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Young Americans
By GLYN VINCENT ON SUNDAYS, at a baseball field in Amagansett in the late 1980s, Oswaldo Palomo bided his time on the bench waiting for a...

OLA of Eastern Long Island
Dec 2, 201613 min read


Latino Film Festival Brings East End Culture Together
By Anisah Abdullah and Eric Schmid The Organización Latino-Americano (OLA) of Eastern Long Island hosted its 13th Annual Latino Film...

OLA of Eastern Long Island
Nov 15, 20162 min read


13th Annual OLA Latino Film Festival Comes To Parrish And Guild Hall
By Nancy Kane The OLA Latino Film Festival turns up the heat in its 13th year of providing cultural diversity awareness through films on...

OLA of Eastern Long Island
Nov 7, 20165 min read


OLA of Eastern LI Presents 13th Annual Latino Film Festival
The Organización Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island (OLA) will be screen independent Spanish language films with English subtitles...

OLA of Eastern Long Island
Nov 1, 20162 min read


East Hampton Town Hall To Host Discussion On Tenants' Rights
By Jon Winkler Town officials will hold a community meeting later this month on tenants rights and civil and criminal issues in the...

OLA of Eastern Long Island
Oct 31, 20162 min read


Southampton police work to improve relations with Latinos
By Jean-Paul Salamanca Southampton Town Police and an East End nonprofit are teaming up to resurrect a program to help promote...

OLA of Eastern Long Island
Oct 5, 20162 min read


Latino Community Encouraged To Participate In Revamped Police Program
By Jen Newman The Southampton Town Police Department will bring back its Civilian Police Academy training program next year—and a local...

OLA of Eastern Long Island
Oct 3, 20162 min read


A Push to Get Out the Immigrant Vote
With grant to help, OLA aims to register new citizens Once an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, Lucia Martinez of East Hampton will...

OLA of Eastern Long Island
Aug 24, 20164 min read


Local Residents Return From Delegation Trip With New Views On Immigration
By Jon Winkler and Kelly Zegers This past July—as the issue of immigration has been at the forefront of America’s national discussion—a...

OLA of Eastern Long Island
Aug 8, 20166 min read


Springs School Board Continues To Face Community Concerns Over Latino Outreach
By Jon Winkler A vote to form a Latino Parents Committee that some expected at Tuesday night’s Springs School Board of Education meeting...

OLA of Eastern Long Island
Jul 5, 20162 min read


Premiando a las Latinas de éxito en Long Island
El 19 de mayo la revista Long Island Latino – Magazine & TV y Empowering Women TV & Radio, llevaron a cabo la 2da. edición anual de los...

OLA of Eastern Long Island
May 25, 20161 min read


OLA to Assist NYS Attorney General’s Office in Presenting Wage Theft & Workers Rights Workshops
OLA of Eastern Long Island was contacted by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office to assist with a series of presentations and...

OLA of Eastern Long Island
May 15, 20161 min read


OLA Looks To Bridge Gap Between Springs School District And Latino Community
By Jaime Zahl Approximately 80 parents, students and community members packed into the Springs School Commons Room on Monday night for...

OLA of Eastern Long Island
Apr 11, 20163 min read


OLA Tackles Domestic Violence With 'Soy Maria' At Guild Hall Saturday
By Jaime Zahl Organización Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island, popularly known as OLA, is kicking off its 2016 season of events with...

OLA of Eastern Long Island
Mar 27, 20163 min read


Voice for Latinos in Long Island Reaches Across Cultural Divide
By EMILY J. WEITZ It would be impossible to try to find one voice for the estimated 25,000 Latinos on Long Island’s East End. Some are...

OLA of Eastern Long Island
Feb 25, 20164 min read


Organizations Strive to Give Latinos a Voice on East End
By Stephen J. Kotz A month after being named the executive director of the Organizacion Latino-Americana, or OLA, the East End Latino...

OLA of Eastern Long Island
Feb 19, 20163 min read


Spanish-speaking communities on the East End need more representation, says new director of OLA
By Katie Blasl Though the East End’s Latino population has grown explosively over the past decade, you wouldn’t know it by looking at the...

OLA of Eastern Long Island
Feb 9, 20163 min read


OLA Hires First Paid Executive Director
By Alisha Steindecker Minerva Perez, a familiar face at the Organizacion Latino-Americana, is ready to get down to business as the...

OLA of Eastern Long Island
Feb 8, 20162 min read


OLA Film Festival Returns to Parrish
By Hamptons Art Hub Staff The OLA Film Festival returns to the Hamptons to present three films over three days at the Parrish Art Museum....

OLA of Eastern Long Island
Sep 11, 20133 min read
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