Emile Schepers
LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers
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World
UN water vote seen as triumph for Bolivia’s Morales
August 12, 2010Bolivia's president won praise July 28 when the UN General Assembly approved a groundbreaking Bolivian resolution on the right of all human beings to water and sanitation.
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Opinion
How establishment media fans anti-immigrant flames
August 10, 2010The anti-immigrant stridency of people like Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck sometimes leads us to ignore the somewhat more subtle bigotry from more "respectable" media, like the Washington Post.
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Peace
Changeover in Colombia brings hope for peace
August 10, 2010Statements by Colombia's new president, Juan Manuel Santos, open a slender possibility for peace in a country which has been racked by civil war for over 50 years.
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Opinion
GOP goes after kids and Constitution
August 4, 2010A key amendment to the U.S. Constitution is in the cross hairs of a frightening Republican campaign.
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Opinion
Undocumented immigration: paying the price of NAFTA
August 2, 2010It is unconscionable to blame and persecute Mexican and other immigrants who are forced to migrate because of trade policies that our own government has so forcefully promoted.
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World
Brazil approves racial equality law, but “much yet to do”
July 30, 2010Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva signed the "Statute of Racial Equality."
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U.S.
In wake of judge’s ruling, immigrant rights protests continue
July 29, 2010Though the ruling was widely hailed as a victory by the immigrants' rights movement, protests and lobbying continue toward the goal of a comprehensive immigration reform.
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World
Mexican electrical workers continue hunger strike
July 22, 2010A long running hunger strike by laid-off electrical workers in Mexico City has reached a point of high drama.
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