Links to archives
of recent broadcasts about the Coup in Haiti
January 2004 Thursday
Jan 8, 2004 A Special Report from Haiti on
Ongoing Confrontations Between Aristide Supporters and the Right-wing
Opposition.
Friday
Jan
9, 2004 Special Reports from Port-au-Prince,
Haiti on the
Ongoing Violence as a Result of the US-Supported Embargo and Right-wing
Opposition Groups in the Country.
Friday
Jan 16, 2004 Medicinal marijuana users
ambushed in court by the DA and the feds under the guise of having
their chargers dismissed; Haiti’s opposition grows more violent as they
start burning down houses of grass roots supporters of Aristide. February 2004 Wednesday
Feb 11, 2004 An on-the-ground report from
Haiti, where violence continues to escalate.
Thursday
Feb 12, 2004 Is the US actively
participating in the destabilization of the duly-elected government of
Haiti, which could lead to a bloodbath?
Friday
Feb 13, 2004 We continue our coverage of
the expanding US-supported destabilization campaign in Haiti, we’ll get
a live report from Port-au-Prince with the latest details, and we’ll
speak to Representative Barbara Lee of California, who has been
following the situation there very closely.
Monday
Feb 16, 2004 We continue our coverage of
the expanding US-supported destabilization campaign in Haiti, we’ll get
a live report from Port-au-Prince with the latest details.
Tuesday
Feb 17, 2004 The General Council for the
government of Haiti in the United States speaks out against US support
of right-wing opposition in Haiti.
Thursday
Feb 19, 2004 An on-the-ground update on the
violence and civil unrest in Haiti; we speak to a Venezuelan activist
about the destabilization process already in the works for Venezuela.
Monday
Feb 23, 2004 Former death squad members
continue their rampage through Haiti. We feature a special report from
the streets of Port-au-Prince on the 2-year destabilization campaign,
and deep background on these US-supported coup leaders.
Tuesday
Feb 24, 2004 Haiti's US-supported coup
leaders continue their rampage against democracy and the people's will;
we'll continue our reports from Haiti and also get background from
Washington on the Bush connection to the Haitian killing fields.
Wednesday
Feb 25, 2004 US-supported death squads
continue their march towards Port-au-Prince while the poorest people in
the city prepare to resist the overthrow of democracy at all costs. Is
the US trying to make Venezuela the next Haiti?
Friday
Feb 27, 2004 Today on a special national
edition of Flashpoints, we spend the hour on the expanding crisis in
Haiti. We’ll feature a live report from our special correspondent Kevin
Pina, live in Port-au-Prince, we’ll speak with Representative Barbara
Lee of California, co-chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, we’ll
speak with Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, and the host of Family
Lavalas on Radio Soleil in Brooklyn, along with several Haitian
activists.
March
2004 Monday
Mar 1, 2004 Today on a special
national edition of Flashpoints, the Anatomy of a Coup and the
Kidnapping of a Democratically-Elected President by the US Marines.
We’ll feature an on-the-ground report from our Flashpoints special
correspondent Kevin Pina under fire; we’ll hear about an attack on a
radio station set up by Aristide and destroyed today by anti-Aristide
thugs as US Marines stood by; we’ll speak with Ira Kurzban, General
Counsel to the Haitian government and the Aristides; we’ll also speak
with a close personal friend of the Aristide's, Hazel Ross-Robinson,
former senior foreign policy analyst for Ron Dellums.
Tuesday
Mar 2, 2004 The US turns the keys to Haiti's
killing fields
back over to the killers; We'll have a report from Flashpoints Special
Correspondent Kevin Pina in Port-Au-Prince on revenge attacks against
Aristide supporters and on the Prime Minister, Yvon Neptune; We'll also
speak to Haitian activists across the country, and with Hazel
Ross-Robinson, a close personal friend of the Aristides.
Wednesday
Mar 3, 2004 A
Special Two
Hour Edition of Flashpoints:
Haiti's U.S. supported killers continue to
exact their bloody
revenge against leaders of Lavalas. We'll have our special reports from
our correspondent Kevin Pina, on the ground in Port-au-Prince
about these latest killings and about the treatment of the Prime
Minister. We'll hear about a tax on community organizations and
we'll counteract the massive disinformation campaign being carried out
against President Aristide by U.S. architects of the coup. Thanks to
Hard Knock Radio for allowing us this two hour work.
