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CODA APPLAUDS THE APPOINTMENT OF CAMELIA M. VALDES AS PASSAIC COUNTY PROSECUTOR

Paterson, NJ — June 26, 2009 — The Conference on Dominican Affairs (CODA) applauds the appointment of Camelia M. Valdez as Passaic County Prosecutor.
Valdes, an assistant federal prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Newark, will become the first Latina to hold the office of county prosecutor:
“Today is a historic day for the state’s Dominican community and all Latinos of Passaic County as we see Camelia Valdes occupy her position. The state of New Jersey is one of the most diverse, and the combined talents of its citizens make it …

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DANR LAUNCHES “UNO MAS UNO” NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO MAKE DOMINICANS COUNT IN THE USA

Community Leaders Met at Bronx St. Nicholas Tolentine Church
The Dominican American National Roundtable -DANR- announced the launching of the national awareness campaign “Uno Más Uno”(One Plus One) with the first Town Hall meeting at the Bronx St. Nicholas Tolentine Church, at 2345 University Avenue.

Some participants of the town hall Meeting denoting with their index fingers extended the theme of the DANR’s national awareness campaign Uno Más Uno/One Plus One (Photo by Eduardo Hoepelman).

The “Uno más Uno” campaign is a DANR broad public effort in the U.S. and Puerto Rico to …

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Glendale advertising agency BVK was selected to create a marketing campaign for the Dominican Republic Ministry of Tourism.
BVK said Friday it will create what it calls a strategic destination marketing campaign for the Puerto Plata region on the North Coast of the Dominican Republic.

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9th Annual New Jersey Conference on Dominican Affairs

Sunday, February 8, 2009
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
RUTGERS SCHOOL OF LAW
123 WASHINGTON ST.
NEWARK , NJ  07102
TO REGISTER CALL 973-345-3624 or email: elinstitutolatino@gmail.com<mailto:elinstitutolatino@gmail.com> 
or visit the Institute for Latino Studies www.thelatinoinstitute.org
Premiere of the documentary, Los Panfleteros de Santiago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5xikENlquA

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LOS PANFLETEROS DE SANTIAGO: HEROES Y MARTIRES

SYNOPSIS
Santiago’s Pamphleteers: Heroes and Martyrs is an original 50-minute English subtitled film documentary about the untold story of a group of thirty-two young Dominican heroes who courageously stood poised to confront the bloody regime of General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, a ruthless dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic with iron fist from 1930 to 1961. Led by a twenty-year old valiant young man, the group relied on secretly homemade pamphlets to denounce Trujillo’s oppressive regime and to raise awareness among the people of Santiago, the second largest metropolis in the country. …