Episodes

ON THE GROUND FOR NOVEMBER 29, 2019 For this hour, DC-based journalist Max Blumenthal and journalist and comedian Lee Camp joins fellow writerS Margaret Kimberley and Aaron Mate on a panel titled: ‘Propaganda: How Propaganda Manufactures Consent’, sponsored by the Big Apple Coffee Party at the Community Church of NYC on Tuesday, November 19, 2019. SUPPORT ‘ON THE GROUND’ ON GIVING TUESDAY! REAL JOURNALISM AND TRUTH ARE UNDER ATTACK. HELP US FIGHT BACK! MAKE YOUR TAX-DEDUCTIBLE PATREON OR PAYPAL....

ON THE GROUND FOR NOVEMBER 22, 2019 As the U.S.-backed military coup in Bolivia continues to kill and attack peaceful protesters, a rare eyewitness report from a massive rally in La Paz by Medea Benjamin of Code Pink. And what is it about foreign policy that separates the real left from the fake left? Journalist Ben Norton on Elizabeth Warren’s true colors. Plus headlines If you enjoy our grassroots news show, which we provide free online, on podcast and on Pacifica stations and affiliates, ple...

While impeachment hearings about one man dominate the news, thousands rally at the Supreme Court for an immigration case that could impact millions. And all around the world, from the Congo to Chile, from Iraq to Honduras, it is young people who are taking to the streets to fight for a future. In that spirit, we present our second feature from our recent trip to Cuba: An interview with two Americans training in Cuba to be doctors. Plus Headlines: Thousands rallied outside the court in an action...

Part one of our coverage from a gathering of 1500 people from around the globe who met in Havana, Cuba for the Anti-Imperialist Solidarity Meeting, for Democracy and Against Neoliberalism. The conference occurred as millions around the world, from Iraq to Haiti, from Chile to Honduras, protest in the streets against vast wealth inequality, poverty, environmental collapse and all the social ills brought about by the exploitation of people and natural resources for profit. Headlines: For the 28th...

Millions Protest Bitter Fruits of Neoliberalism..Hundreds Gather in Cuba for Anti-Imperialist Conference…Remembering the Best of Jon Conyers and More Headlines: NOTE: THIS SHOW DID NOT AIR ON THE DC STATION SO CHECK IT OUT HERE. After weeks of mass protests throughout Iraq, a number of rockets struck near the US embassy in Bagdad’s Green Zone. Hundreds of people are gathering through Sunday, November 3 in Havana, Cuba for the Anti-imperialist Meeting of Solidarity, for Democracy and against Ne...

A new report on FBI surveillance details how nearly every major social movement of the past decade — including Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter– has been targeted by the FBI. And while this week’s Washington drama included Republicans bumrushing Trump’s impeachment hearing, far more dramatic testimony was heard about fossil fuel giants like Exxon knowing and lying for decades about climate change. Headlines: on Syria; Impeachment; Baby Foods Test Positive for Heavy Metals; Catholic act...

At the Rage Against the War Machine March, peace activists stop at The Washington Post to speak out against corporate medias complicity in warmongering. The march and die-in provides the perfect opportunity to remember the real costs of war. Headlines: Biden’s Syria Lie; Sanders Makes Comeback; Update on Chicago Teachers and UAW Strikes; Elijah Cummings; DC Continues Plan to Destroy McMillan Park; Oct. 19 Activism in DC: March for Migrants, National Network on Cuba and Celebration for the 50th ...

From housing displacement, to police abuse, to raging against the war machine, people are raising their voices and fists against the forces of exploitation. And scientists make a shocking discovery in the Arctic ocean. Where before the ocean floor was solid ice, it is now giving way to methane boiling up from the deep. If you enjoy our grassroots news show, which we provide free online, on podcast and on Pacifica stations and affiliates, please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on ...

ON THE GROUND FOR OCTOBER 4, 2019 On this show, calls for justice for Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered one year ago in Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Turkey. And this week also marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China. What is the impact of China’s revolution today? We speak to Brian Becker of the ANSWER Coalition. Headlines on Guaido faction looting Venezuela and more… Links: Anya Parampil on the looting of Citgo by Guaido gang. If you ...

ON THE GROUND FOR SEPTEMBER 27, 2019 While the media swarm focuses on Trump’s telephone conversation with Ukraine’s president, why is it ignoring a bigger Ukraine story involving U.S. military support for neo-Nazis? We speak to journalist Ben Norton. And those impacted by Trump’s Muslim ban finally get their day in Congress to speak out! Headlines on Trump at the U.N., impeachment inquiry and more… Links: Ben Norton’s story at the Grayzone If you enjoy our grassroots news show, which we provi...

For young people on the front lines of climate change, the crisis is not a future reality, but, rather, a clear and present danger that fills them with anxiety, depression and uncertainty about what is permanent. DC activists march and rally in the Global Climate Strike demanding that U.S. lawmakers treat the climate crisis like the emergency that it is. If you enjoy our grassroots news show, which we provide free online, on podcast and on Pacifica stations and affiliates, please click here or ...

Family Members of Those Killed on Boeing 737 Max Speak Out in DC…John Bolton is OUT…Headlines on No Asylum for Bahamians, Voter Suppression, Trump Appoints Lifetime Arch Conservative Judges and More… If you enjoy our grassroots news show, which we provide free online, on podcast and on Pacifica stations and affiliates, please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly ...

