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Esther Iverem
“On the Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation’s Capital” covers social justice activism about local, national and international issues.
Journalism, freedom of speech and the first amendment are under attack. As journalists and truth-tellers are arrested, jailed in some cases, or de-platformed for for simply telling the truth, freedom of speech, the first amendment re under attack.We speck to author and journalist Jon Jeter for this months episode of “On the Media.” And like in cities across the U.S. and world, people take to the streets of D.C. to protest Israel’s attack on Lebanon.
Plus headlines on Israel bombing of Lebanon: The 79th Meeting of the United Nation’s General Assembly is underway in New York. In DC and around he county and world, people took to the streets to protest Israel’s bombing of Lebanon. At the White House, protesters also denounced Missouri’s execution of Marcellus Williams. In observance of Climate Week, 350.org cosponsored the panel, “Indigenous Resistance to Colonialism, Militarism and Climate Crisis. Celebrations for the release of Wikileaks founder and publisher Julian Assange are being held in New York, Berkeley and here in DC.
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As journalists are targeted by federal law enforcement, news organizations are de-platformed, and human rights activists face arrest and trumped up charges, freedom of speech is under attack. For this month’s episode of the F-Word on fascism, we speak to political commentator Garland Nixon. And for the second time in three years, DC police shoot and kill a man who had been sleeping or unconscious in his car. Plus headlines with Gerald Horne on Lebanon-Israel and much more.
Voices: Garland Nixon, Gerald Horne, Scott Ritter, Maya Berry, Alicia Robinson-mother of Justin Robinson, Attorney Andrew Clark, Attorney Brandon Burrell.
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Photo: Alicia Robinson, mother of Justin Robinson, who was shot and killed by DC police on September 1, 2024, speaks at a press conference in front of the U.S. Department of Justice September 16, 2024.
For Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, who has seen up close, and treated the murdered, dying and maimed children of Gaza, the September 10, 2024 U.S. presidential debate was just a bunch of talking loud and saying nothing. And the Uhuru 3 is found not guilty of the most serious charge, of being foreign agents for Russia. But they are found guilty of lesser charges that they say are based on First Amendment protected political speech. Plus headlines on debate protests, new Gaza massacres, Md. Supreme Court grants partial victory to African burial ground, Apache Stronghold holds vigil at Supreme Court for Oak Flat sacred site, ABC Australia breaks corporate media blockade about what really happened in Occupied Palestine on October 7, 2023, Miami Dolphins star wide receiver wants to use his platform to educate about police brutality.
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Photo: Healthcare workers, including Feroze (left) who volunteered to work with the World Health Organization through the Palestinian American Medical Association in March-April 2024. Courtesy of Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
The right to freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and freedom of association, are all at stake in the trial of the Uhuru 3 in Florida. We hear from those speaking out at the trial, and from historian and author Gerald Horne. This crackdown on human rights is occurring as more journalists and journalism are censored, and students protesting the genocide in Palestine defy new, repressive measures on U.S. college campuses. Plus headlines on Gaza, the West Bank, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline EACOP, Justin Robinson killed by MPD, Uhuru 3.
Voices: Gerald Horne, Plus Jill Stein, Jacqueline L’uqmon, Charles Barron, Afiya Wangaza and others speaking at press conference on September 3, 2024, the first day of the trial of the Uhuru 3 in Tampa, Florida.
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For this hour, we hear from two Muslim women who resigned from the Biden administration in reaction to the administration’s support for the genocide in Gaza. Maryam Hassanein, was a special assistant in land minerals and management at the Department of the Interior. Hala Rharrit is a former career diplomat with 18 years in the U.S. Foreign service. Her last assignment was as an Arabic language spokesperson for the State Department in the United Arab Emirates. In April 2024, Rharrit became the first American diplomat to publicly resign in protest of the Biden administration’s Gaza policy, condemning it as failed, illegal and inhumane. They were both interviewed in an online forum sponsored by CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, on Tuesday, August 27, 2024.
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Kamala Harris formally accepts the presidential nomination from the Democratic Party in a speech that continues unwavering support for the apartheid state of Israel as it carries out a genocide in Gaza. We speak to our media critic Jon Jeter. Meanwhile, for thousands protesting outside the convention on the streets of Chicago, it was a struggle just to be heard and not erased by police, corporate media and the DNC. Plus, a tribute to Marcus Garvey in Baltimore and headlines on Gaza and more…
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With Israel thwarting a ceasefire process that could stop the carnage in Gaza, can the United Nations fulfill its mandate to unite for peace? We speak to Gerald Horne for this month’s episode of the F-Word on fascism. And as the world awaits retaliation by Iran for Israel’s attack on its capital, the wait is part of the punishment for Israel, which is a large stain on the image of so-called Western democracies.
Plus headlines: There were talks in Qatar on Thursday for a potential ceasefire in Israel’s attack on Gaza but little progress was reported. Meanwhile the U.N. Security Council met in an emergency session on Tuesday, August 13th after The Prayer Massacre. Russian ambassador to the UN Dmitry Polyanskiy told the UNSC that the U.S. has consistently prevented it from taking meaningful action to stop to bloodshed in Gaza. Meanwhile a group of activists protested at the U.S. mission to the U.N., urging them to take action to stop Israel’s attacks on Gaza. In Ohio, a police officer has been indicted on murder and other charges in the shooting of a 21-year-old pregnant Black mother. Comemmorations were held in Ferguson, Missouri, to mark the 10th anniversary of the 2014 murder of Michael Brown. After four byears of house arrest, a Houston man, Muzzamil Zaidi, was sentenced to time already served because he transferred funds for humanitarian relief in Yemen through religious leaders in Iran. On Friday August 16, the DC for Ceasefire Coalition staged a city-wide action called Not Another Bomb to call for an immediate ceasefire and arms embargo on Israel.
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Photo: Siblings in Gaza wounded in an Israeli airstrike. IG Palestine on a plate
As Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza rages on, countries in the region ready themselves for a major fight. We speak to Gerald Horne about the latest. And in the U.S., the Democratic Party breathes new life into its presidential campaign with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, but do the new messengers have a new message? We speak to journalist Sam Husseini. Plus, Cori Bush’s fiery concession speech taking aim at AIPAC.
More headlines: new report on Israeli torture of Palestinians, W.H.O. sends polio vaccine to Gaza, famine was declared in portions of the Darfur region of Sudan, pro-Palestine protesters interrupt presidential candidate Kamala Harris, Rep. Cori Bush, Democrat of Missouri, defeated by $8.5 million from AIPAC in primary, communities mark ten years since the police murder of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, the FBI raided the upstate New York home of former UN weapons inspector, commentator and journalist Scott Ritter, African and Caribbean athletes score historic wins at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games.
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Standing ovations from the U.S. Congress have only emboldened Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose new killing spree threatens a regional, if not an even larger war. Tens of thousands of mourners packed the streets of Tehran for the funeral of the political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated early Wednesday, July 31st in an Israeli attack on his residence in Tehran. Haniyeh was visiting for the inauguration of the country’s newly elected president. The murder of Haniyeh and his bodyguard, just days after Israel killed a Hezbollah top commander in a drone strike near Beirut, causes many knowledgeable experts to say that a regional or even larger war is inevitable. We speak to our geopolitical analyst Gerald Horne.
And for tips on being a freedom fighter and staying sane, we speak to Charlene Marie Muhammad, a certified yoga instructor and author of the new book, Yoga in the Black Community: Healing Practices and Principles. She appears at Busboys and Poets in Hyattsville, MD, August 4, 2024, 6PM.
With headlines and other segments: New report released by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights documents torture and death of Palestinians in Israel concentration camps… After six months of holding down a pro-Palestine encampment outside Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s house in McClean, Virginia, protesters were removed by heavily armed Virginia State police. The Real News Network is covering protests outside of the Olympic Games in Paris… The 17th annual African Diaspora International Film Festival takes place August 2 – 4, 2024 at George Washington University in Northwest DC. Interview with Kymone Freeman, candidate for Congress at the July 24 rally to protest Netanyahu speech.
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Photo: Screenshot from Al Jazeera of street banner in Tehran honoring slain Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh.
As Benjamin Netanyahu, a war criminal, is applauded by lawmakers in a joint session of Congress, the H HEDLINES American people calling for Netanyahu’s arrest are attacked by politicians and the police. And in the ramped up chaos of the U.S. presidential race, corporate media all but disappears the murder, mutilation, terror and displacement inflicted on the people of Gaza by Israel. We speak to our media critic Jon Jeter.
With headlines and other segments on the U.S. election, post-NATO summit, Scott Ritter on the NATO’s nuclear chicken with Russia, interview with Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, and rally speeches from Zeina Hutchinson of the Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and NeeNee Taylor of Harriet’s Wildest Dreams.
On the Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation’s Capital gives a voice to the voiceless 99 percent at the heart of American empire. The award-winning, weekly hour, produced and hosted by Esther Iverem, covers social justice activism about local, national and international issues, with a special emphasis on militarization and war, the police state, the corporate state, environmental justice and the left edge of culture and media. The show is heard on three dozen stations across the United States, on podcast, and is archived on the world wide web at www.onthegroundshow.org. Please support us on Patreon or Paypal.
For this month’s F-Word on fascism, historian Gerald Horne discusses right-wing populism and Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance. And as NATO doubles down on failed wars of hegemony, we hear more voices from the No NATO, Yes PEACE Summit.
K J Noh is a journalist, political analyst, writer, and teacher specializing in the geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific region. Ju-Hyun Park is an organizer with the organization Nodutdol for Korean Community Development.
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NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance, meets in DC to celebrate 75 years and to plan for more war around the globe. But before that, the international No NATO - Yes Peace Counter Summit exposes facts of NATO's blood-soaked history. A coalition of more than 100 organizations met in DC for a day-long program on Saturday July 6, followed by a march and rally in front of the White House on Sunday July 7. For this hour, we present part one of our coverage of the summit. We start with the keynote address by German Parliamentarian Sevim Dagdelen, delivered on July 6, 2024 at St. Marks Church on Capitol Hill. Also includes remarks by German journalist, historian and peace activist Reiner Braun, and by activist and writer Djibo Sobukwe. The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!
The political shake-up continues in Europe and the United States, but will it translate into change or into the same-old, same-old? We speak to historian Gerald Horne. And the Boycott, Divestment Sanctions movement scores its biggest win ever, as crises deepen in the apartheid state. An excerpt from Electronic Intifada, featuring an interview with Shir Hever.The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!LInks: No NATO Yes PeaceElectronic Intifada: Live day 271: Israel disintegrates; Battle of Shujaiya
Wikileaks founder, journalist and whistleblower Julian Assange is freed from prison. For our monthly exploration of all things media, we speak to journalist Jon Jeter. And after President Biden is often incoherent in his first debate with former president Donald Trump, the Democratic Party is in a panic, and the presidential race may be in turmoil. Plus headlines on the debate, independent presidential candidates, DC protesters heckle Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Supreme Court further guts Clean Air Act, Assange plea deal, and Poor People's Campaign in DC June 29, 2024. Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Thank you!
What does the new mutual defense pact between Russia and North Korea mean for geopolitics, war and peace? We speak to historian Gerald Horne. And African American soldiers who fought and turned the tide in the U.S. Civil War are remembered on Juneteenth. Plus headlines on Palestine, conscientious objectors, climate and Juneteenth in DC. Voices: Gerald Horne, Darren Charles Overby, clip from "The Empire Files" podcast with Abby Martin and Mike Prysner, clip from Al Jazeera journalist Hind Khoudary. The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!
After tens of thousands surround the White House, in protest of the U.S.-Israeli attack on Gaza, an open-air People’s Court of Justice is held, putting U.S. and Israeli officials on trial for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. And why are U.S. and European officials playing nuclear chicken with Russia? We speak to historian and author Gerald Horne. Plus headlines.
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Americans don’t want their tax dollars to fund genocide, and on Saturday, June 8, they are creating a people’s red line for the Biden administration. Also, Part 2 of our coverage from the historic People’s Conference for Palestine. Scholar and educator Abdaljawad Omar on the panel “Palestinian Resistance and the Path to Liberation.” Plus headlines.
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On this show, we spend the hour hearing from Palestinian physician and political leader Mustafa Barghouti, members of the Palestinian Youth Movement, and others speaking on the first day of the historic People’s Conference for Palestine, held May 24-26, 2024, in Detroit. The conference was held as 125,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been either killed or seriously wounded in attacks by the Israeli military since October. But despite this tremendous loss, speakers stressed resilience, resistance and victory.
Also with Mohammed Nabulsi, Laura Khoury, Hind Khoudary and Yara Shoufani. Recorded by Breakthrough News. Produced for radio and podcast by Esther Iverem. This is part one of our coverage from conference.
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Today’s information war in the United States is a battle between censorship and the right to tell the truth, particularly about Palestine and Apartheid Israel. For our monthly special on media and culture, we speak to journalist Jon Jeter. And at a high school in DC, Arab students are banned from screening the film “The Occupation of the American Mind,” but we listen to portions of it on this show. Plus headlines on Debt Collective, funeral for Iran president, Kenya troops to Haiti, a combined celebration for Africa and Palestine liberation at Malcolm X Park in DC.
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In this month’s segment of the F-word on fascism, the genocidal attack on Gaza by Israel – and the worldwide opposition to it – is educating a new generation about the deadly nature of settler colonialism. And U.S. federal workers stage an action in front of the White House to protest U.S. unconditional aid to apartheid Israel. Plus headlines, including ICJ genocide case against Israel. With Gerald Horne, Ann Wright, other retired and current federal workers.
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Students and community members arrested and attacked by DC police at George Washington University speak out at a press conference on Capitol Hill about the destruction of their Gaza Solidarity Camp. And despite the effort by lawmakers and corporate news organizations to demonize the encampments, these student protests have grown the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the Israeli regime, and further internationalized the Palestinian cause. With: Students from Gaza Solidarity Encampment at George Washington University, Gerald Horne, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Rep. Cori Bush .
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As many Gaza Solidarity Encampments are destroyed on college campuses with hundreds of arrests, students at George Washington University mark one week of their encampment and raise the flag of Palestine. And International Workers Day takes on Special Meaning in 2024, as those rallying connected the issues of labor rights with international solidarity. Plus headlines on Gaza, attacks on college protesters, new proposed authoritarian laws in the U.S., and more. With interviews with Gerald Horne and William Youmans.
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The latest Gaza Solidarity Encampment is set up less than a mile from the White House and George Washington University students vow to stay until their demands are met. And after more than 200 days of Israeli assault on Gaza, and more than 110,000 dead, missing or injured, U.S. lawmakers try to squash the burgeoning student solidarity movement. We speak to our media critic Jon Jeter. Plus headlines on mass graves left by Israel military in Gaza… Rep. Summer Lee of Pennsylvania beats out billionaire-backed primary opponent… Gaza Solidarity Encampment constructed by students at George Washington University…at Empty University in Atlanta on Thursday, Police used tear gas, rubber bullets and tasers on student protesters at Emory University in Atlanta… Correction: One edit of this episode contained a speaking error. The Gaza Solidarity Encampment at George Washington University launched on April 25, 2024.
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There is another attack on Iran, and repression of Pro-Palestine students continues on U.S. campuses.
Sudan just marked one year of war that has killed thousands and displaced millions. Gerald Horne joins us and we hear from some of those rallying for Sudan at Freedom Plaza in DC. Plus headlines, including proposed legislation to expand the notorious 702 section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Poetry by Emi Mahmoud.
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The ratcheting up of tensions by the U.S. and its allies keeps the world on edge, from Ukraine, to West Asia, to the Pacific. We speak to Gerald Horne. In Congress, Medea Benjamin and activists confront lawmakers and officials about genocide in Gaza. And as billions are sent abroad for war, human needs like child care in the U.S. are diminished or eliminated. We feature voices from a rally by early childhood educators in DC.
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For Palestinians, the 2024 celebration of Land Day took on special meaning as the Israeli government attempts a “final solution” of ethnic Gaza, and the military has destroyed or poisoned vast swaths of territory that has sustained the indigenous population for millennia. Also, historian Gerald Horne weighs in on the dangerous climb of the escalation ladder in West Asia and Ukraine.
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While corporate media continue to spread false stories about mass rape of Israeli women by Hamas last October 7th, documented rapes of Palestinian women, men and children are ignored. We speak to investigative journalist Arun Gupta. And according to a new report by the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Occupied Palestine, the attack on Gaza meets the threshold for genocide. Plus headlines.
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Links: Arun Gupta‘s Substack
Photo: screengrab of Palestinian men and boys stripped naked in Northern Gaza in December 2023.
For this show, a rebroadcast of the keynote address, “Israel Beyond Apartheid,” by author and activist Susan Albulhawa, delivered at the Israel and American Policy Conference held March 22, 2019 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC., sponsored by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Abulhawa discusses Israel as a major weapons developer and exporter, the use of Gaza as a weapons testing lab on human beings, and the arming of rogue states. She also details Israel’s destruction of natural ecosystems, and the hellbent erasure of historic villages, mosques, cemeteries and cultural and archeological treasures of Palestine.
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Links: Susan Abulhawa website
Washington Report on Middle east Affairs
Part Two – “At the Table and on the Menu: Respectability Politics and Tokenism in Genocidal Times. A Conversation Between Muslim, Arab and Palestinian Women About Hollow Inside Strategies as Israel’s Genocide of Palestinians Goes Unabated. Plus headlines on Gaza, DC Ceasefire Coalition confronts DC Council, and SNCC freedom fight Dorie Ladner joins the ancestors.
