Episodes

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/OTG-JULY13-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On today’s show: As the crisis of separated immigrant families continues in the United States, have the courts set a dangerous precedent of seizing undocumented children for adoption by U.S. families? We speak to an immigration attorney. And the chief of DC’s Metropolitan Police Department is grilled by members of the DC Council about recent controversial cases of police brutality and misconduct. Plus headline...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/OTG-JULY6-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On this show: Contrary to the national trend of police officers not being charged for killing unarmed men, women and children, a police officer has been charged in the shooting death of 17-year-old Antwon Rose Jr. in East Pittsburgh. We speak to the attorney for the teenager’s family. And for 25 years, activists opposed to the death penalty have been holding an annual vigil and fast in front of the Supreme Cou...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/OTG-JUNE29-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On today’s show, author and historian Gerald Horne on the real history and politics of the Supreme Court. And whether it is Trump’s Muslim travel ban or increasing outrage over immigrant concentration camps, hundreds took to the streets of DC this week to raise their voices in protest. HEADLINES: -600 Arrested at Capitol Hill Protest to Keep Refugee Families Together… -Crowds of demonstrators also rallied o...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/OTG-JUNE22-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 The Documentary ‘Killing Gaza’ Exposes Israel War Crimes…Activist Lydia Curtis Discusses Decision to Be Arrested…Gerald Horne on U.S. Legacy of Racist Child Separation…Poor People’s Campaign Readies for Mass Rally… Voices: Dan Cohen, Gerald Horne, Manolo do los Santos, Lydia Curtis, Savina Martin On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation’s Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brin...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/OTG-JUNE15-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On this show, this month’s episode of the F-Word on fascism, with author Abba Solomon speaking on Israel, American Jews, Gaza and Crimes Against Humanity. And it’s Week Five of the Poor People’s campaign and thousands (including Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) gather on Capitol Hill and across the country to say stop separating immigrant children from their parents. Plus headlines. Headlines: -Gerald Hor...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/OTG-JUN8-2018-DIST-small.mp3 On this show, more voices from the Poor People’s Campaign. This week, dozens of people are arrested at the U.S. Capitol and across the country. The campaign says that black, brown and poor communities are at the epicenter of the ecological devastation that is making our earth uninhabitable for humans. Plus headlines on migrant children being separated from their parents; Trump wants to bail our nuclear and coal ...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/OTG-JUNE1-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 Voices from the Poor Peoples Campaign, being led by the Rev. William Barber the Rev. Liz Theo Harris on Capitol Hill. From voter suppression, to mass incarceration, to the destruction of immigrant families, people from across the country speak about the links between poverty and systemic racism. On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nations Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings ...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/OTG-MAY25-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On this show, as U.S. activists respond to the recent massacre in Gaza by ramping up the Boycott Divestment Sanctions Movement, they are opposing a bill advancing in Congress that would strip Americans of the right to boycott the apartheid state of Israel. We speak to Benjamin Douglas, an organizer with the DC Metro chapter Jewish Voice for Peace. And media critic Janine Jackson on new threats to reporters and ...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/OTG-MAY18-2017-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On today’s show, a tremendous week in DC, marked by demonstrations denouncing that massacre of peaceful protesters in Gaza and the launch of the national Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. And it’s the third show of the month, our time to talk about fascism on our segment The F-Word. Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka are my special guests for this month. Both give their views on how fundamenta...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/OTG-MAY11-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On today’s show, a convergence of the movement for Palestinian human rights and the Movement for Black Lives. Activists building solidarity and the nuts and bolts of the Boycott, Divestment Sanctions Movement were in conversation recently at Georgetown University. Also, mothers of those slain by police/state-sanctioned violence rally at Capitol Hill. On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation’s Capita...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/OTG-MAY4-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On today’s show, voices from May Day, International Workers Day, celebrated here in DC, in solidarity with people around the country and world. And that performance by comedian Michelle Wolf at the White House Correspondents Dinner is still raising controversy. And the response to it is proof positive that the corporate media can dish it out but can’t take it. This was definitely a week for people in DC standing...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/SUB-SUB-OTG-APRIL27-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On this show, activist and radio show host Brian Becker on why the anti-war movement is split on opposing U.S. attacks on Syria. And it’s the fourth Friday of the month, time for our in-depth focus on culture and media, and Brian stays with us as we look at the news and information landscape in this new ‘cold war’ in the United States. And we have voices outside the Supreme Court continuing to oppose ...