Haiti: Our Revolution Continues 3-15-25

Program Title: March 1802 - March 2025, 223 years later, we remember the Battle of "La Crète a Pierrot"

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Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis

Intro with Dahoud

We thank the listeners who have supported WBAI; We encourage our listeners to continue support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues - Go to https://www.give2wbai.org or send your contribution through the mail:

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Pitching for WBAI's current Fund Drive

We pour libations for Malcolm Ferguson, Maliki Raymond, Patrick Dorismond, Andre Fields & Tasheen Bourne, all unarmed and murdered by the NYPD in March of 2000

Next Saturday March 22nd, 11:30am to 3pm, Ralph Poynter fundraiser @ St Marks on the Bowery Church to benefit WBAI and political prisoners Mumia Abu Jamal, Imam Jamil el Amin, and Kamau Sadiki [131 East 10th Street @ 2nd Ave]

Song: Fanm – Felicia & BIC

Haiti news & news analysis:
-Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees joined the "No Backlash to Women's Rights" protest at the UN on Wednesday March 12th 
-Cholera seems to be back in Haiti; Government says 70 Haitians have already died
-Sound from Tuesday, March 12th, 2025 Haiti protest demanding a wage hike for workers and persona non-grata status for Kim Ives and Dan Cohen because of their support for the gangs terrorizing the population
-Despite the government using kamikaze drones against the gangs, they continued to drive the poor out of their neighborhoods and set fire to 80 year old media institution, Radio Caraibes  
-Only 14 US House of Representative members have signed to demand release of Mahmoud Khalil
-Push back from CARICOM countries to the Trump administration threatening to sanction them for their collaboration with Cuba's medical brigades
-A plane with 226 Haitians from Turkey who have been waiting months to go back to Haiti landed in Cap-Haitien this week; Such a delight to see how happy they were to be back at home and kissing the Haitian ground

Last week one of our listeners asked for more information about Jean Jacques Dessalines, the liberator of our country: From March 4th to March 24th, 223 years ago, Dessalines led the Battle of La Crète a Pierrot

Our closing remarks and announcements

Closing song: Fanm D Ayiti - Solèy Leve