PH hosts 4th assembly of global movement for social change
By MARVYN N. BENANING
July 7, 2011
Manila Bulletin
MANILA, Philippines — Representatives from 40 countries converged at the Ciudad Christia Resort in San Mateo, Rizal, Thursday morning for the 4th assembly of the International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) to chart a common blueprint for genuine social change and liberation.
Organizers said delegates to the assembly head earlier signaled the start of the meet by raising the "annapurna" or Nepalese prayer flags at the Peace Bell Area of the Quezon Memorial Circle (QMC) in Quezon City on Wednesday morning to represent the 18 demands of the ILPS.
The "annapurna" is usually raised by mountaineers before trekking towards the summit of Mt. Everest.
From 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Thursday, the delegates heard reports about the accomplishments of the ILPS in the last 10 years, with Chairman Jose Maria Sison addressing the delegates about the global situation and the need to craft a strategic global campaign to advance the interest of the peoples in 40 member-countries, from Belgium, Finland, Germany, the former Soviet republics, Greece, Spain, Italy to Palestine, the Middle Eastern nations, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and a number of countries in Latin America.
Friday, participants will continue to tackle the situations in their homelands and situate the same in the context of the global economic and political crisis, highlighted by the resurgence of democratic and nationalist upheavals even in member-nations of the European Union (EU) saddled by huge debt problems.
Saturday, the members of the International Coordinating Group (ICG) of the ILPS will meet the press at 12:30 p.m. at the Serye Cafè Filipino at the QMC to discuss how the league hopes to broaden the international united front to advance the social, economic and political interest of various peoples, particularly in the light of the debt crisis, the intensification of pocket wars worldwide and the worsening poverty and hunger, particularly in developing nations.
ICG members are expected to share their insights into the impact of globalization, the mass migration of labor and the continuing adverse effects of environmental abuse, particularly by profit-seeking transnational corporations nurtured by multilateral financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB.)
Organizers said delegates to the assembly head earlier signaled the start of the meet by raising the "annapurna" or Nepalese prayer flags at the Peace Bell Area of the Quezon Memorial Circle (QMC) in Quezon City on Wednesday morning to represent the 18 demands of the ILPS.
The "annapurna" is usually raised by mountaineers before trekking towards the summit of Mt. Everest.
From 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Thursday, the delegates heard reports about the accomplishments of the ILPS in the last 10 years, with Chairman Jose Maria Sison addressing the delegates about the global situation and the need to craft a strategic global campaign to advance the interest of the peoples in 40 member-countries, from Belgium, Finland, Germany, the former Soviet republics, Greece, Spain, Italy to Palestine, the Middle Eastern nations, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and a number of countries in Latin America.
Friday, participants will continue to tackle the situations in their homelands and situate the same in the context of the global economic and political crisis, highlighted by the resurgence of democratic and nationalist upheavals even in member-nations of the European Union (EU) saddled by huge debt problems.
Saturday, the members of the International Coordinating Group (ICG) of the ILPS will meet the press at 12:30 p.m. at the Serye Cafè Filipino at the QMC to discuss how the league hopes to broaden the international united front to advance the social, economic and political interest of various peoples, particularly in the light of the debt crisis, the intensification of pocket wars worldwide and the worsening poverty and hunger, particularly in developing nations.
ICG members are expected to share their insights into the impact of globalization, the mass migration of labor and the continuing adverse effects of environmental abuse, particularly by profit-seeking transnational corporations nurtured by multilateral financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB.)
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