Haiti: Our Revolution Continues

Program Title: Honor and Respect to the ancestors who launched the Haitian Revolution 235 years ago!

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Intro with Dahoud

We encourage our listeners to support WBAI's Summer 2026 $200,000 Fundraising drive and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues 
CALL 833-922-4692

Announcements

235 years ago today, our ancestors launched the Haitian Revolution

Song - Vodou music from the Artibonite region of Haiti 

Thank you to everyone who joined us in Prospect Park in Brooklyn last Saturday as we celebrated the Ceremony of Bwa Kayiman

Interviews from the 68th UNIA-ACL Convention in Blatimore, MD our Brother Raymond Dugué shared

Federal Judge Jeannette Vargas blocks Trump's visa ban on 75 mostly Black and Brown countries

Announcements
-Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees and allies to protest Trump's racist immigration policies 4pm Friday August 28th at Foley Square
-Cuba publishes online 23 tomes of Fidel Castro's works from 1940 to 2016

Open lines with our listeners

Closing remarks and announcements

Closing song: Ogou Nago Zepòl

Program Title: Bwa Kayiman - The Blackest August of them All!

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Intro with Dahoud

We encourage our listeners to support WBAI's Summer 2026 $200,000 Fundraising drive and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues 
CALL 833-922-4692

Announcements

This is the weekend we celebrate the Ceremony of Bwa Kayiman; 235 years ago today, our ancestors swore to end slavery or die trying

Mumia's August 2004 commentary on "the Blackest August of them all"

We salute Comandante Fidel Castro Ruiz; He would have been 100 years old Thursday, August 13th, 2026

Song for Fidel: Revolcion es - Sylvio Rodriguez and Fidel Casto

Report back from celebration we held this past Wednesday for Jean Jacques Dessalines' wife Empress Marie Claire Heureuse Felicité Guillaume Bonheur Dessalines

Mumia's hommage to Prof. Johanna Fernandez

Open lines with our listeners

Closing remarks and announcements

Closing song: Boukman nan Bwa Kayiman - Azor

1 hour Special Panel hosted by Bob Hennelly

Panelists:

Dr Jamie Rowen, Professor of Legal Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Norman Seigel, Civil Rights lawyer

Dahoud Andre, host of WBAI program, Haiti: Our Revolution Continues

Dr. Joe Wilson, Labor Historian 

Larry Hamm, People's Organization for Progress

Program Title: Bwa Kayiman - The Blackest August of them All!

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Intro with Dahoud

We encourage our listeners to support WBAI's Summer 2026 $200,000 Fundraising drive and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues 
CALL 833-922-4692

Announcements

Libations for our sister activist Johanna Fernandez who has passed on to the ancestors

Mumia's August 2004 commentary on "the Blackest August of them all"

Haiti news & news analysis
-After 16 years, TPS for Haiti is no longer; Let's push for an all out amnesty for all 20 million undocumented in the country
-White House intimidating Mayor Mamdani to fire all Haitian TPS holders in his administration

Open lines with our listeners

Closing remarks and announcements

Closing song: Boukman nan Bwa Kayiman - Azor

Program Title: General Amnesty for All the Undocumented in the US - Citigroup & US Government: Return the gold you  stole from Haiti

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Intro with Dahoud

We encourage our listeners to support WBAI's Summer 2026 $200,000 Fundraising drive and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues 
CALL 833-922-4692

Report and sound from today's Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees protest in Brooklyn

Report and sound from Tuesday's KOMOKODA protest against Citigroup

Song: Pyè Sili - Kebert Bastien

Haiti news & news analysis

Open lines with our listeners

Closing remarks and announcements

Closing song: Charlemagne Peralte - Marco Volcy

Program Title: Long Live Jean Jacques Dessalines!

