Pan-Caribbean Radio

Rudy Crew, the President of Medgar Evers College plans to have Hillary Clinton deliver the Commencement Speech at the school's June 8th 2017 graduation ceremony at Brooklyn's Barclays Center and to give her an Honorary Doctorate. Given her record towards the Black community at home and abroad, is such an honor warranted? Does Hillary's record reflect the legacy of Medgar Evers? Why is Rudy Crew, once a supporter of Rudy Giuliani, helping to ressuscitate Hillary Clinton's career? Should the Haitian community's travails with Donald Trump give Hillary a pass for her record in Haiti on the minimum wage and mostly female garment workers, elections interference at home and abroad and on "pay to play" schemes involving contracts for Earthquake recovery? 

Join Alice Backer of kiskeacity.com, Dahoud André,  host of Emisyon Eritye Papa Desalin and Djery Jean, a student at Medgar Evers College to discuss.

See pre- and post-show notes at kiskeacity.com.

Hour 1: Daniella Bien-Aimé of The Bien-Aimé Post interviews Daniel Jean-Louis on his book From Aid to Trade.

Hour 2: Alice Backer of kiskeacity.com and Daniella discuss TPS, No Hillary at Medgar Evers, Haitian Flag Day

 

See additional pre- and post show notes at kiskeacity.com.

Join host Alice Backer of kiskeacity.com and Daniella Bien-Aimé of  http://bienaimepost.com/ to discuss Kasav Tayino, Nan Sole's pilot self-determining agriculture coop in Haiti. 

Starting around 9:30PM, we will listen to clips from their fundraiser and information session in Brooklyn a few weeks ago, following which Jozye Ayisyen, one of the founding members, will join us to take questions.

From 9 to 9:30PM, we will welcome Paul Beaubrun who could not join us last week for our opening Pawòl ak Mizik segment. We'll listen to his music and discuss being a Beaubrun, the state of mizik rasin, his tour with Lauryn Hill, his latest album and his future plans.

See more show details and post-show highlights at http://www.kiskeacity.com/2017/05/legacy-of-1804-nan-sole-kasav-tayino.html

Join a manbo, an ordained minister, a philosopher and host Alice Backer of  kiskeacity.com for a spirited discussion about CNN's recent documentary on Haitian vodou. 

Pawol ak Mizik Opening segment: Paul Beaubrun on his tour with Lauryn Hill, his latest album and his future plans

Guests for CNN Vodou doc discussion: GwetoDe Manbo Fabiola Abellard | Dr. Celucien Joseph,  Pastor and Academic | Dr. Paul Mocombe, author of The Vodou Ethic and the Spirit of Communism

Articles:

By Dr. Celucien Joseph:

http://www.lunionsuite.com/vodou-not-country-haiti-not-religion/

By Dr. Jerry Gilles and Yvrose Gilles: 

http://bookmanlit.com/editorialsletters/reponspoucnnsouvodou.html (kreyol)

http://bookmanlit.com/editorialsletters/responsetocnnvodou.html (english)

 

POST-SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

There were so many reactions to Dr. Joseph's article that we focused only on that and will reconvene to discuss Dr. Gilles' article. We ended up debating the extent of the christianity of the Kongo Kingdom before the transatlantic slave trade, among other topics. 

More highlights at kiskeacity.com

Host Alice Backer of kiskeacity.com reviews week's news in Haitian and radical media. 

POST-SHOW HIGHLIGHTS 

00:00 - 07:39 Li Pa Two Ta by Misty Jean | Show Intro

07:39 - 20:18 Eritye Papa Desalin clip on fundraiser for Nan Sole Kasav Tayino cooperative in Bainet, Haiti | Caller question on the project

20:18 -  40:52   Chat with Misty Jean and Q&A: why she sings konpa, her exploration of house and techno, the changing music market |

40:52 - 73:00  First half of my recent discussion with Eric Draitser on Stop Imperialism Radio titled Haiti: Poverty, Occupation and the Anti-Colonial Struggle  where we discussed MINUSTAH's withdrawal, the Moise presidency's purported crackdown on corruption, PetroCaribe, the Haitian army and more | Q&A

73:00 - End  Eritye Papa Desalin clip on Guy Philippe and TPS | Show close | Jette la Premiere Pierre by Misty Jean

 

See more post-show notes at http://www.kiskeacity.com/2017/04/legacy-of-1804-haiti-news-blog-review_28.html

Host Alice Backer of kiskeacity.com discusses HLLN's petition to the UN Secretary General for reparations with co-host Hugues Girard, Jean St-Vil and callers.  Now in its 13th year in Haiti, the UN ''peacekeeping" MINUSTAH mission has been accused of child sex trafficking, rape and negligent infection of over 800,000 Haitians with cholera. 

