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English language radio program on Haiti from a progressive Haitian perspective aired 4pm - 5pm Saturdays on WBAI 99.5 FM Pacifica radio in New York City.
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Saturday Dec 03, 2022
Saturday Dec 03, 2022
Program Title: End Apartheid in the Dominican Republic!
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Report back from our annual pilgrimage to the 53rd annual National Day of Mourning organized by the United American Indians of New England on US "Thanksgiving" day
Sound from the protest
Haiti News and news analysis
Pogrom against Blacks in the Dominican Republic
PSA urging a boycott of the Dominican Republic to end apartheid against Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent
More Haiti news and news analysis:
-UN/Canada/US Sanctions: Still smoke and mirrors
-The talks about a possible invasion of Haiti continue
-Haiti's puppet government has approved Elon Musk's Starlink to start selling internet service in Haiti
Open lines with the listeners
Closing remarks and announcements
Closing song: Sou do m yo ye - Eddy François
Saturday Nov 19, 2022
Saturday Nov 19, 2022
Program Title: 219 years later, Vertieres lives on!
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Report from KOMOKODA's protest in front of Haiti Liberté newspaper's office in Brooklyn @ 1583 Albany Avenue to denounce their campaign to convince their readers that PHTK G9 gang leader Jimmy "Barbecue" Cherizier who's raping, killing, and burning Haitians in the poor neighborhood of Port-au-Prince is actually making a revolution on behalf of the people
Sound from the protest
Discussion with Jean-Claude Martineau (Koralen) on the importance of the November 18th, 1803 decisive Battle of Vertieres which sealed victory of the enslaved Africans in Saint Domingue and led to the proclamation of Haiti's independence on January 1st, 1804
PSA urging a boycott of the Dominican Republic to end apartheid against Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent
Commentary on the current mass expulsions of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent and Dominican President Luis Abinader's November 11th, 2022 "Decree 668-22"
Music: Yo di - Chantal Laurent
Immigration segment with Ninaj Raoul of Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees
Closing remarks and announcements
Closing song: Bazou - Lataye
Saturday Nov 12, 2022
Saturday Nov 12, 2022
Haiti: Our Revolution Continues 11-12-22
Program Title: Down with the "gang" massacres on the poor!
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Music: Rara Simityè Bizoton
Friday, November 18th, 3pm-6pm, KOMOKODA will hold a protest in front of American newspaper Haiti Liberté's office in Brooklyn @ 1583 Albany Avenue to denounce their campaign to convince their readers that PHTK G9 gang leader Jimmy "Barbecue" Cherizier who's raping, killing, and burning Haitians in the poor neighborhood of Port-au-Prince is actually making a revolution on behalf of the people
KOMOKODA 11/18/22 protest @ Haiti Liberté PSA
Thursday, November 24th, we are organizing a bus ride to the 53rd National Day of Mourning in Plymouth, MA
Haiti news and analysis:
-Once again, PHTK-US-UN gang leaves fuel terminal Varreux without a fight and some money in his pocket
-Fuel is back in the country's gas station pumps but at the puppet government's new high price
-$US 1 million State Dept bounty on 3 gang leaders but their "boy" Barbecue is not one them
-It's November 12th and school year still hasn't opened in Haiti
-The puppet Haitian government and the UN report 136 Haitians have died from cholera in the past 2 months
-The 90 day State Department report on the assassination of US puppet Jovenel Moise is finally out, almost a year late and it says NOTHING
Music: Lives in the Balance - Jackson Browne
Open lines with the listeners
Closing remarks and announcements
Closing: KOMOKODA 11/18/22 protest @ Haiti Liberté PSA
Rara Fanm - Gede piman
Saturday Nov 05, 2022
Saturday Nov 05, 2022
Program Title: US - UN - Canada sanctions - Smoke and mirrors
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Celebrating Gede!