Thursday
Mar 4, 2004 We continue our reporting from the
US-sponsored
killing fields of Haiti; also the Ambassador to the United States from
the Central African Republic admits collaborating with the US to
silence Aristide as he remains under armed guard; also excerpts from
yesterday's congressional hearings on the US coup against Haiti and the
kidnapping of the elected president, and we focus on the situation in
Venezuela where the US government's destabilization attempts have
failed to date, but continue unabated.
Friday
Mar 5, 2004 An exclusive broadcast of President
Aristide’s
first address to the Haitian people and the people
of the world, recorded covertly this morning by cell phone; A
roundtable of Haitians and activists respond to the President’s words
and talk about the future of Haiti; Angry Haitians speak out from
yesterday’s protest on the coup against Aristide.
Monday
Mar 8, 2004
We continue our drumbeat coverage of the situation in
Haiti as the violent, US-backed coup surges into another week. We hear
the words of a twelve year-old Haitian girl in hiding from the death
squads; Flashpoints correspondent Kevin Pina returns with an
on-the-ground report; We go to the Central African Republic where
Aristide’s lawyers meet with him for the first time as they begin to
map out a legal strategy to undo the coup; A rebroadcast of Aristide’s
first address to the Haitian people, a Flashpoints exclusive; A
roundtable discussion on Haiti through the eyes of Haitian and American
women activists.
Tuesday
Mar 9, 2004
Attorneys for Jean-Bertrand Aristide start legal
proceedings against the United States government for their involvement
in the coup against the sitting president of Haiti. We'll continue our
on-the-ground reporting from Port-au-Prince, we'll hear from a young
Haitian media activist now in hiding and fearing for his life.
Wednesday
Mar 10, 2004
Haiti’s US supported
Death Squads continue to terrorize thousands of supporters of Jean
Bertrand Aristide; We’ll be joined by Kevin Pina in Port-au-Prince,
we’ll hear from Father Gerald Jean-Juste now under death threat by US
trained killers. We speak with the President’s attorney just back from
the Central African Republic.
Thursday
Mar 11, 2004
Two pro-democracy activists are killed and seven
wounded in a mass protest calling for the restoration of democracy in
Haiti, and the return of President Aristide; We'll feature a special
report from the ground on today's killings; We'll also continue our
coverage of pro-democracy activists under attack or in hiding from
US-sponsored military death squads; We'll hear from the mayor of a
northern Haiti city who has been in hiding since the coup and fears for
his life (transcript);
We'll hear from Haiti's foreign press liason on the steps
that led up to the coup, and the action taken by the international
community to restore Aristide.
Friday
Mar 12, 2004
We re-broadcast a documentary about the 1991 coup that sent President
Aristide into exile after his
first presidential election; Haiti, Drugs, Thugs and the CIA
shows how the CIA collaborated with drug-dealing Haitian military
terrorists like Guy Philippe for more than a decade.
Monday
Mar 15, 2004
While President Aristide lands in Jamaica, Haiti's U.S. trained killers
and Death Squads continue to hunt for pro-democracy activists; Despite
mainstream media reports to the contrary, U.S. Marines open fire on pro
democracy
demonstrators without provocation.
Also the people of Spain reject support
for the Iraqi War and elect a socialist to lead the government; and the
Knight Report
Tuesday
Mar 16, 2004
A frontline report from Haiti's US-sponsored
killing fields; Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez recognizes Jean
Bertrand Aristide as the legitimate leader of Haiti and offers him
sanctuary in Venezuela.
Also Remembering Rachel Corrie, we'll feature
excerpts from an interview we did with members of her family after she
was killed; the mayor of Santa Cruz proclaims today Rachel Corrie Day
in her honor; We'll speak to Brian Avery who was shot in the face while
standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people in the West Bank;
and a poem by Aurora Levins-Morales dedicated to Rachel Corrie; and
from New York City, The Knight Report
Wednesday
Mar 17, 2004
Breaking story on
false translation of what the US embassy called Aristide’s
resignation; Continued coverage of pro-democracy activists now in
hiding in Haiti facing beatings, torture, prison and assassination.
Also the massive car-bombing of a downtown Baghdad Hotel kills more
than 25 and
wounds scores. We’ll speak to a reporter from Al-Jezeera about the
bombing and about US coverage of the war. Laura Flanders talking about Bush
women. Celebrate
publication of Laura's book in SF, Thur March 18.
