In 1897, a group of soldiers returned to their hometown of Rio de Janeiro after months in the battlefield. Poor, unemployed, and lacking any kind of government assistance, they settled in one of the city’s poorest areas, then called “Morro da Providência” (Providence Hill). Not long after, due to the overwhelming presence of those destitute soldiers who fought for the Republican Army, the area lost this name and earned a new epithet. Years later its name became a worldwide synonym for disenfranchised urban communities, which it retains until today: Morro da Favela (Favela Hill). Favela or faveleira is a plant common to Brazil’s semiarid regions. Its existence became nationally known as thousands of army personnel – together with cannons, machine guns, and other industrial weaponry – were sent to fight and destroy a backland town in Bahia between 1896 and 1897. Surrounded by these favela plants, the town of Canudos was the stage for one of the bloodiest episodes in Latin American history, which historians reckon left some thirty thousand dead. At the end of the war, newspapers celebrated the progressive forces of the Republic for ridding the country of an unwelcome community of thousands of backland free poor, indigenous people, and the so-called “May 13th” (a derogatory term for formerly enslaved persons who had become free when Brazil passed the emancipation law on May 13, 1888). However, unable to explain how the rebels were able to put up a formidable fight against the country’s official army, many – from contemporaries such as the journalist Euclides da Cunha to twentieth-century academic historians – chose to explain the rebels’ endurance and brave resistance as the effect of a messianic movement. Ignorant and gullible – so the story goes – the poor inhabitants of Bahia’s backlands had become blind followers of a charismatic leader, Antonio Conselheiro, who supposedly had promised them heaven on earth. Such a simplistic explanation, though, not only fails to account for the hazardous impacts of decades-long liberal policies – from land encroachment to criminalizing laws – but also for poor peoples’ ability to understand and resist them. Unwilling to conform, the Canudos rebels were labeled as fanatics and denied a place in modern society. Exclusion in this case, as in many others throughout Latin American history, literally meant demise. The violence of the War of Canudos extended beyond the slaughtering of Bahia’s rebel poor. The very soldiers who committed this massacre returned home to encounter nothing but poverty and exclusion: They became the inhabitants of the Morro da Favela. As it happened so many times in nineteenth-century Latin America, the poor killed one another to further the projects of visionaries who could not care less about the welfare of ordinary men and women. Those who survived the wars the elite had created encountered poverty and exclusion at every turn. But the elites were more than satisfied: Another obstacle – another alternative way of life – had been removed from the path to political and economic 'progress.''"

Monica Dantas; Roberto Saba. Contestations and Exclusions In: The Cambridge History of Latin American Law in Global Perspective. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

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morro da providência, rio de janeiro, 2008, pelo street artist francês jr

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In 2008, in Brazil, he paid tribute to female victims of violence. To do this, he decided to paint the favela Morro da Providência in Rio by covering each panel with female faces and named this achievement 28 Millimeters, Women Are Heroes. Following his project, he made the documentary Women Are Heroes.

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National Museum of Fine Arts - GUSTAVO DALL'ARA

About the artist In 1881, he entered the Venice Academy of Fine Arts in Italy, where he attended regularly until 1883 and lived with the so-called “Realist Success of Popular Venice”, among the artists considered Academic, from the Second Half of the 19th Century, who portray the daily life of the time and the popular affairs of people with great realism.

The choice of colors, the vivacity of the subjects portrayed, the ability to capture glimpses and the lighting effects of popular life, are the characteristics that made him a much appreciated artist by the general public.

In Venice, he worked as a draftsman and caricaturist for the periodical Sior Tonin Bonagrazia.

In Brazil, he lives in Rio de Janeiro where his first job is as artistic director and designer of the weekly “Vida Fluminense”.

In 1893 until 1895, alongside the engineer Aarão Reis, he participated in the commission to plan and build Belo Horizonte, the new capital of the province of Minas Gerais, in the old Curral d´El Rei. The realistic character of his work, with the quality photograph, which made him participate in the team, can later be seen in the architectural watercolor of the Nossa Senhora da Salette Sanctuary Parish, still without its stained glass windows.

