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‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR SEPTEMBER 4, 2020: The Movement for a People’s Party…Chris Hedges, Nina Turner…BLM Activists Face Emboldened White Supremacists

September 5, 2020

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‘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

August 7, 2020

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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 JULY 31, 2020: Residents of DC, the Most Policed City in the U.S., Speak Out, Part 1…Solidarity with Portland Activists…Plus More Headlines

July 31, 2020

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https://media.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/content.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/OTG-JULY31-2020-SMALL.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 54:56 — 37.7MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Spotify | iHeartRadio | RSS | Subscribe to PodcastNearly 16,000 residents of DC offered testimony in June about the half billion dollar budget for the district’s Metropolitan Police Department. (Only 24 people testified in 2019.) Almost all of those testifying during the council meeting echoed the national […]

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR DECEMBER 27, 2019: The Year In Review…Human Needs Vs. the War Machine…Imperialism on the March…Resistance on the March…An Interview with Mother of Jamaal Byrd…Plus Headlines

December 27, 2019

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‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR AUGUST 24, 2018: Black Residents of the Nation’s Capital Speak Out on Police Brutality and Abuse

August 24, 2018

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https://media.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/OTG-AUG24-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3Podcast: Download (44.8MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Spotify | iHeartRadio | RSS | Subscribe to PodcastThis is the first show featuring unheard Voices of Resistance from 2018. This is part one of our presentation from a recent DC Council public hearing where residents spoke out on brutality and misconduct by the Metropolitan Police Department. The July hearing […]