‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JULY 10, 2020: Baltimore Civil Rights Attorney Latoya Francis-Wiliams on George Floyd and Five Years After Freddie Gray…Liberal Gatekeepers Punch Down… Environmentalists and Indigenous People Get Some Wins.

https://media.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/content.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/OTG-JULY10-2020-DIST-SMALL.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 55:24 — 38.1MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Spotify | iHeartRadio | RSS | Subscribe to PodcastThe national uprising against racism in the U.S. started with Minneapolis police killing George Floyd. And Floyd’s murder is five years after Freddy Gray was killed by police in Baltimore. We speak to Baltimore civil rights attorney Latoya Francis-Williams. […]

‘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 JUNE 28, 2019: Journalist and Author Jon Jeter on Corporate Media and the Framing of News…DC Mayor and Police Ordered by Court to Record Stop-and-Frisk Data…Headlines on Border Crisis, Supreme Court Decisions, G20 and More…

https://media.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/OTG-JUNE28-2019-DIST-SMALL.mp3Podcast: Download (33.2MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Spotify | iHeartRadio | RSS | Subscribe to PodcastFrom U.S. warmongering, to the imprisonment of Julian Assange, to the stories that movies tell us. We have an in-depth conversation about corporate media and national and international news with journalist Jon Jeter. And after three years of delay by Mayor Bowser […]

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR AUGUST 31, 2018: Black Residents of the Nation’s Capital Speak Out on Police Brutality and Abuse, Part 2

https://media.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/OTG-AUG31-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3Podcast: Download (39.8MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Spotify | iHeartRadio | RSS | Subscribe to PodcastThis is the second show featuring unheard Voices of Resistance from 2018. This is part two 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 […]

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

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 […]

‘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 JULY 8, 2016–THE POLICE KILLINGS OF ALTON STERLING AND PHILANDO CASTILE; WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE MOVEMENT FOR BLACK LIVES; WORDS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF FIGHTERS FOR LEGAL JUSTICE

https://media.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/OTG-JULY8-2016-MONO-EDIT.mp3Podcast: Download (25.7MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Spotify | iHeartRadio | RSS | Subscribe to PodcastTHIS WEEK HAS BEEN A WEEK OF STATE VIOLENCE, RAGE AND MOURNING—A TRIANGLE OF POLICE KILLINGS from Baton Rouge Louisiana, To St. Paul Minnesota, to New York City. And then Thursday night five Dallas police officers were shot to death and seven […]

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW, JUNE 11, 2015–THE WELL-BEING OF WOMEN AND GIRLS

JUNE 11, 2015 As the latest case incident of police brutality, this one against a Black girl in Texas, is viewed by millions across the world, we spend the hour focused on women and girls here in the DMV, the nation and around the world. We hear words from the vocalist Ka’Ba speaking at a […]

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW, MAY 7, 2015–THE WAR AT HOME AND THE WAR ABROAD

https://media.blubrry.com/on_the_ground_voices_of_res/onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/OTG-MAY7-2015-FIRST-HALF.mp3Podcast: Download (41.2MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Spotify | iHeartRadio | RSS | Subscribe to PodcastMAY 7, 2015 THE WAR AT HOME AND THE WAR ABROAD We spend the hour with writer and activist Gerald Horne, discussing the Baltimore uprising, police brutality and economics, including the priorities for U.S. spending, war and the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty. GUEST: […]