Legacy of 1804| Haiti News and Blog Review | John Kelly in Haiti #LOF1804

Join commentator Hugues Girard  and me tonight at 9PM as we discuss the latest Haiti and Haitian diaspora news.

Listen live or archived here at kiskeacity.com  or at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pancaribbean/2017/06/03/legacy-of-1804-haiti-news-and-blog-review-john-kelly-in-haiti-lof1804. You can also listen to the live broadcast at 714-242-6119.

You can listen to past shows on iTunes by searching keywords 'Legacy of 1804'. Past shows are also available at http://www.kiskeacity.com/search/label/LOF1804. On Twitter: react to or ask questions by using the hashtag #LOF1804.

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POST-SHOW HIGHLIGHTS 

In addition to Hugues Girard, we were joined by Rachelle Salnave from Little Haiti, Miami and Frantz André from Montreal, Canada. Frantz explained, that in addition to the 50,000 TPS holders in the US threatened with deportation, there are 3,200 Haitians in a similar situation in Canada. Rachelle discussed the imminent gentrification of Little Haiti, a place where many TPS holders reside. It all comes together in the end. What about all this insecurity of status benefits the Western status quo?

Legacy of 1804 | Nan Sole & Kasav Tayino | Self-Determining Agriculture in Haiti #LOF1804

Join me and Daniella Bien-Aimé of http://bienaimepost.com/ tonight at 9PM 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 founders, 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.


Listen  at the player below  or http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pancaribbean/2017/05/13/legacy-of-1804-nan-sole-kasav-tayino-self-determining-agriculture-in-haiti. You can also listen live only on the phone at 714-242-6119.




You can listen to past shows on iTunes by searching keywords 'Legacy of 1804'. Past shows are also available at http://www.kiskeacity.com/search/label/LOF1804. On Twitter: react to or ask questions by using the hashtag #LOF1804.

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POST-SHOW HIGHLIGHTS

Paul Beaubrun joined us from 00 to 00:30. Amazing energy!

For the rest to the show we discussed Nan Sole.

Jozye Ayisyen, a founder of Nan Sole joined to explain why he and 3 other Haitians came together to start a kasav production workshop in a remote part of Bainet.

He stressed the need to move Haitian youth away from an ethos of migration to an ethos of production. Migration leads --as in the DR and Bahamas --- to denationalization, non-documentation and hence a lack of rights for Haitians all over the Americas and a loss of dignity for migrants. Conversely the void in Haitian national production means that Haiti now imports many products it could produce itself from the DR, a place where Haitians and their descendants are routinely mistreated.

Legacy of 1804 | Haiti News & Blog Review | UN & Pastor Rape, Merten Visit Aftermath, Prisons #LOF1804

Join me this Friday (tonight) at 9PM as I go over media clips and articles on the latest on the 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.

You can listen live or archived at the below player or at  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pancaribbean/2017/04/08/legacy-of-1804-haiti-news-blog-review-un-pastor-rape-merten-prisons.  You can also listen live only at 714-242-6119.






You can listen to past shows on iTunes by searching keywords 'Legacy of 1804'. Past shows are also available at http://www.kiskeacity.com/search/label/LOF1804. On Twitter: react to or ask questions by using the hashtag #LOF1804.

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POST-SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

In addition to playing clips of recent media interventions by Dahoud André of Komokoda (on Kenneth Merten at Brooklyn College) and Ezili Dantò (on UN rape), we were joined live on the topic of rape by Cynthia Verna and Georges Bossous Jr of Word and Action. And of course Hugues Girard co-hosted.

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.



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Legacy of 1804 | Kenneth Merten Bamboozles Haitians in Brooklyn #LOF1804 #Haiti

Join me this Friday night (tonight) at 9PM as I summarize and play various reactions to U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Merten's recent visit to Brooklyn where he purported to offer a Retrospective of US Foreign policy in Haiti after two panelists who conveniently spoke only of Haitian government weaknesses. Merten's 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.



You can listen live or archived at the below player or at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pancaribbean/2017/04/01/legacy-of-1804-amb-kenneth-merten-bamboozles-haitians-in-brooklyn-lof1804. You can also listen live only at 714-242-6119.




(This show will likely be pre-recorded as I am jet-lagged and away at an open knowledge conference but there is a chance I may do it live. Please be indulgent as technical problems may arise from my hotel wifi.)



You can listen to past shows on iTunes by searching keywords 'Legacy of 1804'. Past shows are also available at http://www.kiskeacity.com/search/label/LOF1804. On Twitter: react to or ask questions by using the hashtag #LOF1804.

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POST-SHOW HIGHLIGHTS 

Another amazing show full of serendipity what with Professor Claude Joseph, one of Merten's co-panelists calling in to offer his views of the event. We were also joined by none other than Dady Chéry of the News Junkie Post who offered, along with Hugues Girard, that listeners and guests of this show need our own think tank, one not commandeered by the State Department or dismissive of the protests and concerns of entrenched Brooklyn community groups such as Komokoda. 

We listened to clips of questions asked of Merten at the event by Daniella Bien-Aimé and me respectively on Merten's changing of official elections results in 2010 and the US' role in centralizing the Haitian government in Port-au-Prince. 

We also discussed panelist Vanessa Léon's implied thesis that the problem with US Foreign Policy in Haiti is Haitians and the Haitian government.


More highlights below.