Emile Schepers

Emile Schepers is a veteran civil and immigrant rights activist. Emile Schepers was born in South Africa and has a doctorate in cultural anthropology from Northwestern University. He has worked as a researcher and activist in urban, working-class communities in Chicago since 1966. He is active in the struggle for immigrant rights, in solidarity with the Cuban Revolution and a number of other issues. He now writes from Northern Virginia.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers

Opinion

There is a migrant crisis, but where and why?
March 31, 2021 By Emile Schepers
Exploitative policies of the U.S., beginning with the infamous Monroe Doctrine, resulted in the unlivable conditions in many of the countries from which immigrants come to the U.S.
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News

Chicago joins list of U.S. cities denouncing Cuba blockade
March 9, 2021 By Emile Schepers
For 60 years, the United States has done everything within its power to destroy socialist Cuba. More U.S. cities are disagreeing with their government's campaign.
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Politics

Virginia: Campaign to repeal ‘Right to Work’ law
January 19, 2021 By Emile Schepers
For the third consecutive year, labor and allies in Virginia are preparing for a fight to remove the state’s “Right to Work” law from the statute books.
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U.S.

Elections past and elections yet to come in Virginia
November 30, 2020 By Emile Schepers
Biden carried the urban and suburban areas in Virginia with Trump prevailing in the rural areas.
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Politics

Arab-American voters could make the difference in stopping Trump in Michigan
October 2, 2020 By Emile Schepers
In the fight to defeat Trump in Michigan, Arab-American voters could provide the margin of victory.
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U.S.

Fears of a ‘police coup’ against Black elected officials in Portsmouth, Virginia
August 31, 2020 By Emile Schepers
Strange things have been going on...there is even talk of a “police coup d’état” to remove Black elected officials from office, and thus thwart efforts at criminal justice reform in the state legislature.
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World

Trump deportation frenzy threatens the lives of thousands
May 19, 2020 By Emile Schepers
Along with all the workers being ejected from the U.S., the Trump administration is also deporting cases of COVID-19 into other countries.
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U.S.

Lots of legislative work to do yet for workers in Virginia
March 10, 2020 By Emile Schepers
On Sunday March 8, the first 2020 session of the Virginia General Assembly (state legislature) wound up, leaving only some budgetary matters for action this week.
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