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August 17th, 2007, 01:36 AM
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Randall Robinson on the US kidnapping of Haiti's Aristide
Democracy Now! - Monday, July 23rd, 2007
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Randall Robinson on "An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President"
Monday, July 23rd, 2007
Democracy Now! | Randall Robinson on "An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President"TransAfrica Founder Randall Robinson chronicles the 2004 U.S.-backed coup that ousted Haiti's democratically elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Robinson challenges the Bush administration's claim that the Aristides voluntarily left Haiti and recalls his trip to the Central African Republic to bring the Aristides back to the Caribbean. He also reveals new details on the U.S.-backed coup militants armed and trained in neighboring Dominican Republic, including the accused drug smuggler Guy Philippe. As the Aristides remain in exile, Randall Robinson joins us in the Firehouse studio for the hour to talk about the coup, the history of Haiti and the state of affairs there since the 2004 coup. Over 10,000 people marched in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince last Sunday. They were calling for the return of the exiled president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. It was his fifty-fourth birthday. A number of people spoke, we begin with the folksinger Annette Auguste, popularly known as "So An."
* Annette Auguste
On February 29th, 2004, the democratically elected president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was removed from office by the United States and flown to the Central African Republic. Two weeks later, in defiance of the United States, a delegation led by California Congressmember Maxine Waters and TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson chartered a plane and headed off to Central African Republic themselves to bring President Aristide and his wife back to the Caribbean. I accompanied them on that trip. After hours of negotiating with the dictator in the capital Bangui they freed the Aristides. As we flew back over the Atlantic, President Aristide said that he had been kidnapped in a US-backed coup d'etat.
* Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Its now more than three years later. The Aristides remain in exile in South Africa and Randall Robinson has just written a book called An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President.
He flew in from the Carribean island of St. Kitts last night and joins us in our firehouse studio today.
* Randall Robinson, author of An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President. He is founder and past president of TransAfrica and the author of the bestsellers The Debt, The Reckoning, and Defending the Spirit. His website is RandallRobinson.com.
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A very enlightening hour discussion with a very experienced, knowledgable, and admirable man. I learned quite a bit just from this single broadcast. Very highly recommended viewing! 
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August 18th, 2007, 12:45 AM
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I try to watch Link tv as often as I can. Always news you can only get from them.Last show was on black vs white bedouins in Israel. Very interesting.
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August 18th, 2007, 08:39 PM
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I try to watch Link tv as often as I can. Always news you can only get from them.Last show was on black vs white bedouins in Israel. Very interesting.
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Link TV, wow, I looked it up and I am just blown away by all that they offer!
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Nice to see that they carry Democracy Now! as well. Thanks for the tip, Sister Auset!
By the way, did you watch the Randall Robinson interview? If so, what did you think of it? |
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August 21st, 2007, 07:31 PM
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Link TV, wow, I looked it up and I am just blown away by all that they offer!
Link TV | Television Without Borders
Nice to see that they carry Democracy Now! as well. Thanks for the tip, Sister Auset!
By the way, did you watch the Randall Robinson interview? If so, what did you think of it? |
No, I didn't see it on TV but got it in a email and read it. I don't really understand why USA is so bent on destroying Cuba & Haiti.
LinkTV has many very interesting programs. I would advise everyone to just
check them out.
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