Thursday
Mar 18, 2004
We follow the lives of those in hiding and under
death threat since the US coup that drove President Aristide out of
Haiti. We'll speak with a youth reporter whose collegue was murdered by
US backed members of the former military. We hear from Haitian human
rights activist Mietzlean Wilson, also in hiding; and an Aristide
official who sneaked out of Haiti to brief members of congress and
demand temporary asylum for the growing numbers of Haitians fleeing the
violence. We'll hear from an American pro-democracy activist now in
Haiti protesting at the US embassy who was threatened by American
soldiers.
Also a report back from occupied Palestine where today Israeli
soldiers killed two children, and of course, the Knight Report.
Friday
Mar 19, 2004
A Priest in Haiti gives an update on the current situation on the
ground.
Also, on this one-year anniversary of the illegal Anglo-American
invasion and occupation of Iraq, we speak to Kathy Kelly of Voices in
the Wilderness; a look at this weekend’s elections in El Salvador, and
Kathleen Cleaver joins JR on the Block Report.
Monday
Mar 22, 2004
Haiti’s newly-installed US puppet government praises the death squad
coupists as pro-democracy activists continued to be hunted
down, tortured, imprisoned and killed.
Also, in Palestine, US-supported
Israeli colonialists assassinate the spiritual leader of Hamas, and the
streets of Gaza erupt into angry protests; Robert Fisk reports from
occupied Iraq on the latest details of US occupation.
Tuesday
Mar 23, 2004
An on the ground report from Haiti, where former Police
Deputy is hiding from U.S. backed Death Squads.
Also Israel attacks Lebanon
one day after the assasination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin in Palestine. An
in depth look at elections in El Salvador. We talk about the Group of
Five, Cubans held captive on trumped up charges and conviction.
Dolores Huerta talks about the Legacy of Hugo Chavez. The Knight Report.
Also - Dissecting the US-Israeli
relationship in the context of the recent assassination of Sheikh
Yassin in Gaza; Protesters in San Francisco descend on the Israeli
Consulate, denouncing the targeted assassination of Sheikh Yassin and
the complicity of the United States; ISM activist Lora Gordon speaks
about her time in occupied Rafah; poetry by Aurora Levins-Morales.
Thursday
Mar 25, 2004
An on-the-ground report from Haiti, where the
body count continues to rise.
Also - Palestinian leaders question the
circumstances of today's capture on camera of an alleged Palestinian
bomber; ISM activist Laura Gordon talks about her time in Gaza, in part
2 of our interview; an excerpt of a discussion on the questions
surrounding 9/11 and the current investigations; and a look at the
day-laborer situation for immigrants.
Friday
Mar 26, 2004
Special
Correspondent
Lyn Duff continues interviews with Pro Democracy Activists now hiding
in Haiti; Interviews with the right wing Group 184 now in
power in Haiti.
Also Bush
has a big laugh at US soldiers and Iraqies who were killed based on
his false claim on WMDS in
Iraq. We'll speak to military families who don't get the joke and two
war resistors who are not laughing; Why the 911 investigation group is
doomed to failure; Malcolm Marshall youth forum on war; And a poem by
Aurora Levins-Morales.
Monday
Mar 29, 2004
An exclusive interview with Haiti’s former drug czar and defense
minister, Patrick Elie, on
CIA involvement with terrorists and drug traffickers in Haiti; and a
report from Lyn Duff on a member of Lavalas in hiding from the death
squads.
Also - Phyllis Bennis on Sharon’s indictment and the killing of Sheikh
Yassin; Family member from 9/11 sues the federal government based on
the RICO law for racketeering and corruption; Interview with a family
member who says the 9/11 commission is throroughly under the control of
a Bush insider; the Knight Report.
Tuesday
Mar 30, 2004
The
US government pressures Jamaica to evict Aristide from the region as
the repression in Haiti continues, we’ll
feature a special report from Brian Concannon, attorney for President
Aristide just back from the Dominican Republic; also, we’ll hear from a
leader of Lavalas who risked his life to leave the country to testify
before Congress.
Also, a six year old Palestinian boy is shot in the
chest by Israeli colonizers in the West Bank after another vicious
raid; the Bush administration relents and allows National Security
Advisor Condoleezza Rice to testify before the 9/11 commission; and the
Knight Report.
April
2004 Thursday
Apr 01, 2004
We speak with Brian Concannon, a lawyer for president Aristide about
the latest legal
issues facing the exiled president and the increasing terror unleashed
by the U. S. supported death squads.