Moderated by Maha Hilal, an expert on institutionalized Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and counternarrative work. She is the author of the book Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11 and her writings have appeared in numerous publications. She is the founding executive director of Muslim Counterpublics Lab. Joining her are Iman Abid, Iman Hassan, Ramah Kudaimi, and Mariam Durrani
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For International Working Womens Day –“At the Table and on the Menu: Respectability Politics and Tokenism in Genocidal Times,” part one of a conversation between muslim, Arab and Palestinian Women about hollow inside strategies as Israel’s genocide of Palestinians goes unabated.
Moderated by Maha Hilal, an expert on institutionalized Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and counternarrative work. She is the author of the book Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11, and is the founding executive director of Muslim Counterpublics Lab.
Panelists include: Iman Abid, director of Advocacy and Organizing at the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR); Ramah Kudaimi, campaign director at the Action Center on Race & the Economy; Iman Hassan, director of the Stop the School to Prison Pipeline program at Massachusetts Advocates for Children; and Mariam Durrani, professorial lecturer at the School of International Service and a faculty affiliate with the Anti-Racism Research and Policy Center at American University.
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A vigil for Aaron Bushnell outside Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC draws hundreds one day after the U.S. Airman lit himself on fire in front of the embassy and died of his critical injuries. Several speakers are featured, including: Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss; Kymone Freeman of WeAct Radio; Danaka Katkovich, national co-director of Code Pink reading a statement by former U.S airmen and whistleblower Daniel Hale. Plus, Historian Gerald Horne on Michigan Uncommitted… Plus Headlines on the Flour Massacre and More…
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In our second excerpt from the documentary, “The Occupation of the American Mind,” Israel’s 1982 attack on Lebanon, and the massacre of hundreds of Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, forces Israel to adopt a robust strategy of propaganda called hasbara. And a new book offers the untold history of Israel and Palestinian resistance. We speak with Richard Becker about the just-released second edition of his book, Palestine, Israel, and U.S. Empire.
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Links: Media Education Foundation and 1804 Books
If corporate media’s coverage of the genocide in Gaza leaves you with that upside down feeling, you re not alone. Throughout Israel’s brutal 76-year system of occupation, ethnic cleansing and apartheid in Palestine, it has always portrayed itself not as the occupier but as the victim. We speak to author and film director Sut Jhally.
And as Israel’s narrative become more and more over the top this time, perhaps we are witnessing that the propaganda of empire is breaking down along with the empire.
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John Pilger's documentary, 'Palestine is Still the Issue,' is an unflinching analysis of state terrorism perpetrated by Israel. It is as relevant today as it was when he completed it more than 20 years ago.Then as now, good reporters in Palestine only need show actual facts on the ground to deliver a devastating account of the brutal 76-year occupation, and Palestinian resistance. Plus headlinesThe show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!
As more than 100,000 Palestinians have been killed or seriously injured in Israel's ongoing attack on Gaza, we present for this hour journalist and author Chris Hedges speaking on "The Death of Israel: How a Settler Colonial State Destroyed Itself." Hedges argues that if the Gaza slaughter continues, supported by the United States, the UK and Europe, it signals a dangerous new world order. Plus Headlines. He spoke January 18, 2024 at the The Islamic Society of Central New Jersey. He was introduced by Omayma Mansour and the Q&A was moderated by Saffet Catovic. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is the host of show The Chris Hedges Report.He was a member of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for The New York Times coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, is the author of the bestsellers American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for his book War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He writes an online column for the website ScheerPost. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and the University of Toronto.This show was produced for radio and podcast by Esther Iverem. Hedges was recorded by Skalli Events at The Islamic Society of Central New Jersey on January 18, 2024.The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!
In its highly anticipated preliminary ruling, the International Court of Justice stops short of ordering a ceasefire in Gaza but will allow South Africa's case of genocide against Israel to go forward. We discuss the latest with author and historian Gerald Horne. At the Bigger Than Roe Women's March 2024, Black Lives Matter activists in DC speak out on the link between state violence and reproductive justice. Plus headlines. With: Gerald Horne, Keanna Johnson, Nee-Nee Tay, Tabitha St. Bernard-Jacobs, Frankie Seabron, Jamila White. The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!
At the historic National March on Washington for Gaza, Palestinian Americans spoke out about the murder of family members, and about the terror and destruction of their homeland by Israel. And in our first episode of The F-Word for 2024, historian Gerald Horne discusses synergy between the settler colonial regimes of Israel and the United States.Plus headlines on the latest in Palestine, vigil on Capitol Hill for slain Gaza journalists, activists protest move of DC's pro sports teams to Virginia, renown South African photographer Peter Magubane dead at 91... Palestinian athletes mount campaign to have Israel banned from 2024 Summer Olympic Games. And More. “On the Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation’s Capital” gives a voice to the voiceless 99 percent at the heart of American empire. The award-winning, weekly hour, produced and hosted by Esther Iverem, covers social justice activism about local, national and international issues, with a special emphasis on militarization and war, the police state, the corporate state, environmental justice and the left edge of culture and media. The show is heard on two dozen stations across the United States, on podcast, and is archived on the world wide web at www.onthegroundshow.org. Please support us on Patreon or Paypal.'ON THE GROUND' SHOW FOR JULY X, 2024The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!Links: Breakthrough News Complete Coverage of National March on Washington for Gaza. Campaign to ban Israel from the 2024 Olympics in Paris. ANSWER Coalition
At the International Court of Justice at the Hague, South Africa presents a damning case against Israel for committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.And descendants of those buried at a desecrated African American cemetery in Maryland get their day before that states Supreme Court.Plus headlines on U.S./UK attack on Houthis, Rashida Tlaib enters South Africa case against Israelbin Congressional Record, The National March on Washington for Gaza is Saturday Jan. 13, 1 PM, starting at Freedom Plaza. With Jon Jeter, Marsha Coleman Adebayo, speakers before the International Court of Justice. “On the Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation’s Capital” gives a voice to the voiceless 99 percent at the heart of American empire. The award-winning, weekly hour, produced and hosted by Esther Iverem, covers social justice activism about local, national and international issues, with a special emphasis on militarization and war, the police state, the corporate state, environmental justice and the left edge of culture and media. The show is heard on two dozen stations across the United States, on podcast, and is archived on the world wide web at www.onthegroundshow.org. Please support us on Patreon or Paypal.
The Biden administration may say it doesn't want genocide in Gaza to explode into a regional war, but actions speak louder than words. And four years later, the family of a Maryland man shot to death in police custody, is still seeking justice. Plus headlines on Harvard resignation, an MVP victory, landlocked Ethiopia secures a port, John Pilger RIP, National March on Washington for Palestine January 13. With Gerald Horne, Gus Griffin, Maryland Coalition for Justice and Police Accountability, @mdcje, ACLU Maryland, @ACLUMD, Marian Gray-Hopkins, @COCMDMV, @tawanda.jones.754, @Justiceforwilliamgreen, @UPPMaryland. Post image from https://againstapartheid.art/The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!
This is part two of our look back at 2023, which, as we stated in part one, was a year of resistance. Key to that resistance was telling the true history of exploitation of the Global South by U.S. and European imperialist powers. 2023 marked 75 years since the 1948 Nakba genocide in Palestine, 50 years since the bloody U.S.-backed coup of Salvador Allende in Chile, and 200 years of the deadly U.S. Monroe Doctrine. With Ben Norton, Juan Gonzalez, Bassolma Bazie, and Yasmin from Maryland2Palestine. The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!
SUPPORT US! This is part one of our look back at 2023. From Palestine to a myriad of protests; from the climate crisis, to police terror, to the African Sahel: this year was a time of continuing and tremendous crisis for the world's global majority. And it was a time of resistance and for challenging U.S. empire like never before. When international human rights activist Issa Amro visited Washingon, DC in January 2023, dozens of Palestinians in the West Bank had already been murdered in the new year by IDF soldiers and illegal Jewish settlers. Also at the start of 2023, the brutal beating and murder of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police, captured on surveillance camera, reinforced the systemic nature of police abuse in the United States. This show also includes my conversation with 2016 GREEN party presidential candidate Jill Stein at the MARCH ON WASHINGTON FOR PEOPLE’S NEEDS, NOT THE WAR MACHINE March 18th 2023 near the White House. Those opposed to President Biden’s approval of the Mountain Vally Pipeline rallied outside the White House on June 8. And this year "On the Ground" joined individuals and organizations around the United States and world in honoring the 125th birthday of the artist and revolutionary Paul Robeson. Voices: Issa Amro, the Rev. Al Sharpton, NeeNee Tay, Gerald Horne, Crystal Cavalier-Keck, Jason Crazy Bear Keck, archival audio of Paul Robeson.The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!
The murder of renowned Gaza-based writer and teacher Refaat Alareer galvanizes artists, activists and children to continue resistance to Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine. We speak to author and teacher Zein El-Amine. And at a March to Defund the War Machine near the Pentagon, protesters target the Biden Administration and offices of military contractor Boeing. Plus news from the White House and Capitol Hill with Historian Gerald Horne.The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!Links: Zein El-Amine's website
Several countries are rightly accusing Israel of genocide and war crimes for its siege, bombing and murder of Palestinians. But they are going to the International Criminal Court and that's the WRONG COURT. We speak to journalist Sam Husseini. And as Venezuela moves to reclaim land it says was stolen by the British empire, mediators in Brazil don't want to give the U.S. empire an excuse to further target the Bolivarian Republic. We speak to Historian Gerald Horne about Venezuela and much more. Plus headlines. The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!Links: https://husseini.substack.com/
Since October 7th, Israel has taken more Palestinians hostage than it has released in ongoing prisoner swaps. And those being released from Israel's dungeons tell harrowing tales of extreme violence and murder. Plus, we continue to explore mounting evidence that Israeli forces killed many of their own citizens on October 7, 2023, We speak to Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal. And Headlines on Henry Kissinger with Gerald Horne. Palestine Youth Movement and the Party for Socialism and Liberation stage rally at the U.S. State Department on November 29, 2023, International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!
With more than 14,000 Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza, a so-called humanitarian pause in fighting, as well as an exchange of prisoners of war, is set to begin. Meanwhile, as Free Palestine demonstrations continue globally, more evidence is surfacing that Israeli forces likely killed many of their own citizens on October 7, 2023, as recent reports document that they fired indiscriminately with bullets, tank shells and hellfire missiles after Hamas broke through the Gaza fence and seized territory as part of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.PLUS, Sean Blackmon of PSL, and Yasmin of From Maryland to Palestine, at Shut it Down for Palestine in Washington, DC. Palestinian writer Zeina Azzam speaks at Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ. Coverage of journalist Max Blumenthal interviewed by Chris Hedges. The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!Photo: of some of first Palestinian women released from prisons inside Israel. Screenshot from post by IG @shaunking
With more than 12,000 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks and Gaza's largest hospital raided by the IDF, the international call for a ceasefire grows louder. Also, in this month's episode of the F-word on fascism, more lawsuits charge Israeli and American leaders with genocide, and activists in the U.S. face repression of civil rights, and attacks by police. With Gerald Horne, Ali Abulimah, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Rep. Summer Lee The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!
On this show: the largest demonstration in U.S. history in support of the Palestinian people brought 300,000 people to Freedom Plaza. They demanded an end to Israel's genocidal bombing and siege of Gaza, an end to U.S. aid to Israel, and an end to apartheid in and occupation of Palestine. Speakers and attendees said that the U.S. is complicit in Israel's war crimes as more than 10,000 civilians, almost half of those children, have been murdered. We spend the hour hearing from some of those who assembled November 4, 2023 at Freedom Plaza, before marching on the White House. The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!
As Israel intensifies its genocidal campaign on the people of Gaza, tens of thousands are converging in Washington, DC for an historic National March on Washington to Free Palestine. And during the same week that the Biden Administration compares the burgeoning Pro-Palestinian protest movement to Nazis, it supports continued attacks on Palestinian civilians, fanning the flames of a possible wider war in the Middle East. Plus, more voices rallying for Palestine at Howard University and other headlines.The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!
As Israel commits a horrific genocide in Gaza, more and more U.S. lawmakers want to make it illegal to tell the truth about the murders, or about 75 years of occupation and displacement. And as we refuse to turn away from Gaza, continued attacks on Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank further illustrates Israels plan to remove all Palestinians from Palestine. With Miko Peled and Gerald Horne. PLUS BONUS CONTENT THAT COULD NOT FIT INTO BROADCAST.The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!Post photo screenshot from video in Gaza by IG @everydaypalestine
Despite the complicity of elites, elected officials and corporate news organizations, tens of thousands in the US and millions around the the world refuse to turn away from the genocidal attack on Palestine by Israel. And again it falls to independent journalist to write the factual first draft of history"even as warmongers take this world to the brink of catastrophe. Plus headlines.BONUS - Epilogue with Palestinian Youth Movement, Maryland 2 Palestine, and Sean Blackmon from the Party for Socialism and Liberation. The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!
The governments of the United States and Europe support--with words and weapons--genocide against Gaza. But people all over the earth say, We Stand with Palestine. And two new books by the historian, Gerald Horne, offer an overview of his vast body of historical research, and why the last 500 years of slavery, colonialism and racism have everything to do with today. Listen past signoff music to hear BONUS CONTENT. The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!
U.S. presidential candidate Cornel West speaks in DC about the urgency of pursuing peace in Ukraine and about the urgency of opposing U.S imperialism. Also, one day after two molotov cocktails were thrown onto the grounds of the Cuban embassy here, Cuba supporters gathered there to denounce the attack and demand that the U.S. remove Cuba off its list of so-called sponsors of terrorism. Voices: Professor Cornel West, Medea Benjamin, Dr. Samira Addrey, Jacquie L'uqman. The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!
A standing ovation in the Canadian Parliament for an aging Ukrainian Nazi lays bare the truth about the migration of scores of Nazis into Canada and the United States after World War II. And at the United Nation's General Assembly, leaders from the African Sahel and other regions of the global south spoke out about forcing the neocolonial boot off their necks.Plus headlines on Sen. Menendez indictment, federal government shutdown, UAW strike expected to expand, France to leave Niger, In DC, a proposal to allow for increased pre-trial detention of those accused of certain crimes, residents of a low-income condominium fight to save their homes. The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!
Members of the Australian Parliament speak in DC to call for release of imprisoned publisher Julian Assange... Portion of speech by Colombian President Gustavo Petro at UN... Gerald Horne: world meetings are further sign that the U.S. unipolar moment is over but Blinken still doubles down on two-front cold war...Poland's president calls Ukraine's head of state a 'drowning man' that is dangerous... Plus Headlines: it looks increasingly likely that the U.S. federal government will shut down on October 1, 2023... United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain says that a general strike of all its 150,000 workers against the big thee auto makers is still on the table... GM and Ford made record profits but are paying an average combined tax rate of just one percent... Sen. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and other lawmakers have introduced a resolution that apologizes for the role the United States played in the deadly 1973 military coup in Chile, and calls for release of all secret government documents about the coup and the mass murders, torture, and decades of fascist terror that followed... The American Library Association reveals that a record number of library books, all by or about people of color or the LGBTQ community, were challenged during the first eight months of 2023.The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!Portions of show audio and photo screenshot from video by @News2share
For this episode of the F-word on fascism, organizers remember the role of the AFL-CIO in ushering in Chile's fascist Pinochet regime, which murdered, disappeared and tortured thousands of people, including union organizers. And Gerald Horne connects the dots between the U.S.-backed coup in Chile 50 years and the chickens coming home to roost today in the U.S. Headlines: The United Auto Workers (UAW) went on strike... U.S. Census Bureau released new data showing showing that the nation's child poverty rate more than doubled in 2022 and that the incomes of Americans continue to fall… New evidence that ExxonMobil worked secretly to cast doubt on climate science… Arrests outside White House at rally urging President Joe Biden to grant clemency for imprisoned Native American activist Leonard Peltier… Steady stream of news articles in corporate media discuss a future U.S. war with China as an undisputed fact… Churches in Florida offer courses in Black History banned in schools by DeSantis. Voices: Gerald Horne, Louis Wolff, Steve Zeitzer, Carol Lang, James Patrick Jordan, Chauncey PeltierCredits: Video contributions from LaborVideo and News2Share. The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!
It remains to be seen if Niger and Gabon are throwing off French neocolonialism, only to be captured by U.S. imperialism. But in the meantime, they want their countries natural resources to benefit Africans. We speak to historian, political analyst and author Gerald Horne. And, 50 years after the U.S.-backed coup in Chile, organizers remember the role of the AFL-CIO in ushering in a fascist state that murdered Chilean union leaders.
Plus Headlines: Protests outside the French embassy in DC. United Auto Workers have rejected a counteroffer by General Motors as part of ongoing negotiations to avoid a strike, authorized to begin on September 14. Huge private equity firms like Blackstone are both massive funders of fossil fuel projects, which cause climate disasters, and are also new investors or buyers of disaster cleanup companies such as Servpro. Five "Stop Cop City" demonstrators, including faith leaders, were arrested after chaining themselves to construction equipment. Chantal James covered a talk by the author of a new memoir that includes discussions with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Paul Robeson. 500 organizations across the U.S. and world have endorsed the September 17, 2023 March to End Fossils Fuels in New York City.
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For this hour, our third and final show honoring the life of Randall Robinson" international human rights activist and leader in the movement to bring down the brutal, racist system of apartheid in South Africa. Voices: Rep. Maxine Waters, Rev. Jean Robinson-Casey and Jewell Robinson. Plus headlines.
