On the Ground w Esther Iverem

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/OTG-MAY11-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On today’s show, a convergence of the movement for Palestinian human rights and the Movement for Black Lives. Activists building solidarity and the nuts and bolts of the Boycott, Divestment Sanctions Movement were in conversation recently at Georgetown University. Also, mothers of those slain by police/state...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/OTG-MAY4-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On today’s show, voices from May Day, International Workers Day, celebrated here in DC, in solidarity with people around the country and world. And that performance by comedian Michelle Wolf at the White House Correspondents Dinner is still raising controversy. And the response to it is proof positive that th...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/SUB-SUB-OTG-APRIL27-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On this show, activist and radio show host Brian Becker on why the anti-war movement is split on opposing U.S. attacks on Syria. And it’s the fourth Friday of the month, time for our in-depth focus on culture and media, and Brian stays with us as we look at the news and information landscape in thi...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/OTG-APRIL20-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On today’s show former CIA officer turned peace activist Ray McGovern on what is really happening in Syria, what ‘Russiagate’ is really about, and breaking news about all the DC palace intrigue, chaos, positioning, spinning and plotting. Of course Gerald Horne joins us to break down internation...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/OTG-APRIL13-2018-DIST-SMALLmp3.mp3 Today’s show is about war, rumors of war, justice for Palestine and justice here in the US–for Terrence Sterling in DC and Stephon Clark in Sacramento. And scientists are taking to the streets April 14 for the 2018 March for Science here in DC and in locations around the country and globe. Headlin...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/OTG-APR6-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 This week and show marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. We speak with Sean Blackmon, organizer in the Movement for Black Lives. we also have Voices from the Rally to End Racism and from a rally to condemn the massacre of unarmed Palestinian protesters by Israel Defense...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/OTG-MAR30-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On today’s show, truth and lies in the news. ‘Gaslighting’ is a form of manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group, hoping to make them question their own memory, perception, and sanity. We speak with media critic Janine Jackson and wi...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/OTG-MAR23-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On this show, we mark the 15th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which killed up to two million Iraqis, displaced millions more and destabilized the entire Middle East. We speak with Sam Husseini, director of media and communications for the Institute for Public Accuracy. Also, DC’s own homegrown mus...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/OTG-MAR16-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On this show, our first 2018 episode of ‘The F-Word,’ when we talk about fascism. Professor Margaret Stevens, author of the new book, Red International and Black Caribbean: Communists in New York City, Mexico and the West Indies 1919 to 1939 , joins us And one million students marching around the count...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/OTG-MAR9-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 Today we spend the hour with the scholar Angela Simms and the activists Maurice Carney and Ajamu Baraka speaking at a 60th anniversary program marking the historic 1958 All-African People’s Conference held in Accra, Ghana. This program was at the Festival Center in Northwest DC on Saturday, February 17th 2018...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/OTG-MAR2-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 March is beginning with lots of big issues being addressed in DC. This week, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments in Janus v. AFSCME, a case backed by billionaires that would allow workers who are not union members but receive pay raises and other benefits negotiated by the union, to not pay union dues. Tens o...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/OTG-FEB23-2018-DIST-small.mp3 On today’s show, news and topics about real Africa – and about the fantasy Africa on the big screen. The 60th Anniversary of the All-African People’s Conference was just celebrated around the world. Gerald Horne is back from the Pan-African Film Festival in Los Angeles. And our favorite comic boo...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/OTG-FEB16-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On this show , from DC, to Flint, Michigan to the Grand Canyon, access to safe water is being threatened by lead contamination, corporate polluters, the bottled water industry and fracking. We will speak to the scientist who helped to expose the lead water crises in Flint Michigan and in Washington, DC -Yes in Was...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/OTG-FEB9-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On this show, we spend the hour with historian, author and activist Gerald Horne and his new critically praised book, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean . Headlines on launch of the Poor People’s C...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/OTG-FEB2-2018-DISTsmall.mp3 At the end of January 2018, there were dozens of actions in and around DC this week, some related to the now infamous State of the Union address. Some dealing, rather, with the REALITIES we face like climate change and the U.S. government’s involvement in wars and attacks in the Middle East. In the second half...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/OTG-JAN26-2018small.mp3 We speak with economist Richard Wolff about the economics behind the immigration catastrophe and about 6400 retail stores closing in the U.S. in 2017. We also speak with Gerald Horne on the international scene and other voices, unheard voices here, marking the anniversary of the historic Women’s March that just oc...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/OTG-JAN19-2018-DISTsmall.mp3 This week marks many milestones. The holiday honoring the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is being celebrated as the world also remembers the 50th anniversary of his assassination. On this show we hear voices of historians and activists speaking out at the launch of a new major exhibit, “City of H...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2.OTG-JAN12-2018-REBROADCAST-DISTsmall.mp3 Voices from day two of the People’s Tribunal on the Iraq War. The tribunal was sponsored by Code Pink Dec. 1-2, 2016 here in Washington DC at the University of the District of Columbia Law School. On our last show, we featured voices from the first day of the tribunal, which focused on the lies...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/1.OTG-JAN5-2018-RE-BROADCAST-DISTSMALL.mp3 Voices from the Peoples Tribunal on the Iraq War. The tribunal was sponsored by Code Pink Dec. 1-2, 2016 in Washington DC at the University of the District of Columbia Law School. The first day focused on the lies used to invade Iraq. The tribunal is an ongoing project that can be reached, joined and...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/OTG-DEC29-2017-DISTS-SMALL.mp3 This is our final, jam-packed show for 2017. Extended conversations about this year– the notorious 017 –with media critic Janine Jackson an geopolitical analyst Gerald Horne. Headlines on progressive victories in the U.S. and abroad from Food and Water Watch, the Transnational Institute, Common Dreams...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/OTG-DEC22-2017DISTSMALL.mp3 This year’s final segment of The F-Word, our monthly discussion of fascism and fascist directions, this month with Georgetown media studies professor Christopher Chambers. We also hear voices from a protest this week against a controversial pipeline project, this one directly impacting the nation’s capit...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/OTG-DEC15-2017-DISTSMALL.mp3 The Federal Communications Commission votes to scrap Net Neutrality rules that ensure equal access to the Internet for everyone. Now, corporations like Comcast and Verizon can create fast lanes and slow lanes of Internet traffic, sabotage the content of rivals, block content and charge websites to simply reach thei...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/OTG-DEC8-2017DISTSMALL.mp3 On this show, economist Richard Wolff discusses the GOP tax plan”some call it a tax scam” which experts say would be one of the largest transfers of wealth to the one percent in the history of the United States. Gerald Horne on Jerusalem and Honduras. And with other measures tucked into the tax bill, such...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/OTG-DEC1-2017-distsmall.mp3 On this show, voices of residents of public housing in DC who are fighting–like many urban poor and working class people around the country–displacement, gentrification and the loss of communities where some have lived for generations. We caught the premiere of a community theater presentation “On...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/OTG-NOV24-2017DISTSMALL.mp3 Today we discuss what is really happening in Zimbabwe with historian and author Gerald Horne and, in the second half, media critic Janine Jackson says that the Federal Communications Commission is just the latest federal agency that is supposed to be working for the people but is, instead, working against the people...