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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 Feb 12, 2022
Saturday Feb 12, 2022
Program Title: Workers Rising!
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Response to last week's caller requesting info on US corporations in Haiti
Music: Yon ti kalkil by BIC
Interview with Raymond Dugué, 1st Assistant President General of the UNIA on his recent trip to help organize the UNIA in Curacao and the Haitian community over there
Music: Tounen Lakay by Carole Demesmin
News from Haiti with our Co-Host Dr. Mamyrah Prosper
Music: Travayè leve by Kiki Wainwright
Interview with Dominique St. Eloi, leader of the CNOHA workers' union
Dahoud and Mamyrah's analysis of the workers' uprising
Music: Kaptif by Regleman Afè Popilè
Saturday Feb 05, 2022
Saturday Feb 05, 2022
Program Title: February 7th, 1986 We went to sleep in chains and woke up liberated
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Song: 7 fevrier by Septentrional
Reflections on the 29 year Duvalier regime and the fleeing of Jean Claude Duvalier on February 7th, 1986
Song: Lè m pa wè solèy la by Jean Michel Daudier
Sound clips from US mainstream television in the morning of Feb. 7th, 1986
Reflections on the inauguration of Jean Bertrand Aristide on February 7th, 1991
A few minutes of President Aristide's inaugural speech
Song: Ayiti Toma by Voix et Tambours d'Haiti
Haiti News
Open lines with our listeners
Closing comments
Song: Yo di by Chantal Laurent
Saturday Jan 29, 2022
Saturday Jan 29, 2022
Program Title: Farewell Sèvitè Bien-Aimé
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Vodou music recorded at Lakou Souvnans
Interview with our Brother Bob Limontas on the passing of Sèvitè Bien-Aimé, on Lakou Souvnans, & on Vodou in Haiti; Translation by Brother Baba Yaw Vilmar
We listen to a short clip of a 2015 Gonaives Radio Harmonie interview with Sèvitè Bien-Aimé
Haiti News
Open lines with our listeners
Closing comments
Vodou music recorded at Lakou Souvnans
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
Program Title: Clintons: Where is Haiti's Earthquake Relief Money?
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Music: Aba Lokipasyon by Eritaj
Report from KOMOKODA protest in Chappaqua against the Clintons on the 12th anniversary of the 1-12-10 Haiti earthquake
Open lines with our listeners
Report from 1-14-22 protest against degenerate US puppet Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly
Haiti News
Music: Òganizasyon Mondyal by Manno Charlemagne
We pour libations for Martin Luther King, Jr. on his birthday; Some comments on Haiti and MLK
Open lines with our listeners
Closing comments
Music: Zanj by RAM
Saturday Jan 08, 2022
Saturday Jan 08, 2022
Program Title: 1-12-10 Catastrophic earthquake in Haiti; Obama's soldiers & Cuba's doctors
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Music: W Ale by Ruthshelle Guillaume
Interview we did in Haiti with the US Cuban Latin American School of Medicine doctors volunteers
Music: Nou pase ase by Kongo
We encourage family to join KOMOKODA protest against the Clintons in Chappaqua next Wednesday
Interview with Menesky "Sky" Magloire of the January 12th Committee on the candle light vigil which will be held at Prospect Park, 4:30pm-5:30pm Wednesday
Open lines with our listeners
Closing comments
Vodou Music: Jou Lèwa recorded live in Benè, Haiti (Kay Madan Jozèf Pwa Bouyi Leve)
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Program Title: Jan. 1st, 1804 - Jan. 1st, 2022, Happy Independance Day Haiti
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
Music: Peyi Mwen Cheri by Emeline Michel
What the 218th anniversary of Haiti means to me
Reading of the English translation of the Haitian Declaration of Independence
Vodou music by Azor
Discussion with veteran community activist Brother Ernest "Bano" Banatte on Haitian Independence Day
Report on event we held in Brooklyn today to honor our ancestors
Music: Kouman sa ta ye by Boukman Eksperyans
Mèsi Papa Desalin - Poetry by Felix Morisseau Leroy (Our English translation of the poem)
Open lines with our listeners
Desalin Kote Ou? by Tony Lewa (Desalin, Where are You?)
Open lines with our listeners
Closing comments
Closing Song: Ayiti Pa p Peri by Renette Desir (Haiti will not perish)
Saturday Sep 04, 2021
Saturday Sep 04, 2021
Intro
Music - Defile by RAM
Interview on Dr. Jacob Carruthers' book "The Irritated Genie" with Raymond Dugué, 1st Assistant President General of the UNIA-ACL
Poem - Mèsi Papa Desalin by Felix Morisseau Leroy (Kreyòl)
English Translation of Morisseau's poem
Music - Libète by Sidon Joseph
News
Open lines with the Audience
Music - Desalin by Foula