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Intro with Dahoud

We encourage our listeners to support WBAI's Summer 2026 $200,000 Fundraising drive and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues 
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Today is the day we celebrate our father, Jean Jacques Dessalines' birthday; Join us 6pm @ Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project

Mèsi Papa Desalin (Thank you Father Desalin) - Felix Morisseau Leroi

Song: Defile - RAM

Desalin is the spirit who walked among us to lead us to freedom and independence

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Closing remarks and announcements

Closing song: Libète - Sidon Joseph

Program Title: Ayibobo to our fallen soldiers

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Intro with Dahoud

We encourage our listeners to continue to support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues - Go to:
https://www.buddy.wbai.org
https://www.give2wbai.org or CALL 833-922-4692 or send your contribution through the mail:

Pacifica-WBAI
388 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217

Announcements

Funeral of our brother Bob Limontas, long time activist in the Haitian community was today; Our thoughts on the presence of gang supporter Fake Haitian newspaper Haiti Liberté owner Kim Ives coming to a wake for Bob in Brooklyn while his terrorist gangs occupy Bob's house and neighborhood 

Celebration of life for our brother Fritzner Pierre 5PM today at Flatbush-Tompkins Congregational Church, 424 East 19th Street (Corner Dorchester Ave.) in Brooklyn

Boycott the Racist Dominican Republic PSA

Song: Ain't no aliens here

Haiti news & news analysis
-Trump send a plane with 111 Haitians to Haiti this week and claims he as of now he will be sending 2 planeloads per week 
-Controversy filled 2026 Soccer World Cup ends tomorrow
-9 very old rifles appearing to be 18th century weapons found buried under a church undergoing construction work in Granrivyè Dinò in Haiti
-Our support to the movement afoot in Brooklyn to dethrone Democratic Party boss, Rodneyse Bichotte 

Open lines with our listeners

Closing remarks and announcements

Closing song: Depi Lendepandans - Solèy Leve

Program Title: Ayibobo to our fallen soldiers

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Intro with Dahoud

We encourage our listeners to continue to support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues - Go to:
https://www.buddy.wbai.org
https://www.give2wbai.org or CALL 833-922-4692 or send your contribution through the mail:

Pacifica-WBAI
388 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217

Announcements

Our brother Bob Limontas, long time activist in the Haitian community passed away in Brooklyn this Thursday

Celebration of life for our brother Fritzner Pierre 5PM next Saturday at Flatbush-Tompkins Congregational Church, 424 East 19th Street (Corner Dorchester Ave.)

Haiti news & news analysis
-Dpt. of Homeland Security has postponed the expiration of work permit for Haitian and Syrian TPS holders from July 10th to July 24th 
-The US and its allies continue their anti-gang shenanigans to continue to toy with the Haitian people with a new project the alternatively call Gang Repression Force or Gang Suppression Force 

Boycott the Racist Dominican Republic PSA

We encourage our listeners to continue to support victims of the tragic June 24th Venezuela earthquake

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Closing remarks and announcements

Closing song: Pou demen - Regleman Afè Popilè

Program Title: 250 years later, the USA continues to stand for genocide, racism, pillage, and plunder

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Intro with Dahoud

We encourage our listeners to continue to support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues - Go to:
https://www.buddy.wbai.org
https://www.give2wbai.org or CALL 833-922-4692 or send your contribution through the mail:

Pacifica-WBAI
388 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217

Announcements

Our thoughts of this 4th of July; The USA is 250 years old

We encourage our listeners to take some time today to read the full 15 pages of Frederick Douglass' 1852 speech: What to the slave is the 4th of July 

Song: 4th of July - Daveed Diggs

Haiti news & news analysis
-Supreme Court decision on birthright citizenship
-All out for a general amnesty for all the undocumented as well as all those with a fragile status in the US

We encourage our listeners to read Julianne Malveaux's article: Cruelty Is the Point: Haiti, TPS, and the Politics of Punishment

 Song: Yo nan tchouboum - Foula  

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Closing remarks and announcements

Closing song: Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday

Program Title: Honor & Respect to Comandante Ramiro!

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Intro with Dahoud

We encourage our listeners to continue to support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues - Go to:
https://www.buddy.wbai.org
https://www.give2wbai.org or CALL 833-922-4692 or send your contribution through the mail:

Pacifica-WBAI
388 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217

Announcements

We pour libations for Gabriel St Croix (Ti Gabi), a friend and a brother from our hometown Granrivyè Dinò who passed away this past Thursday 

Honor & Respect to Comandante Ramiro Valdes Menendez, Hero of Moncada, the Granma, the Sierra Maestra, and Head of Intelligence of the Cuban Revolution; He passed away last Sunday at 94 years old

Song: Undefeated - Silvio Rodriguez

-Dialogue with our sister Ninaj Raoul, founding director of Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, on the decision handed down by the US Supreme Court decision on the Haiti and Syria TPS case

-William Kunstler recorded commentary on legal injustices

Closing remarks and announcements

Closing song: Legba lage m - Laflè Ginen