Randall Robinson was a human rights activist and founder of the organization TransAfrica. Best known for his tireless advocacy against the near-genocidal system of South African apartheid, and for democracy in Haiti, he was a mainstay of activist life in Washington DC in the 1970s, 80s and 90s, leading sit-ins and rallies outside the South African embassy and holding a hunger strike to support asylum for Haitian refugees. Disgusted by U.S. racism, he left in 2001 to live in St Kitts, where he died during March 2023. He is the author of several books, including The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks and An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President.
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For this show, and our next show, we will continue to honor the life of Randall Robinson, international human rights activist and leader in the movement to bring down the brutal, racist system of apartheid in South Africa. This is the second of three parts, with more speakers, including Rep. Barbara Lee of California, speaking at the Washington, DC memorial held for Robinson in June of this year.
Plus headlines: Japan dumps wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean. 1100 remain missing after Maui wildfires as many bodies recovered crumble and are ash. Argentina, Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia are newest members of the BRICS economic group. News organizations in Africa speculated about the impact on countries including Mali and Burkina Faso after of the apparent death of Evgeny Prigozhin, head of the Russian mercenary Wagner Group, which aided those countries in battles against violent militia groups. The NLRB passes rules to help union elections happen faster. Trump hawks his mugshot on a t-shirt.
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For this show, and for our next two shows, we will honor the life of Randall Robinson, international human rights activist and leader in the movement to bring down the brutal, racist system of apartheid in South Africa. On June 24, 2023, the Washington, DC Memorial was held for Randall Robinson at Shiloh Baptist Church in Northwest DC.
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The military takeover in Niger provides a lens though which we can see the impact of post-colonial exploitation of Africa. We continue our conversation with professor Gerald Horne about the international implications of this flashpoint. And the 78th anniversary of the dropping of an atomic bomb on the people of Hiroshima is occurring as a movie about the "father" of the bomb, Robert j Oppenheimer, is box office hit. Former Iraq weapons inspector Scott Ritter and political analyst Garland Nixon spoke at commemoration near the United Nations. Plus headlines.
Photo: Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga of Mali speaks in support of the new government in Niger.
As Trump pleads not guilty to charges that he tried to overturn his loss in 2020, there are new revelations about President Biden's connection to his sons shady business dealings. We speak to a young mother forced to give birth while incarcerated. And activists discuss the impact of U.S covert operations on the U.S. public and around the world. Plus headlines on Abu Graib torture lawsuit, migrants are found dead, entangled in Texas "death trap," Cuba Covid vaccine more than 92 percent effective. Afro Colombian teenager is star of Women's World Cup. With Gerald Horne.
Photo: Staff of Life After Release in Maryland celebrate their new office in Suitland, MD.
The Korean War, with four million civilians dead and the country destroyed, provides enduring proof that the Cold War was really a hot war against liberation movements of the Global South. Seventy years later, the war is still not ended officially. We hear from some of those who came to Capitol Hill to call for an end to this dangerous war game between nuclear powers. And as the legal woes of Hunter Biden threaten to ensnare his father, the 46th president, we speak to historian Gerald Horne about Biden, his Ukraine connection, and also about the emerging new world economic order. Headlines on Teamsters tentative settlement, new Trump charges, ocean currents disrupted, Covert Action Magazine event July 31 at Busboys.
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In U.S. politics, the fight is on for the right to believe our own eyes and ears, and to teach the truth--especially when it comes the the apartheid state of Israel. You ay have heard of Black August but July is the perfect month to mark the struggles and victories of the people of Central and South America. On this episode, we hear from those who rallied in front of the White House to celebrate and defend the sovereignty of Latin American and Caribbean countries. With Rashida Tlaib, Lucy Pagoada, and other speakers at July 16 rally at the White House.
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The rhetoric and result of the NATO summit means that there is no end it sight for the U.S. proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. We speak to historian and author Gerald Horne. And are we forgetting to say their names? Attorney Ben Crump and activist Melanie Campbell make passionate pleas for justice for AJ Owens, a mother of four who was shot to death by her white supremacist neighbor.
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From Palestine, to France, to DC, to California, settler violence is on the march and the people are fighting back. We speak to journalist Jon Jeter. Plus, the Poor People's Campaign Moral Congress reminds the nation that poverty equals death. And while protesting in support of the journalist, Julian Assange, the co-founder of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream is arrested outside the Department of Justice. Plus headlines: Biden mulls cluster bombs for Ukraine; groups warn Biden on funding to Apartheid Israel' lawsuit targets DC use of armed police for mental health crises.
With the Rev. William Barber, Jon Jeter, Ben Cohen, Jodi Evans, Voices from Poor People's Campaign Moral Congress in DC.
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People came to DC from around the U.S. to demand that Cuba be removed from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, and to demand police accountability for the murder of Jayland Walker. Also, our media critic Jon Jeter weighs in on the news, including the Supreme Court decision on affirmative action. Headlines on Supreme Court, Moore v. Harper, and Norfolk Southern Railroad. DC memorial for human rights activist Randall Robinson.
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As federal funds meant to aid Black farmers continue to be diverted elsewhere, members of the Congressional Black Caucus demand that Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack reveal who is receiving billions in federal debt relief.And then part two of the discussion bout how the Foreign Agents Registration Act and other laws s are used to target movements for justice and power... Including the African People's Socialist Party and Cop City Protesters...We hear more voices from the program held by the Expose COINTELPRO and Beyond Coalition. Plus headlines on Fascist Indian leader in DC...
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With members of the African People's Socialist Party indicted for exercising freedom of speech, #copcity protesters charged with domestic terrorism, and bail fund organizers arrested by a military-stye SWAT team, human right advocates held a recent gathering to understand this targeting of activists as the most recent iteration of the notorious FBI COINTELPRO program that worked to destroy 1960s freedom movements. For this hour, we hear voices from part one of the virtual program held June 8th, 2023 by the Expose COINTELPRO and Beyond Coalition. With Shafeah Mbalia, Ruqayya Ali, Juilee Shivalkar and Mwezi Odom.
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As DC suffered Thursday under some of worst air quality in years, brought on by climate-change induced wildfires, those opposed to President Biden's latest massive fossil fuel project rallied outside the White House. Protesters said that Biden's tacking on the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline to the recent debt ceiling legislation, is just his latest betrayal of and broken promise to the climate movement -- and to humanity. Plus headlines. With Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Rep. Justin Pearson, Jason Keck, Crystal Cavalier Keck and BJ Lark.
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While decisions are made in Washington that take food and cash from working families, people speak out at three days of rallies to raise the wage. And there is escalation and not deescalation in the U.S. proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. We’ll catch up with the latest on the conflict with Gerald Horne. Plus headlines on the U.S. debt ceiling, arrests for peaceful protesters, and more.
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In our third and final conversation about Gerald Horne’s new book, Revolting Capital, we discuss Washington, DC’s April 1968 revolt, which one study said forever changed the trajectory of the city. And a view from a movement of young Filipino activists recently arrested after protesting a visit to the Washington by Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos. Plus headlines.
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DC may be the most heavily policed city in the country”and maybe in the whole world. In part two of our conversation with historian Gerald Horne about his new book, Revolting Capital: Racism and Radicalism in Washington, DC, 1990-2000, Gerald discusses the police brutality and displacement inflicted upon the Black population during the Great Depression. He also discusses the rise of U.S. spy agencies, which contrary to their legal mandate, targeted American citizens, especially the Black left in DC.
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Did the presence of a Black majority population in Washington, DC force the U.S. empire to abandon jim crow apartheid? We spend this hour speaking with historian Gerald Horne about his new book, Revolting Capital: Racism & Radicalism in Washington D.C., 1900-2000.
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In South Korea, Taiwan, and Ukraine, the U.S. ratchets up Cold War 2.0. I speak to historian Gerald Horne. And though the U.S.and allies bellow about democracy, the inconvenient truths about slavery, colonialism and genocide are ever present. Journalist Juan Gonzalez gives a major address about the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine.
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As the world continues to celebrate the life of artist and activist Harry Belafonte, we speak to historian Gerald Horne and get a perspective from the Jamaican diaspora.And marchers on the streets of DC on Earth Day, say it is code red for the planet and that President Biden should tell the truth about his addiction to fossil fuels. Plus headlines on the unhoused in DC, the revolving door of the military industrial complex and more.
With: Michael Byfield, Gerald Horne, Brittany Ruffin, Jean Su, Basav Sen, and other speakers at the Earth Day No More Fossil Fuels Rally and March April 22, 2023.
On the Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nations Capital gives a voice to the voiceless 99 percent at the heart of American empire. The award-winning, weekly hour, produced and hosted by Esther Iverem, covers social justice activism about local, national and international issues, with a special emphasis on militarization and war, the police state, the corporate state, environmental justice and the left edge of culture and media. The show is heard on two dozen stations across the United States, on podcast, and is archived on the world wide web at www.onthegroundshow.org. Please support us on Patreon or Paypal.
Photo from April 25 protest against Mayor Muriel Bowser’s budget cuts. #brokenheartbudget Courtesy of Fair Budget DC
From the African People’s Socialist Party to Palestine, people all over the earth are fighting for human rights. And among all the religious, cultural and social observances during April, there is Earth Day, dedicated to our common home–and this “home” crisis can no longer be ignored. Plus more headlines.
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As the world honors the 125th birthday of the artist and revolutionary Paul Robeson, his fight against racism and fascism is as relevant today as ever. On this show, an in-depth talk with Robeson biographer, the prolific author Gerald Horne. Also, two young lack lawmakers make a triumphant return to the Tennessee state legislature after being expelled for leading a peaceful protest for sane gun laws.
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On the 55th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Black Alliance for Peace launches a campaign to establish a Zone of Peace in the Americas. From Haiti, to Cuba to Nicaragua, the alliance wants the U.S. to stop preaching democracy all the while destabilizing sovereign governments in this hemisphere. Plus a talk with our media critic Jon Jeter on the news of the day and signs of U.S. fascism. Headlines on attacks on Al-Aqsa mosque, Tennessee lawmakers, and more.
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As nearly 90 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and Jewish settlers since the start of this year, Palestinians living under apartheid in their homeland and throughout diaspora celebrated Palestine Land Day on March 30th, including here in DC. And in our conversation with journalist Jon Jeter, we discuss how coverage of crimes against humanity, such as those in Palestine, stack up against coverage of Donald J. Trump’s indictment.
With Jon Jeter, Maryland to Palestine, Activists at Palestinian Land Day, Sen. Bernie Sanders Questions Starbucks CEO.
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A world-altering meeting takes place between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian president Vladimir Putin but corporate media misses the story. And a large coalition of the left rallies in front of the White House to oppose the U.S. proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. Invasion of Iraq. Plus headlines on TikTok CEO testifying before Congress and more. With Gerald Horne, Brian Becker, Jill Stein and Margaret Kimberley.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, whose recent bombshell investigation names the Biden administration as the mastermind behind the destruction of Nord Stream pipeline system, doubles down on his allegations in a wide-ranging conversation at the National Press Club. We spend with hour with Hersh, who says that U.S. destruction of the pipeline is one sign of how reckless and how unprepared the U.S. is as it continues to ratchet up the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.
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As Congress votes to block DC’s democratically approved new criminal code, the nation’s capital is the latest example of a black and brown-majority city in the United States being stripped of self-rule and democratic rights. Also, for a Women’s History Month special, we speak to Congresswoman Loria Raquel Dixon Brautigam, a woman of African descent and Sandinista leader, who is the first secretary of the national assembly of Nicaragua.
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We spend the hour hearing from Black farmers and their advocates who traveled to DC on March 1 from 15 states to rally in front of the White House and demand that President Biden fire Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack for continuing more than a century of state-sponsored race discrimination, land theft, and economic deprivation of Black farmers.
The protest was also commemorating a March 2, 1999 fairness hearing when hundreds of Black farmers also descended on D.C. to protest the forced consent decree issued in Pigford v. Glickman, the landmark Black farmer discrimination case that was implemented so poorly that Black farmers lost 1.5 million acres of land as thousands were forced into foreclosure and lost everything they owned. According to the investigative report, How the Government Helped White Americans Steal Black Farmland, Nathan Rosenberg conservatively estimates that the theft of Black farmers land and generative income amounts to $326 billiion today.
With: Tracy Lloyd McCurty, Eddie Slaughter, Timothy Pigford, Karla Bates and more.
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It is one year after Russia invaded Ukraine and most people in the United States and Europe still think that is when the war started. I speak to Consortium News editor Joe Lauria and our geopolitical analyst Professor Gerald Horne. And we take another look at the Oliver Stone-produced documentary, "Ukraine on Fire," which tells the truth about how this war really started eight years ago with the U.S.-backed violent coup of Ukraine's democratically elected president. Plus headlines on the more than $100 billion sent to Ukraine, the "Rage Against the War Machine" rally, and Black farmers.
For this episode of "The F-Word," we hear from world renown Palestinian activist Issa Amro, awarded by the United Nations for his non-violent resistance to the Israeli government, which he says is an openly fascist regime. He spoke recently at Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ in Northeast DC and was introduced by the Israeli American author and activist Miko Peled. With more than 50 Palestinians, including 11 children, killed by Israeli soldiers this year, and violent attacks on communities by Jewish settlers rubber-stamped by the Netanyahu far-right government, activists say that it is urgent to organize the type of international Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement that was mounted against the apartheid government of South Africa. The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!
What do the people have to say about the State of the Union? A rebroadcast of Esther Iverem's interviews with a panel of people working around social justice and human rights for the national Pacifica broadcast of the 2023 State of the Union address. With Professor Gerald Horne, Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans, police accountability advocate Ron Hampton, immigration attorney Heather Benno, and Siqiniq Maupin, executive director of Sovereign Inupiat for a Living Arctic.Plus more headlines: Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh alleges what we’ve long discussed on this show, that the United States was behind the September 2022 bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline system. A strike by a local of the Amalgamated Transit Union in suburban Washington DC is now in its fourth week. Following up a DC story we reported in January, Jason Lewis, 41 has been charged with with second-degree murder while armed, in the death of 13-year-old Karon Blake. The WPFW Pacifica family is mourning the death of two women who have contributed to the life of the station. Lorne Cress Love ad Zarinah Shakir.The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you!
As Tyre Nichols, the most recent high-profile target of police terror is laid to rest, we speak to historian Gerald Horne about the links between violence inside and outside the United States.
The brutal beating of Nichols by Memphis police, captured on surveillance camera, reinforces the systemic nature of police abuse and offers more proof that the system cannot be reformed. We will go to the streets of DC where protests erupted on the night when video evidence of Nichols murder was released. With Gerald Horne, Sean Blackmon, NeeNee Tay and April Goggans.
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At least nine Palestinians were killed and dozens more wounded by Israeli troops in the Jenin refugee camp on Thursday. On this show, we hear voices of Palestinians, including Electronic Intifada editor Ali Abunimah, speaking out against the apartheid regime and the billions in U.S. support that allows Israel to kill with impunity. Also on the show, a conversation between members of Black Alliance for Peace about their opposition to a call made by the organization Ukrainian Solidarity Network for more arms and military support for Ukraine. With Jacquie L’uqman and Ajamu Baraka.
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For supporters of imprisoned journalist Julian Assange, all eyes are on DC for the January 20, 2023 Belmarsh Tribunal at the National Press Club, where experts will present evidence of the current attack on journalism and publishers. For this hour, voices from a large rally for Assange, held outside the Department of Justice on October 8, 2022. The tribunal and rally are part of a renewed effort and is one of several recent actions by Assange supporters to protect him, the First Amendment and human rights. Voices include Scott Ritter, Dr. Jill Stein, Garland Nixon, Rev. Annie Chambers, James Bovard and more…
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With U.S.-backed wars and violence spreading abroad, and more senseless violence here are home, activists remember the radical legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Fifty-five years after King’s assassination, today’s organizers say that while King is best known for having dream of racial harmony, they lean more on his analysis of the triple evils of U.S. empire: racism, war, and poverty. With the Rev. Graylan Hagler, Maha Hillal, Netfa Freeman and more.
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Voices from the DC Emergency Rally for Returning Citizens, held December 19, 2022. Here in the expensive capital, where the first Gen Z member of Congress, Maxwell Frost of Florida, struggles to rent an apartment, the formerly incarcerated are in worse shape, with limited possibility of housing or employment. Including Roach Brown, Rev. Graylan Hagler, Rev. Willie Wilson, DC Council Member Robert White, Tony Lewis, April Goggans of Black Lives Matter DC, and more speakers at the rally.
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The journalist. author and social justice activist Ambrose I. Lane Sr. hosted shows, including We Ourselves for decades on WPFW and other Pacifica stations before his death in 2010. And for our year-end drive we are celebrating the 30th anniversary of his 1992 opus series Never Again For White Men Only. The series includes eight shows and nearly eight hours of Ambrose documenting how chattel slavery, followed by a century of fascist Jim Crow apartheid, not only impacted African-Americans but was also central to building a society that utilizes racism to serve the U.S. oligarchy. Plus headlines.
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Two weeks after Congress disgraced itself by denying freight railroad workers seven days of sick leave, workers and their supporters rallied on Capitol Hill and across the country for what they said is a basic human right. The denial of these rights to workers was made by rich, corporate lawmakers who have unlimited sick days and platinum health care plans paid for by the tax dollars of the American people.
Voices: Rail workers, labor leaders, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Pramila Jayapal and Rep. Jamaal Bowman.
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The Moore v. Harper case before the Supreme Court could give the far right in the United States what they cannot get through free and fair elections–and that is permanent rule. We speak to veteran activist Brian Becker. And, as the oligarchy in Peru has succeeded in their year-long effort to oust leftist president Pedro Castillo, we go our archives to hear voices of Castillo supporters rallying here, outside the Organization of American States during the summer of 2021. The rally was just days after Castillo’s win over Keiko Fujimori, daughter of longtime Peruvian dictator. From day one, Castillo’s supporters had to defend him against fascist attempts to overturn his win.
