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On this planet set back by globalization the voices of those excluded start to be heard. To passive cultural consumism, opposes participatory will on the recognition of different diversities. It seems as if corporate transnationals imposes, without other alternatives, the unidirectional message through the domain of information and the very powerful cultural industries with the establishment of life models and the conquest of the fertile creation born on the popular imaginary. A new expression of violence, the homogenizing current threatens to drown cultural diversity and to erase the face of the nations and of the many sectors who live in them.

And, nonetheless, the resistance starts to take its shape. The autochthonous people demand the right to preserve their languages and their way of lives. The descendants of the Africans claim their identity profile and its place in society. The women and the homosexuals struggle to brake up with the discriminatory barriers. The effects of neo-liberalism lead to the recovery of a solidarity feeling in the neighborhood, while the south enters the north with the uncontrollable strength of migrations.

In those circunstances, culture becomes a reason for resistance and participative will. That emerging reality requieres for study, debate, analysis and reflection to configure a tempered diagnostics to the needs of contemporarity. It is not about designing another unique discourse, but it is about discovering the true dynamic on the multiplicity of our voices, born on different spheres, with contrasting and complementary practices : the academic exercise and the experience of our scarce cultural industries, the words of those excluded, of those who bear autochthonous cultures and of the base organizations for popular education. Today, to defend cultural diversity is equal to contributing to preserving the future of humanity.

The 5th Culture and Development Congress , called from June 11th to 14th 2007, offers the space for this debate which can not be postponed and which will be hosted on the Conventions Palace in Havana, Cuba.

Source: Cubarte


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