By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson
International League of Peoples’ Struggle
March 17-18, 2010

On behalf of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle, I convey warmest greetings of solidarity to KADUAMI and the delegations participating in KADUAMI’s Sixth General Assembly and Northern Luzon Development Conference.

We consider as greatly important and timely your theme, “Empowering Communities to Assert their Right to Food and Right to Development, and Promoting Good Governance in the Context of Climate Change.”

We appreciate that the participants represent 120 people’s organizations and nongovernmental organizations and come from the ranks of farmers, fisherfolk, workers, indigenous people, women, urban poor and youth. We are confident that they are in a position to map out the people’s alternative development and actions for the next three years.

They can draw wisdom and strength from the rich accumulated experience and achievements of KADUAMI during the last 27 years. They can learn from their own social investigation, direct experience and successes in mass work in recent years. They know the dire conditions, needs and demands of the people.

We continue to commend KADUAMI for helping establish self-determining, self-reliant and interdependent communities in Northern Luzon through partnership, capability building, networking and socio-economic work. We hope that KADUAMI shall become ever stronger in serving the people as a result of its Sixth General Assembly. ###

By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson
International League of Peoples’ Struggle
March 17-18, 2010