Episodes

2018 in Review With Historian Gerald Horne…The New Cold War With China…The New Climate Militancy…Aretha…And MUCH More

Debunking “Russian Influence” on African American Voters…What Does the Mike Flynn Case Prove?…Headlines on Landmark Clean Energy DC Act, Justice for Jakelin, Maryland Governor’s ‘Private’ Roads Program and More. Interviews with Gerald Horne and Gareth Porter. Maha Hilal and Darakshan Raja speaking at a Justice for Jakelin rally outside Offices of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/OTG-DEC7-2018SMALL.mp3 The Facts and Fiction of George H.W. Bush…The Segregationist Roots of the ‘School Choice’ Movement…Plus Headlines on the Green New Deal and More. Headlines: -More than 30 members of the faculty at Temple University, where Marc Lamont Hill teaches, have signed an open letter voicing support for him and no confidence in the chairman of the board of the university, Patrick O’Connor. -Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Ale...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/OTG-NOV30-2018-SMALL.mp3 Marc Lamont Hill’s Palestine Solidarity Speech at the UN Earns Him a Pink Slip from CNN (Full Speech) …EJ Activist Heads to Climate Conference in Poland…Plus Gerald Horne on the Dog Days of ‘Russiagate’ and More Headlines: Headlines: After 15 years of the so-called War on Terror, the Senate voted Wednesday to advance a War Powers Resolution that could end U.S. funding of Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen. An exclusive s...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/OTG-NOV23-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 Chris Hedges on His New Book: America, The Farewell Tour…A Black Lives Matter Victory in DC…Hate Crimes Rise in Capital Region… Plus Headlines: –U.S. White supremacists train with neo-Nazis in Ukraine. –A prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia accidentally revealed recently that Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been indicted in the district, and the indictment is sealed. –As the numbers of de...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/OTG-NOV.16-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 One hundred years after the end of World War One, veterans gather to reclaim the true meaning of Armistice Day. And for this month’s episode of the F-Word on fascism, human rights activist Ajamu Baraka joins us to talk about the military-industrial complex. Plus headlines: -In climate news, dozens of young environmentalists with the Sunrise Movement, occupied the office of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, demanding a gree...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/OTG-NOV9-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 After the Midterm elections, Michele Roberts speaks to environmental justice activists about what the election means for critical issues in their communities. Journalist Jon Jeter also weighs in on the elections: Did vote results in Florida and Georgia raise questions about the Me Too Movement? Pete Tucker reveals the ignored story of voter suppression in Maryland. Plus Gerald Horne on international news and ...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/OTG-NOV2-2018-DIST-SMALLxx.mp3 Jews and Allies Condemn Trump Outside White House…Gerald Horne on Trump and the 14th Amendment…Voices from the Shutdown of the PLO Mission…Plus Headlines Headlines: -At a rally in front of the White House, speakers drew connections between a massacre of Jews in Pittsburgh and Trump’s embrace of White nationalism. -In addition to highlighting the rift between American Jews and the Trump administration, the ma...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/OTG-OCT26-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 Medea Benjamin on Saudi Arabia, Khashoggi, Yemen and Iran…Jill Stein at the Women’s March on the Pentagon…Plus Headlines on Police Brutality, Largest U.S. Oil Spill Ever and More… VOICES: Medea Benjamin, Gerald Horne, Jill Stein