This week we start a new immigration segment with our sister Ninaj Raoul of Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees
Music: Gede Bawon Samdi
Haiti news and analysis:
-The arsonist will never be the one to put out the fire
-The children of the enslavers and ennemies of our people have no lessons about revolution and revolutionaries to teach Dessalines' children
Friday, November 18th, 3pm-6pm, KOMOKODA will hold a protest in front of American newspaper Haiti Liberté's office in Brooklyn @ 1583 Albany Avenue to denounce their campaign to convince their readers that PHTK G9 gang leader Jimmy "Barbecue" Cherizier who's raping, killing, and burning Haitians in the poor neighborhood of Port-au-Prince is actually making a revolution on behalf of the people
Closing song: Gede Ribo - Will2sang
Saturday Oct 22, 2022
Saturday Oct 22, 2022
Program Title: Debunking the lies of empire and its media minions on Haiti
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Interview with our Sister Chantal Ismé of the International Campaign Justice Sankara thanking family and friends who participated in last weekend's Thomas Sankara commemorations in Harlem, in Montreal, in Boston, and in Washington DC
Music: Thomas Sankara Hommage - Samsk Le Jah
Report back from Brooklyn and Ottawa protests; Haiti News and analysis with our Brother Jafrikayiti
-Sound from Monday's Brooklyn protest
-Sound from yesterday's Ottawa protest
Closing song: Ti Pye Zoranj - Fernand Philippe-Auguste
Saturday Oct 15, 2022
Saturday Oct 15, 2022
Program Title: 2 Haitian migration stories
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Music: Rayi mizè - Chango Bastia
Haiti News and analysis
Music: Kanntè - Chango Bastia
Interview with Eddyson Damas
Music: Endiye - Chango Bastia
Interview with Jovan Julien
Closing song: Sa m ta di w - Chango Bastia
Saturday Oct 08, 2022
Saturday Oct 08, 2022
Program Title: Who's standing in the way of Haiti's continuing revolution?
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro: International Kreyòl Month; Honoring some of our heroes who fell in the month of October
Music: Beni Yo - Emeline Michel
Haiti News and analysis: Hollywood worthy scenario between the US-UN, their puppet government and their on-demand gangs to set the country up for an international invasion and occupation
Music: Twa Fèy - Dòdòf Legros
Open Lines with our listeners
Announcement:
-October 15th, 4PM - Thomas Sankara commemoration at the Dwyer Cultural Center at St Nicholas & 123rd St in Harlem
-October 17th, 3PM - KOMOKODA & Fanmi Lavalas NY protest; We will assemble at Eastern Parkway and Nostrand Ave and then walk down Nostrand to the Junction in Brooklyn
-October 22nd, 11:30AM - 27th National Day of Protest to stop police brutality, repression, and the criminalization of a generation; Assemble at Worth Square (23rd Street and Fifth Ave) in Manhattan
Closing song: Chalmay Peralt - Kebert Bastien
Saturday Sep 24, 2022
Saturday Sep 24, 2022
Program Title: Long live a free and sovereign Haiti!
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro: Report back from the celebration we held on Tuesday night for Jean Jacques Dessalines' birthday; Report on KOMOKODA protest in front of State Senator Kevin Parker's office after he called for US troops to invade Haiti
Sound from protest at Kevin Parker's office
Haiti News
Music: Kaptif - Regleman Afè Popilè
Interview with Brother Aziz Salmone Fall of the International Campaign Justice for Thomas Sankara on the recent trial of Sankara's murderers and latest developments in the case
Announcement:
-KOMOKODA protest 5pm-7pm today @ the UN (Dag Hammarskjold Plaza) while US puppet Jean Victor Geneus is scheduled to speak to the 77th General Assembly supposedly on behalf of Haiti
-Sept 27th, 7:30pm memorial vigil for Nicholas Naquan Heyward at Hoyt & Baltic Streets; He was only 13 years old when he was murdered by the NYPD on Sept. 27, 1994
Closing song: Pyebwa krake - Sò Anne
Saturday Sep 17, 2022
Saturday Sep 17, 2022
Program Title: Bòn fèt Papa Desalin!
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro: Haitians are in the streets all over the country, burning, looting, and fighting to overturn centuries of oppression and uproot the system
Music: Desalin - Foula
Interview with Sister Bayyinah Belo on Desalin and September 20th
Sound from December 12th press conference in support of the African Peoples' Revolutionary Party
Interview with Chairman Omali Yeshitela of the African People's Socialist Party on his Wednesday Sept 21st, 6pm presentation at the People's Forum in NY
Announcement for KOMOKODA protest Wednesday September 21st, 3pm-5pm, in front of NY State Senator Kevin Parker's office, 3021 Tilden Avenue in Brooklyn
Closing song: Ogou - Boukman Eksperyans
Saturday Sep 10, 2022
Saturday Sep 10, 2022
Program Title: Long Live Papa Dessalines!
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro: September is the month of Desalin
Music: Defile - RAM
Haiti News: Protests all over Haiti and in NYC to uproot the system
Sound from the Haiti protests
Sound from KOMOKODA's August 31st protest
Some things our listeners should know about why Haitians call Jean-Jacques Dessalines our Father
Open lines with our listeners
Closing song: Goudiye - Solèy Leve