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27East
Jun 9, 20243 min read
OLA Secures Place in NYS Budget for $50,000,
For the first time in its 22-year history, OLA of Eastern Long Island has secured a place in the New York State budget, ensuring the...
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27East
Apr 18, 20241 min read
Welker Honors Perez for Work With OLA
At the April 9 meeting of the Suffolk County Legislature, all 18 legislators celebrated their respective nominees honoring Champions of...
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Michelle Trauring
Apr 2, 20243 min read
OLA and Whitmores Partner To Offer Free Financial Literacy Pilot Program for Workforce
When Mariah Whitmore reads the marketing materials from her 401K provider, her eyes glaze over. And so, when the partner at Whitmores —...
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27East
Mar 24, 20242 min read
OLA’s Pachanga 2024 Features All-Women Performers
OLA of Eastern Long Island (Organización Latino Americana) is changing up its annual Pachanga this year by featuring Lulada Club, a...
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27East
Mar 17, 20242 min read
Financial Literacy Series Continues for East End Workforce
The two remaining financial literacy workshops organized through a partnership between OLA (Organización Latino Americana) of Eastern...
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Cailin Riley
Mar 6, 20244 min read
League of Women Voters Event on Saturday Will Shine Spotlight on Equal Rights Amendment, Which Will Be on the State Ballot in November
To say there is a lot at stake for voters across the country this November would be an understatement. While a high-stakes presidential...
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27East
Mar 4, 20243 min read
OLA Youth Connect Gets Program Director
Staff Writer on Mar 4, 2024 OLA of Eastern Long Island (Organización Latino Americana) has announced it has hired Anastasia Gochnour as...
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James Lane Post
Feb 11, 20243 min read
OLA Of Eastern Long Island Joins Organizations At Governor Kathy Hochul’s Latino Roundtable
OLA’s Executive Director Minerva Perez with Governor Kathy Hochul. Courtesy Office of the Governor OLA of Eastern Long Island’s Executive...
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Matthew Chayes
Feb 5, 20247 min read
Long Island's foreign migrants taking low-wage jobs to survive — most off the books
Women migrants on Long Island are finding employment in cleaning, babysitting, washing hair at beauty parlors, doing nails at salons...
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OLA of Eastern Long Island
Jan 30, 20242 min read
OLA Counsel To Receive Award From Bar Association
Staff Writer on Jan 30, 2024 Wanda Sánchez Day, general counsel and senior policy counsel of OLA of Eastern Long Island, will be honored...
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Christine Sampson
Dec 7, 20232 min read
OLA: Wage Theft Is Rising
“Trust is a key factor” in the efforts to help victims of wage theft, said Erika Padilla, a legal advocate employed by OLA. “A steep rise...
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Juliana Holguin
Dec 5, 20233 min read
Latino advocacy group reports uptick in wage theft on Long Island's East End
Published December 5, 2023 at 11:11 AM EST OLA (Organización Latino Americana) of Eastern Long Island reported that the number of wage...
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Michelle Trauring
Nov 29, 20235 min read
Youth Connect Marks One Year of Helping Teens, Sees ‘Exponential’ Growth
Michelle Trauring Across the East End, some teens are living silent stories. In their world, they are stressed about grades, a breakup, a...
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27East
Oct 29, 20232 min read
OLA Announces New Initiative and New Hires
OLA of Eastern Long Island has announced the hiring of Lucía Damerau as director of Immigration Legal Services, Wanda Sánchez Day as...
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Alek Lewis
Aug 15, 20238 min read
‘The culture that we are in needs to be reversed:’ Immigrant advocates renew calls for Riverhead supervisor to rescind her emergency order
“You don’t want to be associated in the Christmas Story with the innkeeper who boxed out the Holy Family and forced them to have the...
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Olivia Winslow
Aug 10, 20236 min read
U.S. Citizenship Test
Proposed changes to assess English-language skills worry some who have passed By Olivia Winslow Andrés Espinosa's hopes and dreams were...
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Andres Espinosa
Jul 25, 20235 min read
OLA Hires Two Lawyers Who Will Help Bolster Mission of Organization
By Cailin Riley on July 19, 2023 For more than 20 years, OLA — the Latino-focused advocacy nonprofit that serves eastern Long Island —...
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Denise Civiletti
Jun 21, 20234 min read
East End Latino advocacy group hires civil rights and immigration attorneys to provide policy counsel and free immigration services
Wanda Sánchez Day, left, and Lucía Damerau, attorneys hired by OLA of Eastern Long Island. Courtesy photos: OLA OLA of Eastern Long...
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OLA of Eastern Long Island
Jun 6, 20232 min read
From Small Beginnings
Southampton Press Editorial Often, great things come from modest beginnings. What started out 20 years ago as a small advisory board to...
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OLA of Eastern Long Island
Jun 2, 20233 min read
Effort to block migrants draws protest, no vote at Suffolk legislature
By Vera Chinese and Michael Gormley Immigration advocates gathered outside the Suffolk County Legislature Tuesday speaking out against...
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