Awarded a 2nd class medal (silver) at the VIII General Exhibition (1901). In 1904, he decorated one of the rooms in Vila Itararé, in Petrópolis,

Gazeta de Notícias, on June 7, 1905, reported a controversial fire that destroyed his house, in a distant place where the help of the firefighters was delayed, and the water did not have enough pressure.

However, in Correio da Manhã and Jornal do Brasil the news is that Dall'Ara was detained for investigations, and released only after appeal, with suspicion that he set the fire to receive the insurance, carried out a week earlier.

After the race, the painter's address is referenced at Rua Doutor Rego Barros, nº 65, in Santo Cristo, at the entrance to the hill of Favela do Morro da Providência.

The metamorphoses experienced by the city are narrated in the works of Gustavo Dall'Ara, some more explicitly, such as the favela theme which, from 1910 onwards, became recurrent, with luminous chromaticism, beauty and dignity, portraying the excluded in a post-modern society. -slavery, with black people, without the right to land and outside the job market, occupied by immigrants, who were left to live in the favelas close to the central region where they worked “Bicos”.

Antagonistically, at the National Salon of Fine Arts in 1913, Dall’Ara exhibited paintings from the Favela:

Climbing the hill,

Round the favela and

Heavy task. He won the Grand Silver Medal.

People with epilepsy are affected by a more discriminatory illness at this time: syphilis. As his illnesses worsened, in 1923, he was diagnosed with a complication of syphilis that invades the nervous system, reaching the brain, and was admitted to the Afrânio Peixoto Dispensary and transferred to the Hospital-Colôniade Psicopatas de Vargem Alegre in Rio de Janeiro, where he committed suicide. , throwing himself from the top of the second floor of the men's pavilion.

In the book, “Small studies on Art” from 1926, Moises Nogueira da Silva dedicates a chapter to the artist who also had an important biography edited by Laudelino Freire, in 1915, bringing reports and information from the artist himself. In 1986, Ronaldo do Valle Simões, Umberto Cosentino and Sandra Quintella published a biographical book on Gustavo Dall´Ara.

He has works at the National Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of the Republic, the Rio de Janeiro Museum of Art

Source: By Alexandre Paiva Frade Columnist for Guia das Artes

image: Rua Direita, currently Rua Primeiro de Março. 1907. On the left side of the street are the Santa Cruz dos Militares and São José churches, and in the background you can see Morro do Castelo. Rio de janeiro Brazil.

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Museu Nacional de Belas Artes - GUSTAVO DALL'ARA

Sobre o artista Em 1881, entrou para a Academia de Belas Artes de Veneza na Itália, onde que frequentou regularmente até 1883 e conviveu com o chamado “Sucesso Realista da Veneza Popular”, entre os artistas considerados Acadêmicos, da Segunda Metade do Século XIX, que retratam a vida cotidiana da época e os afazeres populares com vivacidade das pessoas com grande realismo.

A escolha das cores, a vivacidade dos temas retratados, a capacidade de captação de vislumbres e os efeitos de luz da vida popular, são as características que o fizeram um artista muito apreciador e pelo grande público.

Em Veneza, trabalhou como desenhista e caricaturista do periódico Sior Tonin Bonagrazia.

No Brasil, reside no Rio de Janeiro onde seu primeiro emprego é de diretor artístico e desenhista do semanário “Vida Fluminense”.

Em 1893 até 1895, ao lado do engenheiro Aarão Reis, participou da comissão de para planejar e construir Belo Horizonte, a nova capital da província de Minas Gerais, no antigo Curral d´El Rei. O caráter realista de sua obra, com a qualidade fotográfica, que o fez participar da equipe pode ser visto, posteriormente na aquarela arquitetônica da Paróquia Santuário Nossa Senhora da Salette, ainda sem seus vitrais.

