Emile Schepers
LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers
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Amid Haiti election dispute, ex-President Aristide under house arrest
September 19, 2014There is a great degree of suspiciousness about how announced legislative elections for October 26 will be carried out.
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Cuban 5 labor event draws standing room only crowd
September 17, 2014The growing interest in international solidarity by organized labor in the U.S. was on full display Sept. 13, at the national headquarters of the SEIU.
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Argentina, UN approve a radical move on the “vulture capitalists”
September 17, 2014The actions came as a sequel to a long running controversy over the efforts of U.S. hedge funds to make a large profit at the expense of the Argentine people.
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President’s delay on immigration action allows crisis to deepen
September 9, 2014Despite his anger, U.S. Rep Luis Gutiérrez (D, Il.) said people should not allow their disgust regarding inaction on immigration reform to keep them from voting in November.
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Activists eye anniversary of the arrest of the Cuban Five
September 8, 2014Organizations and activists who have been fighting for freedom for the Cuban Five will descend on Washington D.C. during the week starting Sept. 11, for a series of political actions.
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Ukraine crisis the focus of NATO summit this week
September 3, 2014A combination of regular Ukrainian military supplemented by private militias organized by right wing political groups had been bombarding the cities of Luhansk and Donetsk.
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Rights groups sue feds over immigrant families
August 25, 2014"What we are seeing in Artesia is nothing less than a sham process that values expediency over justice".
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Ebola epidemic and African underdevelopment
August 22, 2014These are countries of fabulous wealth, whose people live in grinding poverty, the pattern for most of sub-Saharan Africa.
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