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For this hour, part two of our coverage of the conference, “The Real Path to Peace in Ukraine,” held November 19, 2022 at the People’s Forum in New York City. On this show, three more well-known authors and activists: Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin, professor Noam Chomsky, and director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, Vijay Prashad. The emcee for the program was researcher and activist Manolo De Los Santos.
“The Real Path to Peace in Ukraine, held November 19th, 2022 at the People’s Forum in New York City, sponsored by the People’s Forum and the ANSWER Coalition, ANSWER COALITION DOT ORG. The MC for the program was researcher and activist Manolo de Los Santos.
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The Real Path to Peace in Ukraine, a conference sponsored this month by the People's Forum and the ANSWER Coalition in New York City, was the kickoff of a new antiwar movement in the United States. People from all walks of life are opposing the U.S.-NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, especially as the Zelenksy regime shows again its dangerous desperation. We feature for the hour journalist, author and activist Eugene Puryear and Green Party Candidate for the President of the United States, Dr. Jill Stein. They are both introduced by researcher and activist Manolo De Los Santos.
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Unlike in the U.S., Canadians are confronting the fact that their government is supporting Nazis in the war in Ukraine " supporting far right Ukrainian nationals with the same ideology that Canadians fought against in World War II. Dozens of organizations and people all over Canada have also signed onto a petition demanding that the Canadian government stop funding Ukrainian groups and monuments that promote Nazi ideology at home. Plus headlines with Gerald Horne on the G20, COP27, Starbucks strike, and more...
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In the midterm election and in the upcoming U.S. Senate runoff in Georgia, the real story is racist voter suppression. We speak to Atlanta-based journalist Anoa Changa. And activists stage a people's tribunal, charging U.S. weapons makers, also known as the merchants of death, with war crimes. Plus headlines on Ukraine, COP27, police brutality, and more.
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An agreement is reached to end the two-year brutal conflict in Ethiopia that may have claimed up to a half million lives. And as, for the 30th time, the United Nations votes to condemn the U.S. blockade of Cuba, protesters rally outside the White House to urge Joe Biden to end the strangulation of our island neighbor. Plus Headlines on affirmative action and more... With Gerald Horne.
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As we continue to mark 60 years since the Cuban Missile Crisis, we speak to historian and author Gerald Horne about the loose talk versus reality of nuclear weapons. And whether it is economic Jeffrey Sachs being silenced, Kanye West being cancelled, or the retracted letter from hell, journalist Jon Jeter is in the house to discuss culture and media.
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Photo screenshot of Rep. Pramila Jayapal, head of House Progressive Caucus, who withdrew letter supporting diplomacy in Ukraine.
As regions that recently voted to join Russia come under fresh attacks from Kiev, we air two more excerpts from 'Ukraine on Fire," the Oliver Stone-produced movie about the 2014 U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine. And for this month's episode of the F-Word on fascism, I ask journalist Jacquie L'uqman if Americans would recognize if the United States is devolving into a fascist state?
Bonus talk with Jacquie L'uqman on Patreon
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Photo: Image from "Ukraine on Fire"
As there is an escalation in violence in the current conflict in Ukraine, we present excerpts from “Ukraine on Fire,” the Oliver Stone-produced movie about the 2014 U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine. And Brian Becker, activist and host of “The Socialist Program” podcast talks about the new book, Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States. Plus headlines on the January 6 Committee and more.
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As an early winter is predicted for Europe, the U.S. proxy war against Russia continues to impact energy, economics, food and the threat of nuclear war. Gerald Horne is in the house. And we go outside the Supreme Court where during the first days of the new term, justices heard cases that will determine whether there are actually voting rights in the United States and whether water in the U.S. will remain protected. Plus more headlines.
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The Supreme Court is set to hear a case that might allow the far-right majority further attacks on the democratic rights of Americans. Esther speaks with anti-war activist and host of the Socialist Program, Brian Becker. Professor Gerald Horne on who bombed Russia's gas pipelines and why fascists are on the move in Europe. And author and editor Vijay Prashad brings down the house in New York. Plus headlines: victory, for now, over the Mountain Valley Pipeline and more.
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Link to complete conversation: Esther Iverem and Brian Becker discuss the attack on voting rights on The Socialist Program.
As the U.S. and NATO proxy war against Russia reaches a new stage of escalation, corporate media's information war leads the world to the precipice. We speak to journalist Jon Jeter for this month's extended look at news and culture. And on the one-year anniversary of Haitian asylum seekers being violently attacked and dispersed from Del Rio, Texas, Haitian and immigrant advocates speak out in front of the White House.
Plus more headlines on fight to defeats Joe Manchin's #dirtydeal and the Mountain Valley Pipeline, Hurricane Fiona, assistance for young people leaving foster care, "The War on Journalism" movie and Julian Assange.
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Residents of Jackson Mississippi spoke out this week at a national town hall sponsored by the Poor Peoples campaign.The failed infrastructure of the capital of Mississippi is a long-standing problem rooted in the history of racism in the state, and in the lack of national investment in infrastructure for water as a human right. With the Rev. William Barber, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, Rukia Lumumba, journalist Roland Martin and more.
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Links: Mississippi Rapid Response Coalition
Hundreds of environmental and climate justice advocates rally on Capitol Hill to oppose a deal secured by Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia to complete the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline.The deal, to transport fracked natural gas 300 miles in Virginia, West Virginia and across the Appalachian trail, was reportedly secured in exchange for Manchin's support for the Inflation Reduction Act, which was passed and signed into law last month. This side deal adds insult to injury to climate activists, already angered that the Act offers only small fraction of what experts say is needed to address the climate catastrophe.
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In honor of Labor Day: a history of the role of the AFL-CIO in U.S. foreign policy and how a new organization, the Labor Education Project on AFL-CIO International Operations (LEPAIO), is pressuring the largest union confederation in the U.S. to be accountable to members. Plus headlines and interviews with Amazon workers.
Voices: Kim Scipes, Steve Zeltzer, Amazon Workers in Albany, NY.
CORRECTION: Some broadcasts of this show misidentified a Los Angeles radio host: her name is Dominique DiPrima. We regret the error and always strive for accuracy.
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'ON THE GROUND' SHOW FOR AUGUST 26, 2022: Jon Jeter on the Fog and Lies of War... Students Keep Fighting for More Debt Relief... Plus Headlines on ICE Detention, Mar-a-Lago and More
How far into the fog and lies of war will we go in Ukraine? I speak to Jon Jeter for this months take on the media. And students and activists rallying outside the White house say that announced loan debt relief is a good start but more must be done. Plus more headlines.
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With corporations amassing more power and with more violence introduced into U.S. politics, we present a rebroadcast of our interview with Gerald Horne about his latest book: THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION OF 1836: Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of American Fascism. Plus headlines.
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While Democrats claim the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 as a win, activists are left to assess all that was cut that would have addressed human rights, human needs and a livable planet. I speak to On the Ground's environmental justice contributor Michele Roberts. And what does this pending law hold for Black Farmers? John Boyd of the National Black Farmers Association gives his take. Plus headlines.
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Aftershocks from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan continue to reverberate as China stages live-fire military drills around the island. And the global left continues to react after the FBI raids properties and affiliates of the African People's Socialist Party in St. Louis and St. Petersburg, Florida, accusing party leadership of being led by Russians and Russian propaganda. All that, plus the poison pills in the so-called the inflation reduction act, Police charged in death of Breonna Taylor, and more headlines.
U.S. assassination of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri... Senate passes legislation to compensate burn pit victims... Sen. Bernie Sanders slams so-called Inflation Reduction Act... WNBA star Brittney Griner sentenced to nine years as prisoner swap talks continue... Ex-Black Panther Albert Woodfox dead at the age 75... Louisville, Kentucky police officers charged in the death of Breonna Taylor... In DC, two police officers are charged connection with the 2020 death of Karon Hylton-Brown. A vigil was held in DC Tuesday August 2nd for Kevin Hargraves-Shird who was reportedly shot in the back of his head by police while running away... Alex Jones ordered to pay the parents of a child killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School 4.1 million dollars in compensatory damages... Culture and Media: “The Bridge that Carried Us Over” exhibit closes... African Diaspora International Film Festival DC and the 13th annual BLACK IS BACK conference is happening august 6th and 7th i St. Loius Missouri this year and virtually online.
Voices: Omali Yeshitela, Gerald Horne, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Nkechi Feaster
Bonus coverage: More remarks by Omali Yeshitela after FBI raid.
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Links: African Diaspora International Film Festival DC
The family of murdered Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu-Akleh appeals to Congress for a U.S. investigation of the crime. And for this month's deep dive into media and culture, I discuss with journalist Jon Jeter Abu-Akleh's murder, as well as ongoing perception management of the Ukraine War, and the economic fallout. Plus Headlines on the Dems latest budget deal with Manchin, comedian Jon Stewart curses at Republicans for voting down law to aid U.S. military exposed to chemical weapons like agent orange or by burn pits. Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow would soon propose a time for a call with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken about a possible prisoner swap including Brittney Griner. And after far-right congressman Matt Gaetz verbally attacked pro-abortion activists as being ugly and overweight, a 19-year-old Texas student activist, Olivia Julianna, raised one million dollars in less than 72 hours to assist those in need of abortion services.
With: Jon Jeter, Lina Abu-Akleh, Victor Abu-Akleh, Tony Abu-Akleh, Rep. Andre Carson, Rep. Rashida Tlaib.
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Link: Public Petition Demanding U.S. Investigate Shireen's Murder
Speaking at the People's Summit, D'Atra Jackson, national director of BYP100, embraces socialism as the cure for systemic inequality and racist policing. Gerald Horne weighs in on the plans of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to poke the dragon and travel to Taiwan. Plus protests for abortion rights and for political prisoner Dr. Mutulu Shakur. New developments in the murder of Emmett Till… And more headlines
Voices: D'Atra Jackson, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, Jean Roach, Gerald Horne, Dr. Kokayi Patterson, Nkechi Taifa
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During a week when imperialist hubris was on full display, Eugene Puryear and Brian Becker examine how the U.S. fomented war in Ukraine in a bid to maintain unipolar hegemony. Plus headlines on Jayland Walker, John Bolton, Julian Assange and Biden's trip to Occupied Palestine.
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"Should We Really Blame NATO for the Ukraine War?" Article by Eugene Puryear on Liberation News
With recent extreme rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court, striking down abortion rights, gun safety laws, and the ability of the federal government to curb fossil fuel emissions, even politicians are describing what is happening in the United States as a judicial coup. Many Americans felt they had little to celebrate for Independence Day in 2022. We spend the hour with historian Gerald Horne and African American Studies Professor Greg Carr as they discuss the violent history and impact today of U.S. settler colonialism, slavery, genocide, and attacks on the left.
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New evidence about heavily armed protesters on January 6 and a series of extreme decisions by the far-right Supreme Court, prompt Gerald Horne's bleak prognosis for United States. And as demonstrations for reproductive rights continue, I speak to journalist Jacquie L'uqman about the connection between those endangered rights and the legacy of slavery in the U.S.
Plus headlines: 181 are arrested in civil disobedience protest near Supreme Court... Thursday, demonstrations continued outside the homes of Supreme Court Justices Roberts and Kavanaugh... Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in... Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency does not have the authority to restrict emissions from power plants... Michigan Supreme Court throws out indictments against former state officials, including former governor Rick Snyder, for the massive Flint water crisis. “The Bridge that Carried Us Over" is on display at American University’s Katzen Arts Center... Also, a collection of the journalism of the late Robert Parry, the investigative journalist who founded Consortium News in 1995, has just been published... Death notices: Russell Dale Simmons, former president of Black Artists of DC; Sam Gilliam, abstract painter; and Leslie R. Roberts Sr., father of Michele Roberts, "On the Ground" environmental justice contributor.
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Links: No, Justice Alito, Reproductive Justice Is in the Constitution, by Michelle Goodwin
Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund , Luqman Nation, The Counter-Revolution of 1836
For many of the tens of thousands converged in Washington, DC, for the Poor Peoples Campaign Moral March on Washington, the key demand was to shift billions spent on war and overseas to instead be spent on urgent needs at home. And after the fifth televised hearing of the House January 6 Commission, I discuss with our media critic Jon Jeter the coverage and impact of the hearings. Headlines on far-right Supreme Court decisions, Including abortion, and more....
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As the January 6 Commission reveals details of an attempted coup by Donald Trump, a retired federal judge says that the real threat is the next coup being planned in plain sight. We speak historian and author Gerald Horne on the hearings. We also speak to "On the Ground" contributor Chantal James about her critically acclaimed debut novel, None But the Righteous, set in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. " And the the Poor People's Campaign steps off in DC. Plus more headlines on the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC), Black Alliance for Peace, The Grayzone and Julian Assange. (After our broadcast we learned that the UK had authorized extradition of Assange to the U.S.)
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What do the attacks of January 6, the horrific massacre of children in Uvalde, and the U.S. obsession with guns all have in common? The answer is the state of Texas. We spend the hour with our geopolitical analyst, the prolific historian Gerald Horne, discussing his new book: The Counterrevolution of 1836: Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of US Fascism. Not only was Texas a bulwark in the effort to maintain slavery. it was a place where the Old South met the Wild West, and where the genocide of indigenous people was official policy.
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After serving 49 years behind bars, political prisoner Sundiata Acoli is released from prison. We speak to a key organizer, Attorney @Soffiyah Elijah, who worked for decades for Acoli's release. And for young activists from #FridaysForFutureDC rallying on Capitol Hill, the urgent issues of school shootings, abortion rights and the climate catastrophe are all intertwined.
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As Washington's war on dissent continues, I speak to journalist and filmmaker Dan Cohen for this month's extended segment on culture and media. And as the United States attempts to bar Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua from the upcoming Summit of the Americas, we hear from Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla. Plus headlines on Texas shooting, the $40 billion "aid" bonanza, and more...
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On this show, we explore the truth about white supremacist violence -- from Buffalo, to Ukraine, to Palestine, for this month's episode of the F-WORD on fascism with professor Gerald Horne. And, as the Supreme Court is poised to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision on abortion rights, tens of thousands women march nationwide and vow to fight back. Plus more headlines.
Voices: Gerald Horne, Rep. Lucy McBath, Mary Kay Henry, Tirzah Patterson, Dave Zirin
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The Women's Health Protection Act, guaranteeing safe and legal abortion nationwide, fails to pass the Senate this week after demonstrations around the country and here at the Supreme Court. And while Congress failed to support reproductive justice, it did vote to give $40 billion dollars more to Ukraine for what is openly acknowledged now to be a U.S. proxy war against Russia. But while signs of system failure and insanity abound, add D.C. bus drivers to the recent wave of victories for labor across the United States. Plus a legal update on the June 1, 2022 on Black Lives Matter protesters near the White House and headlines.
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Show No. 2 from Cuba: While the U.S. says it is defending democracy in Ukraine, Cuban leaders and hundreds gathered on the island from around the world for May Day, denounce the U.S. and Europe for decades of military and economic war on them in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. But, even in this new special period of hardship, the Cuban government is using its resources, not for bombs, death and destruction but to build communities for health and survival.
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As the U.S. funnels more weapons to Ukraine, prolonging the war and ensuring more death and destruction, Cuba prepares to celebrate the lives of workers on International Workers Day, the first public celebration since 2019. Plus, in Cuba and around the world, people are suffering more impacts from the climate catastrophe. We hear voices from 'Fight for Our Future: Rally for Climate, Care, Jobs and Justice' in front of the White House. And cannabis activists want President Biden to keep his promises to decriminalize marijuana. We speak to Dasheeda Dawson, Cannabis Program Manager for the City of Portland. Plus an interview with Witness for Peace organizer in Cuba, Pambana Bassett, and headlines on the 60-year illegal blockade of Cuba, freedom for Steven Donziger and more.
Voices: Pambana Bassett, Dasheeda Dawson, Michele Roberts, Jerry Hudson, Liz Schuler, Yhamir Chabor, Magnolia Meade
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As the war in Ukraine escalates, so does the U.S. War on information, truth and facts. We speak to Journalist Jon Jeter for OUR APRIL EPISODE OF On the Media. And police accountability activists sound the alarm as needed reforms fought for after the murder of George Floyd, are scuttled by local officials.
Plus headlines: Grayzone exposes Zelensky overseeing a campaign of assassination, kidnapping and torture of political oppositions... Gonzalo Lira... Patrick Lyoya... DOJ Slaps Mississippi Prison... Assange... Florida Bans 'CRT' Math Books... Paul Robeson birthday celebration. More voices: Beverly John and Kymone Freeman of WeAct Radio.
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For this month's episode of the F-word on fascism, Brian Becker and Professor Gabriel Rockhilll discuss U.S. funding and support of Nazis in Ukraine. And activists call out the AFL-CIO for collaborating with the National Endowment for Democracy in suppressing progressive labor movements in other countries. Plus headlines on a Howard U. nurses strike, climate protests and more.
CORRECTION: On some broadcasts of this show, the speaker at the April 8 press conference by the Labor Education Project on AFL-CIO International Operations (LEPAIO) is misidentified. The speaker was Eric Gjertsen, an organizer with the project. We regret the error and always strive for accuracy.
