Episodes

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/OTG-JAN19-2018-DISTsmall.mp3 This week marks many milestones. The holiday honoring the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is being celebrated as the world also remembers the 50th anniversary of his assassination. On this show we hear voices of historians and activists speaking out at the launch of a new major exhibit, “City of Hope,” curated by the National Museum of African American History and Culture and mounted at their gallery...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2.OTG-JAN12-2018-REBROADCAST-DISTsmall.mp3 Voices from day two of the People’s Tribunal on the Iraq War. The tribunal was sponsored by Code Pink Dec. 1-2, 2016 here in Washington DC at the University of the District of Columbia Law School. On our last show, we featured voices from the first day of the tribunal, which focused on the lies used to invade Iraq in 2003, lies, war crimes and other violations of international law that killed, inju...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/1.OTG-JAN5-2018-RE-BROADCAST-DISTSMALL.mp3 Voices from the Peoples Tribunal on the Iraq War. The tribunal was sponsored by Code Pink Dec. 1-2, 2016 in Washington DC at the University of the District of Columbia Law School. The first day focused on the lies used to invade Iraq. The tribunal is an ongoing project that can be reached, joined and viewed in full at www.iraqtribunal.org Ray McGovern, Vijay Prashad, Rep. Barbara Lee,Medea Benjami...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/OTG-DEC29-2017-DISTS-SMALL.mp3 This is our final, jam-packed show for 2017. Extended conversations about this year– the notorious 017 –with media critic Janine Jackson an geopolitical analyst Gerald Horne. Headlines on progressive victories in the U.S. and abroad from Food and Water Watch, the Transnational Institute, Common Dreams and One DC.

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/OTG-DEC22-2017DISTSMALL.mp3 This year’s final segment of The F-Word, our monthly discussion of fascism and fascist directions, this month with Georgetown media studies professor Christopher Chambers. We also hear voices from a protest this week against a controversial pipeline project, this one directly impacting the nation’s capital. The Potomac Pipeline segment is part of our series, “DC in the Era of Climate Change” Headlines: DACA, Tax...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/OTG-DEC15-2017-DISTSMALL.mp3 The Federal Communications Commission votes to scrap Net Neutrality rules that ensure equal access to the Internet for everyone. Now, corporations like Comcast and Verizon can create fast lanes and slow lanes of Internet traffic, sabotage the content of rivals, block content and charge websites to simply reach their users. On the Ground was at the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday when hundreds ralli...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/OTG-DEC8-2017DISTSMALL.mp3 On this show, economist Richard Wolff discusses the GOP tax plan”some call it a tax scam” which experts say would be one of the largest transfers of wealth to the one percent in the history of the United States. Gerald Horne on Jerusalem and Honduras. And with other measures tucked into the tax bill, such as the loss of healthcare for 13 million people, scores of protesters descended on the capitol this week, and ...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/OTG-DEC1-2017-distsmall.mp3 On this show, voices of residents of public housing in DC who are fighting–like many urban poor and working class people around the country–displacement, gentrification and the loss of communities where some have lived for generations. We caught the premiere of a community theater presentation “On My Mind/In My Heart: Voices of Women in Public Housing,” which will be touring around Washington, DC in December. Als...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/OTG-NOV24-2017DISTSMALL.mp3 Today we discuss what is really happening in Zimbabwe with historian and author Gerald Horne and, in the second half, media critic Janine Jackson says that the Federal Communications Commission is just the latest federal agency that is supposed to be working for the people but is, instead, working against the people. Also, headlines and segments on March for Puerto Rico on November 19, Trump ends protected status...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/OTG-NOV17-2017DISTSUBSMALL.mp3 Today, a second examination of the Russian Revolution at its centennial. Today’s remarks are by the economist Richard Wolff, who breaks down some seldom heard history and discusses successes and failures of the former Soviet Union. And because part of that history is the fact that the Soviet union was decisive in the defeat of Nazi Germany, Wolff’s segment will serve as this month’s episode of The F-word about...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/OTG-NOV10-2017DIST-SMALL.mp3 We hear a major address given in DC by scholar and activist Anthony Monteiro to mark the centennial of the Russian Revolution and its impact around the world during the last century. Plus headlines: -On Nov. 7 elections -The Black is Back Coalition conference -Young immigrants rally for a legislation for DACA, or Deferred Action for Child Arrivals. -Climate News -Saudi Arabia -Bill Binney -Gorka goes to F...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/OTG-NOV3-2017-DIST-SMALL.mp3 A major new a report is released titled, “Autopsy: The Democratic Party in Crisis” about the loss by Democrats in the 2016 U.S. presidential race. We speak to an author and an analyst of thereport. We also hear voices from among those who gathered at the Capitol to protest the Trump-Republican tax cut for the rich that economists say could be the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class since the 2008 e...