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This text is the transcription of the speech given by the author as recipient of the Walter J. Ong Award for Outstanding Career Achievement in the field of Media Ecology, at the 22nd Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association. PUC-Rio, July 8-11, 2021. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the account of the struggle of the Vila Autódromo community - located in the Barra da Tijuca neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - in their opposition to the City Hall's policy to remove the slums in the context of the 2016 Olympic Games. The grass-roots organization of the community culminated in the construction of the Evictions Museum in 2016, established to fight for the right to housing and for the preservation and communication of the community's memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]