On this show, writers speak out at the Poets for Puerto Rico fundraiser held at the American Poetry Museum in Northeast DC on September 22nd 2018, one year after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, killing 3,000 TO 8,000 people as the island languished in neglect from the U.S. federal government. With Tony Medina, Seve Torres, Ana Portnoy Brimmer, Evelyn Mejil, C. Thomas, Anthony Morales, Noel Quiñones, Nicole Capó Martinez, Sami Miranda If you enjoy our grassroots news show, which we provi...

ON THE GROUND FOR AUGUST 30, 2019 With a combination of anger and mourning at the intentional burning of the Amazon Rainforest, activists from Extinction Rebellion and other groups rally outside the Brazilian Embassy, demanding an end to the destruction. And hundreds rallied in Northwest DC to protest the leasing of a building to serve as a detention center for immigrant children. Plus headlines. Headlines: Community activists go to court to prevent the District of Columbia from demolishing his...

ON THE GROUND AUGUST 23, 2019 Israel’s banning of two Congresswomen, two Muslim women of color, because of their support for the Boycott, Divestment Sanctions movement, was just the latest in an ongoing series of political firestorms involving the relationship between Israel and the United States, and the power that Israel and the Israeli lobby exert on U.S. laws, including free speech. Earlier this year, hundreds of activists and scholars meeting at the National Press Club boldly confronted the...

Late August 2019 is the actual time period marking the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Africans in the English colony of Jamestown in 1619. So we have a rebroadcast of our interview with historian Gerald Horne about this international commemoration and opportunity to reexamine the world-altering impact of the enslavement of African people. And August has many anniversaries. From Mike Brown being shot to death by police in Ferguson five years ago, to the many historical markers of what is kno...

ON THE GROUND AUGUST 9, 2019 From DC, to Mississippi, to Venezuela, to Mozambique, people all over the globe are fighting back against white supremacy and U.S. imperialist violence. And with accused mass murderers echoing the racist rhetoric of Donald J. Trump, a reprise of our conversation with author Henry Giroux, about the rise of neoliberal fascism in the United States and how fascism starts with language. Headlines on White House protests against Trump’s racist rhetoric and against new eco...

ON THE GROUND AUGUST 2, 2019 On the Ground was in Cuba in April and May 2019 as part of the 14th Annual May Day International Brigade of Voluntary Work and Solidarity with Cuba, during which we traveled to throughout Western and Central Cuba, hearing from Cubans about their lives and views about what is happening internationally. As is happening in Venezuela, the stepped up imperialist attack in Cuba is uniting the population of 11 million, which had just overwhelmingly voted to ratify its new c...

ON THE GROUND JULY 26, 2019 On this month’s F-Word segment on fascism, author and cultural critic Henry A. Giroux, says that fascism starts with words. His new book is The Terror of the Unforeseen, in which he describes the rise of neoliberal fascism in the United States. Gerald Horne on the latest U.S obsession with Russia… Headlines on Mueller, Tulsi Gabbard and more.. Mueller Testimony is a Bust Head of Customs and Border Patrol Grilled by Congress on Abuse of Migrants and on Conduct of CBP...

After announced immigrant raids all but fizzled, this week, the Trump administration turned to attack four progressive members of Congress, all women of color, who fought back. And as the politics of distraction heats up before the 2020 election, progressive activism keeps the focus on policy and human needs. Plus headlines: Rep. Ilhan Omar introduced a resolution Wednesday affirming the use of boycotts as a tactic that is a constitutionally-protected form of free speech. The House of Represen...

Days before the Trump administration is set to begin raids on immigrant families around the country, Yazmin Juarez, who came to the U.S. seeking asylum, offers heart-wrenching testimony to Congress about the death of her daughter just after she was released from a U.S. border detention facility. And as British commandos still hold a seized oil tanker belonging to Iran, Gerald Horne weighs the implications of U.S.-backed provocations around the globe. Also, an interview with immigration attorney ...

‘ON THE GROUND’ FOR JULY 5, 2019 As Donald Trump spends millions to promote U.S. militarism on Independence Day, anti-war activists gather on the national mall to denounce tanks and war planes used as political props. And as outrage grows over increased abuse of asylum seekers by the U.S. federal government, human rights defenders mark the tenth anniversary of the U.S.-backed coup in Honduras, which they say has given rise to a narco dictatorship, that is forcing Hondurans to flee north to t...

From U.S. warmongering, to the imprisonment of Julian Assange, to the stories that movies tell us. We have an in-depth conversation about corporate media and national and international news with journalist Jon Jeter. And after three years of delay by Mayor Bowser and DC police, a Superior Court judge orders Washington, DC to begin collecting information about the race of those they stop and frisk. Plus Headlines: -Progressives in the House of Representatives were outraged this week after House ...

‘On the Ground’ for June 21, 2019 At a Congressional hearing this week, witnesses offered expert testimony about the need for reparations for the descendants of enslaved Africans living in the United States. And on this month’s episode of the F-Word on fascism, an activist says that Americans need to wake up and confront the reality of what this country is becoming. Plus headlines: –The New York Times reported that Donald Trump approved a missile strike on Iran on Thursday but abruptly halted t...