Emile Schepers
LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers
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In Mexico, world loses giants for justice
February 1, 2011Two heavy blows in one week and a day! First, journalist, poet, commentator, lifelong post-beat Beatnik and activist for hopeless causes Johnny Ross, 72, died of liver cancer on the shores of Lake Patzcuaro in western...
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National outrage: Akron mother jailed for putting kids in suburban school
January 28, 2011The case of Kelley Williams-Bolar, an African American resident of Akron, Ohio, highlights the ongoing problems of racism and segregation in our country.
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Human rights group urges action on parole for Oscar Lopez
January 28, 2011Only days remain for the public to ask for the United States Parole Commission to grant parole to a Puerto Rican independence activist who has now spent 29 years in a federal penitentiary in Florence, Colo.
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State election may determine future of Mexican left
January 26, 2011On July 3, voters in the central State of Mexico, in Mexico, will elect a new governor. More is at stake than one governorship out of 31 in this country of 108 million people. The future...
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Dictator “Baby Doc” Duvalier’s strange return to Haiti
January 20, 2011The return of former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier to Haiti has further unsettled an already chaotic situation.
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Trial of Posada Carriles starts in Texas
January 18, 2011On Monday January 10, the trial of Luis Posada Carriles began in the federal courthouse in El Paso, Texas. Posada is seen in most of Latin America as a terrorist, responsible for many deaths. Yet he...
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Battle looms on immigration and citizenship
January 10, 2011The Republican ultra right is launching a multi-pronged attack on immigrants and their families.
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Student strike in Puerto Rico met with repression
January 10, 2011College students in Puerto Rico are on strike against the neoliberal education policies implenmented by the country's conservative and right-wing governor.
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