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A Season in Hell #4: Radio Valencia – Kevin Pina and Haiti

Monday, September 6, 6pm

Here’s the link to tonight’s broadcast. It’s broken up into two one-hour mp3’s. Enjoy.
First hour.
Second hour.

Tonight’s guest, Kevin Pina is an American journalist and filmmaker. He is known for his reporting that focused on human rights abuses in Haiti following the ouster of Jean-Bertrand Aristide on February 29, 2004 and the installation of the interim government of Gerard Latortue and Boniface Alexandre in March 2004. Pina reported on events in Haiti from 2003-2006 as a Special Correspondent for the radio program, Flashpoints,

heard on KPFA – the flagship station of Pacifica Radio based in Berkeley, California. Pina is also the Founding Editor of the Haiti Information Project (HIP), a non-profit news agency based in Port-au-Prince and Northern California, and an Associate Editor for the Black Commentator, an online magazine.

This promises to be a hard-hitting discussion.

Check out these sites for more information regarding Haiti:

Haiti Action
Haiti Information Project

Music that followed the interview:

Come Undone: Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan
Big Wave: Jenny and Johnny
Still Alive: Three Mile Pilot

Perfect plan: Sarah Jaffe

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