Also Robert Fisk dissects the latest violence in Iraq as the death
tolls of
Iraqis and American soldiers continue to spike, we will have a report
from him on the ground in Baghdad
Friday
Apr 02, 2004
Israeli security
forces attack Palestinian worshippers at the al-Aqsa Mosque on the
heels of a raid against a mental hospital in Bethlehem; Discussion on
the implications of the expanding resistance in Iraq; An update
from
the ground in Haiti; We will open the phones to discuss the
situation
in Iraq and Haiti.
Monday
Apr 05, 2004
Iraq is in flames: We
go to occupied Baghdad with a full report from Pratap
Chatterjee; We speak with Dr. Paul Farmer about the current
political
situation in Haiti as well as the dire medical catastrophe that is
worsening by the day; A look at the juvenile justice system after
California Youth Authority guards violently beat up kids as it was all
caught on camera; And the Knight Report.
Tuesday
Apr 06, 2004
A
dozen more marines are killed in Ramadi during fierce confrontations
with Shi'ite muslims loyal to Muqtada As-Sadr; meanwhile US attack
helicopters kill more than 20 in Fallujah. We feature reports from the
ground in Iraq and interviews with two middle eastern scholars. Also
Flashpoints Special Correspondent Lyn Duff reports from Haiti on the
continuing violence against pro-democracy activists and the arrests of
high-level Aristide officials. And from New York, the Knight Report
with Robert Knight
Wednesday
Apr 07, 2004
An in-depth discussion on the climate
of political terror in Haiti as the death squads and former military
continue their reign of terror. We’ll be joined in-studio by
Flashpoints Haiti correspondent Kevin Pina, and speak with a human
rights attorney about the growing numbers in Haiti’s killing fields.
Also - US forces open fire on Mosques as the situation continues to
worsen in
occupied Iraq, We’ll feature reports from the ground as well as an
interview with Robert Fisk; and the Knight Report
Friday
Apr 09, 2004
A Report from Iraq on
the bloody situation in Fallujah, where the death toll has risen
to more than 450 with over a thousand wounded; We’ll feature a report
on the situation in Baghdad, where gun battles and bomboings have
punctuated another day of the unraveling of the US occupation; Military
Families Speak Out as the US body count jumps; An update from the
Haitian killing fields; The price of US aggression back home as it
targets education.
Monday
Apr 12, 2004
More
violence rocks Baghdad and Fallujah; As the US occupying forces vow to
“capture or kill” Moqtada al-Sadr; An eyewitness reports from the
ground in Fallujah and Baghdad; A report from the ongoing killing
fields in Haiti after the US-led coup; A report with the first
indigenous governor of a Colombian state.
Tuesday
Apr 13, 2004
Expanding violence in Iraq and the kidnapping of foreigners as the
situation on the ground continues to worsen; we’ll have two reports
from Baghdad; Flashpoints special correspondent Kevin Pina in
studio to
report on the ongoing US-supported massacres in Haiti’s killing fields;
plus the Knight Report
Wednesday
Apr 14, 2004
US soldiers hover on
the outskirts of Najaf, threatening the city with what could amount to
a massacre and the destruction of an ancient city; also, mass murderer
and bribester, Ariel Sharon in Washington to seal the deal with Bush on
the West Bank steal; the former Justice Minister of Haiti talks
about
the phony attempt to indict President Aristide on drug trafficking
charges; plus the Knight Report
Friday
Apr 16, 2004
An on the ground
report from occupied Baghdad with special correspondent, where violence
and unrest continues to spread throughout Iraq; We go to Nablus for a
report on the
Bush-Sharon theft of Palestinian land; Haitians still in
hiding, we’ll
speak with Flashpoints special correspondent Lyn Duff on the ground in
Port-au-Prince; We’ll take a look at South Africa’s democratic
elections ten years after apartheid;
The Case for Impeaching the Bushies; and Poetry by Roaddawgz.
Thursday
Apr 22, 2004
A live report from Flashpoints Senior Producer Nora Barrows-Friedman on
the ground in
Hebron; Dahr Jamail in Fallujah on the ongoing US massacre; also special
excerpts from a teach-in on
the occupation of Haiti with Pierre Labossiere, founder of the Haiti
Action Network; and the bittersweet worldwide celebration of the
50th
birthday of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
Friday
Apr 23, 2004
Israeli colonizers continue their murders
of young children. More violence in Baghdad with a report from our
special correspondent Dahr Jamail. In Haiti, US marines close in on
entire neighborhoods where President Aristide had his strongest
support. Cesar Cruz on a march and fast against draconian budget
cuts
in the school system. And of course, the Knight Report.
