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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 Jun 04, 2022
Saturday Jun 04, 2022
Program Title: Haiti: Turned into a Shithole by France and the USA
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Music: Dwadelòm-Vyewo by Manno Charlemagne
Discussion on NY Times "Ransom" series on Haiti with poet and historian Jean Claude Martineau
Music: Haiti Cherie by Skah Shah
Interview with Ms. Huguette Marcelin of MOHFREC (Movement of Haitians in France Fighting for the Respect of the Haitian Constitution) on their struggle which led the Mayor of the city of Sarcelles to ban Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly from performing at the Espace Venise de Sarcelles
Music: Leta, laboujwazi, lepèp by Manno Charlemagne
Open lines with our listeners
Music: Peyi m by Manno Charlemagne
Saturday May 21, 2022
Saturday May 21, 2022
Program Title: Long Live Desalin's Constitution!
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Music: Se Mwen ki la by Sò Anne (Annette Auguste)
Discussion on Haiti's 1st Constitution, promulgated by Jean Jacques Dessalines on May 20th, 1805 and the 23 other constitutions which followed it
Music: Milwisankat by Awozam
Interview with Tony Jeanthenor of Veye Yo in Miami on the City of Miami banning Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly from participating in today's "Flag Day" cconcert at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex
Music: Kilès ki zanmi nou by Beethova Obas, Ti Corn, and Jean Claude Martineau
Interview with Gail Walker, Director of IFCO/Pastors for Peace on their recent trip to Cuba for 2022 May Day celebrations; The ELAM program; Ricardo Alarcon's passing and the Hotel Saratoga tragedy; & IFCO's upcoming 30th Friendshipment Caravan
Open lines with our listeners
Music: Bawon Mande - Angels in the mirror compilation
Saturday May 14, 2022
Saturday May 14, 2022
Program Title: Insecurity in Haiti, Made in the USA
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Music: Konbit Zaka by Buyu Ambroise
Discussion on the nature of the current state of insecurity in Haiti
Open lines with the listeners discussing how the insecurity has affected the Haitian diaspora
Music: Gade, Chache, Tande, Aprann by Carole Demesmin
Appeal for support to the station and to this program
Today, we are broadcasting from the international headquarters of the UNIA in Philadelphia; Discussion on the history of this landmark with Brother Raymong Dugué, 1st Assistant President General of the UNIA
Music: Ayiti Cheri by Jacques Sauveur Jean
On May 18th as Haitian Flag Day and the notion of "Haitian Heritage Month"
Haiti News
Open lines
Closing remarks
Music: Nou wè by Kongo
Saturday Apr 30, 2022
Saturday Apr 30, 2022
Program Title: Duvalier, Never Again!
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Announcements
Music: Konbit Zaka by Boukman Eksperyans
Remembering the crimes of the Duvaliers on the occasion of 59th anniversary of the regime's April 26, 1963 massacre in Port-au-Prince
Pitching for support for WBAI with Patrick Lemoine's book, Fort-Dimanche, Dungeon of Death
Reading from Patrick Lemoine's book
Music: Pinga nou kriye by Atis Endepandan
Open lines with our listeners on the crimes of the Duvalier Regime
Music: Veye Yo! by Freres Parent
Haiti & Haiti related news
Open lines with our listeners
Closing remarks
Closing Music: Polidò by Barbara Guillaume
Saturday Apr 23, 2022
Saturday Apr 23, 2022
Program Title: April 20th, 1990, The day the Haitian Community stood as one
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Dialogue with Sister Fabienne Hyacinthe of KOMOKODA about the Town Meeting being held at 6pm tonight with Attorney Marcel Denis on the Federal case for the Haitian diaspora's stolen $1.50 per transfer and 5 cents per minute on phone calls to Haiti
Music: FDA, W Anraje! by Ansy & Yole Derose
Discussion with Lionel and Jessie Legros formerly of SELA (Sant Enfòmasyon Lè Ayisyèn) on the Haitian community's fight to get US officials to remove Haitians on the list of AIDS carriers and our historic April 20th, 1990 protest which did just that
Music: FDA, W Anraje! by Ansy & Yole Derose
Haiti news
Music: Pran ka mwen by Lakou Mizik
More Haiti & Haiti related news
Open lines with our listeners
Closing remarks
Closing song: Plante by Boukman Eksperyans
Saturday Apr 09, 2022
Saturday Apr 09, 2022
Program Title: Toussaint Louverture & the Haitian Revolution - Fact vs Fiction
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Music - 3 chen - Wawa
Our reflections on Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution
Music - Ale di yo sa - Wawa
Open lines with the listeners
Music - Onè Lamezon - Wawa
Haiti News:
-Military trial on 1987 assassination of Burkina Faso President Thomas ends with life sentence for former president Blaise Compaore
-Update on investigation into the assassination of US puppet Jovenel Moise
Transparent lies and hypocrisy of the US and its NATO allies on Ukraine; Why the people of Haiti and most non-white people around the world stand with Russia
Music - Vanyan - Wawa
Open lines with the listeners
Closing comments
Closing music - Jou m ankòlè - Adenor Adeli
Saturday Apr 02, 2022
Saturday Apr 02, 2022
Program Title: Confronting Haiti's official thieves and their puppeteers
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Music: Ti Zwazo by Ti Corn
Report from March 29th protests here in NYC and in Haiti
Music: Invitacion al Vodou by Sandra Mirabal Jean Claude
Interview with attorney Marcel Denis on the 2nd Circuit Court decision to revive the $1.50 per money transfer and 5 cents per minute illegal tax on the Haitian diaspora
Music: Ki lè n ap di ase by Wooly Saint Louis Jean
Haiti News:
-US missionary plane burned during March 29th protests in Les Cayes
-Uproar over Russian flag and pro-Russia and pro-Putin slogans during protests in different parts of the country
-Biden administration decides to make some modest investments to counter Chinese and Russian influence in the Americas and to try to deter influx of mass immigration on the southern border
-Former Haiti Congressman Arnel Belizaire survives after being shot 4 times by the G-Pèp gang in Bèlè
Poem: Botpipèl by Moriso Lewa
Open lines with the listeners
Music: War by Bob Marley
Saturday Mar 26, 2022
Saturday Mar 26, 2022
Program Title: All Out for a Revolution in Haiti!
