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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.
Episodes
Saturday Sep 23, 2023
Saturday Sep 23, 2023
Black puppets of empire getting paid to invade and occupy Haiti and they try to pass it off as pan-African solidarity
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro with Dahoud and Mamyrah
We thank the listeners who have supported and encourage our listeners to continue support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues https://www.give2wbai.org; Today, we have a $500 matching fund; Pitching to get our listeners to match it
Sovè - Ferere Laguerre and Choeur Simidor
On Kenya and CARICOM and an update on the movement of the Maribawou peasants to finish the Massacre River canal so they can irrigate their farms
Pitching to reach our $500 match
Song #2: Na sispann pèdi - Manno Chalmay
Today is 10 years since the Dominican Republic's Constitutional Court denationalized hundreds of thousands or maybe even millions of Dominicans of Haitian descent
Announcements
Closing song: Konviksyon - Regleman Afè Popilè
Saturday Sep 16, 2023
Saturday Sep 16, 2023
Special program on the Haiti-Dominican Republic border crisis with our co-host Mamyrah Douger-Prosper
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
We thank the listeners who have supported and encourage our listeners to continue support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues https://www.give2wbai.org; Today, we have a $500 matching fund; Pitching to get our listeners to match it
Sound from protest on the Haitian side of the border against racist Dominican President Luis Abinader and against Haitian puppet government of Ariel Henry
Pitching to reach our $500 match
Some background to the current crisis and international efforts to push Haiti into a cheap labor haven through Reagan's Caribbean Basin Initiative, Clinton's FTAA, and again the Clinton-UN Collier Plan for Economic Development with Mamyrah and Dahoud
Announcements
Closing song: Ayiti Demen by Solèy Leve
Saturday Sep 09, 2023
Saturday Sep 09, 2023
Program Title: Standing strong for Haiti!
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
We thank the listeners who donated last week and encourage our listeners to continue support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues
https://www.give2wbai.org;
Song #2: Lakay - Eddy François
Report back from 9/6/23 protest by the Ad Hoc Committee for the Hillary Out of Columbia Coalition at Columbia University to denounce the school's appointment of Hillary Clinton as a professor there
Sound #3: Sound from the protest
Interview with Harper of the Columbia Chapter of the Revolutionary Marxist Students, a member of the Coalition on their participation of the protest
Song #4: Ki sa w fè ou yo - Lataye
Report from KOMOKODA US/UN protest against the US plan to send Kenyan troops to invade and occupy Haiti
Sound #5: Sound from the protest
Closing remarks
Closing song #5: Yayaounde - Sò Anne
Saturday Aug 12, 2023
Saturday Aug 12, 2023
Program Title: The Haitian people will never renounce our ancestors
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
We thank the listeners who donated last week and encourage our listeners to continue support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues
https://www.give2wbai.org;
Song #2: Seremoni Bwa Kayiman - Boukman Eksperyans
All Honor and Praises to our ancestors who plotted, fought, and delivered us from bondage and domination
Sound #3: Boukman nan Bwa Kayiman - Azor
Interview with Ingrid Luciano on the 2023 Santo Domingo International book fair boycott
Closing remarks
Closing song #5: Gwo wòch - Wawa
Saturday Jul 29, 2023
Saturday Jul 29, 2023
Program Title: Why we embrace Jean-Jacques Dessalines as our Father
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Today, we have "Petro" Haitian music
Report back from Tuesday night's celebration of Dessalines' birthday
Report back from yesterday's protest at Citigroup headquarters in Manhattan to mark 108 years since the first US occupation of Haiti
We pour libations to the memory of our brother Lionel Philippe Auguste who passed away; Strength, Courage, and Love to his family and friends
We thank the listeners who donated last week and encourage our listeners to continue support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues
https://www.give2wbai.org;
Sound #2 - Sounds from the protest
