On the Ground w Esther Iverem

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/OTG-NOV17-2017DISTSUBSMALL.mp3 Today, a second examination of the Russian Revolution at its centennial. Today’s remarks are by the economist Richard Wolff, who breaks down some seldom heard history and discusses successes and failures of the former Soviet Union. And because part of that history is the fact that the Soviet union was decis...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/OTG-NOV10-2017DIST-SMALL.mp3 We hear a major address given in DC by scholar and activist Anthony Monteiro to mark the centennial of the Russian Revolution and its impact around the world during the last century. Plus headlines: -On Nov. 7 elections -The Black is Back Coalition conference -Young immigrants rally for a legislation for DACA, or D...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/OTG-NOV3-2017-DIST-SMALL.mp3 A major new a report is released titled, “Autopsy: The Democratic Party in Crisis” about the loss by Democrats in the 2016 U.S. presidential race. We speak to an author and an analyst of thereport. We also hear voices from among those who gathered at the Capitol to protest the Trump-Republican tax cut f...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/OTG-OCT27-2017-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On this show, the first in a series of segments marking important anniversaries in 2017. On October 15, 1987, the African leader and visionary Thomas Sankara was assassinated after making revolutionary changes in the country that was named Upper Volta by French colonizers and that he renamed Burkino Faso. Also, on...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/OTG-OCT20-2017-DIST-small.mp3 Ryan Grim, Washington bureau chief for the Intercept, joins us to talk about dozens of children dying in the custody of for-profit foster care homes that are funded with our tax dollars. Gerald Horne breaks down international affairs, including Niger and the right-wing swing in Austria. And we hear about immigrant...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/OTG-OCT13-2017-MONO-small.mp3 On this show, DC in the Era of Climate Change: voices of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican diaspora at the ‘Unite for Puerto Rico’ rally at the Capitol as the death toll on the island rises…Gerald Horne on the Iran nuclear deal and China’s new approach to capitalism…Headlines on NAFTA,...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/OTG-OCT6-2017MONO-SMALL.mp3 A recurring theme on today’s show is news, media, information and voice. Who gets to be heard. What stories, narratives, lives are lifted up as worthy. What lies are lifted up as truth. Gerald Horne is in the house with new books, including, “The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press: Claude Barnet...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/OTG-SEPT29-2017-MONO-SMALL.mp3 On this show, we correct the reporting and spin on important news coming from DC. Players in the National Football League are protesting police terror, including the murder of innocent men, women and children with impunity–not the flag. DC in the Era of Climate Change: We also hear Jill Stein, Tim DeChristo...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/OTG-SEPT22-2017MONO.mp3 This week in DC, our healthcare remains on the line as well as our right to clean water, clean air and our right to not live under the threat of war. We hear voices from a demonstration held outside the White House for the inaugural event of the People’s Congress of Resistance, a gathering that brought together hu...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/OTG-SEPT15-2017MONO.mp3 It’s the third week of the month and today we have a new episode of ‘The F-Word,’ our series on fascism. We are excited to have as our guest professor and author Richard D. Wolff, co-founder of Democracy at Work and host of the nationally syndicated program ‘Economic Update.’ Headlines on i...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/OTG-SEPT8-2017MONO.mp3 As Senator Bernie Sanders prepares to introduce his anticipated Medicare for All bill on September 13th, we speak to leading health care advocate Dr. Margaret Flowers. Also, later in the show, the ugly face of disaster capitalism shows up in Houston in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. We hear from those in Houston on t...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/OTG-SEPT1-2017MONO.mp3 On this show, we hear the largely untold story from anti-fascist Antifa activists who were on the ground in Charlottesville about the deadly violence that day, about the controversy over their confrontational tactics and their perspectives on the dangers of the Neo-fascist movement today in the United States. Nico, who j...