Legacy of 1804 | Sherlee Skai, Natacha Jn-Simon #LOF1804 #Haiti #Bahamas

Join me this Friday night at 9PM to discuss her new album with singer Sherlee Skai  (9 to 9:30PM) and Haitians in the Bahamas and the film My Father's Land with Natacha Jn-Simon. This last segment will be started with audio of a Q&A with My Father's Land protagonist Papa Jah at  Haiti Film Fest. 

Listen live or archived right here at kiskeacity.com or  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pancaribbean/2017/07/01/legacy-of-1804-sherlee-skai-and-natacha-jn-simon-lof1804 . You can also listen to the live broadcast at 714-242-6119.

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POST-SHOW HIGHLIGHTS

In the first segment (00-00:30) Sherlee Skai talked to us about her upcoming album and the premiere for it taking place July 8 in Brooklyn.  We also listened to her music.

For the rest of the show Hugues Girard and I talked to Natacha Jn-Simon, a Bahamian of Haitian descent and student in Florida after listening to the Haiti Film Fest panel discussion for My Father's Land, a film about the journey to Haiti of Papa Jah, a Haitian living in the Bahamas.  She answered questions about how she was able to become a "paper Bahamian" and get scholarships while other stellar Haitians in the Bahamas were not. We also discussed Haitian identity and living standards in the Bahamas, the colonial origins of the stigmatization of Haitians in the Bahamas,  inevitable upward mobility, parallels and distinctions with the situation of Dominicans of Haitian descent, Bahamian Haitian young adult organizations, Papa Jah's neighborhood The Mud, home of a recent Bahamian Miss Universe candidate of Haitian descent and Ms. Jn-Simon's and her parents' personal experience. 

Legacy of 1804 | Haiti News & Blog Review | Community Empowerment, UEH, Haiti Film Fest Panel #LOF1804

Join me, UEH (Université D'Etat d'Haiti) professor Dr. Judite Blanc and Hugues Girard this Friday (tonight) at 9PM as we review and react to:

• Eritye Papa Desalin radio segment by Fabienne Hyacinthe on efforts needed for Haitian community empowerment in the US and beyond;
• Eritye Papa Desalin segment by Dahoud André reacting to UEH car incident 
• Haiti Film Fest panel discussion on films by Haitian Dominican  Jean Jean and Papa Jah, a Haitian Bahamian. 

Listen live or archived right here at kiskeacity.com or  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pancaribbean/2017/06/24/legacy-of-1804-haiti-news-blog-review-community-ueh-haiti-film-fest . 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 

We listened to and discussed:

• Eritye Papa Desalin radio segment by Fabienne Hyacinthe on efforts needed for Haitian community empowerment in the US and beyond;
• Eritye Papa Desalin segment by Dahoud André reacting to UEH car incident 
• Haiti Film Fest panel discussion on films by Haitian Dominican  Jean Jean and Papa Jah, a Haitian Bahamian. 

Hugues Girard and Dr. Judite Blanc,a professor at UEH, reacted abundantly to the last two segments, discussing various difficulties faced by Haitian students, including gatekeeping.

Legacy of 1804 | Haiti News & Blog Review | What is going on at UEH? #LOF1804

Join and co-host Hugues Girard, commentator Jean  Elissaint St-Vil and me tonight at 9PM to discuss the latest Haiti and Haitian diaspora news including:

UEH university student hit and severely injured by (unpunished) Professor's car and MINUSTAH/PNH/Government repression more broadly

Prison riot

Jovenel in Miami with Pence

UN & cholera money 

Listen live or archived right here at kiskeacity.com on the below player or at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pancaribbean/2017/06/17/legacy-of-1804-haiti-news-blog-review-what-is-going-on-at-ueh-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

Announced issues were discussed in the following order:

Prison riot

UEH university student hit and severely injured by (unpunished) Professor's car and MINUSTAH/PNH/Government repression more broadly (Dr. Judite Blanc)

Jovenel in Miami with Pence

UEH university student hit and severely injured by (unpunished) Professor's car and MINUSTAH/PNH/Government repression more broadly (Jafrikayiti)

UN & cholera money

Labor Strikes update

In addition to my announced guests, Hugues Girard and Jafrikayiti, we were joined by Dr. Judite Blanc, a professor at UEH who has been held hostage in student/faculty negotiations in the past. In a long intervention in Kreyòl, Dr. Blanc deplored various Haitian stakeholders' indifference to the running over of a student (John Rock Gourgieder) by a car by of Professor Yves Blot. She explained the deterioration of the atmosphere at UEH and recalled her days as a student there when faculty actually debated issues rather than the current climate where violence seems to be the initial means of conflict resolution. She surmised that the social extraction of the students, who come from the most disadvantaged backgrounds in Haitian society, probably explains both the tensions between them and their middle class professors and the general indifference to or worse, endorsement of the violence with which their legitimate demands as students are met.

Jafrikayiti Jean Elissaint explained that based on his reputation as a leftist many are shocked that Professor Yves Blot could have committed such an act but also condemned it. (Note that the same sentiment is expressed by Dahoud André, host at Radyo Panou's Eritye Papa Desalin on Monday June 19th's installement of that show.)

I found out after the show that a petition is now being circulated in solidarity with John Rock Gourgieder, the student who was run over by a car on the UEH campus.

Listen to my interview on Hillary Clinton at Barclay's on Eritye Papa Desalin radio show

My segment starts at around 00:35 on yesterday's show:

https://erityepapadesalin.podbean.com/


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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?

Lanbi Call tonight with Timothy T Schwartz, Ph.D., author of "The Great Haiti Humanitarian Aid Swindle"

Thought I'd share this interesting conversation taking place tonight.  Dr. Schwartz' findings are exactly why I have been saying: do NOT donate to Western NGOs or missionaries in Haiti.


Listen to LANBI CALL, Mon, May 22, 9-10pm

On Monday, May 22, 2017, co-hosts Roger Leduc and Kim Ives go behind the news to analyze recent developments in Haiti on the bi-weekly radio show "Lanbi Call" on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City, and over the Internet, live or archived, at www.wbai.org.

Flash: Haitian TPS extended for 6 months!!!

Roger and Kim will talk to anthropologist Timothy T Schwartz, Ph.D., the author of The Great Haiti Humanitarian Aid Swindle. The inside story of how some of the world’s most respected humanitarian aid agencies have deceived and manipulated the overseas public regarding what is really happening in Haiti.

Legacy of 1804 | Daniel Jean-Louis | "From Aid to Trade" #LOF1804

Join us this Friday night at 9PM for another engaging discussion!

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

Hour 2:  Daniella and I discuss TPS, No Hillary at Medgar Evers, Haitian Flag Day



Listen live or archived right here at kiskeacity.com on the below player or at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pancaribbean/2017/05/20/legacy-of-1804-daniel-jean-louis-from-aid-to-trade-lof1804. You can also listen to the live broadcast at 714-242-6119.




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POST-SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

Daniel Jean-Louis ended up staying with us for the full two hours so we will address TPS and #NoHillaryatMedgar next week instead.

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.