Episodes

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

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/1.OTG-AUG4-2017.small_.mp3 For this hour, we hear from members of Congress including Rep. Raul Grijalva, Democrat of of Arizona; Tulsi Gabbard, Democrat of Hawaii; Rep. Keith Ellison, Democrat of Minnesota and Pramila Jayapal, Democrat of Washington, as well as social justice activists. They are all speaking on progressive legislation being introduced in Congress at the Summer for Progress rally held on Capitol Hill July 25, 2017.

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/OTG-JULY28-2017-SMALL.mp3 On this show, the political organization, Our Revolution, founded by Senator Bernie Sanders, launches its ‘Summer of Progress’ campaign with a rally on Capitol Hill and a push for eight pieces of legislation called the Peoples platform. We speak to the new president of Our Revolution, former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner. Also, it’s the fourth Friday and media critic Janine Jackson is in the house to discuss possi...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/OTG-JULY21-2017SMALLFILE.mp3 This show is all about confronting attacks on healthcare, free speech, voting and the Second Amendment rights for people of color. And this is the third Friday of the month so it’s time for the F-Word, our discussion of fascism. This month’s guest is the human rights activist Rev. Edward Pinkney, who was released from prison in June 2017 after serving two and a half years on trumped up charges of changing the dat...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/OTG-JULY14-2017-SMALL.mp3 On this show, we hear from attorneys and activists seeking justice for those among the 41 remaining prisoners at Guantanamo, who have been caged and tortured for more than a decade but not charged with any crime. Now Donald Trump says he wants to send more people to Guantanamo, people he describes as “bad dudes.” Headlines on Trump in Paris, women march on the NRA, rallying for affordable housing and Bernie Sanders ...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/OTG-JULY7-2017SMALL.mp3 On this show, we hear voices of Koreans, Korean Americans and anti-war activists who say no new war on the Korean Peninsula, a final end to the old Korean war that is officially still going on, and no deployment of the THAAD missile defense system, which critics say is really not a defense system but an offense system–and which is vigorously opposed by the people and the newly elected president of South Korea. Voices...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/OTG-JUNE30-2017SMALL.mp3 In DC this week, the resistance rolled on. Advocates for public housing speak out… Progressives square off with the ‘alt-right’ at the Lincoln Memorial…Exposing genocide in West Papua… Gerald Horne weighs in on the ratcheting up of tensions in Syria and Venezuela…Headlines on Trumpcare, the EPA, public transit and more… Image from photo by Rosie H-Kap.

