Merida, July 22nd 2011 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – On Thursday housing rights activists from across Latin America concluded a week-long summit to find popular solutions to people’s housing needs in the region.

International Festival for Peoples’ Rights and Struggles: A Celebration of peoples’ struggles, a festival of hope

Manila, Philippines
July 15, 2011

Some 3,000 participants from 40 countries across Asia and the Pacific, Africa, Middle East, Latin America, North America and Europe concluded the first-ever International Festival for Peoples’ Rights and Struggles (IFPRS) on the first week of July in the Philippines with an overflowing of energy and commitment to defend people’s rights and carry on the struggle for freedom, democracy and social justice. The IFPRS was a rare opportunity for people’s movements, progressive institutions, groups and individuals across the globe to share and learn from each other about new and longstanding threats to people’s individual and collective rights, while exploring solutions that address the systemic roots of these problems.

Lucy Pagoada, a Honduran who lives in New York and who has been elected to the Popular National Resistance Front in her homeland, was a delegate to conferences called by the International Migrant Alliance and the International League of Peoples’ Struggle held in the Philippines this July. Later she traveled around the Philippines. In an interview with Workers World, she shared her experiences and perceptions.

Daphna Whitmore talks about the world’s foremost anti-imperialist organisation, the International League of People’s Struggles, which gathered in the Philippines capital Manila July 7-9 2011