‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR OCTOBER 21, 2016: Ten Million Dead and Counting in the Congo…The Clinton Foundation’s Role in Haiti and Africa…Headlines on Flint, DAPL and Black Lives Matter

https://media.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OTG-OCT21-2016MONO.mp3Podcast: Download (24.0MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Spotify | iHeartRadio | RSS | Subscribe to PodcastThis 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 […]

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR OCTOBER 14, 2016: The Black Panther’s 50th Anniversary…Dakota Access Pipeline and Environmental Justice…Police Killings and Mass Incarceration…And Much More

This year marks the 50th anniversary of 1966, the 50th anniversary of the call for Black Power by SNCC organizer Stokely Carmichael, also known as Kwame Ture. And also marks the 50th anniversary of the founding, in Oakland, California, of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, which made an armed stand against police brutality, […]

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR OCTOBER 7, 2016: Former U.S. Intelligence and Military Officers Urge Obama to De-Escalate Tensions With Russia…Hundreds Rally in Aftermath of Fatal Police Shooting Of Terrence Sterling in D.C…’The Birth of a Nation’ is a Must-See

As Hurricane Matthew devastates Haiti and pounds the southeast, policymakers here in DC are actually mulling the storms of war in Syria. We speak to professor Gerald Horne about the dangerous game being played with war and peace. We also continue our coverage of DC protests about the fatal police shooting of Terrence Sterling, an […]

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR AUGUST 12, 2016–Baltimore’s Police State…A Back-To-School Boycott of Walmart…Gerald Horne on South Africa’s Elections, Brazil and the West’s ‘Loose Talk’ of War with Russia

https://media.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/OTG-AUG12-2016.mp3Podcast: Download (24.1MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Spotify | iHeartRadio | RSS | Subscribe to PodcastGerald 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 […]

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JULY 22, 2016–Climate Activists Blockade the DNC and Head to Philadelphia; The ‘People’s Convention’; Gerald Horne Talks Trump, Republicans and Turkey

https://media.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/OTG-JULY22-2016-MONO.mp3Podcast: Download (24.4MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Spotify | iHeartRadio | RSS | Subscribe to PodcastON 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 […]

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JULY 15, 2016–The Black Lives Matter Movement is the Only Thing Standing Between Black Lives and the Normalization of Murder by the State; Brave New Poetry Voices at the Kennedy Center; Activism in and Around DC.

https://media.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/OTG-JULY15-2016.mp3Podcast: Download (24.2MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Spotify | iHeartRadio | RSS | Subscribe to PodcastIn 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 […]

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JUNE 24, 2016–THE BREXIT, WHAT’S REALLY HAPPENING IN VENEZUELA, ANOTHER COP ACQUITTAL IN BALTIMORE

https://media.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/OTG-JUNE24-2016.mp3Podcast: Download (25.3MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Spotify | iHeartRadio | RSS | Subscribe to PodcastThis 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 […]

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JUNE 3, 2016–REPORT FROM LONDON…THE TPP’S GLOBAL CORPORATE GRAB…THE FIGHTBACK AGAINST PERPETUAL U.S. WAR

https://media.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/OTG-JUNE3-2016.mp3Podcast: Download (27.2MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Spotify | iHeartRadio | RSS | Subscribe to PodcastGerald Horne, just returned from London, gives an exclusive report on what’s happening there and on other current events. Then we present two more voices from the recent ‘Breaking Through Power’ mobilization in DC: Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade […]

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR MAY 20, 2016–LESSONS FOR TODAY FROM WWII JAPANESE INCARCERATION

https://media.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/OTG-MAY20-2016.mp3Podcast: Download (26.3MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Spotify | iHeartRadio | RSS | Subscribe to PodcastA National Youth Summit, sponsored by the Smithsonian Museum of American History, focused on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. At that time, the United States government forcibly removed more than 120,000 Japanese Americans from the Pacific Coast. These […]

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR MAY 13, 2016–THE ‘REAL’ MEANING OF MOTHER’S DAY AND GROCERY WORKERS SAY ‘SAVE MY STORE!’

https://media.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/OTG-MAY13-2016.mp3Podcast: Download (25.3MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Spotify | iHeartRadio | RSS | Subscribe to PodcastA MOTHER’S DAY PEACE FESTIVAL is held Saturday in front of the White House to mark the original meaning of Mother’s Day–for the world to disarm. Grassroots groups came together to reject war, violence, militarization of the police, mass incarceration and killing […]