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/OTG-OCT27-2017-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On this show, the first in a series of segments marking important anniversaries in 2017. On October 15, 1987, the African leader and visionary Thomas Sankara was assassinated after making revolutionary changes in the country that was named Upper Volta by French colonizers and that he renamed Burkino Faso. Also, on October 9, 1967, Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara was assassinated in Bolivia. We hear voices from ...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/OTG-OCT20-2017-DIST-small.mp3 Ryan Grim, Washington bureau chief for the Intercept, joins us to talk about dozens of children dying in the custody of for-profit foster care homes that are funded with our tax dollars. Gerald Horne breaks down international affairs, including Niger and the right-wing swing in Austria. And we hear about immigrants, including Haitians, El Salvadorans and Hondurans, who came to the United States fleeing violence...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/OTG-OCT13-2017-MONO-small.mp3 On this show, DC in the Era of Climate Change: voices of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican diaspora at the ‘Unite for Puerto Rico’ rally at the Capitol as the death toll on the island rises…Gerald Horne on the Iran nuclear deal and China’s new approach to capitalism…Headlines on NAFTA, Trump’s Muslim Ban 3.0, Indigenous People’s Day, Eminem and more. Voices: Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), Rep. Jose Serrano (D-NY)...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/OTG-OCT6-2017MONO-SMALL.mp3 A recurring theme on today’s show is news, media, information and voice. Who gets to be heard. What stories, narratives, lives are lifted up as worthy. What lies are lifted up as truth. Gerald Horne is in the house with new books, including, “The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press: Claude Barnett’s Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox.” For nearly 50 years, the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press (...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/OTG-SEPT29-2017-MONO-SMALL.mp3 On this show, we correct the reporting and spin on important news coming from DC. Players in the National Football League are protesting police terror, including the murder of innocent men, women and children with impunity–not the flag. DC in the Era of Climate Change: We also hear Jill Stein, Tim DeChristopher and David Swanson speaking at the No War 2017 conference, which brought together activists from arou...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/OTG-SEPT22-2017MONO.mp3 This week in DC, our healthcare remains on the line as well as our right to clean water, clean air and our right to not live under the threat of war. We hear voices from a demonstration held outside the White House for the inaugural event of the People’s Congress of Resistance, a gathering that brought together hundreds of activists from around the country to say no to war and U.S. imperialism. Also, more voices agai...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/OTG-SEPT15-2017MONO.mp3 It’s the third week of the month and today we have a new episode of ‘The F-Word,’ our series on fascism. We are excited to have as our guest professor and author Richard D. Wolff, co-founder of Democracy at Work and host of the nationally syndicated program ‘Economic Update.’ Headlines on introduction of Medicare for All bill by Sen. Bernie Sanders; relief aid for survivors of Hurricanes Irma and Harvey; protesters ...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/OTG-SEPT8-2017MONO.mp3 As Senator Bernie Sanders prepares to introduce his anticipated Medicare for All bill on September 13th, we speak to leading health care advocate Dr. Margaret Flowers. Also, later in the show, the ugly face of disaster capitalism shows up in Houston in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. We hear from those in Houston on the ground about what television cameras are not showing. Headlines: DACA Michael Bennett March ...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/OTG-SEPT1-2017MONO.mp3 On this show, we hear the largely untold story from anti-fascist Antifa activists who were on the ground in Charlottesville about the deadly violence that day, about the controversy over their confrontational tactics and their perspectives on the dangers of the Neo-fascist movement today in the United States. Nico, who joined two other members of Antifa on the show today, pushes back on the spreading demonization of ...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/OTG-AUG25-2017MONO-SMALL.mp3 For this hour, we hear voices, including those of the Rev. Graylan Hagler and journalist Dave Zirin, who participated in the Love Over Hate Rally held Sunday, August 20, 2017 at Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church in Bethesda, MD. Many of the clergy and activists who traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia two weeks ago to protest the gathering of White supremacists came from the Washington, DC area and were ...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/OTG-AUG18-2017MONO-SMALL.mp3 For this hour we go to Charlottesville, Va. and hear voices, including those of author and activist Cornel West and the Rev. Tracy Blackmon, who participated in a mass prayer service at St. Paul’s Memorial Church on Friday, August 11, in advance of the deadly rally of white supremacists held the next day in that city. During this Friday night service, hundreds of torch-carrying men gathered outside the church, i...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/2.OTG-AUG11-2017-REBROADCAST-SMALL.EDIT_.mp3 This hour is a rebroadcast of the major address, “The Rise of Trump,” given by author and activist Chris Hedges in Vancouver, Canada in March 2017. “The Trump orders are written not to make America great again but to make America White. They are an updated version of the Nazi’s Nuremberg Laws, the Jim Crow laws, the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Naturalization Act of 1870.”–Chris Hedges