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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 May 17, 2025
Saturday May 17, 2025
Program Title: Long live Papa Desalin!
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Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro with Dahoud
We thank the listeners who have supported WBAI; We encourage our listeners to continue support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues - Go to https://www.give2wbai.org or CALL 833-922-4692 or send your contribution through the mail:
Pacifica-WBAI
388 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Support for WBAI's current Fund Drive
Announcements:
-7:30am, Monday 5/19/25: Brooklyn bus to the 60th Annual Malcolm X Pilgrimage at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale; Other events honoring Malcolm on Monday
-7pm, Tuesday 5/20/25: Brooklyn event to mark the 220th anniversary of Dessalines' 1805 Constitution
-3pm-6pm, Wednesday, 5/21/25: KOMOKODA protest against the UN and the US Mission to the UN at 45th St & 1st Ave in Manhattan
Poem: Mèsi Papa Desalin - Felix Moriiso Lewa
Translation of Moriso's Mèsi Papa Desalin
Overview of Jean Jacques Dessalines' 1805 Haitian Constitution
Our closing remarks and announcements:
Join us on the Brooklyn bus to Ferncliff Cemetery to honor Malcolm X on Monday, May 19th for what would have been his 100th birthday
Closing song: Desalin Leve - Eritaj
Saturday May 10, 2025
Saturday May 10, 2025
Program Title: Lourdia Jean Pierre, Presente!
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Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro with Dahoud
We pour libations and honor Lourdia Jean Pierre, 32 year old pregnant Haitian woman who died yesterday in Seibo in the Dominican Republic as a result of Dominican president Luis Abinader's racist immigration policies
Report and sound from last Wednesday's KOMOKODA protest outside the NYC Dominican Consulate
We thank the listeners who have supported WBAI; We encourage our listeners to continue support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues - Go to https://www.give2wbai.org or CALL 833-922-4692 or send your contribution through the mail:
Pacifica-WBAI
388 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Support for WBAI's current Fund Drive
Song: Moso Manman - Emeline Michel
Interview with Sister Inem Richardson of the "Centre Thomas Sankara". She is from the US and has been living in Burkina Faso for the past 4 years and supporting the Revolution of the Alliance of the Sahel States
Our closing remarks and announcements:
-Large protest of Haitians in Paris calling for an end to gang terrorism in Haiti and for France to return Haiti's stolen money
-Trump goes to the Supreme Court to deport folks here on the Biden Humanitarian Parole program
-A white "Haitian" pope? Please family!
Join us on the Brooklyn bus to Ferncliff Cemetery to honor Malcolm X on Monday, May 19th for what would have been his 100th birthday
Closing song: Dear Mama - Tupac Shakur
Saturday May 03, 2025
Saturday May 03, 2025
Program Title: NYC May Day Protests - Immigrants are welcome here!
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Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro with Dahoud
We thank the listeners who have supported WBAI; We encourage our listeners to continue support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues - Go to https://www.give2wbai.org or CALL 833-922-4692 or send your contribution through the mail:
Pacifica-WBAI
388 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Support for WBAI's current Fund Drive
Report and sound from Thursday's "May Day" Foley Square protests
Wed., May 3rd, 2025: 3pm-6pm, KOMOKODA protest outside the NYC Dominican Consulate, 1501 Broadway
Haiti news & news analysis
-Residents of Port-au-Prince continue the fight against US armed gangs terrorizing their neighborhoods
-Trump administration finally declares Haiti gang federations terrorists
-Dominican Republic Government intensifies crack down and deportations of pregnant Haitian women and those who have just given birth
Song: Edike - Lataye
Interview with Brother Segun Shabaka about his Temple University Phd dissertation on the emigration of thousands of US Blacks to Hayti (Haiti) in 1824 and 1825
Our closing remarks and announcements
Closing song: Si yo pa bezwen mwen pa voye rele m - Grandra
Saturday Apr 26, 2025
Saturday Apr 26, 2025
Program Title: Friday, April 20th, 1990 - The day Haitians shook the Brooklyn Bridge
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Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro with Dahoud
We thank the listeners who have supported WBAI; We encourage our listeners to continue support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues - Go to https://www.give2wbai.org or CALL 833-922-4692 or send your contribution through the mail:
Pacifica-WBAI
388 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Support for WBAI's current Fund Drive
April 20th 1990: The day NY area Haitians shook the Brooklyn Bridge
April 22nd: Earth Day; Honoring Pachamama