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Is an alleged massacre in the Ukrainian town of Bucha part of the fog of war or the lies of war? We speak to human rights activist Ajamu Baraka and Consortium News Editor Joe Lauria. And marking the Rev. Martin Luther King’s Beyond Vietnam speech, activists with the Poor People's Campaign release a new report about the pandemic in the U.S. as a pandemic of the poor. The campaign is organizing for their Mass Moral March on Washington on June 18th.
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As President Biden mentions the quiet part out loud, about U.S. dreams for regime change in Russia, the conflict in Ukraine is unleashing a tide of political and economic changes in the world. We speak to historian Gerald Horne. And the effort to evict Russia and Russian oil and gas from the world economy even prompts the U.S. to meet with Venezuela, where U.S. sanctions have killed more than 100,000 people. An interview with Carlos Ron, Venezuelas Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs for North America. Plus headlines, including signing of Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act.
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As Russia's intervention into Ukraine enters the second month, the U.S. and NATO continue to win the war of words and 'perception management' with a wall-to-wall media campaign unrivaled by anything in our memory. Our lead story is the new investigation by Dan Cohen speak to journalists Jon Jeter and Ben Norton. And as Washington approves another billion dollars for Ukraine, the first Black woman nominated to sit on the Supreme Court faces a barrage of racist attacks and right-wing dog whistles. While outside, her detractors and supporters square off with insults and praise. Plus headlines on New African Films Festival and more.
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As Ukraine's president receives a standing ovation from Congress and a billion dollars more in U.S. weapons for its conflict with Russia, the peace movement wants to tamp down the war hysteria in Congress.And in the face of corporate media's overwhelming war propaganda and demonization of Russia, peace activists say that a primary task is still to educate the American public about what is really happening in Ukraine. With Brian Becker, Gerald Horne and Medea Benjamin.
Plus headlines: Peace activists say no to a no-fly zone... Bonus Audio of full program at Busboys and Poets. Support us on Patreon! A prisoner at a Central Intelligence Agency "black site" in Afghanistan was used as a training prop to teach U.S. agents how to torture other prisoners... A series of earthquakes off the coast of Japan on Wednesday triggered a tsunami advisory near the Fukushima reactor... the Progressive Congressional Caucus listed 55 executive actions President Biden could take on to help working families... IN DC, the Chicago Justice Project filed suit against the District of Columbia for the Metropolitan Police Department’s failure to comply with the D.C. Freedom of Information Act... A virtual peace and justice teach-in will be held SATURDAY, March 19th, 4pm to 6pm Eastern time on the subject: "Why Ukraine should matter to faith communities"... Covert Action Magazine writes that CIA Director William Burns admitted earlier this month the US is waging an “information war” against Russia... On the weekend of March 12, Maryland officially kicked off the celebration of the 200th birthday of abolitionist Harriet Tubman at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center in Church Creek, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
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The United States sent a billion dollars in advanced weapons to Ukraine last year, while rejecting all of Russia's security guarantees. Did the U.S. want war? My conversation this week with activists Brian Becker and Walter Smolarek. Meanwhile, American corporations engage in price gouging, Congress fails to approve new funds for human needs, and a few words on International Womens Day.
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The war in Ukraine is also a war of words, a fight on the battlefield for ideas and truth. We speak to journalist Jon Jeter about fact-free Western coverage. And thanks to independent media voices, the hypocrisy and racism of the U.S. and NATO, which have invaded and destroyed countries with people of color throughout the globe, is laid bare.
Plus headlines: Mother of Tamir Rice, who was shot and killed by Cleveland police, speaks at activist gathering; DC substitute teachers continue protests. Russian news outlets, artists and athletes targeted. Public memorial for WPFW news director Askia Muhammad. Native American activist Peter Brooks speaks at 'Free All Political Prisoners' rally at the Department of Justice on February 28, 2022.
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After decades of watching the NATO military alliance move right up to its border—and after months of having its security guarantees dismissed—Russia attacks military targets in neighboring Ukraine. We speak to Our geopolitical analyst Professor Gerald Horne. In response to Russia’s action, the U.S. announced NEW economic sanctions claiming that Russia’s actions are unprovoked. Economist Richard Wolff joins us to follow the money of war.
Plus headlines: Cop Convictions in Minneapolis, Hate Crime Convictions in Georgia,Anti-War Activists Convene. Economist Richard D. Wolff, Gerald Horne, Leela Anand.
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As the U.S. continues to ratchet up war tensions with Russia, there are fresh attacks on ethnic Russian communities in Eastern Ukraine. And as Western journalists and pundits take great license with the term genocide, Esther Iverem and Professor Gerald Horne discuss the legacy of the Civil Rights Congress. Seventy years ago, the Civil Rights Congress documented scores of lynchings and extrajudicial police killings and charged the U.S. with genocide against African Americans.
Plus more headlines: Americans held vigils across the the United States urging that more than $9 billion that belongs to Afghanistan be returned to the Afghanistan people, who are starving and dying during the harsh winter. DC substitute teachers continue to demand fair pay and a rally marking "A Day Without Immigrants." WPFW News Director Askia Muhammad dies at the age of 76.
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Activists in more than 55 cities tell the Biden Administration to stop misleading the American people in a build-up to war with Russia. And independent journalist Ford Fischer, who was on the ground January 6 and was demonetized on YouTube for documenting that history, discusses corporate media biased coverage of the left, the direction of right-wing protests, and how social media giants censor content and control users.
Plus headlines: Biden continues to send heavy weapons to Ukraine... Trump investigated for destruction of White House records... New book says Trump flushed documents down the toilet... RNC endorses January 6... Justice for the U.S. Postal Service?… Amir Locke... DC BLM activists organize to end police "stop and frisk." NBC goes all jingoistic for its Olympics coverage...
With Ford Fischer, Brian Becker, Leo Flores, David Swanson, Luci Murphy and Carlos Andino.
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One hundred organizations urge President Biden to end the brinksmanship between Russia and the United States. Our media critic Jon Jeter joins us to discuss the media's part in beating the drums of war. Plus headlines: Biden Get a Backbone protest, DC Sanitation workers organize for job safety ad respect as essential workers. Atlanta DA asks FBI for security after Trump rally. HBCU bombs threats; no plea deal for Ahmaud Arbery killers. Amnesty International designates Israel as an Apartheid state.
With: Jon Jeter, Ambassador Jack F. Matlock Jr., Kevin Cramer Jr., Robert Hollingsworth, Kevin Pogue, Medea Benjamin.
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As the Biden administration, the Pentagon and NATO continue to provoke war with Russia, anti-war activists rally in front of the White House to stop a potential conflict between the world's two largest nuclear powers. The U.S. is sending more lethal weapons and public treasure to Eastern Europe as, at home, working families struggle with housing, food and fuel prices and mounting death and sickness from covid.
With: Sean Blackmon-ANSWER Coalition, Rafiki Morris-All-African Peoples Revolution Party, Erica Caines-Black Alliance for Peace, Micheal Bearman-PSL, Samantha Garcia-National Priorities Project, Olivia DiNucci-CODEPINK and vocal artist Luci Murphy.
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The U.S. exports its war economy, this time to the border of Russia. Here at home, the Senate deals a blow, perhaps a lethal blow, to voting rights and democracy. And for this month's episode of the F-Word on fascism, Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon explains why he warned fellow Canadians about the U.S. descending into a violent autocracy. Voting rights activists speak out on MLK holiday. Plus more headlines.
Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon, Professor Gerald Horne, Melanie Campbell, LaTasha Brown, Cliff Albright, the Rev. Liz Theo Harris.
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Witness Against Torture Rallies at the White House to Mark 20 Years of Torture at the U.S. Guantanamo Detention Center... The U.S. Continues to Fail at Covid... OathKeepers Charged With Sedition for Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S.Capitol... Chantal James Critically Acclaimed Debut Novel... '
Plus More Headlines: DC Substitute Teachers Protest for Better Wages and Work Conditions... Supreme Court Sinks Biden's Covid Plan... Sinema and Manchin Still Won't Eliminate Jim Crow Filibuster... 80 Groups and MLK Family Plan Voting Rights March for Jan 17 in DC...
With Dr. Margaret Flowers, Witness Against Torture, Chantal James, Marty Walsh and Jacqueline Pogue Lyons and more.
CORRECTION: On this show we incorrectly identified the source of this quote referring to the Supreme Court striking down President Biden's covid mandate: "After letting Texas's blatantly unconstitutional abortion ban remain in effect, the Republican justices have now swept into action to kneecap the Biden administration's common-sense public health measure." The statement was made by Brian Fallon, executive director of Demand Justice, not by the dissenting justices. We regret the error and always strive to be accurate.
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On the one-year anniversary of January 6, DC is still wrestling with the meaning and aftermath of that day, when a violent mob attacked the U.S. Capitol as Donald Trump tried to decertify Joe Biden's win in the 2020 Presidential election. With voices from the streets, and a discussion between activist Brian Becker and Historian Gerald Horne.
Plus more headlines: Wanda Mosley of Black Voters Matter calls out Biden and Chuck Schumer... Covid cases rise (and mismanagement continues)... Civil rights groups filed a lawsuit against Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger because of racial gerrymandering... Author Marian Williamson spoke to Code Pink Congress about the links between student debt and the military budget.
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In Part 1, we covered the January 6th fascist attack on the U.S. Capital, the first year of the Biden administration, the conviction of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, ongoing cases of police terror and murder, including here in DC. And, finally, we began our discussion of international news with our geopolitical analyst professor Gerald Horne breaking down the latest on the triangular relationship BETWEEN the United States, Russia and China.
In Part 2, we pick up that discussion, starting with the victory of Gabriel Boric and progressive forces in Chile over a far-right follower of the former U.S. backed dictator Augusto Pinochet. Also, labor victories and struggles, and the fight for Voting Rights and other basics of American democracy.
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Our End-Of-Year Review, Part 1: January 6, to Chauvin Conviction, To More Police Violence, to Russia, China and Chile.
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For our final episode of the F-Word on fascism for 2021, we present this conversation with our geopolitical analyst, professor Gerald Horne on "The Social Program" podcast with Brian Becker. We pick up the conversation with Gerald talking about how the model of U.S. genocide of the indigenous populations and enslavement of Africans served as a model for fascist Germany. It's crunch time for voting rights and for Biden's Build Back Better Act to support American families. And thousands of Ethiopians continue to march in DC, demanding that the U.S stop supporting the terrorist group the Tigrayan Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF).
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As the legislative calendar for Congress comes to a close, people are marching in DC to get the attention of lawmakers and the White House to pass the Build Back Better Act to meet the human needs of Americans families, fight climate catastrophe and keep fading promises made by Democrats to win the White House, House and Senate. We'll hear voices on the rights of the undocumented and a call for Congress to keep a path to citizenship on its agenda. But first we go to the White House, where on Dec. 5th, there was the third of three mass "Hands Off Ethiopia" demonstrations by the Washington, DC-area Ethiopian community, the largest population of Ethiopians outside of their native country. They are protesting U.S. support of the terrorist organization the TPLF, the Tigrayan Peoples Liberation Front, which is waging war against the democratically elected government of Abiy Ahmed and is terrorizing the country.
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As a far-right majority on the Supreme Court heard arguments this week in a case that could overturn the landmark abortion rights law, Roe v. Wade, reproductive justice activists spoke outside the court at the Abortion Is Essential Rally. These organizers from around the country competed for ear space with hecklers and nearby anti-abortion activists, including those specifically targeting Black women in the pro-choice movement. With Dr. Joia Crear-Perry, Maya Ward, Lori Bertram Roberts, Jessica Arens, Irma Garcia and other speakers at the Abortion is Essential Rally.
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Three Court Verdicts About Race and Racism in the US… Journalist Jon Jeter on False Ethiopia Coverage, Censorship, Threats Against Student Journalists at Howard U and More… Native Americans Mark National Day of Mourning.
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PEASE SUPPORT OUR YEAR-END DRIVE! Under the pressure of extreme Republican gerrymandering and voter suppression around the country, activists demand federal voting rights legislation and Democrats take the next steps to provide promised benefits for America's working families. And in this months episode of the F-Word on fascism, we speak to Professor Gerald Horne about mounting threats from right-wing violence, censorship and conspiracy theories in the United States. Plus headlines.
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From climate justice warriors in Glasgow, to the elected government of Ethiopia fighting for its sovereignty, to the Poor Peoples Campaign here in the United States, the urgent demand is for an end to imperialist wars, and an end to economic and environmental exploitation. And one journalists fight to get the real story out about Ethiopia is evidence of a larger fight -- against the same talking points of U.S. warmongers fed to a pliant corporate media. Plus headlines.
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ot even existential threat can stop corporate polluters and their political minions from digging our graves. We hear some sane voices from the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow Scotland. And in Washington, DC, an environmental justice scandal with national reverberations. As students at Howard University are in their fourth week of protesting student housing plagued by mold and rodents. Civil rights leaders, are stepping in, saying that Howard is violating federal regulations for education, housing and environmental protection. Plus headlines on infrastructure and more.
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As the United States arrives at an inflection point about a federal budget for human needs versus billionaire and corporate greed, we speak to the Rev. William Barber and the Poor People's Campaign rallies on Capitol Hill. And then, journalist Jon Jeter joins us for this month's deep dive into culture and media -- from the war on truth, to the right-wing embrace of political violence, to the controversy of over Dave Chappelle's Netflix special 'the Closer.' Plus more headlines.
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Two Tales of Colin Powell... How a Natural Disaster Turns Into a Human Rights Disaster: The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Investigates the Disaster Response Toward People of Color during and After Hurricane Harvey... Alex Saab, CRT, Texas Mandates "Both Sides" of the Holocaust... and Headlines..
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Imperialism in the 21st Century With Brian Becker… Gerald Horne on Taiwan… More than 500 Arrested at People Vs. Fossil Fuels Protests. Plus headlines on Indigenous People's Day, George Floyd's 48th birthday, other BLM news and more.
To come: bonus content with Gerald Horne on Ethiopia and Iran
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A new documentary investigates the unsolved death of Kendrick Johnson, the high school sophomore whose body was found rolled up in a school gym mat in Valdosta, Georgia in 2013. Was the death a tragic accident or a case of murder with racial overtones in the deep South?
Plus headlines. Link to Department of Justice Report, Subverting Justice.
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Progressives in Congress stand up for American working families... On Meng Wanzhou's release and the New U.S. cold war with China... Congresswomen offer their own stories of abortion to support abortion rights. Plus headlines on funding human needs versus war, cancel the rents protests in more than 50 cities, report about plot to assassinate Julian Assange, rallies to support Haitian asylum seekers.
Voices: Jon Jeter, Cori Bush, Pramila Jayapal, Gerald Horne.
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With the broken U.S. immigration system is in the news, we hear voices of those rallying on the National Mall at the March for Citizenship, Climate and Care. And we speak to Jemima Pierre of the Black Alliance for Peace about Haitian migrants at the Southern border. And finally, when it comes to these and other complex issues, corporate media obscures more than it explains. Journalist Jon Jeter is in the house. Plus headlines on the infrastructure showdown and much more.
Bonus coverage with Jon Jeter on U.S. rape culture, the loss of faith in government, the post-truth society and a tribute to Melvin Van Peebles and "Watermelon Man"
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The F-Word: Twenty Years Since 9/11…USA Gymnasts Ask Why FBI and USA Olympics Have Not Been Held Accountable for Ignoring Sexual Abuse…Plus Headlines on Philadelphia Mother Assaulted by Cops Awarded $2 Million... And Much More...
With Voices: Gerald Horne, Makani Themba, Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney
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A summer of activism in DC -– protests for voting rights, for housing, for a living wage, for climate policy, for the right to tell the truth about Black History and be protected from police terror-- culminated on August 28th in a day of actions, including the Make Good Trouble Rally, which brought together a coalition of organizations on the 58th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Plus headlines on pandemic unemployment; Biden vaccine mandates; indictments in case of Ahmaud Arbery and Elijah McClain; Robert E. Lee monument goes down; Ida impact lingers; activists want to avoid 'disaster capitalist' exploitation of poor and haphazard treatment of evacuees from Ida.
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During an historic evening in Congress, on May 13th 2021, members of the House of Representatives delivered a full hour of speeches in support of rights of the Palestinian people. The impassioned remarks, including by the only Palestinian member of Congress, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, were the first such efforts in Congress, which approves annually nearly $4 billion dollars for the apartheid state of Israel, and where there is growing pressure to have that aid be conditioned due to Israel's war crimes and crimes against humanity.
With Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Rep. Cori Bush, Rep. Betty McCollum, Rep. Andre Carson and Rep. Mark Pocan.
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For this hour, the subject is Afghanistan and the future of U.S. empire. Our geopolitical analyst professor Gerald Horne spoke on the podcast 'The Socialist Program with Brian Becker' on August 19th, before the August 26th deadly terrorist bombings at the Kabul airport that killed dozens of Afghan civilians and at least 13 members of the U.S. military. Brian has also joined us here on 'On the Ground' as national organizer for the ANSWER Coalition, which stands for Act Now Stop War and End Racism.
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While we may have given our eulogy for the Afghanistan War, what does this defeat mean for U.S. empire? On the National Mall, Fawn Sharp, president of the National Congress of American Indians, is among the indigenous leaders vowing to fight back against continued violation and pollution of treaty lands. DC Residents Sue to Save Historic, Last Green Space. Plus headlines.
With Fawn Sharp, president of the National Congress of American Indians. Daniel Wolkoff of the Committee for the McMillan Park Conservancy. Jerome Peloquin, Jimmie Boykin, Gerald Horne and Jay Julius.
Bonus content on McMillan Park: Activists Speak Out on the fight to save DC's First Integrated Park--And Saving Precious Green Space and Historic Structures--In the Rapidly Gentrifying District. And Can This Urban Park Grow Food for the Community?