In our opening Pawòl ak Mizik segment (00-00:30), award-winning singer TiFane will join us to discuss her return to the music scene. 

See pre- and post show notes at kiskeacity.com for more background.

Join  Alice Backer of kiskeacity.com to discuss the UN's vote to remove its "peacekeeping" forces by October.  Is this just a re-brand? What now?

Georges Bossous Jr. of Word and Action will be our guest to offer expertise from his experience as a psychotherapist on healing Haiti's children of the sexual abuse and rape endemic to the UN Occupation and present also in churches attended by Haitians. 

Musical Moment with Patrick Handal of Skandal. Is this hitmaker of 90's Konpa Nouvèl Jenerasyon making a comeback with his new single Santim Wo? 

POST-SHOW HIGHLIGHTS 

Georges Bossous Jr. talked about Word and Action's main goal: to create a full-service rape crisis and healing center in Haiti. He also discussed the recent sets of settlements to boys in Haiti who were sexually abused by Christian missionary Douglas Perlitz. 

Between 00:31 and 00:50 we were joined by Patrick Handal of Skandal who discussed the context of the rise of Konpa Nouvelle Génération in 1987. We listened to a soon-to-be-released remix of his1988 hit Ti-Bway and his new single and video Santim Wo and his upcoming comeback album 50 Kòb.

Listen to the full show to hear frequent contributors Hugues Girard, Daniella Bien-Aime and Jafrikayiti weigh in on Ezili Dantò's proposed demands to the UN Secretary General. (That discussion is in the last 25 Minutes of the show.)

See more  kiskeacity.com.

Join host Alice Backer from kiskeacity.com  as she goes over media clips and articles on the latest in UN sexual violence and trafficking crisis in Haiti, more on the aftermath of Kenneth Merten's recent appearance at Brooklyn College and the pernicious nature of foreign aid to Haiti in the form of prisons, among other topics.

Post-show notes: We were joined live by Cynthia Verna and Georges Bossous Jr. on the topic of rape in the Haitian community. 

00:00-17:00 Intro, quick Haiti news roundup

17:00 - 45:00 Komokoda reacts to Kenneth Merten visit and survey what they believe is wrong with the Haitian Studies Institute

45:00 - 1:30:00 What is statutory rape?  Is Pastor Billy Léveillé guilty of it? A conversation with rape victim advocate Cynthia Verna and Georges Bossous Jr. of Word and Action.

1:30:00 - End  The latest on UN and rape in Haiti as explained by Ezili Dantò on recent media appearances.

See  full pre-and post- show notes at kiskeacity.com

Join host Alice Backer  this Friday at 9PM as she summarizes and plays various reactions to U.S. Amabassador Kenneth Merten's recent visit to Brooklyn where he purported to offer a Retrospective of US Foreign policy in Haiti after two panelists who implicitly blamed the Haitian government for USAID policies that have destroyed Haiti's rural economy. Merten's own remarks looking back at US Foreign policy in the last 20 or so years were very short and he scraped the surface of  the many serious blows dealt to Haitian rice farming, the Black pig and to the country's infrastructure through the 90s embargo.

But most of all, Merten bamboozled the community when questions were raised about his involvement in announcing election results in 2010 that were contrary to what two electoral council members and a former OAS official found to be the actual result.

The event was protested by KOMOKODA, a grassroots organization who felt Brooklyn College should not have invited someone with Merten's destructive policies towards Haiti to speak at the new Haitian Studies Institute.

Listen to reactions by Dahoud Andre of Komokoda, Daniella Bien-Aimé of the Bien-Aimé Post and Hugues Girard, among others.

 

See pre-and post-show notes at the post for this show at kiskeacity.com. Among other highlights, Professor Claude Joseph who was on the panel with Merten and Dady Chery, a well known Haitian blogger, both called into the show!

Join host Alice Backer of kiskeacity.com as she welcomes Cynthia Verna and Daniella Bien-Aimé to discuss rape, sex trafficking in Haiti and answer the question: is there a way to use technology to prevent these problems?

Cynthia Verna is a popular chef and rape survivor, author of Calvaires: Viols ... et autressouffrances. 

Daniella Bien-Aimé is offers musings on Haiti and technology at The Bien-Aimé Post. 

See pre-and post-show notes at kiskeacity.com.