Report and sound from KOMOKODA's 4/23/25 protest outside the NYC Dominican Consulate
Song: Jan Kalbas - Sheila Anozier
Haiti news & news analysis
-China denounces US responsibility in chaos going on in Haiti
-Inter American Development Bank and Haiti puppet government sign 5 year development plan for Haiti while they're supposed to give up power on Feb. 7th, 2026
-Burkinabe Gov't foils US-French-Ivory Coast coup attempt
Our closing remarks and announcements
Closing song: Libète se lavi - Luck Mervil
Saturday Apr 19, 2025
Saturday Apr 19, 2025
Program Title: Who's stupid enough to believe the thief Emmanuel Macron will return Haiti's stolen money
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Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro with Dahoud
We thank the listeners who have supported WBAI; We encourage our listeners to continue support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues - Go to https://www.give2wbai.org or send your contribution through the mail:
Pacifica-WBAI
388 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Support for WBAI's current Fund Drive
April 17th 1825 - April 17th 2025: 200 years since France's heist against Haiti
Song: O Batala - Sheila Anozier
Protest at the NYC Dominican Consulate against racism in the Dominican Republic
Sounds from yesterday's protest against racism in the Dominican Republic
Interview with Io Itiguex about yesterday's protest in front of the Dominican Republican Consulate in Manhattan
Our closing remarks and announcements
Closing song: E si li pa vini - Tiga Jean Baptiste
Saturday Apr 12, 2025
Saturday Apr 12, 2025
Program Title: Haitians are not children to be toyed with
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Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro with Dahoud
We thank the listeners who have supported WBAI; We encourage our listeners to continue support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues - Go to https://www.give2wbai.org or send your contribution through the mail:
Pacifica-WBAI
388 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Support for WBAI's current Fund Drive
Clip of TRT @TheNewsmakers interview with Wolf Pamphile and Kim Ives
Sound from today's KOMOKODA protest in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn to denounce Kim Ives support of the gangs committing genocide in Haiti
Song: Bèl flè D Ayiti - Solèy Leve
Haiti News & News Analysis:
-Haiti gang violence in Mibalè and Pon Sonde
-US District Judge Indira Talwani announces she will block Trump's decree ending the Biden Humanitarian Parole on April 24th
Some thoughts on Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination on 4-4-1968 and Toussaint Louverture dying on April 7th, 1803
Open lines with our listeners
Our closing remarks and announcements
Closing song: Vann dlo - Belo
Saturday Apr 05, 2025
Saturday Apr 05, 2025
Program Title: Unite, Organize, Agitate to Stop Empire's Terror
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Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro with Dahoud
We thank the listeners who have supported WBAI; We encourage our listeners to continue support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues - Go to https://www.give2wbai.org or send your contribution through the mail:
Pacifica-WBAI
388 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Support for WBAI's current Fund Drive
Kudos to the hundreds of thousands in the streets all over the USA and beyond to stop Trump, Musk, and their lackeys
We remember April 3rd, 1986 when women and their allies all over Haiti took to the streets; This became the launch of the National Haitian Women's Movement
Libations for Jean Dominique and Jean Claude Louissaint, assassinated April 3rd, 2000 at Radio Haiti Inter in Port-au-Prince
Clip of Dahoud's interview with Mario Joseph from 7-21-22 Eritye Papa Desalin radio program
Song: Ti peyi m lan - Kiki Wainwright
Haiti News & News Analysis:
-Terrorist gang attacks in Mibalè this week and the people push back
-Largest protest in Port-au-Prince since 2018; Demand for strong gov’t action against the gangs terrorizing the population
-Clown president Fritz Jean addresses the nation and once again declares war on the terrorists
-Dept of US Homeland Security emails recipients of the Biden Humanitarian Parole to scare them into leaving the US by April 24th, 2025
-Federal Judge Edward Chen of San Francisco blocks Trump order for 350,000 Venezuelan TPS holders to leave the US by Monday April 7th, 2025
-Ralph Nader pens a new article denouncing mainstream and "progressive" press, governments and institutions who continue to use "death estimates" that counter logic for number of Palestinians murdered in Gaza
Open lines with our listeners
Our closing remarks and announcements
Closing song: Bazou - Lataye
Saturday Mar 29, 2025
Saturday Mar 29, 2025
Program Title: Unite, Organize, Agitate to Stop Empire's Terror
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Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro with Dahoud
