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		<title>Dr. Dharma Cortés on Health Care Reform and Latinos</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lessons from Massachusetts's Health Care Reform in 2006 - and its impact on the Latino population.]]></description>
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		<title>Heavy Rain Floods Rio and adjacent Municipalities; more than 230 are feared dead.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 04:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A record-setting flood, which has affected the entire metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro over the past week, has left more than 200 dead - and hundreds more injured and/or homeless.]]></description>
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		<title>A first-hand Account of the Tragedy in Haiti by UN Employee Mariana Nissen.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United Nations lost its headquarters and between 150-200 employees perished inside the building. The country’s infrastructure was seriously hit, including the collapsing of several governments’ buildings and the deaths of ministers, government staff and future candidates.]]></description>
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		<title>A Talk About “Brazil Without Homophobia” with Felipe Fernandes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Felipe Fernandes discusses Brazil's unprecedented fight against homophobia, the "Brazil Without Homophobia" campaign. ]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast Interview with Anna Marcondes, Community Leader at Morro dos Macacos</title>
		<link>http://BrazilNYC.com/2009/10/community-leaders-series-1/</link>
		<comments>http://BrazilNYC.com/2009/10/community-leaders-series-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting a series of exclusive interviews with community leaders living in Rio de Janeiro, BrazilNYC is pleased to feature this exclusive conversation between Dona Anna Marcondes Faria, a community leader at the Morro dos Macacos (i.e. Hill of the Monkeys, in English) neighborhood, in Vila Isabel, Rio de Janeiro, and Melanie Edwards, the founder of Mobile Metrix]]></description>
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		<title>Gentrification and the Olympic Games in Rio (2016)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While thousands of cheerful Brazilians gathered at the famous Copacabana beach to celebrate the historical selection of Rio de Janeiro as the city to host the 2016 Olympic Games, many in Chicago, Illinois, were relieved to be the losers.]]></description>
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		<title>Luise Kipler Talks About the Census 2010.</title>
		<link>http://BrazilNYC.com/2009/10/luise-kipler-talks-about-the-census-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ February 13, 2010; 11:00 AM; ] Census Partnership Specialist Luise Pedroso Kipler held an event this past Saturday, February 13, 2010, at the Barril Grill bar in Astoria, to promote the upcoming 2010 Census to the Brazilian community in New York City. ]]></description>
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		<title>Teresa Gutiérrez Speaks About Immigration Reform</title>
		<link>http://BrazilNYC.com/2009/04/may-day-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ May 1, 2009; 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM. ] The podcast Brazilian Talk features an interview with Teresa Gutiérrez, a leading figure in the immigrant rights movement. ]]></description>
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		<title>Party and Democracy in Brazil: A Talk with Frances Hagopian</title>
		<link>http://BrazilNYC.com/2009/01/democracy-in-brazil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ February 19, 2009; 4:00 PM; 4:00 PM; ] Brazilian parties have long been believed to be among the weakest in Latin America, hobbled by shallow roots in the electorate, high rates of electoral volatility, and unfaithful politicians. Yet, contrary to the conventional wisdom, party-oriented legislators have emerged and party discipline has been on the rise since the early 1990s.]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating the International Migrant Day (12/18) and the battle for immigrant rights in 2009</title>
		<link>http://BrazilNYC.com/2008/12/celebrating-the-international-migrant-day-1218-and-the-battle-for-immigrant-rights-in-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dale Elizabeth Merriman on the International Migrant's Day, celebrated today (12/18/08), and what to expect from an Obama administration - as far as immigration rights and reform.  ]]></description>
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