Premiado com medalha de 2ª classe (prata) na VIII Exposição Geral (1901). Em 1904, decorou uma das salas da Vila Itararé, em Petrópolis,

A Gazeta de Notícias, de 07 de junho de 1905 divulgou um polêmico incêndio que destruiu sua casa, em local distante onde a ajuda dos bombeiros demorou, e a água não teve pressão suficiente.

Porém, no Correio da Manhã e no Jornal do Brasil as notícias são que Dall'Ara foi detido para averiguações, e solto somente após apelação, com suspeita que tenha colocado fogo para receber o seguro, realizado uma semana antes.

Após o corrido uma referência de endereço do pintor é à Rua Doutor Rego Barros, nº 65, no Santo Cristo, na entrada do morro da Favela do Morro da Providência.

As metamorfoses vividas pela cidade são narradas nas obras de Gustavo Dall’Ara, algumas de maneira mais explícita como a temática favela que, a partir de 1910, torna-se recorrente, com luminoso cromatismo, beleza e dignidade, retratando os excluídos numa sociedade pós-escravocrata, com negros, sem direito a terra e fora do mercado de trabalho, ocupado por imigrantes, a quem restou a habitação nas favelas próximas à região central onde faziam “Bicos”.

Antagonicamente no Salão Nacional de Belas Artes de 1913, Dall’Ara, expôs telas da Favela:

Subindo o morro,

Ronda à favela e

Tarefa pesada. Conquistou a Grande Medalha de Prata.

Portador de epilepsia é acometido por um mal mais discriminatório nesta época: a sífilis. Com o agravamento dos males, em 1923, diagnosticado com uma complicação da sífilis que invade o sistema nervoso, atingindo o cérebro, é internado no Dispensário Afrânio Peixoto e transferido a Hospital-Colôniade Psicopatas de Vargem Alegre no Rio de Janeiro, onde suicida-se, atirando-se do alto do segundo andar do pavilhão masculino.

No livro, “Pequenos estudos sobre Arte” de 1926, Moises Nogueira da Silva dedica um capitulo ao artista que tambem teve uma importante biografia editada por Laudelino Freire, em 1915, trazendo relatos e informações do próprio artista. Em 1986, Ronaldo do Valle Simões, Umberto Cosentino e Sandra Quintella, publicaram um livro biográfico de Gustavo Dall´Ara.

Possui obras no Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, no Museu da República, no Museu de Arte do Rio de Janeiro

Fonte: De Alexandre Paiva Frade Colunista do Guia das Artes

imagem: Rua Direita, atual Rua Primeiro de Março. 1907. Do lado esquerdo da rua estão as igrejas Santa Cruz dos Militares e São José, e ao fundo vê-se o Morro do Castelo. Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

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Flup 2023 tem homenagens e batalhas de poesia falada

A 13ª edição da Festa Literária das Periferias (Flup) vai celebrar a oralidade ancestral que formou as diversas formas da cultura brasileira como a literatura e a música e ainda as periferias do mundo. O festival vai homenagear o escritor e fundador da Academia Brasileira de Letras (ABL), Machado de Assis, que nasceu e cresceu na Ladeira do Livramento, no Morro da Providência, e Mãe Beata de…

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In 2008 JR initiated Women Are Heroes after learning about the deaths of three young men in the favela of Morro da Providência in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the subsequent riots ignited by the involvement of the Brazilian military. After meeting with residents for a month, the artist collaborated with them to make photographs of the eyes and faces of local women, including some related to the murdered men. Together, they pasted the blown-up images on forty buildings along the hillside of the favela, with the giant faces and eyes staring down into Rio. “Because we arrived without sponsorship or political agenda, people always received us with open arms,” JR says. “They are happy to see another approach, in which they are actors.”

