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    <description>The Latest Mercy Corps Hurricane Katrina Content</description>
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	<title>A Legacy of Empowerment</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/hurricanekatrina/2285/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Almost three years after beginning an emergency response to Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, Mercy Corps is closing its New Orleans field office. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:44:59 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Video: Deconstruction Documentary</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/hurricanekatrina/1921/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[This brief video documentary, which discusses and demonstrates deconstruction, was filmed during Mercy Corps' Flight of Friendship to New Orleans in April 2007.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:30:57 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Play Locally, Impact Globally</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/getinvolved/communityfundraising/1846/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Using art to affect social change is an age-old concept, but one that jazz pianist Darrell Grant firmly believes in. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:46:46 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Two Years Later, Still Working for Recovery</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/unitedstates/1805/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Two years after Katrina, the challenges are still staggering. But Mercy Corps is still there, working alongside the people who are committed to bringing their city back.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Building By Dismantling</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/unitedstates/1794/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Rick Denhart, Mercy Corps New Orleans-based Director of Gulf Coast Hurricane Recovery, has been in construction - and deconstruction - all his life.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:42:13 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Program Details: Gulf Coast Recovery</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/hurricanekatrina/1028/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[In New Orleans, Mercy Corps promotes deconstruction and reuse, supports neighborhood revitalization and seeds and supports small-scale economic development.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:03:15 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Using Film to 'Weather the Storm'</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/hurricanekatrina/1708/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Giving New Orleans middle schoolers video cameras produced an enlightening, 26-minute documentary on how Hurricane Katrina changed their lives.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:26:41 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Flight of Friendship to New Orleans</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/hurricanekatrina/1702/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[The CEO of Portland's Urban League chronicles his experiences in April's &quot;Flight of Friendship.&quot;]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:04:55 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>New Orleans Is Us</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/hurricanekatrina/1710/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[The author finds that one &quot;last, unheralded, unpublicized, hardly planned and barely organized event&quot; embodied the entire trip.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:28:31 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>'Ain't Nothing But a Movie'</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/hurricanekatrina/1704/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[ To some New Orleanians, it's as if they are living through someone else's life, and not their own.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:43:27 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Getting Grounded</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/hurricanekatrina/1703/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Right now, the Big Easy is anything but.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:38:39 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Books for Broadmoor</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/hurricanekatrina/1712/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Powell's Books, Mercy Corps and the Flight of Friendship are helping rebuild the book collection at the Katrina-damaged Rosa Keller Library in New Orleans.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:27:37 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>A Night in a FEMA Trailer</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/hurricanekatrina/1694/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Marcus Mundy, in New Orleans for the Flight of Friendship, spends the night in his cousin's FEMA trailer.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 08:24:44 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Truth and Understanding</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/unitedstates/1682/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Marcus C. Mundy, President and CEO of the Urban League of Portland, traveled to New Orleans for the Mercy Corps-sponsored &quot;Flight of Friendship.&quot;]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:17:39 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Portlanders Plan Flight of Friendship to New Orleans</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/hurricanekatrina/1627/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Oregon leaders are taking an April &quot;Flight of Friendship&quot; to hurricane-battered New Orleans.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:13:40 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>Fables of the Deconstruction</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/hurricanekatrina/1629/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Deconstruction is an economically viable alternative to demolition in New Orleans.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:50:32 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>Connecting and Protecting Neighbors</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/unitedstates/1462/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Loyed Lonzo is a man who knows things.  And in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, information is a crucial commodity.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:17:38 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Haircut and Empowerment, Fifteen Dollars</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/hurricanekatrina/1446/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Doug Haywood is more than a barber - his shop is a rallying point for New Orleanians.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:45:23 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>One Year Later: Restoring Community</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/civilsociety/1438/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[In the year since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, Mercy Corps has helped 250,000 people begin to recover and rebuild.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:05:25 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Rhythmic Roots @ Congo Square: Drumming the Blues Away</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/unitedstates/1425/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Rhythmic Roots @ Congo Square will be an all-star culmination of the Mercy Corps-sponsored summer series of Rhythmic Roots Drum Circles on Sunday, August 27, 2006.  ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:24:20 -0700</pubDate>
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