‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR AUGUST 7, 2020: DC Residents Speak Out On Police Terror and Defunding Police, Part 2…COVID Exacerbates Need to Shift Tax Dollars to Human Needs…U.S. Secret Service Attacks Two Black Mothers with Infants on National Mall

https://media.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/content.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/OTG-AUG7-2020-DIST-SMALL.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 54:55 — 37.7MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Spotify | iHeartRadio | RSS | Subscribe to PodcastFor this show, part two of our presentation of some of the 16,000 residents of DC who offered testimony in June about cutting the half-billion-dollar budget for the district’s Metropolitan Police Department. We spend the hour hearing from residents […]

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JUNE 12, 2020: George Floyd’s Death Sparks a Worldwide Anti-Racist Movement…More on Defunding the Police… Can Reforms Make a Difference?

https://media.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/content.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/OTG-JUNE12-2020-DIST-SMALL.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 57:55 — 39.8MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Spotify | iHeartRadio | RSS | Subscribe to PodcastIn the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, a worldwide anti-racist movement is toppling symbols of white supremacy and inspiring a flurry of new laws designed to protect citizens from police abuse. […]

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JUNE 5, 2020: A National Uprising for Justice…Defund Police, Community Control, Or Both?…A Book On The Roots of Today’s Terror: ‘There Is Something About Edgefield’

https://media.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/content.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/OTG-JUNE5-2020-DIST-SMALL.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 57:47 — 39.7MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Spotify | iHeartRadio | RSS | Subscribe to PodcastIn the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, a national uprising is continuing, with protesters enduring more police brutality, curfews, and, here in DC, actual U.S. soldiers deployed on the streets. Activists on the ground explain what […]

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR AUGUST 10, 2018: Activists Prepare to Counter White House Rally by Neo-Nazis…Black Lives Matter Groups Hold ‘Night Out for Safety and Liberation’ Events …Headlines on Climate, Water, Ferguson and More…

https://media.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/OTG-AUG10-2018-DIST-SMALLmp3.mp3Podcast: Download (33.2MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Spotify | iHeartRadio | RSS | Subscribe to PodcastOn 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 […]

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR FEB. 16, 2018: Professor Who Revealed the Truth About Lead Poisoning in Flint and Washington, DC, Talks about ‘Third World’ Water Quality in the U.S.

https://media.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/OTG-FEB16-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3Podcast: Download (33.0MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Spotify | iHeartRadio | RSS | Subscribe to PodcastOn 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 […]

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR DEC. 15, 2017: Activists, Legislators and Policymakers Rally at the FCC , Vow to Fight the Killing of Net Neutrality…Headlines on Germany, EU and Rwanda

https://media.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/OTG-DEC15-2017-DISTSMALL.mp3Podcast: Download (39.8MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Spotify | iHeartRadio | RSS | Subscribe to PodcastThe 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 […]

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR AUGUST 5, 2016–A New National Platform for the Movement for Black Lives…The “After Bern” in DC…Thousands of Journalists of Color Descend on DC

https://media.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/OTG-AUG5-2016.MONO_.mp3Podcast: Download (23.3MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Spotify | iHeartRadio | RSS | Subscribe to PodcastA 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 […]