We thank the listeners who have supported WBAI; We encourage our listeners to continue support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues - Go to https://www.give2wbai.org or send your contribution through the mail:
Pacifica-WBAI
388 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Support for WBAI's current Fund Drive
Sister Betty Davis, host of WBAI program "What's Happening" joins us to thank our audience for their support in last Saturday's Ralph Poynter Birthday fundraiser
Song: St Marks on the Bowery Church Jazz Choir from last Saturday's Ralph Poynter Birthday fundraiser
Haiti News & News Analysis:
-Another Kenya mercenary soldier was killed and 3 of their armored vehicles burned in Haiti this week, this time in the Artibonite region
-Haiti clown president Fritz Jean was summoned to Jamaica this past Wednesday for a photo-op with US Secretary of State Marco "Little Marco" Rubio
-Dept of Homeland Security publishes decree ending the Biden CHNV Humanitarian Parole Program in Tuesday's National Register
We play a segment of Prof. Leslie Alexander's recent interview with Ayibopost where she discusses 19th and early 20th century Haitian and "African-American" relations
Our closing remarks and announcements
Closing song: Bawon sa yo - Zao ak Djakata
Saturday Mar 22, 2025
Saturday Mar 22, 2025
Program Title: Unite, Organize, Agitate to Stop Empire's Terror
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Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro with Dahoud
We thank the listeners who have supported WBAI; We encourage our listeners to continue support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues - Go to https://www.give2wbai.org or send your contribution through the mail:
Pacifica-WBAI
388 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Support for WBAI's current Fund Drive
Thank you to everyone who supported the Ralph Poynter WBAI-Political Prisoner Fundraiser which happened today at St Marks on the Bowery Church
Our comments on Black Agenda Radio censoring an interview with me they aired on their last WBAI program on Thursday March 20th, 2025
Sounds from yesterday's December 12th Movement protest at the US Mission to the UN to denounce the US Government throwing out the South African Ambassador to the US
Song: Kenbe ti poulèt - Atis Endepandan
Dialogue with our sister Ninaj Raoul of Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees on recent Trump administration decisions regarding recent Haitian immigrants and the struggle ahead
Trump lifts Biden's 2022 ban on Dominican Republic's La Romana Corp. for using Haitian forced and child labor
Our closing remarks and announcements
Closing song: Manman - Manno Charlemagne
Saturday Mar 15, 2025
Saturday Mar 15, 2025
Program Title: March 1802 - March 2025, 223 years later, we remember the Battle of "La Crète a Pierrot"
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Theme Song: Batay la fèk Kòmanse by Berthony Pierre-Louis
Intro with Dahoud
We thank the listeners who have supported WBAI; We encourage our listeners to continue support WBAI and to support on behalf of our program Haiti: Our Revolution Continues - Go to https://www.give2wbai.org or send your contribution through the mail:
Pacifica-WBAI
388 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Pitching for WBAI's current Fund Drive
We pour libations for Malcolm Ferguson, Maliki Raymond, Patrick Dorismond, Andre Fields & Tasheen Bourne, all unarmed and murdered by the NYPD in March of 2000
Next Saturday March 22nd, 11:30am to 3pm, Ralph Poynter fundraiser @ St Marks on the Bowery Church to benefit WBAI and political prisoners Mumia Abu Jamal, Imam Jamil el Amin, and Kamau Sadiki [131 East 10th Street @ 2nd Ave]
Song: Fanm – Felicia & BIC
Haiti news & news analysis:
-Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees joined the "No Backlash to Women's Rights" protest at the UN on Wednesday March 12th
-Cholera seems to be back in Haiti; Government says 70 Haitians have already died
-Sound from Tuesday, March 12th, 2025 Haiti protest demanding a wage hike for workers and persona non-grata status for Kim Ives and Dan Cohen because of their support for the gangs terrorizing the population
-Despite the government using kamikaze drones against the gangs, they continued to drive the poor out of their neighborhoods and set fire to 80 year old media institution, Radio Caraibes
-Only 14 US House of Representative members have signed to demand release of Mahmoud Khalil
-Push back from CARICOM countries to the Trump administration threatening to sanction them for their collaboration with Cuba's medical brigades
-A plane with 226 Haitians from Turkey who have been waiting months to go back to Haiti landed in Cap-Haitien this week; Such a delight to see how happy they were to be back at home and kissing the Haitian ground
Last week one of our listeners asked for more information about Jean Jacques Dessalines, the liberator of our country: From March 4th to March 24th, 223 years ago, Dessalines led the Battle of La Crète a Pierrot
Our closing remarks and announcements
Closing song: Fanm D Ayiti - Solèy Leve