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/otg-oct19-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 Student Activists for Justice in Palestine Speak Out On Being Targeted by the “Canary Mission” Surveillance Website …The F-Word: Abba Solomon on Israel as a Neofascist State… Plus Headlines: -Indigenous women from across the United States rallied in Northwest DC this week and met with 94 banks, demanding that the banks obey their own rules and stop funding fossil fuel projects that violate native land and tha...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/otg-oct12-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 Gerald Horne on Suspected Saudi Murder of Journalist, the Rise of a Fascist in Brazil and Pence’s Cold War Speech Against China…Finale of DC in the Era of Climate Change with Michele Roberts…Plus headlines. Headlines: -Dire report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. -Brian Kemp, Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State running against Democrat Stacey Abrahams is holding up 53,000 voter registr...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/OTG-OCT5-2018-SMALL.mp3 This show includes part four of our series, “DC in the Era of Climate Change,” focusing on the impact of climate change on human health. Pictured: Katie Huffling, executive director of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments. (Photo by Esther Iverem) Also part two of our interview with the novelist Walter Mosley. Headlines: –Hundreds Arrested at Kavanaugh Protests on Capitol Hill. –World’s Richest Man, Je...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OTG-SEPT28-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 After a day of dramatic testimony and many unanswered questions remaining, the Senate Judiciary Committee votes on whether to approve Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh for full Senate confirmation. And in the third installment of our series, DC in the era of Climate Change, a controversial proposed electric substation near a school in DC has become a flashpoint for community empowerment in a rapidly gentr...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OTG-SEPT21-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On today’s show: DC IN THE ERA OF CLIMATE CHANGE: PART 2 If public transportation was free, would more people give up the single passenger car? We speak to three experts who also ride those pricey Metro trains in DC. And we caught up with Filmmaker Michael Moore before the DC premiere of his new movie, “Fahrenheit 11/9.” Plus Headlines: –A successful ballot initiative to raise the wages of tipped workers in...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OTG-SEPT14-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 As Hurricane Florence batters the Mid-Atlantic, a discussion with Kristina Dahl of the Union of Concerned Scientists about how the nation’s capital is impacted by worsening climate change. And ten years ago this week, there was the world economic crash of 2008, which resulted in millions of Americans “losing their jobs and homes. Now, a decade later, has there really been a recovery? We speak to analyst Dedri...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OTG-SEPT7-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 This last show in our summer series of unheard voices of 2018 is all about environmental justice. First, an exclusive interview with the elder Sarah James of the Gwich’in people of Alaska and Canada. She speaks about the Trump plan, approved by Congress in the massive tax cut bill, to open up the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or ANWR to oil exploration and drilling. This June, people from all over th...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/OTG-AUG31-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 This is the second show featuring unheard Voices of Resistance from 2018. This is part two of our presentation from a recent DC Council public hearing where residents spoke out on brutality and misconduct by the Metropolitan Police Department. The July hearing was held after several controversial interactions between police and residents in DC’s predominantly Black neighborhoods. And after no officers were char...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/OTG-AUG24-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 This is the first show featuring unheard Voices of Resistance from 2018. This is part one of our presentation from a recent DC Council public hearing where residents spoke out on brutality and misconduct by the Metropolitan Police Department. The July hearing was held after several controversial interactions between police and residents in DC’s predominantly Black neighborhoods. And after no officers were charg...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/OTG-AUG17-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 Unheard Voices Counter the ‘Unite the Right2’ Rally at the White House…What is Happening in Venezuela?…Headlines on Keystone XL, Children Still Snatched from their Parents, Young Climate Activists Challenge Dems. Voices: Jeanette Charles, Eugene Puryear, Brian Becker, Voices from Occupy Lafayette Park August 12 Against Racism. Headlines: –A federal court in Montana sided this week with opponents of the Keyst...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/OTG-AUG10-2018-DIST-SMALLmp3.mp3 On this show, activists in and around DC, and traveling to DC, prepare to counter a rally by Nazis, Ku Klux Klan and other fascist groups…The June 2017 “free speech” rally at the Lincoln Memorial was a “dress rehearsal” for the deadly rally in Charlottesville…The so-called Unite the Right 2 Rally is occurring after Black Lives Matter organizations round the country held annual “Night Out for Safety and Liber...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/SUB_OTG-AUG3-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 How Children Are Impacted By Family Separation…A Region Effort to Protect Teen Girls… Headlines on: -Toddler dies after being released from ICE detention. -March on the NRA -Rally for Missing Children -Protest Poor Conditions of DC Jail -Palestine-Ahed Tamimi -Culture and Media: -Comedy Benefit for Climate -Night out for Safety and Liberation -Facebook, -Gerald Horne on Zimbabwe and More… More Vo...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/OTG-JULY27-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 Makani Themba on Russia-phobia, police brutality, the kidnapping of immigrant children and the movie ‘Sorry to Bother You’…Gerald Horne on the BRICS Summit Headlines: March and Sit-in for Immigrant Families Youth Climate March Zero Hour #RedforFeds Federal Workers Rally Takoma Park, MD Development BRICS Summit in South Africa A Rewrite of the 14th Amendment? Voices: Makani Themba, Gerald Horne, Kamal...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/OTG-JULY20-2018-DIST-small.mp3 On this show, our monthly segment “The F-Word.” Historian Gerald Horne on how some of acts of genocide and atrocities are labeled as fascist and others are not. And, whether it is jobs, the climate or the destruction of immigrant families, people in DC are speaking up and fighting for our lives, not for the obsession with Russia of the think-tank pundit class. On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nati...