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro with Dahoud
-Mobilisation for KOMOKODA protest on Tuesday March 29th, 3pm-6pm against US-UN genocide in Haiti @ 45th St & 1st Avenue in Manhattan
-We're in the last week of Vandredi Anba Tonnèl's fundraising campaign to help some victims of last year's Haiti earthquake rebuild their homes.
Please donate:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/lets-help-affected-families-rebuild-their-homes
Intro from today's co-host Jafrikayiti
Music: M pral mare yon lalo by Martha Jean-Claude
Dialogue with Jafrikayiti on March 29th, 2022, the 35th anniversary of the 1987 Haitian Constitution
Interview with Attorney Mario Joseph of the Biwo Avoka Entènasyonal in Haiti
-Protests in Haiti and in the diaspora around March 29th
-Jovenel Moise assassination investigation
-US/UN interference in Haiti's governance
-Which way forward for Haiti?
Music: Ayiti ka granmoun tèt li by Awozam (Tèt Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen)
News from Haiti:
-Aristide Foundation University graduation
-Biden treatment of Haitian refugees under the Del Rio bridge & expulsion of ~26,000 Haitians viewed in the context of a red carpet for 100,000 Ukrainian refugees; Can we continue to see Trump as the only racist in the house?
-Carié Solages, Nassau County legislator of Haitian descent who is also a domestic abuser running for Congress
Open lines with the listeners
Mobilisation for KOMOKODA protest on Tuesday March 29th, 3pm-6pm against US-UN genocide in Haiti @ 45th St & 1st Avenue in Manhattan
Music: Choukoun by Martha Jean-Claude
Saturday Mar 12, 2022
Saturday Mar 12, 2022
Program Title: NYC solidarity with striking Haiti factory workers
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro with Dahoud
Background on the struggle of the factory workers with Mamyrah Prosper
Interview with Dominique St. Eloi, leader of the CNOHA workers' union
Sound from the KOMOKODA NYC protest in solidarity with Haiti factory workers in front of the Flatbush Ave Old Navy, GAP, and Target stores
Interview with KOMOKODA member Harmony Divine about the protest
Music: Sou Chimen Pèdi Tan by Carole Demesmin
Haiti News
Interview with Marleine Bastien, Director of FANM.org, at protest against racist Biden deportation of Haitians
Haiti News
Our reflections on the US-Russia war being fought in Ukraine
Open lines with our listeners
Music: Are my hands clean? by Sweet Honey in the Rock
Saturday Feb 26, 2022
Saturday Feb 26, 2022
Program Title: Striking Sweatshop Workers Determined to Win!
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Music: Kanaval "Parenn Pa Papa' by Blayi One
News:
-Striking sweatshop workers remain in the streets for higher pay and better working conditions; 1 journalist has died from police bullet wounds; Journalists and workers wounded
-Dominican Republic president Luis Abinader launches electrified border wall to keep Haitians out of his country
-The Biden Administration is testing robot dogs to patrol the US-Mexico border to keep refugees out of "paradise"
-The Quixote Center has published a report showing that in 1 year the Biden Administration has deported over 20,000 Haitians back to Haiti, more than the past 3 US presidents have deported in 20 years
-The puppet Haitian Gov't organized a second version of the 2010 Haiti reconstruction commission to rebuild the Southern peninsula after the August 2021 earthquake and tropical storms: promises, promises, promises!
-In Haiti and international news, a whole week of mourning our white savior, Dr. Paul Farmer, who has passed away
-The US imposed Haitian puppet gov't demands respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine
Music: Vye Grann by Ti Coca
Open lines with the listeners
Announcements
Music: Chimen Libète by Solèy Leve