Announcements
Sound #3 Seremoni Petwo
Reflections on Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines; History is about the present and the future, not the past
Sound #4 Janpetro - Super Jazz des Jeunes
Closing remarks
Closing song #5: Bosou, Lennmi bare mwen - Kouzen Dantò
Saturday Jul 22, 2023
Saturday Jul 22, 2023
Program Title: Yanvalou rythm of Haiti
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Upcoming events
We thank the listeners who donated last week and encourage our listeners to continue support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues
https://www.give2wbai.org;
Song #2 - Yanvalou - Ti Roro
Announcements
Some things our listeners should know about Jean Jacques Dessalines
Open lines with the listeners
Closing remarks
Closing song #3: Yanvalou - Renette Desir
Saturday Jul 15, 2023
Saturday Jul 15, 2023
Program Title: Nago rythm of Haiti
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Upcoming events
We thank the listeners who donated last week and encourage our listeners to continue support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues
https://www.give2wbai.org;
Song #2 - Nago - Bwa Kayiman
Haiti News and news analysis
-Mostly Protestant Haitians came out in large numbers last Sunday in response to Haitian-American right wing televangelist Bishop Gregory Toussaint's call
Song #3 - Nago pa piti - Angels in the mirror
-After pressure and bribes from US and UN officials, CARICOM publishes their statement on Haiti in which they bow to US wishes
Closing remarks
Closing song #4: Awchè Nago - Troupe Makandal
Saturday Jul 08, 2023
Saturday Jul 08, 2023
Program Title: Kongo rythm of Haiti
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
We thank the listeners who donated last week and encourage our listeners to continue support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues
https://www.give2wbai.org;
Sound from yesterday's KOMOKODA protest to denounce the attempt to make a national hero out of US puppet and thief Jovenel Moise
Report back from the protest
Song #2 - Kongo - Bwa Kayiman
More Haitian Kongo rythm music
Song #3 - Kawolina Kawo - Meringues & Folk Ballads of Haiti
Haiti News and news analysis
-CARICOM's 50th Anniversary meeting and how they understand their debt to Haiti
Song #4 - Bonswa Bonswa - Kongo
Closing remarks
Closing song #5: Kongo - Ballet Folklorique d'Haiti
Saturday Jul 01, 2023
Saturday Jul 01, 2023
Program Title: Musical rythms of Haiti
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
We thank the listeners who donated last week and encourage our listeners to continue support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues
https://www.give2wbai.org;
Song #2 - Lumane Casimir – Carole Demesmin
Song #3 - Peze kafe – Solèy Leve
Commentary on the musical rythms of Haiti by Jean Claude Martineau (Koralen)
Song #4 - Lakou Lakay – Solèy Leve
Haiti News and news analysis
-UN Secretary General Antonio Gutteres is in Haiti pushing the US-Core Group agenda for a multinational military intervention force; a new constitution; and rigged elections
-Kudos to the provisional government of Mali which has forced the end of the ineffective UN Military Mission in Mali (MINUSMA)
-This coming week marks 2 years since the assassination of US puppet, traitor, and thief Jovenel Moise; Beware of the coming crocodile tears from his former inner circle who are responsible for his killing
Closing remarks
Closing songs #5: Men Rara – Carole Demesmin
Saturday Jun 24, 2023
Saturday Jun 24, 2023
Program Title:
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
We thank the listeners who donated last week and encourage our listeners to continue support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues
https://www.give2wbai.org;
Song #2 - Degaine - Aya Nakamura
Haiti News and news analysis
-Haitians in Paris protest against presence of Ariel Henry at Macron's forum for a new economic pacts
-Canada and the DR kiss and make up at the 53rd Session of the OAS in Washington DC
-New Canada sanctions against Haitian nantionals brings total to 25
-On the occasion of World Refugee Day, Amnesty International denounces racism against Haitian refugees
-Martine Moise's lawyer in Miami has filed a lwasuit against Jovenel's accused killers to "get whatever assets they might have"
Song #3 - Lesivye - Carole Demesmin
Closing remarks
Closing songs #4: M a doute - Boukan Ginen