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/OTG-APRIL20-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On today’s show former CIA officer turned peace activist Ray McGovern on what is really happening in Syria, what ‘Russiagate’ is really about, and breaking news about all the DC palace intrigue, chaos, positioning, spinning and plotting. Of course Gerald Horne joins us to break down international news. More Headlines: -Some members of Congress have signed a joint statement condemning Israel for killing doze...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/OTG-APRIL13-2018-DIST-SMALLmp3.mp3 Today’s show is about war, rumors of war, justice for Palestine and justice here in the US–for Terrence Sterling in DC and Stephon Clark in Sacramento. And scientists are taking to the streets April 14 for the 2018 March for Science here in DC and in locations around the country and globe. Headlines on Facebook and more. On The Ground-Voices of Resistance from the Nation’s Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/OTG-APR6-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 This week and show marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. We speak with Sean Blackmon, organizer in the Movement for Black Lives. we also have Voices from the Rally to End Racism and from a rally to condemn the massacre of unarmed Palestinian protesters by Israel Defense Forces. Plus Headlines: -Actor and activist Danny Glover speaks at Rally to End Racism. -Howard ...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/OTG-MAR30-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On today’s show, truth and lies in the news. ‘Gaslighting’ is a form of manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group, hoping to make them question their own memory, perception, and sanity. We speak with media critic Janine Jackson and with our geopolitical analyst Gerald Horne. Also, unheard voices from the March for Our Lives and headlines. Headlines...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/OTG-MAR23-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On this show, we mark the 15th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which killed up to two million Iraqis, displaced millions more and destabilized the entire Middle East. We speak with Sam Husseini, director of media and communications for the Institute for Public Accuracy. Also, DC’s own homegrown music, go-go, just went home to the land of the drum, Africa. We have a report about the Backyard Band in Gh...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/OTG-MAR16-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On this show, our first 2018 episode of ‘The F-Word,’ when we talk about fascism. Professor Margaret Stevens, author of the new book, Red International and Black Caribbean: Communists in New York City, Mexico and the West Indies 1919 to 1939, joins us And one million students marching around the country to demand sensible gun laws! So we have students speaking outside the U.S. Capitol. Headlines: -Activists p...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/OTG-MAR9-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 Today we spend the hour with the scholar Angela Simms and the activists Maurice Carney and Ajamu Baraka speaking at a 60th anniversary program marking the historic 1958 All-African People’s Conference held in Accra, Ghana. This program was at the Festival Center in Northwest DC on Saturday, February 17th 2018. That 1958 conference was the first major Pan-African gathering organized on African soil and the theme ...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/OTG-MAR2-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3March is beginning with lots of big issues being addressed in DC. This week, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments in Janus v. AFSCME, a case backed by billionaires that would allow workers who are not union members but receive pay raises and other benefits negotiated by the union, to not pay union dues. Tens of thousands of people gathered February 24th at events around the country for the Working People’s Da...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/OTG-FEB23-2018-DIST-small.mp3 On today’s show, news and topics about real Africa – and about the fantasy Africa on the big screen. The 60th Anniversary of the All-African People’s Conference was just celebrated around the world. Gerald Horne is back from the Pan-African Film Festival in Los Angeles. And our favorite comic book nerd Makani Themba talks us down about “The Black Panther” movie. Photo: Patrice Lummba and Kwame Nkrumah at the 1...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/OTG-FEB16-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On this show, from DC, to Flint, Michigan to the Grand Canyon, access to safe water is being threatened by lead contamination, corporate polluters, the bottled water industry and fracking. We will speak to the scientist who helped to expose the lead water crises in Flint Michigan and in Washington, DC -Yes in Washington, DC – and across the nation. Professor Mark Edwards of Virginia Tech University joins us for ...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/OTG-FEB9-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On this show, we spend the hour with historian, author and activist Gerald Horne and his new critically praised book, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean. Headlines on launch of the Poor People’s Campaign, workers at George Washington University Hospital seek unpaid wages, a stop to union-busting tacti...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/OTG-FEB2-2018-DISTsmall.mp3 At the end of January 2018, there were dozens of actions in and around DC this week, some related to the now infamous State of the Union address. Some dealing, rather, with the REALITIES we face like climate change and the U.S. government’s involvement in wars and attacks in the Middle East. In the second half of the show, we hear voices from outside the White House marking one year of resistance to the Muslim T...