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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 Jan 07, 2023
Saturday Jan 07, 2023
Program Title: Where's the Haiti earthquake money?
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
We encourage our listeners to support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues
https://www.give2wbai.org
Song #2: Rise again - Various Caribbean artists
Our reflections on the 13th anniversary of the January 12th, 2010 Haiti earthquake
Song #3: Nou pase ase - Kongo
Interview with Menesky "Sky" Magloire on Haiti earthquake vigil happening Thursday, 4:30pm at Prospect Park in Brooklyn
Open lines with the listeners
Closing remarks and announcements
Closing song: Ayiti pa p peri - Renette Desir
Saturday Dec 31, 2022
Saturday Dec 31, 2022
Program Title: Lawouze fè banda tout tan solèy pa leve (The dew can prance around only as long as the sun doesn't rise) - Haitian proverb
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
We encourage our listeners to support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues
https://www.give2wbai.org
Song #2: Drumming duel - Ti Roro vs. Jean Remy - Jazz des Jeunes Album Saturday Night Live
A reading of the English translation of Haiti's Declaration of Independence proclaimed on January 1st, 1804 - Our daughter "Ayiti"
Song #3: 2 plimay msye leblan – B.I.C. dedicated to the white racists, to the enslavers, to the wannabe white saviors of the world
Open lines with the listeners
Closing remarks and announcements
Closing song: Jeune la belle Dantor nan Plezans - Ougan Chocho
Saturday Dec 17, 2022
Saturday Dec 17, 2022
Program Title: Ayibobo KOMOKODA!
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
We encourage our listeners to support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues
https://www.give2wbai.org
Report back from KOMOKODA's end of the year celebration which happened yesterday Friday, December 16th on the 32nd anniversary of the 1st free and democratic election in Haiti
Song: Mizè pèp la - Eddy François
Interview with our sister Ana Maria Belique of Reconoci.do
PSA urging a boycott of the Dominican Republic to end apartheid against Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent
Closing remarks and announcements
Closing song: Pa gen moun ki pa fè - Vwadèzil
Saturday Dec 10, 2022
Saturday Dec 10, 2022
Program Title: December 10th is International Human Rights Day, for whom?
Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro
The farce of "human rights for all" in the midst of colonialism, racism, pillage and plunder, and fake democracy
Song: Frè Do - Ansy Derose
Immigration segment with our sister Ninaj Raoul of Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees
PSA urging a boycott of the Dominican Republic to end apartheid against Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent
Open lines with the listeners
Closing remarks and announcements
Closing song: Vyewo - Jean Claude Martineau, Ti Corn, and Beethova
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