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/OTG-AUG25-2017MONO-SMALL.mp3 For this hour, we hear voices, including those of the Rev. Graylan Hagler and journalist Dave Zirin, who participated in the Love Over Hate Rally held Sunday, August 20, 2017 at Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church in Bethesda, MD. Many of the clergy and activists who traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia two w...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/OTG-AUG18-2017MONO-SMALL.mp3 For this hour we go to Charlottesville, Va. and hear voices, including those of author and activist Cornel West and the Rev. Tracy Blackmon, who participated in a mass prayer service at St. Paul’s Memorial Church on Friday, August 11, in advance of the deadly rally of white supremacists held the next day in t...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/2.OTG-AUG11-2017-REBROADCAST-SMALL.EDIT_.mp3 This hour is a rebroadcast of the major address, “The Rise of Trump,” given by author and activist Chris Hedges in Vancouver, Canada in March 2017. “The Trump orders are written not to make America great again but to make America White. They are an updated version of the Nazi&#8217...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/1.OTG-AUG4-2017.small_.mp3 For this hour, we hear from members of Congress including Rep. Raul Grijalva, Democrat of of Arizona; Tulsi Gabbard, Democrat of Hawaii; Rep. Keith Ellison, Democrat of Minnesota and Pramila Jayapal, Democrat of Washington, as well as social justice activists. They are all speaking on progressive legislation being in...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/OTG-JULY28-2017-SMALL.mp3 On this show, the political organization, Our Revolution, founded by Senator Bernie Sanders, launches its ‘Summer of Progress’ campaign with a rally on Capitol Hill and a push for eight pieces of legislation called the Peoples platform. We speak to the new president of Our Revolution, former Ohio State Sen...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/OTG-JULY21-2017SMALLFILE.mp3 This show is all about confronting attacks on healthcare, free speech, voting and the Second Amendment rights for people of color. And this is the third Friday of the month so it’s time for the F-Word, our discussion of fascism. This month’s guest is the human rights activist Rev. Edward Pinkney, who wa...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/OTG-JULY14-2017-SMALL.mp3 On this show, we hear from attorneys and activists seeking justice for those among the 41 remaining prisoners at Guantanamo, who have been caged and tortured for more than a decade but not charged with any crime. Now Donald Trump says he wants to send more people to Guantanamo, people he describes as “bad dudes....

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/OTG-JULY7-2017SMALL.mp3 On this show, we hear voices of Koreans, Korean Americans and anti-war activists who say no new war on the Korean Peninsula, a final end to the old Korean war that is officially still going on, and no deployment of the THAAD missile defense system, which critics say is really not a defense system but an offense system&#...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/OTG-JUNE30-2017SMALL.mp3 In DC this week, the resistance rolled on. Advocates for public housing speak out… Progressives square off with the ‘alt-right’ at the Lincoln Memorial…Exposing genocide in West Papua… Gerald Horne weighs in on the ratcheting up of tensions in Syria and Venezuela…Headlines on Trumpcare, the EPA,...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/OTG-JUNE23-2017-MONO-SMALL.mp3 Today’s packed show is all about resisting the normalization of war abroad and at home, resisting the idea that militarism, police terror and hate crimes will accepted as part of a new hyper reality. We hear voices from among the hundreds that gathered in DC for a vigil for Nabra Hassanen, a 17-year-old Mus...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/OTG-JUNE16-2017SMALL.mp3 Gar Alperovitz discusses his new free handbook, Principals of a Pluralist Commonwealth,” and outlines the possibilities of local, collective and co-op ownership that can be a model for a real democracy and not a future economy that is corporate capitalism, fascism or total state socialism. Shareholders and activi...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/OTG-JUNE9-2017SMALL.mp3 This week in June 2017 marks ten years of Israel’s blockade of Gaza; 50 years of Israel’s military occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem; 70 years since the Nakba and ethnic cleansing of Palestine began following the partition of the land against the will of the indigenous people; an...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/OTG-JUNE2-2017.mp3 On today’s show, a tale of sorts of two speeches and of two very divergent world views. On June 1, in a surreal scene at the White House, Donald Trump announced that he would withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. We talk to Scott Edwards of Food and Water Watch about what Trump’s announceme...