Links:
SaveMcMillan.org / Red Road to DC / Stop Line 3
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As the Taliban overtakes at least a dozen provincial capitals in Afghanistan, and the U.S. leaves in defeat, I speak with historian Gerald Horne who gives his eulogy on this country's longest war. And in a major milestone in the five-year battle to save a desecrated African cemetery in Maryland, descendants of those buried at the site file a lawsuit to prevent the land, now covered by a parking lot, to be sold to another land developer. Plus headlines on the delta variant spread in U.S. southern states, UN "Code Red" climate report, voting and protest rights, and the 14th African Diaspora International Film Festival D.C is underway through August 19, 2021.
Also with: Joshua Newman - Pan African Community Action, Nikki Owens - cousin of William Greene, Gus Griffin - Archie Elliott III Coalition for Justice… Beverly John- Community Justice
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Photo: family of William Mason, founder of Macedonia Baptist Church, who was buried in Moses Cemetery, which is paved over by a parking lot in Bethesda, MD.
An occupation on the steps of the U.S. Capitol leads to a victory for millions of families facing the threat of eviction during the COVID-19 pandemic. And while the Russiagate hoax still bubbles up among Hillary Democrats and corporate media, an actual multi-million-dollar campaign by pro-Israel lobbyists interfering in Nina Turner's bid for Congressional seat is ignored. Plus headlines on climate, Black Lives Matter, policing, media and more. Richard Trumka and Glen Ford remembered. Interviews with journalist Jon Jeter and Fernando Abarca, national field organizer with Right to the City.
Bonus coverage from Jon Jeter on the influence of the apartheid state of Israel on U.S. and international politics. Also, exclusive audio of the Rev. William Barber speaking at the occupation of the U.S. Capitol to extend the eviction moratorium during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Hundreds of protesters rally in front of the White House to say "Let Cuba Live" and to demand that the illegal U.S.embargo and sanctions on Cuba be lifted. While supporting a campaign led by Cuban Americans to end the blockade, these protesters were also the target of hostile far-right demonstrators who tried but failed in their attempt to stop this action for Cuba solidarity, which is shared by almost every country on the planet. The rally welcomed the Bridges of Love / Puentes De Amor project of Seattle teacher Carlos Lazo, a Cuban American who walked 1300 miles to DC from Miami with friends to deliver petitions signed by 27,000 people across the country to lift the blockade.
With Rev. Graylan Hagler, Medea Benjamin, Sean Blackmon, Carlos Lazo, Adeyemi Bandele, Attorney Jose Pertierra, Robin Harris of the Green Party Florida, Omari Musa, Musician Patricio Zamorano.
Web exclusive report by Chantal James on on African Americans, the legacy of he Tuskegee experiments and vaccine hesitancy.
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Whether it is the fight for voting rights, infrastructure or real aid to the suffering Cuban people, progressives are confronting urgent issues. And with a very sophisticated social media WAR waged by the U.S. against Cuba and ongoing attacks in the U.S. on teaching historical facts, it's time, once again, to talk with our media critic Jon Jeter.
Plus headlines: President Biden issued new sanctions against Cuba but has not fulfilled his campaign promise to roll back Trump sanctions... Code Pink and partners raises more than a half million dollars to send the first 1.6 million of a total 6 million syringes to Cuba... 400 people sign onto full page NYT ad to end Cuba sanctions and blockade... Rally July 25, 2021, 2pm, in front of the White House, to end embargo... Nearly 80 women were arrested as they blocked the street near the Supreme Court, in an action to support voting rights... Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia was among those arrested in another voting rights rally... The Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund gave the Biden administration a grade of C-minus... Amnesty International documents new sexual violence, against men, women and children intercepted while crossing the Mediterranean Sea and forcibly returned to detention centers in Libya... The U.S. Department of Justice announced a strike force to help reduce gun violence... Rights groups are demanding a probe of the FBI's apparently limited 2018 background investigation into U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
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Whether it is a social media bot campaign or a murky assassination plot, the call is: "Hands off Haiti" and "Hands off Cuba." And for this month's episode of the F-Word on fascism, Esther Iverem wonders aloud and about racist Jim Crow conditions and brutal dictatorship before the Cuban Revolution and asks writer and activist Manolo De Los Santos if this is the throwback reality that right-wing plotters want to revive. Plus headlines.
Bonus content on Patreon: Professor Gerald Horne on the coming clash between U.S. and E.U. over climate policy.
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For this hour, our geopolitical analyst professor Gerald Horne, on the real meaning of the July 4th holiday, the new Juneteenth holiday and the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, which is also being marked this month, starring on July 1st, 2021. Gerald speaks with Brian Becker, host of the The Socialist Program podcast, which I also contributed to every week. Brian has also joined us here on On the Ground as national organizer for the ANSWER Coalition, which stands for Act Now Stop War and End Racism.
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As deadly heat kills hundreds in the Pacific Northwest and Canada, sets fire to entire communities, and overwhelms power grids, climate activists stage demonstrations over three days in front of the White House, demanding that President Biden not abandon his promise to fight the climate catastrophe. And, outside the Organization of American States, Peruvians and their supporters celebrate the socialist President-elect of Peru, Pedro Castillo, and defend him against fascist attempts to overturn his win. Plus headlines on end of tour for father and brother of Julian Assange, updates on Surfside condo collapse and MUCH more.
Voices: Taysha Martineau - Indigenous People's Network, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, Rep. Cori Bush, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bruno Franco of Frank Analysis, Randy Credico, Barbara Arnwine.
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During a week when the right-wing of the Senate blocked debate on voting rights legislation, protesters converged on Washington DC to demand action, not just for voter protections, but for climate justice, housing, healthcare, immigrant rights and jobs. Meanwhile, As Republican lawmakers disparage education about systemic racism, they get schooled by an army general. Also, I speak to Journalist Jon Jeter about the latest effort of government and corporate media to suppress ideas and facts.
Voices: Jon Jeter and voices rallying at the Supreme Court June 24, 2021, including the Rev. Steven Green of Faith for Black Lives and Marie Follaytor of Mainers for Responsible Government.
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An exclusive interview with John Shipton and Gabriel Shipton, father and brother of Julian Assange, imprisoned founder and editor of Wikileaks... Historian Gerald Horne has a new take on Juneteenth... Journalist Deneen L. Brown gives an update on the Tulsa Massacre investigation and is featured in a new documentary, 'Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer.' Plus other headlines on Biden at the G7, NATO and with Putin... Ilhan Omar... Palestine... The Poor People's Campaign marches on Senator Joe Manchin and more...
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Post photo: An archival image shows some of the destruction caused during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. (The Library of Congress)
Climate, labor and indigenous activists feel betrayed by Biden's negotiations with Republicans to possibly cut his infrastructure bill even more, scuttling already pared-back projects to address the climate crisis and create good jobs. We hear from activists speaking at a rally on May 24, 2021 organized by the Sunrise Movement in front of the White House. Gerald Horne weighs in on the anti-China US Innovation and Competition Act passed by Congress and "autonomous" drones killing Libyans.
Plus Headlines: Rep. Ilhan Omar attacked again for speaking truth to power... Human right activists block Israeli boat from docking in Oakland... VP Kamala Harris first foreign policy trip "a disaster." ...Keystone XL pipeline terminated... Hundreds arrested at Line 3 protest... Climate activists urge Biden to not shrink his infrastructure plan and to negotiate with them, the people who elected him, and not Republicans... Update on June 1, 2020 attack on BLM protesters in DC... DC activists trying to save McMillan Park from developers head to federal court.
Bonus content on Patreon: More from Professor Gerald Horne on Libya and Killer Drones... The role of Turkey in Africa... Pedro Castillo's Win in Peru... Thank you for your support!
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In the aftermath of Israel's bombing of Gaza, killing more than 250 people, including 66 children, tens of thousands converged on Washington, DC on Saturday, May 29th for the National March for Palestine. Sparked by violent incidents that went viral of Israel's seizure of homes of Palestinians in East Jerusalem and Israeli soldiers firing on worshippers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the march is part of a mass, global solidarity movement that is demanding an end to Israel's system of occupation and apartheid, demanding an end to U.S. military funding to Israel, and calling for a renewed campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions to target the apartheid state. We spend the hour with our coverage at the Lincoln Memorial, hearing from speakers and attendees determined to tell Palestinians story of more than seven decades of resistance to settler colonialism.
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During an historic evening in Congress, on May 13th 2021, members of the House of Representatives delivered a full hour of speeches in support of rights of the Palestinian people. The impassioned remarks, including by the only Palestinian member of Congress, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, were the first such efforts in Congress, which approves annually nearly $4 billion dollars for the apartheid state of Israel, and where there is growing pressure to have that aid be conditioned due to Isreal's war crimes and crimes against humanity.
With: Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Rep. Cori Bush, Rep. Betty McCollum, Rep. Andre Carson, Rep. Mark Pocan
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Though Israel has ceased missile attacks on Gaza, military occupation, siege and apartheid policies continue. Palestinians say they can't go back to business as usual. Israel's recent attacks have sparked a new mass movement of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle.
Interviews with Rasha Anayah and Lina Shahid of Palestinian Youth Movement and Professor Gerald Horne. Voices from the massive DC Nakba 73 march in Washington, DC May 15, 2021. Headlines on Gaza, new cases of Black men murdered by the police, including the apparent cover-up of Ronald Greene's death in Louisiana. Lydia Curtis reports on Black Mamas Bailout DMV and the injustice of the cash money bail system. Plus culture and media.
Bonus content from Gerald Horne on Israel, South Africa, apartheid and the F-Word on fascism.
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Global support grows for Occupied Palestine after more than 100 people are killed in Gaza, Israeli forces attack worshippers at the third holiest site in Islam, and after Israel's ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is caught on video and goes viral. And, as in the case of George Floyd, murdered by ex-cop Derek Chauvin, what is happening on the ground in the apartheid state of Israel is being documented truthfully by citizens, not by occupiers, the state or corporate media.
Interviews with activists from the Palestinian Youth Movement, Rasha Anayah and Laura Albast; interview with author and educator Christopher Chambers; voices from the rally for Palestine outside the U.S. State Department, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Headlines on Palestine, Biden's infrastructure plan, child care, the Sunrise Movement's 400-mile trek, the Strategic Competition Act of 2021 and much more...
Additional coverage of corporate media's skewed coverage of Israeli war crimes and apartheid, with author Christopher Chambers
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On May Day, International Workers Day, thousands of undocumented immigrants and their allies march on Washington, demanding permanent protection, dignity and respect. Esther interviews a member of Movimiento Cosecha, one of the groups that marched. And a DC rally celebrates Mothers Day in a different way. Honoring so many whose sons and daughters were killed by police but whose names are not known.
Also, Ajamu Baraka talks about state violence in Colombia and Haiti and the connection to U.S. foreign policy. Plus headlines on affordable housing in DC, support for essential workers and vaccine patents. Culture and media include Fox News, reports on theft of Palestinian homes by Israeli setters and a report documenting police attacks on journalists at Black Lives Matter protests.
Bonus coverage of the Hear the Cry rally, includes the Rev. Graylan Hagler on the political origins of Mother's Day, activist Salim Adofo and live music performance by Robin Sugar Williams.
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An international panel finds that police violence and murders of African Americans amount to crimes against humanity. And for family members of those slain, the conviction of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd is just the tip of the iceberg of accountability. We devote the hour to the April 27, 2021 press conference of the International Commission of Inquiry on Systemic Racist Police Violence against People of African Descent in the United States. Plus Lydia Curtis covers birthday celebration for Mumia Abu-Jamal
Voices: Philonise Floyd, brother of George Floyd; Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner; Collette Flanagan, founder of Mothers Against Police Brutality; Kerry McLean; Lennox Hinds; Max Boqwana; Bert Samuels; Professor Marjorie Cohn
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This jam-packed week included a guilty verdict for Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd and Earth Day 2021, as climate experts say we have less than seven years to stave off the worst impacts of climate catastrophe. And in our monthly extended segment on culture and media: TRUTH, LIES and VIDEOTAPE; How one 17-year-old stepped forward in history; first they came for your vote, now they're coming for your protest sign. And the latest in the scandal of fake UN reporting on Syria.
With Jon Jeter, residents of Newport News and Hampton Roads Va. in Hip Hop Caucus Earth Day video, Eola Lewis Dance, Sean Blackmon, Cori Bush.
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While the eyes of the nation are on two high profile cases of police terror in Minnesota, there have been at least four cases of people shot to death by police in the DMV during the last two weeks. Families and communities demand justice. And for this month's episode on The F-Word on fascism, we discuss new documentaries, including Raoul Peck's new four-part masterpiece, 'Exterminate All the Brutes.' Plus headlines, Gerald Horne and Jonathan Hutto.
Check out bonus content from this show 4-16-21 on our Patreon Page. More on the documentaries "Exterminate All the Brutes,""American Insurrection," and "Q: Into the Storm."
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CORRECTION: Earlier versions of this show included an incorrect title for Raoul Peck's new documentary. It is "Exterminate All the Brutes."
Why are basic needs of people in the United States being held hostage by a senate rule, which is not even a law or in the Constitution? Faith leaders say that the filibuster is immoral and speak out on Easter Monday. And more on that poison pill inserted into the proposed and highly promoted federal voting rights bill, The For the People Act, which will actually make it much harder for third parties to emerge and compete against the two corporate parties. Dr. Margaret Flowers talks about the poison pill, U.S. sanctions that are killing people in other countries, and she has the latest on COVID in the U.S. Plus headlines on Chauvin, the death of Elizabeth Davis, president of the Washington Teachers Union and police in schools.
Voices: Dr. Margaret Flowers, Professor Gerald Horne, Rev. Graylan Hagler, Rev. Jim Winkler, Rev. Liz Theo Harris, WTU President Elizabeth Davis.
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Prosecutors may deny it, but policing in the United States is on trial along with Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. We speak the attorney who uncovered the truth in the death of another Black man, Elijah McClain. And people rally in DC and in 60 cities and towns to make the link between anti-Asian hate and the legacy of U.S. wars killing millions of Asian people in their homelands. Plus headlines on Haiti solidarity, DAPL, Line 3 Protest, Bessemer update and more...
Voices: Attorney Jonathan M. Smith, Professor Teiahsha Bankhead, Jacqueline L'uqman, Sean Blackmon, Echo, Hajira from Students Against Imperialism; Jay from Anakbayan DC, poet Natachi Mez, More speakers from the Mar 27, 2021 Stop Asian Hate, Stop China Bashing Rally in Washington, DC.
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From the New Cold War to voting rights, to guns, to labor rights, this is an inflection point for American politics and human rights. We hear voices of Amazon workers and he Rev. William Barber organizing for a union in Bessemer, Alabama. And for this month's look at culture and media, journalist Jon Jeter says the American Rescue Plan is not all it is cranked to be. Headlines with historian Gerald Horne on the new Cold War with China, voter suppression, teachers, affordable housing and more.
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For peace activists on the frontlines, anti-Asian violence is inextricably linked to the history of U.S. imperialist wars. And for this month's episode of the F-Word on fascism, author Roberto Lovato on the deadly legacy of U.S. colonialism in Central and South America. Plus headlines on the Poor People's Campaign, the New Cold War with Gerald Horne, and the ACLU DC's report on police repression of Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020.
Voices: Roberto Lovato, Gerald Horne, Christine Ahn, Rev. William Barber, Linda McNichol, Minnie Elliot, Poor People's Campaign organizers.
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As the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin gets under way for the murder of George Floyd last May, efforts at police reform legislation are floundering, including here in the DMV. We speak to activist Jonathan Hutto. And young people suing the U.S. federal government for its role in climate change take their case to the Supreme Court.
Plus headlines on COVID relief legislation, International Women's Day, the loss of affordable housing in DC, Julian Assange Mumia Abu-Jamal and case of journalist jailed in Iowa for covering Black Lives Matter.
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As Republicans attempt to enact a raft of voter suppression laws across the U.S. will threats against election workers and officials become the norm too? We speak to reporter Sonam Vashi. And a new expose reveals how some of the largest and supposedly independent western news organizations, the BBC and Reuters, participated in a far-reaching propaganda effort, funded by the British government, aimed at weakening Russia. We speak to best-selling author Max Blumenthal about the real Russiagate.
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In the midst of a pandemic and economic meltdown, will corporations keep winning? Progressives say the real Fight for $15 is on. And long before Colin Kaepernick, Black athletes like Jack Johnson Joe Gans unleashed boxing as a weapon against White supremacy. We speak to historian Gerald Horne about his new book: The Bittersweet Science: Racism, Racketeering and the Political Economy of Boxing.
Plus more headlines: Congress voting on $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package... Fight for $15 comes to the Senate... Progressives press for $15 minimum wage... ACLU DC on the District Budget... Brooklyn Manor residents and others in Northeast Dc stage "Where's Kenyan" rally targeting DC Councilman Kenyan McDuffie... The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, is reintroduced in the House... A damning report says Aurora police had no legal basis to stop or detain Elijah McClain... People around the country marked the one year anniversary of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery...
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As the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act is invoked in a lawsuit against former President Trump, we revisit our conversations with author Natonne Elaine Kemp about White mob violence of the Reconstruction Era. And what is happening in Texas? The same week that the U.S. lands a rover on Mars, residents throughout the second largest U.S. state don't have clean water and hundreds of thousands are still in the dark and in the cold.
Plus more headlines: Post Trump impeachment... Justice for four Colorado activists who fought for Elijah McMclain: Lillian House, Joel Northam, Terrance Roberts and Eliza Lucero... This week in history... Parler back on... Newsclick battles on... Honoring jazz master Chick Corea.
