On the Ground w Esther Iverem

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/OTG-MAY26-2017MONO.mp3 It’s our special focus on culture and media for the fourth Friday. Janine Jackson, host of ‘Counterspin’ is back with us to talk about many media things, including the U.S. government’s double standards for leaking so-called confidential,  double standards for coverage of the so-called war on terr...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/OTG-MAY19-2017MONO.mp3 On today’s show, “The F-Word,” our monthly discussion on fascism. This month’s guest is Jerome Scott, veteran activist, labor organizer and founding member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, which organized in the auto plants of Detroit in the 1960s-70s. And this is the birthday of human rights gia...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/OTG-MAY12-2017MONO.mp3 On this show, an extended conversation with author, activist and on the ground contributor Gerald Horne about the latest in Trump’s political and public spectacles, and also the behind-the-scenes actions really impacting people’s lives here in the US and around the globe. And speaking of real impacts, Trump’s first 100-p...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/OTG-MAY5-2017MONO-SMALLFILE.mp3 On this show, voices reflecting the tremendous activity in DC this week—The People’s Climate March, May Day 2017 and the breakdown of silos between labor, immigrants, indigenous communities and the Movement for Black Lives. There is a new generation of activists taking to the streets and to the suites of p...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/OTG-APRIL28-2017EDITMONO.mp3 Voices offstage at the March for Science, which kicked-off this entire week of actions in DC leading to Saturday’s People’s Climate March. We hear voices of those in the trenches of universities, hospitals, of saving an environment habitable for humans. Also, it’s the fourth Friday and we have an extended conversat...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/OTG-APRIL21-2017-MONO.mp3 Fania Davis breaks down seven alarming fascist trends of the Trump administration, explains how the system of restorative justice can disrupt the prison-industrial complex and offers praise for and hope about new movements for social justice. Fania Davis, co-founder and director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Yout...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/OTG-APRIL7-2017WEBSITE.mp3 This week, the focus in DC is on war. While the Trump regime attacks Syria, and rattles the saber over North Korea and Yemen, progressives here and around the country took out time to mark the 100th anniversary of this country’s entry into World War One and the 50th anniversary of the historic speech by the Rev...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/OTG-MARCH31-2017.mp3 The nation’s capital was filled with protests and all kinds of activism this week, opposing AIPAC and Israeli apartheid, fighting for single payer health care or police accountability. But, still, the corporate media is focusing on the war of investigations going on between Democrats and Republicans. Today, well be s...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/OTG-MARCH24-2017.mp3 Today we continue to recognize Women’s History Month by honoring author and activist Mari Evans, who joined the ancestors this month at the age of 97. Fellow poets of the 1960s Black Arts Movement, Sonia Sanchez and Haki Madhubuti, were among the hundreds who gathered in Indianapolis for her funeral on Monday. We also hear...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/OTG-MAR17-2017WEBSITE.mp3 It’s the third week of the month—so it’s all about “The F-Word,” our monthly exploration of fascism—which is corporate control of the state, combined with repression of human rights and ramped up police and military. Today we devote this entire hour to “The F-Word” with a major addr...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/OTG-MAR10-2017FWEBSITE.mp3 Special show for International Women’s Day featuring conversation, music and poetry about Native American women, who are on the frontlines of resistance and are playing a key role in the growing unity among indigenous peoples of the Americas. Many are in DC for the Native Nations Rising Actions beginning March...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/OTG-MARCH3-2017MONO.mp3 As President Trump made his first address to a joint session of Congress and received raving reviews from corporate media, the grassroots resistance to Trump is still rolling deep in DC. On this show we hear voices from among the broad coalition of activists, including the actress and comedian Rosie O’Donnell, del...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/OTG-FEB17-2017.mp3 This is the third week of the month when we have our segment “The F-Word,” exploring fascism today. My special guest is Jill Stein, U.S. presidential candidate for the Green Party in 2016 and 2012. I speak to her in advance of her appearance on the program “Next Steps for Independent Politics: Fighting Fasc...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/OTG-FEB10-2017.mp3 As President Trump’s overturned executive order banning immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries continues to wind its way through the courts, lawyers in DC and around the country continue to take up the cause of asylum-seekers and immigrants from our own hemisphere, from Central and South America. Today we spe...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OTG-JAN27-2017MONO.mp3 UNHEARD VOICES FROM THE ONLY PERMITTED PROTEST AT THE INAUGURATION OF DONALD TRUMP. WE HEAR FROM AMONG THE MORE THAN 10,000 ACTIVISTS, ARTISTS, SCHOLARS, RELATIVES OF THOSE SLAIN BY THE POLICE WHO GATHERED. WE COVER OUR HEADLINES A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY TODAY AS A DISCUSSION WITH THE AUTHOR AND ACTIVIST PROFESSOR GERALD HOR...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OTG-JAN13-2017MONOS.mp3 Voices from day two of the People’s Tribunal on the Iraq War. The tribunal was sponsored by Code Pink Dec. first and second 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 used to...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OTG-JAN6-2016MONOS.mp3 Voices from the People’s 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 viewed in ful...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/OTG-DEC30-2016.mp3 This program includes the fifth and final part of our series Black Power: 50 Years in DC, 1966-2016. The Black Arts Movement is our focus today and features our interview with fiber artist and cultural activist Januwa Moja, who has exhibited her wearable art throughout the African diaspora. Then in the second half, a look ba...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/OTG-DEC23-2016.mp3 Part 4 of our series, Black Power: 50 Years in DC, 1966 to 2016, marking the half century anniversary of the call for Black Power in this country in 1966. Today, a wide-ranging conversation with educator and activist Tom Porter about his view of Black Power in DC from Malcolm X to Barack Obama. Headlines on March against Isl...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/OTG-DEC16-2016.mp3 Part 3 of our series. Black Power: 50 Years in DC, Nineteen Sixty-Six to Two Thousand Sixteen, marking the half century anniversary of the call for Black Power in this country in 1966. Weve looked at economics through the lens or labor, housing, gentrification and a bit of local politics. And today we look at social justice...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/OTG-DEC9-2016MONO.mp3 This year marked the 50th anniversary of the call for Black Power in this country, in 1966 and next is the second in a series of segments this month that will explore Black Power: 50 Years in DC, Nineteen Sixty-Six to Two Thousand Sixteen. Today, housing and gentrification. 2000 to 2015, the Districts population expanded...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/OTG-NOV18-2016.mp3 This week, the week after the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States,has been a time of tremendous action here in DC. As this city and region continues to reverberate from Trumps election, our streets have been filled with activists, including students, environmentalists, and those celebrating th...

Recorded live at Busboys and Poets Brookland location in Washington, DC. Featuring Medea Benjamin, Kymone Freeman, Michele Roberts, Tony Medina and Tracy Redd. https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/OTG_NOV8_ELECTION_DAY_SPECIAL_2016.mp3

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OTG-OCT21-2016MONO.mp3 This week marks the 20th anniversary of the 1996 invasion of the Congo by soldiers and mercenaries from Rwanda and Uganda, many of whom were war criminals exported from the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. Since then, up to ten million Congolese people has been murdered in their mineral-rich homeland where it is estimated that...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/OTG-SEPT23-2016-MONO.mp3 Esther Iverem takes a resistance-minded tour of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall, which has its grand opening and dedication, Saturday, September 24, 2016. Interviews with curators Mary Elliott, Nancy Burcaw and Jacquelyn Serwer included.