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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 Aug 27, 2022
Saturday Aug 27, 2022
Program Title: Standing strong with the people of Haiti
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Music: Chèf Kòken - Tèt Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen
Intro
Haiti News
-Small islet off the coast of Ilavach in the South of Haiti is disappearing
-Protests going on throughout Haiti to fight for ouster of US-UN installed puppet government of Ariel Henry
Promo for KOMOKODA Haitian community protest: Wednesday, August 31st, 3pm-6pm @ 45th Street and 1st Avenue in Manhattan-
-Assassination attempt on MOLEGHAF leader Domini Resain
-Haiti School re-opening pushed back 1 month
-Shenanigans going on for a "regional" invasion/occupation of Haiti
Happy birthday to our little sister Rose Michel Guerrier (Rose Veldman)
Open lines with our listeners
Promo for KOMOKODA Haitian community protest: Wednesday, August 31st, 3pm-6pm
Saturday Aug 20, 2022
Saturday Aug 20, 2022
Program Title: August 1791 Uprising in Saint Domingue, Freedom or Death
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Music: Celebrating Bwa Kayiman, The Ceremony that launched the Haitian Revolution at Brooklyn's Prospect Park
Music: Celebrating Bwa Kayiman, The Ceremony that launched the Haitian Revolution at Bwa Kayiman in Haiti
The August 22nd, 1791 uprising which launched revolution in Saint Domingue
Music: Kay la pa p kraze - Wawa et les Camisoles Bleues
Open lines with our listeners
Closing Song: Granbwa - Wawa et les Camisoles Bleues
Saturday Aug 13, 2022
Saturday Aug 13, 2022
Program Title: Living Bwa Kayiman in Brooklyn's Prospect Park
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Bwa Kayiman, The Ceremony that launched the Haitian Revolution
Music: Boukman O nan Bwa Kayiman - Azor
Fanmi Granbwa and The Haitian community are celebrating the 231st anniversary of the Ceremony of Bwa Kayiman in Brooklyn's Prospect Park today, Join us!
Music: Legba nan baryè a & Oungan Adnor Adeli
12 Principles of Bwa Kayiman - Work of Pierre Michel Chery
Closing Song: Vodou music compilation from Lakou Soukri
Saturday Jul 30, 2022
Saturday Jul 30, 2022
Program Title: Citibank, Return Haiti's Gold
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Report back from KOMOKODA's July 28th, 2022 protest in front if Citibank Headquarters at 388 Greenwich Street in Manhattan
Sound from the protest
On the 1915 US invasion and occupation of Haiti and Haiti's armed and political resistance to the US
Music: Rele m rele - Issa el-Saieh
Haiti News
Interview with UNIA Assistant President General Raymond Dugué on next Saturday's Flag Day Celebrations at Prospect Park in Brooklyn
Music: 2 plimay msye leblan - BIC
Open Lines with the listeners
Announcements
Closing Song: Dilijans - Ayizan
Saturday Jul 23, 2022
Saturday Jul 23, 2022
Program Title: Long live the struggle of the Haitian peasant movement!
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Music: Peye san - Tèt Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen
On the Tèt Ansanm peasant movement and the massacre of July 23rd 1987
Music: Jou malè - Tèt Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen
Tèt Kole's statement for the 35th anniversary of the massacre
Music: Si w pa sa - Tèt Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen
Announcements
Open Lines with the listeners
Closing Song: Milwisankat - Awozam
Saturday Jul 16, 2022
Saturday Jul 16, 2022
Program Title: The UN decides to prolong their genocide in Haiti for one more year
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Music: Maji nan kay la - Orchestre Issa El Saieh
Interview with Trade Unionist Dominique St Eloi on the UN Security Council vote to prolong the BINUH mission for one more year
Music: Haiti Cherie - Orchestre Issa El Saieh
Slavery yesterday, and slavery today
Bid 'em in - Oscar Brown
Announcements
Open Lines with the listeners
Closing Song: Song for Sean Bell - Mahina Movement
Saturday Jul 02, 2022
Saturday Jul 02, 2022
Program Title: Who gets to determine the leadership of Haiti
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Music: - Men Rara - Carole Demesmin
News:
-Haiti's Palace of Justice vandalized and occupied by armed gangs since June 10th
-Mass demonstration of Aristide partisans to demand that he become president for a 2 year transition period
Music: M rantre nan Lakou a - Vodou song live recording in Benè, Southeast of Haiti
Announcements
Open Lines with the listeners
Closing Song: Nou wè - Kongo
Saturday Jun 25, 2022
Saturday Jun 25, 2022
Program Title: End discrimination against Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
One of the crimes the NY Times forgot to include in their series on the origins of Haiti's impoverishment: The US theft of Navassa Island from Haiti in 1857
Music: - Sò Anne
News:
-Renewing the UN's criminal mandate in Haiti
-State sponsored violence against Haitians in the Dominican Republic
Music: Se Sa m pa vle - Sò Anne
Announcements
Open Lines with the listeners
Closing Song: Vakans - Jazz des Jeunes
Saturday Jun 18, 2022
Saturday Jun 18, 2022
Program Title: End discrimination against Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Please donate to WBAI on behalf of our program: Haiti: Our Revolution Continues:
https://give2wbai.org or Call: 212-209-2950
News:
-Kudos to the Boston area Haitian community which mobilized and got the owner of the venue where Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly was to perform on July 2nd to cancel the event
-The gang violence, rape, kidnapping, and general insecurity in Haiti has increased exponentially since the UN has been in Haiti and yet again the Secretary General of the UN wants to renew their mandate
-Dozens of South American companies have launched one way charter flights from Port-au-Prince to the region
Music: Settle down - Leyla McCalla
Interview with Haitian-Dominican activist Ana Maria Belique from the organization Reconoci.do
Open lines
Closing remarks
Closing song: Lavi vye nèg - Leyla McCalla
Saturday Jun 11, 2022
Saturday Jun 11, 2022
Program Title: Haiti: Support WBAI; Support Haiti: Our Revolution Continues
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
News:
-Summit of US lackeys in the Americas; Alternative "Peoples Summit of the Americas; Haiti's US appointed Prime Minister Ariel at the summit
-Two young men Elvain Saint Jacques and Gregory Oscar, assassinated by authorities, vigilante style this week in Haiti
-Dr. Farah Fourcand, skinny white woman with blond hair named Ms. Global Haiti this week
Music: Ti Mari - Luck Mervil
Fundraising for WBAI and for Haiti: Our Revolution Continues with the help of our Brother Ralph Poynter and our Sister Betty Davis, hosts of WBAI's "What's Happening" aired Wednesdays, 8pm-9pm
Please donate to WBAI on behalf of our program: Haiti: Our Revolution Continues:
https://give2wbai.org or Call: 212-209-2950
Open lines
Closing remarks
Closing song: Bazou - Lataye