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While Democrats present damning evidence against Trump in his second impeachment trial, will facts matter to a Republican party following its base to the far right? And in her bid to head Biden's Office and Management and Budget, the controversial neoliberal Neera Tanden faces Senate Budget Chairman Bernie Sanders. Also, economist Richard Wolff on what is happening on the real streets not Wall Street.
Plus headlines: New study that says Trump’s mishandling of COVID crisis cost lives... More than 475,000 Americans have died of COVID-19... Biden administration purchases additional 200,000 doses of vaccine... More than 1.1 million people made new claims for all types of unemployment benefits for the week ending February 6th... Rescuers are still searching for up to 200 people missing after a glacier broke in the Himalayas in northern India... A U.S. coalition of climate groups ramped up their fight this week to stop the Line 3 pipeline… A group of young people is planning to take their climate lawsuit to the U.S. Supreme Court... Residents of Maryland and Friends of the Earth fight new power plants... The mother of Kwamena Ocran, slain by Gaithersburg, MD police, testifies before Maryland Assembly... The Department of Justice will appeal a British judge’s rejection of the U.S. attempt to extradite the Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange... India law enforcement raided and closed the offices of NewsClick, a progressive website that is covering the massive uprising by Indian farmers... And finally celebrating the life of Mary Wilson, one of original members of the Motown female group the Supremes and we celebrate the life of former Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis.
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In the days leading to the second impeachment of Donald Trump, Washington is as divided as ever over what are the facts and how to move forward. And while some cheer the Biden administration's first steps to fix the broken U.S. immigration system, millions more refugees, asylum seekers and the undocumented languish in limbo. We hear voices rallying for justice for all immigrants at the #AllofUs action at the Washington Monument on January 27. We also speak to attorney Ofelia Calderon.
Plus headlines: Democrats prepare to use the budget reconciliation process...Qanon supporter Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene of Georgia removed from her House committees...Gerald Horne on Iran and international news...Biden signs new orders on immigration...The latest on teachers and public school reopening amid COVID...Maryland agricultural reserve saved from industrial solar farm...Montgomery County, Md. issues long-awaited public safety report... Culture and Media: Progressive content producers demonetized on YouTube...Fight to allow Line 3 pipeline protest in Minnesota...This week in history: 1961 Greensboro sit-in...
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The coming weeks will determine whether the Biden Administration can get a handle on the raging pandemic and the economic collapse. Dr Margaret Flowers gives us the lowdown on coronavirus and vaccines. And two days after a right-wing mob attacked the U.S. Capitol, plainclothes police officers 30 miles away shot and killed a 24-year-old Black man after chasing him. The family, friends and community of Kwamena Ocran say they wont stop until they get answers"and justice. Plus headlines.
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A peaceful transfer of power to the U.S. presidency is secured with 25,000 National Guard troops. And as the U.S. faces public health, economic and political crises, economist Richard Wolff and historian Gerald Horne discuss the economic and foreign policies of the new Biden administration. Journalist Jon Jeter talks basketball and racial justice. Plus headlines.
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For the first F-word on fascism for 2021, I speak to national coordinator of the anti-war ANSWER Coalition, veteran activist Brian Becker, who gives his take on the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and the emboldening of the violent far right. Rev. William Lamar, pastor of DC's Metropolitan AME Church, says that even though the Democrats won the White House the people must win human rights like healthcare and economic justice. Gerald Horne on Mike Pompeo and headlines.
Headlines: 15,000 National Guard Troops are camped out at the U.S. Capitol—and that number is expected to swell to 26,000 by the inauguration on January 20th... Second Trump impeachment and corporate withdrawal put Republicans on the defensive... Fear and loathing in Congress... All of the District of Columbia is impacted when swarms of violent right-wing extremists invade the nation’s capital... the Biden Administration unveiled a 1.9 trillion dollar stimulus plan. Plainclothes police officers in Gaithersburg, MD kill a black man. A forum on Iran and Venezuela and more.
A violent coup attempt rocks the U.S. Capitol, raising new questions about domestic terrorism and the police state...And as rioters turn their fury towards corporate media, there are important updates about the world's most important journalist, Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks.
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On this show, unheard voices from 2020 on issues that will continue to resonate in 2021. First, on health care, which in the United States is not a human right, we hear independent podcaster Joy Marie Mann and Scott Desnoyers, a father living in New York State, speaking at the #Force the Vote Town Hall for Medicare for All. Second, the continuing neoliberal legacy of former president Barack Obama, and why Obama needs to continue to disparage his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. We hear the complete address by the anti-apartheid activist and theologian, the Rev. Allan Boesak. Headline on the sabotaged effort to secure $2000 in direct COVID relief to Americans.
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This is our look back at the momentous year of 2020. From Covid, to Economic Depression, to environmental catastrophe, to millions of personal heartbreaks and tragedies, this year has left its mark on the earth and on all of us.
Voices: Jane Fonda, Dr. Margaret Flowers, Gerald Horne, April Goggans, Rev. Graylan Hagler, Anti-Racism Activists and more...
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Everything out of order-- including converging health, economic and political crises--have the become order of the day in Washington. And how does the legacy of colonialism resonate in the present? For our final F-word segment on fascism for 2020, we speak to Professor Gerald Horne about the 135th anniversary of Berlin Conference and Europe's scramble for Africa's natural resources and labor. Plus headlines including Congress and Covid relief, Proud Boys violence in DC, community control of the police and more..
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New York City taxi drivers descend on the U.S. Capitol to demand economic relief for American workers; some say they have already lost everything. And as Trump makes his last stand at the U.S. Supreme Court to try to overturn his loss in the election, his supporters plan to return to DC for a parade in advance of a vote by the electoral college. We speak to April Goggans, core organizer for Black Lives Matter DC, which is part of a coalition that will be holding a separate community party to protect Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House. Includes complete version of 'The North Star," featuring Fred Foss and poet Gaston Neal.
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This year has offered a nonstop exhibition on how corporate media is so bad and getting worse. How much gaslighting and illusion can we take? We speak to journalist Jon Jeter for our final culture and media segment for 2020, voices of the Rev. Allan Boesak and Jose Bustani. And the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, makes an impassioned plea for humanity to save itself and address the climate and ecological crisis.
Plus headlines on international news on Nigeria, Iran and Ethiopia with historian Gerald Horne; unemployment; Congress; activists demand Covid relief; a tribute to Jack O'Dell; and the Eaton Workshop hosts the Another World is Possible festival.
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Watch complete talk by the Rev. Allan Boesak speaking on Barack Obama's continued disparagement of the Rev.. Jeremiah Wright:
Capping off this summer's national uprising against racism, Indigenous Peoples Day in DC brought together Native American, African American and other peoples from around the globe. The program, emceed by Pete Landeros of the American Indian Movement, included activists with a common bond in the fight against racism and capitalist exploitation of human beings and the planet. We spend the hour hearing their voices.
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Photo Credit: Martha Allen Leslie--Speakers on Murdered and Missing Native Women at Indigenous People's Day 2020 in DC. Will update post with IDs.
As President-Elect Joe Biden starts to fill his cabinet with corporate grifters and war hawks, young activists for environmental justice and a Green New Deal say not so fast and vow to hold Biden accountable. And the violence and vandalism by Trump supporters who descended on DC goes largely uncovered in corporate media, and spurs anti-fascist and anti-racist activists to regroup to counter emboldened White supremacists. For this month's episode of The F-Word on fascism, I speak to two people who were on the Ground: Sunsara Taylor of Refuse Fascism and Sean-Michael Love of Black House News.
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Photo: portion of art wall at Black Lives Matter Plaza, restored after being ripped down by Trump supporters during weekend of November 14, 2020.
Celebrations that erupted after Joe Biden was projected winner of the 2020 presidential election have turned to expressions of concern as it seems that Donald Trump never can say goodbye. We speak to professor Gerald Horne. And though Biden voters are breathing a sigh of relief left activists say not so fast: what will Biden do to address this country's reckoning with racism, state violence and the legacy of capitalist exploitation. We hear the address from Omali Yeshitela speaking at the Black Power Matters Rally and speak to Anoa Changa on Georgia and Garett Reppenhagen of Veterans for Peace.
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As former Vice President Joe Biden is set to secure the 270 electoral college votes needed for victory in the 2020 presidential race, President Donald Trump and his supporters plunge into deep denial with unproven accusations of nationwide electoral fraud.Those who are eager to see Trump's presidency end also take to the streets, positive that they will indeed see it end if every vote is counted. Plus post-election roundtable with Gerald Horne, Makani Themba, Retha Hill and Ewuare Osayande.
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Corporate media may do their best to vote-shame or silence third party candidates and movements but Howie Hawkins, presidential candidate for the Green Party USA, and Gloria La Riva, presidential candidate for the Party for Socialism and Liberation are speaking loud and clear. We host a forum with these two candidates excluded from the "debates."
Plus headlines on Trump and Biden; Protests in DC Over Police-Involved Death of Karon Hylton; DC Council Elections and the DC "Decriminalize Nature" Initiative 81; International and Environmental Round-up and This Week in History.
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As an unprecedented level of uncertainty is fomented about the November 3rd presidential election, we speak to Natonne Elaine Kemp on the legacy of violent voter suppression and election fraud from the period of Reconstruction in the United States. And nearly a century after hundreds of African Americans were murdered by a White mob including police and national guard in Tulsa, a mass grave has been uncovered that is believed to contain some of those slain.
Senate Judiciary Committee votes to approve Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett...Dems and activists protest Barrett nomination...Activists prepare for election chaos...Parents of 546 migrant children separated by the Trump administration have not been located... Protesters rallied outside the Nigerian Embassy in Northwest DC on Wednesday... Continued protests over abrupt firing of longtime DC high school principal... The Public Employees Relations Board ruled that DC Public Schools violated the law by refusing to bargain with teachers regarding reopening amid COVID-19. Plus events and this week in history.
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Photo: "Radicals" elected to the South Carolina legislature in 1868, when Black voters held a majority in many jurisdictions, before violent and rampant voter suppression occurred in subsequent elections.
For this month's episode of the F-Word on fascism, journalist and author Chris Hedges talks about the rise of Christian fascism in the United States and the nomination of far right judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Also, protesters in DC raise their voices outside Barrett's confirmation hearing. Headlines on Bolivia elections, police reform in DC and more.
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With tens of millions of Americans out of work, facing eviction and hunger, the U.S. Senate goes on recess without voting on COVID relief legislation. We speak to journalist David Dayen about why Washington has abandoned the American people. And with 34 and counting infected with coronavirus at the White House, is the Trump administration spreading both the virus and bad habits in DC? We speak to pediatrician and human rights activist Dr. Margaret Flowers.
Plus headlines on Michigan militia plot... More than 1.2 million Americans filed new unemployment claims... Frontline workers sue the Trump administration... Poor People's campaign Moral Mondays continue to call out Senate Leader Mitch McConnell... Chantal James covers talk by Professor David Fontana on what could be Amy Coney Barrett’s impact on the Supreme Court... Thomas O'Rourke reports on the final week of the extradition trial of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange... Fannie Lou Hamer's birthday.
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The dumpster fire known as the first presidential debate may still be burning in our minds but it is overshadowing a very important Congressional hearing held that same day, about white supremacists working as police officers. We speak to professor Gerald Horne and hear voices from the hearing. And the Bolivian diaspora returns to the scene of the crime: the Organization of American States, which spearheaded a military coup in 2019 that ousted president Evo Morales and installed a fascist regime. The popular movement of Bolivians wants fair elections, which they know they can win again.
Plus headlines: Donald Trump tests positive for coronavirus... House of Representatives passes smaller version of its coronavirus relief bill but it is unlikely to be approved by the Senate or White House... Another 1.5 million Americans filed new claims for unemployment... Disney, Allstate, United Airlines and Americans Airlines announced plans recently to fire or furlough more than 60,000 workers... Prince George’s County, Md., will pay $20 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of William Green... Students and activists consider the presence of police officers in schools... New reports on corporate pollution... Culture and Media: Julian Assange, Kevin Young, Joseph Ross.
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Links: Unredacted 2006 FBI Report on White Supremacists Infiltrating Police Departments
The failure to indict Louisville police officers in the murder of Breonna Taylor and the arrests, instead, of those protesting police killings, proves once again that there are two systems of justice in the U.S.: One for cops and one for everyone else. We speak to Mara Verheyden-Hilliard. And whether the target is historian Howard Zinn, the New York Times 1619 Project, or Julian Assange, the Trump administration and corporate media are working hard for the right to keep the public miseducated and misinformed. We speak to journalist and author Jon Jeter.
Plus headlines: With more than 200,000 Americans dead from coronavirus, and millions more suffering economically, there is still no national plan to address either the medical or fiscal crisis...the Poor People’s Campaign organized a car caravan to the DC home of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell...DC protests for justice for Breonna Taylor...three Denver-area Black Lives Matter activists, Joel Northam, Eliza Lucero and Lillian House, were released on bond...International Day of Peace...DC Jazzfest...This week in history.
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With Trump and the GOP increasingly unhinged as the election nears, this month's episode of 'The F-Word' is right on time. We speak to Carl Dix of Refuse Fascism. Also, anti-racism protesters continue to be targeted by police. And despite being threatened, a brave nurse whistleblower tells of immigrant women being sterilized, given hysterectomies without their consent, at a federal ICE facility in Georgia. Plus headlines on arrests of BLM activists in Denver, GOP Mania....
Plus headlines: Police arrest BLM activists in Denver, Julian Assange on trial..and more.
Bonus Content on Patreon: Esther Iverem and Carl Dix of Refuse Fascism discuss the role of socialists in fighting for justice and the real meaning and roots of Antifa.
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Whether it was the fight against fracking, corporate power or NATO, nationally known activist Kevin Zeese always fought for the people and for peace. We hear from Kevin in his own words. And more on alternative voices in the 2020 national elections. We follow up with Nick Brana of the Movement for a People's Party. We also follow Gloria La Riva of the Party for Socialism and Liberation as she and her team advocate for ignored survivors of Hurricane Laura in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Also, Gerald Horne on Sept. 11.
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With their popular candidate and policies crushed by the Democratic National Committee during the last two presidential primary seasons, some progressives are breaking away from the Democrats and forming the Movement for a People's Party. We feature speakers from the convention, including former Ohio state senator Nina Turner and journalist Chris Hedges. And this week, with more cases of police terror, here in DC and around the country, activists renew protests in a changed environment of racist backlash and emboldened White supremacists. Sunrise Movement activist John Henry Williams speaks outside home of DC mayor Muriel Bowser.
Plus headlines: Anti-racist activists marched in DC and around the country to protest the police murders of more Black people. In Southeast DC, Deon Kay, an 18-year-old, was shot and killed...Activists rally outside home of DC mayor Muriel Bowser...Gerald Horne on U.S. domestic and international news...Residents of Mossville, LA impacted by Hurricane Laura...Culture and media updates and announcements on Julian Assange and more.
After a White teenager kills two unarmed Black Lives Matter protesters in Wisconsin, his violence is not mentioned by speakers, including Donald Trump, at the Republican National Convention. Instead, the speakers slander the racial justice movement. Gerald Horne joins us. And Americans in DC and around the country rally to support our public postal service, not just to protect mail-in ballots but also to support beleaguered American workers. Plus Jon Jeter on media, headlines on Kenosha and more.
Bonus content with Jon Jeter on our Patreon channel.
Headlines: Protesters took to the streets and are taking to the streets of DC for various causes and actions this week: Chris Smalls and the Congress of Essential Workers rallied and set up a faux guillotine outside the DC mansion of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos...The first convention of the Movement for a People’s Party is happening online Sunday, August 30th at 4pm...DC’s homegrown drum dance music, go-go, formed the soundtrack for a demonstrations outside the home of Postmaster Louis DeJoy and near a RNC Convention event at the White House...A rally in support for the postal service and postal workers...The Party for Socialism and Liberation is on the DC ballot for the November presidential election...Chantal James attended a virtual meeting discussing strategies to protect the National Arctic Wildlife Preserve...Openings for Palestinian culture and art...The New March on Washington.
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1619 is still cited as the year that enslaved Africans first arrived in the United States. But a new epic book gives more evidence to the contrary. We spend the hour speaking with historian Gerald Horne about his new book, The Dawning Of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White supremacy, Settler Colonialism and Capitalism, in the Long Sixteenth Century.
Headlines: At the Democratic National Convention, Mayor Muriel Bowser condemns actions of Trump's federal troops while her own police continue to violate the civil rights of DC anti-racism protesters...Embattled Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is scheduled to testify before Congress and a protest is scheduled for outside his DC home...The Poor People's Campaign continues to pressure Senate Leader Mitch McConnell to pass the next pandemic relief bill, the Heroes Act, which also provides funding for the postal service...Thomas O’Rourke reports on schools reopening in the midst of pandemic...An update on jailed journalist Julian Assange and this week in history.
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Links: Monthly Review Books
With reports that members of hate groups are among the troops deployed againstanti-racist protesters, we spend the hour hearing from researchers testifying before Congress on February 11, 2020..
Chaired by Rep. Jackie Speier of California, the panel included:Heidi Beirich, co-founder and chief strategy officer of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism
Mark Pitcavage, senior Research Fellow for the Center on Extremism at the Anti-Defamation League
And Lecia Brooks, Chief Officer for Workplace Transformation at the Southern Poverty Law Center
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For this show, part two of our presentation of some of the 16,000 residents of DC who offered testimony in June about cutting the half-billion-dollar budget for the district's Metropolitan Police Department. We spend the hour hearing from residents of the most policed city in the U.S. Parents, teachers, lawyers, activists and others speak out about policing and how they think their tax dollars should be spent for human needs and safety. Also a report on U.S. Secret Service agents attacking two Black mothers with infants on the National Mall.
