Patria Colloquium discusses how to refute imperialist narratives

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Our colleague and correspondent in Havana, Cuba, Belen de los Santos summarizes the highlights of the second day of the IV International Colloquium “Patria”. The event proposes a conscious reflection on how to think about communication in traditional media and social networks to counteract hegemonic Western narratives.  These and many other stories now!  🌐Join teleSUR's community and be part of a space where your ideas matter.  https://chat.whatsapp.com/KLABTE41aSj3ioYabXQQ6K 🗣 Don't be left behind, join teleSUR's Channel https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va98Z437Noa2tjytCt1N Web💬 https://www.telesurenglish.net/ X🧶 https://twitter.com/telesurenglish Instagram 📸 https://www.instagram.com/telesurenglish/?hl=es Facebook 📱 https://www.facebook.com/teleSUREnglishOfficial Youtube ⏯ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmuTmpLY35O3csvhyA6vrkg Tiktok👌🏼 https://www.tiktok.com/@telesurenglish?_t=8hMLCY0a6z7&_r=1

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00:00The second day of the fourth international colloquium, Patria, concluded Tuesday in Havana,

00:05Cuba, with debates on the use of new technologies to rewrite the Global South's own stories.

00:10The day's agenda also included the screening of the 2024 Academy Award-nominated documentary

00:17Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat. Our correspondent in Havana, Belén de los Santos, with the details.

00:25Using new technologies to write our own stories, debunking false narratives that

00:29for centuries have imposed an imperialist view on the Global South. This is at the center of

00:34what is being discussed at the Patria colloquium underway in Cuba. We are being told how to govern

00:41ourselves, our history is being changed, and so on. And to be able to combat this,

00:47we need to work together, we need to network, we need to have a common understanding

00:52of the common enemy who is responsible for our underdevelopment, our poverty,

00:59and our general misery. And that is why this colloquium is so, so very important.

01:06And in this struggle to write counter-demonic narratives, cultural artifacts take front stage.

01:12In this sense, one of the highlights of the second day of the event in Havana

01:16is the screening of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat,

01:20directed by Johan Riemann Press. A film that goes back to the 60s to retell episodes that US and

01:27European imperialism have tried to hush, such as the overthrow and assassination of Congolese

01:32leader Patrice Lumumba. It's not what the film focuses on, it's not sort of something of the

01:44past. Again, it's history, but history is very much alive, and it's something that should be

01:48talked about. And I think this forum is so much about this as well. For the over 400 participants

01:54to the event, the challenge is to come together to draw up common strategies that enable the

01:59sharing of these stories, of men and women that continue fighting to this day for a different world.

02:06We know the revolution won't be televised, but what's really important for us is that

02:10we're fighting for the revolution to be televised. To give that example of hope,

02:15you know, I'm from Britain, and in Britain you don't hear much about socialist Cuba,

02:19or Venezuela, or the anti-imperialist struggles across the world. But we have to be using social

02:24media to massively kind of push out this information, to build up an international

02:30anti-imperialist movement. With one day to go, the Patria Colloquium continues to bring together

02:36experiences from around the world, with the conviction that the only way to counter the

02:41unilateral narratives of imperialism is through collective action and internationalism.

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