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/OTG-JUNE23-2017-MONO-SMALL.mp3 Today’s packed show is all about resisting the normalization of war abroad and at home, resisting the idea that militarism, police terror and hate crimes will accepted as part of a new hyper reality. We hear voices from among the hundreds that gathered in DC for a vigil for Nabra Hassanen, a 17-year-old Muslim girl kidnapped and murdered in northern Virginia. And those gathered also raised up the names of Charl...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/OTG-JUNE16-2017SMALL.mp3 Gar Alperovitz discusses his new free handbook, Principals of a Pluralist Commonwealth,” and outlines the possibilities of local, collective and co-op ownership that can be a model for a real democracy and not a future economy that is corporate capitalism, fascism or total state socialism. Shareholders and activists confront the Dollar Tree discount chain at a shareholder meeting in Chesapeake, Virginia to protest th...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/OTG-JUNE9-2017SMALL.mp3 This week in June 2017 marks ten years of Israel’s blockade of Gaza; 50 years of Israel’s military occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem; 70 years since the Nakba and ethnic cleansing of Palestine began following the partition of the land against the will of the indigenous people; and 100 years since the Balfour Declaration, which set the stage for the Zionist movement to colonize Palestine an...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/OTG-JUNE2-2017.mp3 On today’s show, a tale of sorts of two speeches and of two very divergent world views. On June 1, in a surreal scene at the White House, Donald Trump announced that he would withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. We talk to Scott Edwards of Food and Water Watch about what Trump’s announcement means and does not mean. The other speech this week was by Sen. Bernie Sanders, before the graduating class ...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/OTG-MAY26-2017MONO.mp3 It’s our special focus on culture and media for the fourth Friday. Janine Jackson, host of ‘Counterspin’ is back with us to talk about many media things, including the U.S. government’s double standards for leaking so-called confidential, double standards for coverage of the so-called war on terrorism and what innocent civilians are worthy of news coverage. And in the second half, cell phone, tablet and wireless techno...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/OTG-MAY19-2017MONO.mp3 On today’s show, “The F-Word,” our monthly discussion on fascism. This month’s guest is Jerome Scott, veteran activist, labor organizer and founding member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, which organized in the auto plants of Detroit in the 1960s-70s. And this is the birthday of human rights giant and Muslim minister Malcolm X. Had he not been taken away from us and lived, he would be 92 years old today. ...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/OTG-MAY12-2017MONO.mp3 On this show, an extended conversation with author, activist and on the ground contributor Gerald Horne about the latest in Trump’s political and public spectacles, and also the behind-the-scenes actions really impacting people’s lives here in the US and around the globe. And speaking of real impacts, Trump’s first 100-plus days in office have included an assault on our environment and on efforts to combat climate chan...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/OTG-MAY5-2017MONO-SMALLFILE.mp3 On this show, voices reflecting the tremendous activity in DC this week—The People’s Climate March, May Day 2017 and the breakdown of silos between labor, immigrants, indigenous communities and the Movement for Black Lives. There is a new generation of activists taking to the streets and to the suites of power here—like this week those who testified before the DC Council to urge the district to divest from Wel...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/OTG-APRIL28-2017EDITMONO.mp3 Voices offstage at the March for Science, which kicked-off this entire week of actions in DC leading to Saturday’s People’s Climate March. We hear voices of those in the trenches of universities, hospitals, of saving an environment habitable for humans. Also, it’s the fourth Friday and we have an extended conversation about media and culture with Janine Jackson, host of the nationally syndicated show “CounterSpi...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/OTG-APRIL21-2017-MONO.mp3 Fania Davis breaks down seven alarming fascist trends of the Trump administration, explains how the system of restorative justice can disrupt the prison-industrial complex and offers praise for and hope about new movements for social justice. Fania Davis, co-founder and director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, long-time social justice activist, professor, civil rights attorney with a Ph.D. in indigenous ...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/OTG-APRIL7-2017WEBSITE.mp3 This week, the focus in DC is on war. While the Trump regime attacks Syria, and rattles the saber over North Korea and Yemen, progressives here and around the country took out time to mark the 100th anniversary of this country’s entry into World War One and the 50th anniversary of the historic speech by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. opposing the Vietnam War, which killed more than 3 million Vietnamese people and...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/OTG-MARCH31-2017.mp3 The nation’s capital was filled with protests and all kinds of activism this week, opposing AIPAC and Israeli apartheid, fighting for single payer health care or police accountability. But, still, the corporate media is focusing on the war of investigations going on between Democrats and Republicans. Today, well be speaking with former CIA analyst turned human rights activist Ray McGovern, who says the surveillance stat...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/OTG-MARCH24-2017.mp3 Today we continue to recognize Women’s History Month by honoring author and activist Mari Evans, who joined the ancestors this month at the age of 97. Fellow poets of the 1960s Black Arts Movement, Sonia Sanchez and Haki Madhubuti, were among the hundreds who gathered in Indianapolis for her funeral on Monday. We also hear from Willa Mae Taylor-Richmond, who was only 13 years old when she became a foot soldier in the hi...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/OTG-MAR17-2017WEBSITE.mp3 It’s the third week of the month—so it’s all about “The F-Word,” our monthly exploration of fascism—which is corporate control of the state, combined with repression of human rights and ramped up police and military. Today we devote this entire hour to “The F-Word” with a major address, “The Rise of Trump,” given this month by author and activist Chris Hedges, in Vancouver, Canada. Recorded March 3, 2017 by Collec...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/OTG-MAR10-2017FWEBSITE.mp3 Special show for International Women’s Day featuring conversation, music and poetry about Native American women, who are on the frontlines of resistance and are playing a key role in the growing unity among indigenous peoples of the Americas. Many are in DC for the Native Nations Rising Actions beginning March 7 and culminating in mass march and rally on March 10. Featuring Susana Sandoval, Verona Iriarte, Rowie ...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/OTG-MARCH3-2017MONO.mp3 As President Trump made his first address to a joint session of Congress and received raving reviews from corporate media, the grassroots resistance to Trump is still rolling deep in DC. On this show we hear voices from among the broad coalition of activists, including the actress and comedian Rosie O’Donnell, deliver what they called their Resistance Address in front of the White House on Feb 28 as Trump prepared to...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/OTG-FEB17-2017.mp3 This is the third week of the month when we have our segment “The F-Word,” exploring fascism today. My special guest is Jill Stein, U.S. presidential candidate for the Green Party in 2016 and 2012. I speak to her in advance of her appearance on the program “Next Steps for Independent Politics: Fighting Fascism and Resisting Neoliberalism” Feb. 17, 2017 in Northwest. DC. Headlines on protesters at Netanyahu visit to White ...