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src="https://www.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Brazil_CPR_SebastianListe_NYT_credit-e1469718126633.png" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://www.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Brazil_CPR_SebastianListe_NYT_credit-e1469718126633.png 700w, https://www.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Brazil_CPR_SebastianListe_NYT_credit-e1469718126633-300x146.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" data-attachment-id="2191104" data-permalink="https://www.witness.org/2016-brazil-olympics-human-rights/brazil_cpr_sebastianliste_nyt_credit/" data-orig-file="https://www.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Brazil_CPR_SebastianListe_NYT_credit-e1469718126633.png" data-orig-size="700,341" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Brazil_CPR_SebastianListe_NYT_credit" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://www.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Brazil_CPR_SebastianListe_NYT_credit-e1469718126633-300x146.png" data-large-file="https://www.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Brazil_CPR_SebastianListe_NYT_credit-e1469718126633.png" /> </a> </div> <div class="post_text"> <div class="post_description"> <span class="post_infos">  <span class="date">Published Wednesday, July 2016</span> </div> <h2>Against Olympics Abuses, Activists Use Video to Fight Back</h2> <p>In one month, the 2016 Summer Olympics will kick off in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.</p> <p>The news from Brazil has been increasingly bleak with concerns about the fast-spreading Zika virus, a political crisis reaching the highest echelons of the executive branch through the recent preliminary impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, and criticisms about the country’s preparedness to host the international games coming from many angles, including the Rio state governor and mayor themselves. Even the normally celebratory exhibiting of the Olympic torch was marred by the killing of a rare jaguar who had been drugged and trotted out as a mascot.</p> <p>While the media has been quick to highlight these crises, there has been less coverage of the outrage that many Brazilians, advocates, and national and international human rights defenders have expressed about the social injustices that have worsened in the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/05/16/should-brazil-postpone-the-olympics/holding-the-olympics-in-rio-was-always-a-bad-idea">lead-up to the Olympic Games</a>. For example, to make way for new Olympic stadiums and transportation projects, more than 77,000 people have been evicted from their homes. There has also been an <a href="http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/press-releases/surge-in-killings-by-police-sparks-fear-in-favelas-100-days-ahead-of-rio-olympics">alarming rise in police killings and a clampdown on freedom of expression</a> threatens citizens’ right to free assembly and could criminalize protesters’ actions as terrorism.</p> <p>WITNESS has been working with community groups, media activists, and human rights groups in Brazil over the last five years on these issues, strengthening their use of video to not only document abuses, but to use their video as a tool for sparking investigations, for accountability and justice. Our biggest focus has been working with advocates on bringing much-needed attention to systematic police violence in Rio’s favelas, where heavily armed forces operate with near complete impunity under the pretense of fighting entrenched drug trafficking gangs.</p> <p>Through their tireless mobilization and advocacy, Brazilian activists are <a href="https://lab.witness.org/dispatch-from-brazil-if-killed-by-police-guilty-by-default-unless-theres-video/">changing that equation</a>, and video is playing a crucial role in the fight for justice. WITNESS is committed to strengthening these efforts. 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And from August 5-20, we’ll be sharing stories produced by the <a href="http://mutiraorio2016.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400">Mutirão Media Livre</span></a>– a project of independent media makers and activists from across region (some of whom are WITNESS partners) who will be reporting on human rights issues and live streaming coverage of how the Olympics affect Rio’s communities. We’ll be publishing highlights of this coverage <span style="font-weight: 400">on our </span><a href="http://portugues.witness.org"><span style="font-weight: 400">Portuguese-language website,</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> and all of the content will be available on the </span><a href="http://mutiraorio2016.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400">Mutirao Media Livre</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> website. You can also follow us on </span><a href="http://twitter.org/witnessorg"><span style="font-weight: 400">Twitter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> and </span><a href="http://facebook.com/witness"><span style="font-weight: 400">Facebook</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> for updates.</span></p> <div><b>Maximizing the Power of Live Video During the Olympics</b></div> <div>Through our <a href="https://lab.witness.org/"><span class="s2">WITNESS Media Lab</span></a> project we are joining efforts with partners in Rio to collaborate on a real-time curation of the video livestreams that activists will be creating during the Olympics and highlight the abuses expected to take place over the course of the Games. We’ll also be begin preliminary piloting for the <a href="https://blog.witness.org/2015/10/mobil-eyes-us-using-live-video-and-the-power-of-networks-for-smart-activism/"><span class="s2">Mobil-Eyes Us</span></a> work in collaboration with local allies, seeking to find more effective ways of integrating remote viewers into activism on the ground. Stay tuned for more opportunities to participate in this pilot!</div> <h3></h3> <h3><strong>WITNESS in Brazil</strong></h3> <h3>Police Violence<strong> </strong></h3> <p><b>Watch:<br /> </b>After the massive street protests that erupted across Brazil in 2013, video proved to be a vital tool for exposing widespread police violence. In 2014, WITNESS edited a video-compilation of footage shot by citizens and activists to be screened at a special hearing on police violence at the Inter-American Commission. Read the <a href="https://blog.witness.org/2014/03/iachr-hearing-brazil-police-violence/">related article here</a>.