Emile Schepers

Emile Schepers is a veteran civil and immigrant rights activist. Born in South Africa, he has a doctorate in cultural anthropology from Northwestern University. He is active in the struggle for immigrant rights, in solidarity with the Cuban Revolution, and a number of other issues. He writes from Northern Virginia.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers

World

President Chavez of Venezuela to Cuba for cancer treatment
December 11, 2012 By Emile Schepers
For the fourth time in a year and a half, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez left for Cuba on Sunday for cancer treatment.
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World

UN vote on Palestine shakes things up
December 6, 2012 By Emile Schepers
Last week's vote in the UN's General Assembly, which afforded "nonmember observer state" status to Palestine, and the Israeli government's response, has created controversy.
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World

UN General Assembly votes to give Palestine enhanced status
November 30, 2012 By Emile Schepers
This upgrades Palestine's status from mere "observer" and, without making it a full voting member of the U.N., explicitly recognizes it as a state.
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World

Huge Argentina human rights trial begins
November 29, 2012 By Emile Schepers
On Wednesday, the trial of no less than 68 former military and civilian officials of the 1976-1983 Argentine military dictatorship began in Buenos Aires.
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World

World condemns U.S. Cuba policy once again
November 15, 2012 By Emile Schepers
On Tuesday, the United Nations General Assembly voted, for the twenty-second consecutive time, to condemn the United States' economic blockade against Cuba.
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U.S.

Elections in the new Virginia
November 7, 2012 By Emile Schepers
On November 6, voters in the key battleground state of Virginia formed extremely long lines and in some cases waited for hours to vote.
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U.S.

Arrest in Virginia exposes the real voter fraud
October 29, 2012 By Emile Schepers
The arrest in Virginia last week of a young Republican operative reveals a possible large scale GOP voter fraud scheme.
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World

Romney’s hedge fund pals hoping to shape foreign policy
October 26, 2012 By Emile Schepers
The seizure in the Ghanaian port of Tema of an Argentine ship may serve as a warning of Mitt Romney's entanglement with sleazy "vulture fund capitalists."
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