Episodes

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OTG-JAN27-2017MONO.mp3 UNHEARD VOICES FROM THE ONLY PERMITTED PROTEST AT THE INAUGURATION OF DONALD TRUMP. WE HEAR FROM AMONG THE MORE THAN 10,000 ACTIVISTS, ARTISTS, SCHOLARS, RELATIVES OF THOSE SLAIN BY THE POLICE WHO GATHERED. WE COVER OUR HEADLINES A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY TODAY AS A DISCUSSION WITH THE AUTHOR AND ACTIVIST PROFESSOR GERALD HORNE WHO IS A FREQUENT CONTRIBUTOR TO THIS SHOW AND ACROSS THE PACIFICA NETWORK. HEADLINES ON TRUMP’S...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OTG-JAN13-2017MONOS.mp3 Voices from day two of the People’s Tribunal on the Iraq War. The tribunal was sponsored by Code Pink Dec. first and second 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, injured and ...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OTG-JAN6-2016MONOS.mp3 Voices from the People’s 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

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/OTG-DEC30-2016.mp3 This program includes the fifth and final part of our series Black Power: 50 Years in DC, 1966-2016. The Black Arts Movement is our focus today and features our interview with fiber artist and cultural activist Januwa Moja, who has exhibited her wearable art throughout the African diaspora. Then in the second half, a look back at 2016 with Professor Gerald Horne. Plus headlines on the National Watch Night Service with the...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/OTG-DEC23-2016.mp3 Part 4 of our series, Black Power: 50 Years in DC, 1966 to 2016, marking the half century anniversary of the call for Black Power in this country in 1966. Today, a wide-ranging conversation with educator and activist Tom Porter about his view of Black Power in DC from Malcolm X to Barack Obama. Headlines on March against Islamophobia, a vigil for the homeless and more.

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/OTG-DEC16-2016.mp3 Part 3 of our series. Black Power: 50 Years in DC, Nineteen Sixty-Six to Two Thousand Sixteen, marking the half century anniversary of the call for Black Power in this country in 1966. Weve looked at economics through the lens or labor, housing, gentrification and a bit of local politics. And today we look at social justice activism with whats happening right now in DC in the Movement for Black Lives and we hear from vete...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/OTG-DEC9-2016MONO.mp3 This year marked the 50th anniversary of the call for Black Power in this country, in 1966 and next is the second in a series of segments this month that will explore Black Power: 50 Years in DC, Nineteen Sixty-Six to Two Thousand Sixteen. Today, housing and gentrification. 2000 to 2015, the Districts population expanded by 100,000 people, to a total of 672,000, and that was the first increase in 50 years! Most of the ...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/OTG-NOV18-2016.mp3 This week, the week after the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States,has been a time of tremendous action here in DC. As this city and region continues to reverberate from Trumps election, our streets have been filled with activists, including students, environmentalists, and those celebrating the apparent death of the Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP. These actions are also occurring in the w...

Recorded live at Busboys and Poets Brookland location in Washington, DC. Featuring Medea Benjamin, Kymone Freeman, Michele Roberts, Tony Medina and Tracy Redd. https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/OTG_NOV8_ELECTION_DAY_SPECIAL_2016.mp3

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OTG-OCT21-2016MONO.mp3 This week marks the 20th anniversary of the 1996 invasion of the Congo by soldiers and mercenaries from Rwanda and Uganda, many of whom were war criminals exported from the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. Since then, up to ten million Congolese people has been murdered in their mineral-rich homeland where it is estimated that $27 trillion dollars worth of gold, diamonds, copper, cobalt, uranium, tin and coltan is under the ...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/OTG-SEPT23-2016-MONO.mp3 Esther Iverem takes a resistance-minded tour of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall, which has its grand opening and dedication, Saturday, September 24, 2016. Interviews with curators Mary Elliott, Nancy Burcaw and Jacquelyn Serwer included.

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/OTG-JULY1-EDITTPF-2016.mp3 As the 15th anniversary of 9/11 is commemorated and the movie “Snowden” opens in theaters, a rebroadcast of this important panel discussion, ‘Social Movements and the Surveillance State’ featuring Chip Gibbons (Bill of Rights Defense Committee/Defending Dissent Foundation) Brandi Collins (Color Of Change) Hendrik Voss (School of the Americas Watch) and Dr. Maha Hilal (National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms)....

