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		<title>Teresa Gutiérrez Speaks About Immigration Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 05:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The podcast Brazilian Talk features an interview with Teresa Gutiérrez, a leading figure in the immigrant rights movement. ]]></description>
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		<title>Brazilians elect Worker&#8217;s Party candidate, Dilma Rousseff, as their new President</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 03:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Breaking new grounds, Dilma Rousseff is the first woman to be elected as President of Latin America's largest nation.]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Anna Marcondes, a Leader at Morro dos Macacos in Rio de Janeiro.</title>
		<link>http://BrazilNYC.com/2010/12/community-leaders-series-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 07:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BrazilNYC is pleased to feature this exclusive conversation with Dona Anna Marcondes Faria, a community leader at the Morro dos Macacos, one of the largest favelas in Rio de Janeiro.]]></description>
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		<title>A first-hand Account of the Tragedy in Haiti by UN Employee Mariana Nissen.</title>
		<link>http://BrazilNYC.com/2010/09/a-first-hand-account-of-the-tragedy-in-haiti-by-un-employee-mariana-nissen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 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>Heavy Rain Floods Rio and adjacent Municipalities; more than 230 are feared dead.</title>
		<link>http://BrazilNYC.com/2010/04/heavy-rain-floods-rio-and-adjacent-municipalities-more-than-230-are-feared-dead/</link>
		<comments>http://BrazilNYC.com/2010/04/heavy-rain-floods-rio-and-adjacent-municipalities-more-than-230-are-feared-dead/#comments</comments>
		<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>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[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>Celebrating the International Migrant Day (12/18) and the battle for immigrant rights in 2009</title>
		<link>http://BrazilNYC.com/2009/04/celebrating-the-international-migrant-day-1218-and-the-battle-for-immigrant-rights-in-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 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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		<title>Party and Democracy in Brazil: A Talk with Frances Hagopian</title>
		<link>http://BrazilNYC.com/2009/01/democracy-in-brazil/</link>
		<comments>http://BrazilNYC.com/2009/01/democracy-in-brazil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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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