JR (French, born 1983). 28 Millimètres, Women Are Heroes, Action dans la Favela Morro da Providência, Favela de Jour, Rio de Janeiro, 2008. Installation image. Wheat-pasted posters on buildings. © JR-ART.NET

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Lewis visited Casa Amarela, a center for education, art and social support at Morro da Providência in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil | November 9th, 2022

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Brazil’s First Favela Celebrates 125th Anniversary With Celebratory Breakfast and Discussion Among Elders

On Saturday November 16, the Providência Gallery Project—founded in 2017 and located in the Leonel de Moura Brizola Popular Market—organized a breakfast to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Brazil’s first favela, originally called Morro da Favela and now known as Morro da Providência. The project carries out art interventions in the community, promoting cultural activity in the area through urban mural paintings and impactful local activities.

In 2022, Providência celebrates 125 years and continues to be an important symbol of the history of favelas. The first Brazilian favela is located near the Central do Brasil train station, behind the Eastern Military Command building. It is in the heart of Rio de Janeiro’s port region, in the Gamboa neighborhood.

Founded after the War of Canudos (1896-1897) by soldiers returning from the battlefields, Providência was initially called Morro da Favela, named after a spiny, resilient shrub native to Bahia’s hinterland where the war took place. After Antônio Conselheiro‘s defeat at the Canudos camp, the soldiers, primarily formerly enslaved Afro-Brazilians who survived the war, were promised land in Rio—the capital of Brazil at the time—as payment for their services. When they arrived in Rio de Janeiro, they occupied the area surrounding the Ministry of War in the federal capital’s center while waiting for the land they never received. With this, they occupied the hill behind the ministry and called it Morro da Favela in honor of the land where they had served battle.

Shortly after, all spontaneous occupations of this kind—which seek to guarantee the right to housing, reflect territories of resistance, and historically suffer neglect from the Brazilian State—became known as favelas. Today, favelas are found in all areas of Rio de Janeiro and in every Brazilian city.

To reinforce the historic importance of their favela and the central role of residents in these 125 years of struggle for the right housing, the Providência Gallery project organized a breakfast to celebrate the community’s 125th anniversary. The event involved residents, local leaders and partners engaging actively in a discussion circle, with the stories of residents highlighting feelings and experiences of living in the favela.

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JR art net - Woman Are Heroes, in the Morro da Providência favela, Rio de Janeiro, 2008.

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(In English below.)

Rodrigo Cerqueira, 19 anos, foi assassinado pela #PMRJ quando nossos companheiros distribuíam comida por meio de um projeto de apoio mútuo popular no Morro da Providência, dia 20/05. A mesma polícia matou João Pedro, 14 anos, em sua própria casa apenas 4 dias antes. Nossos corações se voltam para seus amigos, suas famílias e todos que os conheceram – e para todos que enfrentam o mesmo perigo da polícia.

No Brasil, onde # Covid19 já matou 21.000 pessoas até agora, a polícia continua assassinando em massa pessoas pobres, negras e pardas ao lado da pandemia. Em todo o mundo, temos que enfrentar o vírus e a polícia.

Rodrigo Cerqueira, age 19, was murdered by the military police of Rio de Janeiro (#PMRJ) as our comrades were distributing food through a grassroots mutual aid project in his neighborhood. The same police murdered João Pedro, age 14, in his own home only a few days earlier. Our hearts go out to their friends, their families, and all who knew them—and to everyone who faces the same danger from the police.

In Brazil, where #Covid19 has killed over 21,000 people so far, the police continue to mass murder poor, black, and brown people alongside the pandemic. In Rio, they kill at least one teenager every few weeks. Worldwide, we have to fight both the virus and the police.

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Madonna Visited a Favela in Rio and Played it Like a Fashion Shoot

via Twitter

While attending a wedding in Rio de Janeiro, Madonna decided to visit the Morro da Providência. The Rio favela she visited sees firefights and violence on a daily basis, but she showed up glamorously and left untouched as a virgin.

https://twitter.com/Madonna/status/923278190444982273

People were not happy at how Madonna played off this visit:

https://twitter.com/adowniebrazil/status/…