Colombian People's Congress demands freedom for Öcalan

The Congreso de los Pueblos (Peoples' Congress), a Colombian grassroots organisation, sent a solidarity message and called for freedom of Abdullah Öcalan. 

The Congreso de los Pueblos (Peoples' Congress), a Colombian grassroots organisation, sent a solidarity message and called for freedom of Abdullah Öcalan. 

In the video message, the organisation said: "We salute the struggle of the Kurdish people. We are happy to meet with other peoples who fight for freedom and to build a new world, where people could leave in peace. We stand by the Kurdish people and call for the freedom of their leader, Abdullah Öcalan."

The Congreso de los Pueblos (Peoples' Congress) is a social and political movement based in Colombia with chapters in Europe and Latin America. Founded in 2010, it is a process of popular legislation through mandates that are born from accumulated knowledge and proposals for a dignified life for the peoples that defend their territories.

The Peoples' Congress bring together regional, sectoral processes, including processes, peasants, Afro-descendants, indigenous, urban, workers, women, youth, among others. It is dedicated to implementing its mandates consolidating popular power in the territories creating an internationalist alternative against patriarchy, capitalism, colonialism and imperialism, from training, communication, social mobilization, denouncing human rights violations, establishing its own economy and defending peace as a fundamental right of the people.