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‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR SEPTEMBER 25, 2020: Denver BLM Activists Freed…Protesters Targeted by State Repression…Media and Culture Highlight: Julian Assange, Trump Attacks on Howard Zinn and Headlines

September 26, 2020

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‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR MAY 1, 2020: U.S. Workers Plan Strikes and Walkouts for May Day…May 1 Caps Ten Days of Actions, Including ‘Cancel the Rents’…The View from an Employer After Laying Off 450 Staff…Plus Headlines

May 1, 2020

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‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR APRIL 24, 2020: U.S. Blames China for Its Own Failures…It’s a Go for the Left Amid Capitalist Meltdown…Cancel the Rents…Gerald Horne on Iran…Plus Headlines

April 25, 2020

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‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR APRIL 17, 2020: Earth Day at 50 Amid Emboldened Polluters and a Pandemic…The F-Word: COVID-19 and U.S. Policing, Surveillance and Militarism…Plus Headlines on Unemployment and More

April 18, 2020

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‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR APRIL 10, 2020: Richard Wolff on the Economic Crisis, Pandemic and Bernie…The Impact of COVID-19 on African Americans in DC…Mutual Aid Offers a Lifeline…And Headlines

April 11, 2020

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‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR APRIL 3, 2020: U.S. Enters Uncharted Economic and Pandemic Territory…The Crisis Does Not Stop U.S. Capitalism from Threatening Lives Around the Globe…A Voice from Chinatown, San Francisco…Plus Headlines

April 3, 2020

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‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR MARCH 27, 2020: U.S. Now Has Most Coronavirus Cases… Federal Government Response Leaves Americans with Poor Prospects for Testing, Treatment or Sustained Economic Relief…Journalist Jon Jeter on Culture and Media…Plus Headlines

March 28, 2020

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‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR MARCH 20, 2020: GOP Out-Lefts Dems in Dismal Response to COVID Crisis…U.S.-China Relations Reach New Low…The F-Word: 17 Years of U.S. Invasion of Iraq…Plus Headlines

March 20, 2020

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‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR MARCH 13, 2020: As Coronavirus is Declared a Pandemic, the U.S. is Woefully Unprepared…The Evidence for Vote Tampering and Suppression in the Dem Primaries…Plus Headlines on Chelsea Manning and More…

March 14, 2020

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‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR MARCH 6, 2020: Dr. Margaret Flowers on the Coronavirus and Medicare for All…Women Rally at the Supreme Court to Uphold Roe v. Wade…Gerald Horne on Super Tuesday, Syria and the ICC Bears Down on U.S.

March 6, 2020

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