</p> <span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe class="youtube-player" width="640" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BOPJVbksd9g?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span> <p>WITNESS teamed up with media collective Coletivo Papo Reto for the first time in late 2014 to support their efforts to use video to document, deter, and combat police violence in the Alemão Favela Complex in Rio. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjKKly1Q2Vw">WITNESS & Coletivo Papo Reto</a></p> <p>The Fusion network <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd5kEO4SG5Q">featured Coletivo Papo Reto’s work</a> in a report by Tim Pool</p> <p><b>Read:<br /> </b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/magazine/the-media-doesnt-care-what-happens-here.html?_r=0">“The Media Doesn’t Care What Happens Here”</a> a feature article in <i>The New York Times Magazine</i> on the work of Coletivo Papo Reto and WITNESS</p> <p><a href="https://lab.witness.org/dispatch-from-brazil-if-killed-by-police-guilty-by-default-unless-theres-video/">Dispatch from Brazil: If killed by police, guilty by default… unless there is video?</a></p> <p><a href="https://blog.witness.org/2015/12/video-as-evidence-in-brazil/">Video as Evidence in Brazil</a> – a report by Article 19 and WITNESS highlights the potential of video to secure justice but notes that the full potential has yet to be realized.</p> <h3>Forced evictions</h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">Rio’s residents have been threatened with and seen forced evictions carried out over the last five+ years leading up to the World Cup (2014) and the Summer Olympics (2016). The evictions are due to construction and infrastructure projects for the major sporting events. As one Rio resident put it, </span><span style="font-weight: 400">“I was excited when Brazil won the bid, now feel like a fool because I’m paying for it. Is this the World Cup and Olympic spirit?”</span></p> <p><b>Watch:<br /> </b><span style="font-weight: 400">WITNESS in Rio: Training Activists to Use Video to Fight Forced Evictions</span><span style="font-weight: 400">: </span></p> <span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="640" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xKMdDEvta_4?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span> <p><a href="https://youtu.be/ruIM8fpyySU"><span style="font-weight: 400">Evict Them! In Five Easy Steps</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> – and our </span><a href="https://library.witness.org/product/forced-evictions-advocacy-toolkit/"><span style="font-weight: 400">Forced Evictions Toolkit Advocacy</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> (</span><a href="http://blog.witness.org/2014/04/dvd-de-ferramentas-fortalecendo-resistencia-contra-remocoes-forcadas/"><span style="font-weight: 400">available in Portuguese</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">)</span></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3WEwzmYrJE&list=PLDC3BF8570B867CB4&index=17"><span style="font-weight: 400">Voices of the Mission – Restinga</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> from a 3-day fact-finding mission to many communities threatened by eviction in Rio, including the Restinga community. The mission was </span><span style="font-weight: 400">led by Plataforma Dhesca’s Rapporteur on the Human Right to the City, Orlando Silva Jr, and with the participation of 12 additional organizations, including WITNESS. </span></p> <p><b>Read:<br /> </b><a href="http://blog.witness.org/2013/06/one-year-countdown-to-2014-world-cup/"><span style="font-weight: 400">Support for People’s Cup in 2013</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> Looking at activism gaining momentum one year before the 2014 World Cup held across Brazil. </span></p> <p><a href="https://blog.witness.org/2013/10/can-114-videos-tell-one-story-about-forced-evictions-in-rio/"><span style="font-weight: 400">Can 114 Videos Tell One Story About Forced Evictions?</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> An innovative, collaborative project that successfully refuted Rio’s mayor’s assertion that forced evictions were isolated incidents by using video to prove the systematic nature of these patterns across the city. </span></p> <h3><strong>Keep up with coverage of Olympics from grassroots communities by following these voices:</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">Rio on Watch </span><a href="http://www.rioonwatch.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400">h</span><span style="font-weight: 400">ttp://www.rioonwatch.org/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> @rioonwatch</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">Coletivo Papo Reto </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ColetivoPapoReto/"><span style="font-weight: 400">https://www.facebook.com/ColetivoPapoReto/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> @CPapo_Reto</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">Maré Vive: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Marevive/?fref=ts"><span style="font-weight: 400">https://www.facebook.com/Marevive/?fref=ts</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">Fórum de Juventudes do Rio de Janeiro: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/forumdejuventuderj/?fref=ts"><span style="font-weight: 400">https://www.facebook.com/forumdejuventuderj/?fref=ts</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">Anistia Brasil </span><a href="https://anistia.org.br/"><span style="font-weight: 400">https://anistia.org.br/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> @AnistiaBrasil</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">Artigo 19 </span><a href="http://artigo19.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400">http://artigo19.org/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> @Artigo19</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">Mutirão Mídia Livre: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/MutiraoRio2016/?fref=ts"><span style="font-weight: 400">https://www.facebook.com/MutiraoRio2016/?fref=ts</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">Mídia Coletiva: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/midiacoletiva/?fref=ts"><span style="font-weight: 400">https://www.facebook.com/midiacoletiva/?fref=ts</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">Justiça Global: </span><a 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