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/OTG-SEPT9-2016-MONOF.mp3 A post-Labor Day special featuring voices of workers from the first Fight for $15 Convention held August 12-13, 2016, two hours south of DC in Richmond, Virginia, a site chosen intentionally as the seat of the former Confederacy. Organizers of the Fight for $15 movement say that since its launch four years ago with fast-food workers, 20 million low-wage workers have gained significant raises and that the movement ha...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/OTG-SEPT2-2016-MONO.mp3 There is a global refugee crisis with 65 million people displaced in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. It is estimated that one-third of those officially recognized as refugees are Iraqi or Syrian. But so many people in our own hemisphere are not designated as refugees fleeing violence in Honduras, El Salvador or Guatemala, violence in which the United States is complicit. Rally organizers wanted to press p...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/OTG-AUGUST26-2016-MONO-EDIT.mp3 As Black August draws to a close, activists continue to mark the month by organizing, through education and other through acts of resistance. The Nat Turner Rebellion, which happened during this week 185 years ago, is in the news because of a soon-to-be released biopic about his life. A distinguished panel, Bridgett M. Davis, Kenneth Carroll and L.D. Crittenden, discusses the controversy surrounding the film,...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/OTG-AUGUST19-2016-MONOf.mp3 In this show, we speak to one of the organizers who shut down a gathering of the Fraternal Order of the Police in Baltimore and we speak to the convener of a TOWN HALL MEETING AGAINST POLICE MURDERS & MASS INCARCERATION in DC. Finally, in the second half Historian and Author Robin Kelley will join us for this month s episode of The F-Word exploring fascism, neo-fascism, pre-fascism, proto-fascism in the United St...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/OTG-AUG12-2016.mp3 Gerald Horne discusses the latest Department of Justice Report detailing the horror we already knew of Baltimore’s Black community basically living in a totalitarian, Jim Crow, police state. We also hear from the president of the Washington Teachers’ Union that is part of a national action to discourage teachers and parents from buying school supplies at Walmart because of the chain s deplorable labor practices and because...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/OTG-AUG5-2016.MONO_.mp3 A New National Platform for the Movement for Black Lives…The “After Bern” in DC…Thousands of Journalists of Color Descend on DC for a convention of the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Plus headlines on the National Night Out for Safety and Liberation and other Black Lives Matter news; a protest at the embassy of the United Arab Emirates against the Green...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/OTG-JULY29-2016.mp3 Despite the pictures of unity, mass protests were held everyday inside and outside of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on issues of Democratic support for war and the war industry, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Treaty, Black Lives Matter, fracking, and the occupation of Palestine. In the DMV, we learned that no police officers in Baltimore will be held responsible for the death of Freddie Gray in police...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/OTG-JULY22-2016-MONO.mp3 ON THE ROAD TO PHILADELPHIA: OCCUPYING, RESISTING AND CREATING A COUNTER-NARRATIVE TO THE Democratic National Convention and definitely to the Republican National Convention. Starting Monday is the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia and thousands of activists are gathering in the City of Brotherly Love to push the party to again be the party of working people, of racial justice and of environmental justi...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/OTG-JULY15-2016.mp3 In the week after three Black men were shot to death by police at point-blank range, the Black Lives Matter movement is the only movement that is standing between the survival of Black lives and the normalization of our murder. If there is no protest then our murder is normal and normalized. A conversation with author and activist Gerald Horne, plus Danez Smith at the Brave New Voices: International Youth Poetry Slam Fes...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/OTG-JULY8-2016-MONO-EDIT.mp3 THIS WEEK HAS BEEN A WEEK OF STATE VIOLENCE, RAGE AND MOURNING—A TRIANGLE OF POLICE KILLINGS from Baton Rouge Louisiana, To St. Paul Minnesota, to New York City. And then Thursday night five Dallas police officers were shot to death and seven others seriously injured by what is believed to be at least two snipers. Today we have a panel, including civil rights attorney Latoya Francis, the Rev Graylan Hagler and S...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/OTG-JULY1-EDITTPF-2016.mp3 Social Movements and the Surveillance State, a panel co-sponsored by the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and Defending Dissent Foundation, DC Jacobin and the DC Area Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, held at the Mount Pleasant Neighborhood Library in Northwest DC Monday, June 27, 2016. Participants: Chip Gibbons (Bill of Rights Defense Committee/Defending Dissent Foundation) Brandi Collins (Color Of Change...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/OTG-JUNE24-2016.mp3 This week, a continued upswell of activism—and a challenge to business as usual in DC—in the aftermath of the massacre of 49 people inside a nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Early in the week, 18 people were arrested after staging a die-in at the headquarters of the powerful pro-gun lobby the National Rifle Association, the NRA, in Fairfax, Virginia. Democrats staged a 25-hour sit-in on the floor of the House of Representat...