On the Ground w Esther Iverem

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/OTG-NOV2-2018-DIST-SMALLxx.mp3 Jews and Allies Condemn Trump Outside White House…Gerald Horne on Trump and the 14th Amendment…Voices from the Shutdown of the PLO Mission…Plus Headlines Headlines: -At a rally in front of the White House, speakers drew connections between a massacre of Jews in Pittsburgh and Trump’s embra...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/OTG-OCT26-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 Medea Benjamin on Saudi Arabia, Khashoggi, Yemen and Iran…Jill Stein at the Women’s March on the Pentagon…Plus Headlines on Police Brutality, Largest U.S. Oil Spill Ever and More… VOICES: Medea Benjamin, Gerald Horne, Jill Stein

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/otg-oct19-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 Student Activists for Justice in Palestine Speak Out On Being Targeted by the “Canary Mission” Surveillance Website …The F-Word: Abba Solomon on Israel as a Neofascist State… Plus Headlines: -Indigenous women from across the United States rallied in Northwest DC this week and met with 94 ba...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/otg-oct12-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 Gerald Horne on Suspected Saudi Murder of Journalist, the Rise of a Fascist in Brazil and Pence’s Cold War Speech Against China…Finale of DC in the Era of Climate Change with Michele Roberts…Plus headlines. Headlines: -Dire report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. -Brian Kemp, G...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/OTG-OCT5-2018-SMALL.mp3 This show includes part four of our series, “ DC in the Era of Climate Change ,” focusing on the impact of climate change on human health. Pictured: Katie Huffling, executive director of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments. (Photo by Esther Iverem) Also part two of our interview with the novelist...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OTG-SEPT28-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 After a day of dramatic testimony and many unanswered questions remaining, the Senate Judiciary Committee votes on whether to approve Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh for full Senate confirmation. And in the third installment of our series, DC in the era of Climate Change, a controversial proposed electric s...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OTG-SEPT21-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On today’s show: DC IN THE ERA OF CLIMATE CHANGE: PART 2 If public transportation was free, would more people give up the single passenger car? We speak to three experts who also ride those pricey Metro trains in DC. And we caught up with Filmmaker Michael Moore before the DC premiere of his new movie, &#82...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OTG-SEPT14-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 As Hurricane Florence batters the Mid-Atlantic, a discussion with Kristina Dahl of the Union of Concerned Scientists about how the nation’s capital is impacted by worsening climate change. And ten years ago this week, there was the world economic crash of 2008, which resulted in millions of Americans &#8220...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OTG-SEPT7-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 This last show in our summer series of unheard voices of 2018 is all about environmental justice. First, an exclusive interview with the elder Sarah James of the Gwich’in people of Alaska and Canada. She speaks about the Trump plan, approved by Congress in the massive tax cut bill, to open up the pristine Ar...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/OTG-AUG31-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 This 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 was held after several controversial interactions betw...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/OTG-AUG24-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 This 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 was held after several controversial interactions betwe...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/OTG-AUG17-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 Unheard Voices Counter the ‘Unite the Right2’ Rally at the White House…What is Happening in Venezuela?…Headlines on Keystone XL, Children Still Snatched from their Parents, Young Climate Activists Challenge Dems. Voices: Jeanette Charles, Eugene Puryear, Brian Becker, Voices from Occupy Laf...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/OTG-AUG10-2018-DIST-SMALLmp3.mp3 On this show, activists in and around DC, and traveling to DC, prepare to counter a rally by Nazis, Ku Klux Klan and other fascist groups…The June 2017 “free speech” rally at the Lincoln Memorial was a “dress rehearsal” for the deadly rally in Charlottesville…The so-called Un...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/SUB_OTG-AUG3-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 How Children Are Impacted By Family Separation…A Region Effort to Protect Teen Girls… Headlines on: -Toddler dies after being released from ICE detention. -March on the NRA -Rally for Missing Children -Protest Poor Conditions of DC Jail -Palestine-Ahed Tamimi -Culture and Media: -Comedy Benefit for...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/OTG-JULY27-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 Makani Themba on Russia-phobia, police brutality, the kidnapping of immigrant children and the movie ‘Sorry to Bother You’…Gerald Horne on the BRICS Summit Headlines: March and Sit-in for Immigrant Families Youth Climate March Zero Hour #RedforFeds Federal Workers Rally Takoma Park, MD Developme...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/OTG-JULY20-2018-DIST-small.mp3 On this show, our monthly segment “The F-Word.” Historian Gerald Horne on how some of acts of genocide and atrocities are labeled as fascist and others are not. And, whether it is jobs, the climate or the destruction of immigrant families, people in DC are speaking up and fighting for our lives, not f...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/OTG-JULY13-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On today’s show: As the crisis of separated immigrant families continues in the United States, have the courts set a dangerous precedent of seizing undocumented children for adoption by U.S. families? We speak to an immigration attorney. And the chief of DC’s Metropolitan Police Department is grilled...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/OTG-JULY6-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On this show: Contrary to the national trend of police officers not being charged for killing unarmed men, women and children, a police officer has been charged in the shooting death of 17-year-old Antwon Rose Jr. in East Pittsburgh. We speak to the attorney for the teenager’s family. And for 25 years, activ...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/OTG-JUNE29-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On today’s show, author and historian Gerald Horne on the real history and politics of the Supreme Court. And whether it is Trump’s Muslim travel ban or increasing outrage over immigrant concentration camps, hundreds took to the streets of DC this week to raise their voices in protest. HEADLINES: -600...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/OTG-JUNE22-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 The Documentary ‘Killing Gaza’ Exposes Israel War Crimes…Activist Lydia Curtis Discusses Decision to Be Arrested…Gerald Horne on U.S. Legacy of Racist Child Separation…Poor People’s Campaign Readies for Mass Rally… Voices: Dan Cohen, Gerald Horne, Manolo do los Santos, Ly...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/OTG-JUNE15-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On this show, this month’s episode of the F-Word on fascism, with author Abba Solomon speaking on Israel, American Jews, Gaza and Crimes Against Humanity. And it’s Week Five of the Poor People’s campaign and thousands (including Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) gather on Capitol Hill and acro...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/OTG-JUN8-2018-DIST-small.mp3 On this show, more voices from the Poor People’s Campaign. This week, dozens of people are arrested at the U.S. Capitol and across the country. The campaign says that black, brown and poor communities are at the epicenter of the ecological devastation that is making our earth uninhabitable for humans. Plus he...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/OTG-JUNE1-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 Voices from the Poor Peoples Campaign, being led by the Rev. William Barber the Rev. Liz Theo Harris on Capitol Hill. From voter suppression, to mass incarceration, to the destruction of immigrant families, people from across the country speak about the links between poverty and systemic racism. On The Ground: Voi...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/OTG-MAY25-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On this show, as U.S. activists respond to the recent massacre in Gaza by ramping up the Boycott Divestment Sanctions Movement, they are opposing a bill advancing in Congress that would strip Americans of the right to boycott the apartheid state of Israel. We speak to Benjamin Douglas, an organizer with the DC Met...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/OTG-MAY18-2017-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On today’s show, a tremendous week in DC, marked by demonstrations denouncing that massacre of peaceful protesters in Gaza and the launch of the national Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. And it’s the third show of the month, our time to talk about fascism on our segment...