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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 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
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