VOICES OF RESISTANCE FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL–Friday: 10AM, WPFW 89.3 FM, DC; 10AM WBAI 99.5 New York City, and 25 more stations. Podcast and Archive Here. Esther Iverem, Creator, Producer and Host
The election is over. Donald Trump has been elected as the 45th president of the United States and activists are heading to the streets! We speak to Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, organizers of four days of actions starting Nov. 12 in DC against the controversial Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty, which, it is believed, that […]
Today we continue to focus on the state of never-ending war”and the war of words and of so-called soft power”by the United States since 9-11. Last week, we discussed how The United States and its allies have bombed or are bombing at least eight countries in the Middle East and Africa. But what about the […]
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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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]