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Nearly 16,000 residents of DC offered testimony in June about the half billion dollar budget for the district's Metropolitan Police Department. (Only 24 people testified in 2019.) Almost all of those testifying during the council meeting echoed the national movement call to defund the police. We spend the hour hearing from residents of the most policed city in the U.S. about how they think money should be spent for human needs and safety.
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Photo: Street scene after motorcyclist Terrence Sterling was shot to death September 11, 2016 by former DC police officer Brian Trainer.
Monuments to those who fought to keep Black people enslaved in the United States continue to draw new ire, as well as renewed efforts by lawmakers to remove them. And the debate over who or what is honored is just one part of a bigger struggle in the U.S. right now, over what stories of American history and of current events will be told and who will tell them. It is our week for culture and media and journalist Jon Jeter is back in the hot seat.
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Photo: Image of people who had recently been enslaved in the U.S. south, 1860s. From the Library of Congress. Included in the report, Reconstruction in America: Racial Violence after the Civil War, 1865-1876, published by the Equal Justice Initiative and discussed on this show.
Corporate media and gatekeepers try their best to ignore the national Movement Against Racism. And they also ignore ongoing police brutality against peaceful protesters. We speak to ACLU DC attorney Scott Michelman, who is suing the Trump Administration and DC's police department. And this month's episode of the F-Word on fascism: After more than a decade of doing the bidding of corporations, seizing homes of Americans and poisoning communities with fracking, drilling and pipelines, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission may be forced to end its abuse. We speak to veteran human rights and environmental activist Ted Glick.
Headlines: Anonymous federal police shoot Portland protester in the head with "non-lethal" bullet and fracture his skull... Call for felony charges to be dropped against 87 peaceful protesters in Kentucky... An update on racist statues in DC... Asheville, North Carolina City Council approves reparations for African-American residents...Workers are set to walk off their jobs Monday July 20 in the Strike for Black Lives...A Proposal for The Breathe Act... 2.23 million people filed unemployment claims for the week ending July 11... Can schools reopen?...Washington Teachers Union President Elizabeth Davis... Culture and Media: Grayzone.com... Concert for Cuba July 18-19... Saving Moses African Cemetery in Bethesda, Maryland from desecration... In History: Remembering Bastille Day and Sandra Bland.
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The 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. And as protesters are uncompromising about the truth of American history, new battle lines are drawn about heroes, sacred cows and gatekeepers. We speak to author and activist Gerald Horne.
Plus headlines: Indigenous and environmental justice activists celebrated three victories in court and another over corporations with the Dakota Access Pipeline, the Keystone XL Pipeline, the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and recognition of Native Land in Oklahoma...#SomosVanessaGuillen...Protest against Israel annexation of Wet Bank at Jared Kushner's house...Black Homes Matter rally in DC...DC Council passes budget with more money for social services and less for police than requested by the mayor...DC activists submitted petitions to put magic mushrooms on the November ballot. Plus culture and media: Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition.
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As the U.S. Movement Against Racism continues to claim victories, corporate media changes the subject from U.S. police terror to Russia. We speak to human rights activist Ajamu Baraka. And, after two months of being ignored, the family of a young female soldier missing from Fort Hood in Texas, travels to DC to get justice.
Plus headlines, including the latest from DC protests, victories from the movement, new action from Capitol Hill and investors force the Washington NFL football team to change its racist name.
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CORRECTION: Broadcast versions of this show misidentified Claire McCaskill. She served as senator from Missouri. And the trumpet solo for the recessional at the going home service for Robert Northern-Brother Ah was Paul Bailey. We apologize for our error.
Those working to preserve and honor an African burial ground in the DC area say that time is running out to save it as new construction has desecrated the site. And a month after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police, monuments to racism and white supremacy continue to be toppled. We also speak to journalist Jon Jeter for this month in media and culture.
Plus headlines: The world-wide campaign to topple monuments to white supremacy comes to Washington, DC...Statue of Albert Pike, a Confederate general associated with the Ku Klux Klan, is toppled in DC...DC Council Committee passed a budget that cuts $15 million from the police...Time is running out to save an African burial ground in the DC area as new construction has desecrated the site...A round-up of activism, including car caravan around the Capitol by U.S. postal workers...Culture and Media: new attacks on Assange and Chinese media, Memorial for Robert Northern-Brother Ah, remembering the Emanuel 9 and History Note on Muhammad Ali.
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For this month's episode of the F-word on fascism, we speak to Erica Ramirez, director of applied research at the Auburn Seminary, about the protest movement against racism, state violence, and her essay, "Is a Belief in Capitalism Required to be Truly American?" Also, for many protesting in the streets, the Juneteenth holiday is an historic reminder of the failure of the law to protect Black people. Plus headlines:
--Former Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe, turned himself in on Thursday to face a total of 11 charges.--Philonise Floyd, brother of George Floyd, killed by Minneapolis police last month, testified before the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.-- There are scores of other victories for the protest movement this week, including the Philadelphia is reducing funding for police by more than $33 million.--On Capitol Hill, The U.S. Senate introduced Wednesday their version of police reform legislation.-- In an online discussion this week, Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts explained her opposition to qualified immunity for police officers.-- Rep. Barbara Lee Unveiled a Plan this week to Cut Up to $350 Billion dollars From the Pentagon.-- Activists for Palestinian rights draw analogies between cutting defunding for militarized policing here in the US and cutting U.S. funding for the Israeli military.--Israel plans to move forward with an illegal annexation in the West Bank as early as July first.-- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration cannot end DACA and ruled that job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or identity is prohibited under of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.In DC, more than 15,000 people submitted testimony for a hearing this on the budget of the Metropolitan Police Department.-- Donald Trump's newly-appointed head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Michael Pack, fired several career officials at the agency, which oversees Voice of America. Pack is also aligned with far-right activist Steve Bannon.-- The Trump administration on Wednesday abruptly withdrew from international negotiations over how best to tax the profits of multinational corporations such as U.S.-based tech giants Google and Amazon.-- Shadowy Wikipedia editors ban use of the investigative site, The Grayzone, as a news source.--The AFI DOCS documentary festival, underway through Sunday June 21st, is virtual this year--History Notes on the Soweto Uprising, Eugene V. Debs and Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.--Juneteenth 2020 becomes a source of energy for anti-racism movement.
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In 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. We hear testimony before Congress and voices in the streets. But are these new measures, banning chokeholds or stripping power from police unions, enough for a movement demanding structural change? We speak to Historian Gerald Horne
Headlines:
-The mass protest movement that has grown in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, has scored many victories already. Floyd's brother testifies before Congress. -In Washington, the DC Council passed major emergency police reform legislation on Tuesday June 9th and will hold public hearings June 15 on the police department’s budget. -In news related to the COVID-19 pandemic, Washington, DC officially opened its economy this week -1.5 million more people made unemployment claims during the week ending June 6. -The Washington Interfaith Network, which recently held a kick-off of a campaign to secure more low-income housing in DC. -In news related to the COVID-19 pandemic, Washington, DC officially-opened its economy this week, with social distancing guidelines limits in place for restaurants and social gatherings. -History segment: Hong Kong, The U.S. Invasion of the Philippines, the murder of Medgar Evers, the Pentagon Papers, first presidential radio broadcast. -On Monday, June 15, at 6:28 p.m., protesters will gather at Lafayette Park exactly two weeks to the minute after Trump ordered a violent military assault on peaceful protesters on June 1. -Sounds and voices from the June 6 protest outside the White House.
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In 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 they want, and what is next. And, for many, the present is continuing to echo the past. We speak to Natonne Elaine Kemp, author of There Is Something About Edgefield. Plus headlines.
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From Minneapolis, to the Washington, DC area, where a lesser known police killing of a Black man--Finan Berhe--occurred this month, communities are demanding an end to police terror. And, as we cope with a myriad of crises and an economic system failing to meet human needs, how do we laugh to keep from crying? We speak with comedian Lee Camp about being angry and funny.
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Post Photo Credit: Silver Spring Justice Coalition
The deadly coronavirus is laying bare the cruelties of the United States neoliberal order. But it is also bringing into sharper focus the sorry state of journalism. We speak to journalist and author Jon Jeter. And activists all over the world celebrate the birthday of Malcolm X and African Liberation Day. Includes excerpt from Malcolm X's famous speech "The Ballot or the Bullet."
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Photo credit: Shutdown DC-Climate Strike, street mural in front of Washington, DC home of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
As the world marks the 75th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis in World War II, a discussion about fascism and todays failed neoliberal order with historian Vijay Prashad. And we hear the voices of nurses honoring their colleagues who have died of COVID19. Nurses say lawmakers have failed to protect them and the American people. Plus headlines:
Two months after the Coronavirus shutdown --There is little in The Heroes Act stimulus to call it “Rooseveltian”--The Rev. William Barber says federal stimulus plans are not addressing the needs of most Americans --48 of the 50 U.S. states are in some phase of reopening their economies--Rick Bright, a COVID-19 whistleblower who was ousted by the Trump administration, warns lawmakers that "without better planning, 2020 could be the darkest winter in modern history.” --U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments to determine whether Congress can demand access to Trump’s income taxes to investigate wrongdoing.--New bombshell revelations further expose Russiagate scandal as a hoax. – Updates on the police-involved murders of Ahmaud Arbery , Breonna Taylor and Sean Reed --DC Tenants Union protest for rent cancellation.
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Post photo: Yevgeny Khaldei, Berlin, Germany, May 2, 1945
From the cold-blooded killing of a young black man in Georgia, to imperialist attacks by the US around the world, the present is echoing the past. We speak to our geopolitical analyst professor Gerald Horne. And we go to the streets of DC to hear voices from the Shutdown DC-Climate Strike protest on May Day. Also, voices from the National People's Bailout action. Plus headlines: --Dems promise to unveil a “Rooseveltian” coronavirus aid package for the American people. --Rep. Rashida Tlaib, democrat of Michigan, tells journalists Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper that Congress lacks "urgency." --New COVID-19 and unemployment numbers. --The right-wing uses COVID-19 as a cover to rollback hard-won rights. --Chantal James reports on state lawmakers using the crisis to further intrude on women’s reproductive health and rights. -The Justice Department drops all charges against former Trump staffer Mike Flynn. --Two men arrested in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery. --U.S. attacks on Venezuela and Cuba. --New items on history, culture and media.
Voices: Gerald Horne, Philip Agnew, Sayokla Kindness, Liz Butler, Kathleen Brophy, Hope Neyer, Serge Kostin.
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Correction: Some versions of this show misidentified Michael Flynn. He was briefly President Trump's National Security Advisor.
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May Day 2020 culminates of a week of action in the midst of massive unemployment in the United States, and often dangerous working conditions during the COVID-19 crisis. We go to the streets of DC to hear from workers and activists who say this day marks the launch of a new era for the U.S. labor movement. Voices: April Goggans, Deborah Washington, Brian Becker, Sean Blackmon, Yasmin Zhara and Mara Verheyden-Hilliard. And as the District of Columbia, like other states, looks to reopen the economy, the fate of thousands of workers and small businesses hangs in the balance. We speak to Andy Shallal, activist, artist and owner of seven Busboys and Poets restaurants and event spaces in the DMV. Plus headlines.
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As the United States remains the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, a concerted effort by lawmakers, their funders and corporate media blames China for the U.S. failure to protect its own population. We speak with Dr. Margaret Flowers and Professor Gerald Horne. And with 26 million Americans filing for unemployment benefits in the last five weeks, and promised government aid slow to arrive or not arriving at all, organizers on the left, say that it's time for a REAL political revolution. We speak to activist Yasmina Mrabet. Plus headlines:
—Wild cat strikes and walkouts by Amazon workers are occurring around the United States. —According to Johns Hopkins University, nearly 50,000 deaths from COVID-19 have occurred in the U.S. —Chantal James recently reported on Palestinian Prisoner’s day. —Members of the National Nurses United union rallied in front of the White House for protective equipment and read the names of 48 nurses known to have died from COVID-19. —Wednesday was the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and in addition to celebrating Earth and the efforts of environmentalists, it served as a kick-off to what activist say will be days of action. —Consortium News Editor Joe Lauria skewered a front page Wednesday New York Times article that claimed Chinese agents tried to sow panic in the U.S. with a Facebook post.
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At the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Americans are fighting for survival, not only against COVID-19 and economic collapse, but also against polluters and their friends in DC who destroying our environment for profit. We speak to Ryan Schleeter of Greenpeace. And for this month's episode of the F-Word on fascism, voices on policing, surveillance and militarism in the midst of a pandemic. We speak of Chop Gibbons of Rights and Dissent and hear from recent virtual gatherings of activists, including Azza Altiraifi, Mahnker Dahnweih, Melody McCurtis, Hoda Katebi and Hyun Lee. Plus headlines:
—The number of confirmed cases of the Coronavirus in the DC, Maryland and Virginia region doubled to more than 20,000.—The Trump administration faced mounting criticism about inadequate response to the health crisis.—Despite the advice of health professionals, Trump supporters, in Kentucky, North Carolina, Michigan and Virginia, with some photographed carrying assault rifles.—Black Lives Matter DC organized a car caravan to protest the continued incarceration of people at the DC Jail. —An additional 5.2 Americans filed for unemployment.—The Natural Resources Defense Council is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. —Code Pink marked Tax Day with a call for the U.S. to end the $80 million spent each hour on war and is sponsoring new webinars. —The SNCC Legacy Project is among the organizations that held virtual meetings, town halls and rallies this week. —Film fans are mourning Sarah Maldordor, a pioneer of Pan African cinema.
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Photo: Participant in Black Lives Matter DC car caravan protest, on April 16, 2020, to release those incarcerated at the DC Jail and Hope Village halfway house.
ON THE GROUND FOR APRIL10,
As the one man with a plan, Senator Bernie Sanders, drops out of the presidential race, millions more Americans file unemployment claims while U.S. proves unable to meet its needs during a pandemic. We speak to activists the Rev. Graylan Hagler, senior minister of Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ and April Goggans of Black Lives Matter DC. But is the worse yet to come? Will corporations try to push American workers back into unsafe jobs just to save their profits? We speak to economist Richard Wolff.
Plus Headlines: Bernie Sanders drops out of presidential race, frontline healthcare workers speak out at virtual town hall, mutual aid in DC responds to the COVID-19 crisis, The Washington Post downplays dangers of in-person voting during pandemic, artist David Driskell and NFL Hall of Famer Bobby Mitchell join the ancestors.
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ON THE GROUND APRIL 3, 2020
Whether it is the pandemic, the toll of sick and dying, or the unprecedented army of the unemployed, the United States has entered uncharted territory. We speak to activists, including Pam Tau Lee of San Francisco. And even with a quarter million confirmed cases and more than 6000 dead, the pandemic has not stopped U.S. capitalism from threatening lives around the globe and here at home. We speak to Professor Gerald Horne and Dr. Margaret Flowers. Part 2 bonus interview with Gerald Horne here.
Plus Headlines: -As of this show, there are about a quarter million known coronavirus cases in the United states and more than 6,100 deaths, while the global number of cases tops one million. -A record 6.6 million Americans filed unemployment claims for the week ending March 28th. -The overwhelming crisis here at home is not stopping Washington from continuing to ratchet up conflicts and attacks on other countries, including Venezuela and Iran.
-The National Lawyers Guild, other legal groups and hundreds of lawyers sent a letter to Mike Pompeo and the Trump administration demanding an end to sanctions on those countries, and categorizing those sanctions as a crime against humanity -Chantal James reported on a digital Town Hall in support of Gaza.
-A petition from environmental organizations calls on the EPA to protect public health against corporate pollution. And Michele Roberts spoke to Larry Lambert, a member Delaware Concerned Residents, who listed the myriad of battles he faces with polluters in that state. -DC lawmakers are appealing Congress to correct the stimulus allocation to the District of Columbia, which was designated as a territory like Guam and given 700 million less than other states. And more than a third of homebound DC public school students cannot access their lessons on a computer and received an assist from a local TV station.
-In Culture and Media, the organization Free Press has filed an emergency petition for inquiry with the Federal Communications Commission calling on the agency to investigate the spread of false COVID-19 information via broadcast outlets, including by Donald J. Trump in his daily news conferences. And Gerald and Esther recommend movies available to stream or rent at home.
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As the number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. now exceeds the number in any other country, including China, the federal government response leaves Americans with poor prospects for testing, treatment or sustained economic relief. We speak to political scientist and author Niambi Carter. And leave it to corporate media to provide only superficial coverage of the coronavirus crisis and the all-but-disappeared presidential race. We speak to journalist Jon Jeter. Plus many headlines on the fallout in DC, national, and international, of COVID-19.
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ON TH GROUND FOR MARCH 20, 2020
U.S.-China relations reach a new low point, as GOP Out-Lefts Dems Responding to COVID Crisis...And for this month's episode of the F-Word on fascism: on the 17th anniversary, the U.S. invasion of Iraq still lives on in infamy as an illegal war of aggression and terror. We speak to journalist and author Nicolas J.S. Davies and historian and author Gerald Horne. Plus headlines:
--The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United States exceeded 10,000 with at least 179 deaths.
--On Capitol Hill, lawmakers scrambled to finalize an economic stabilization plan.
--Gov. Gavin Newsom of California ordered California’s 40 million residents to stay at home.
--Many items on the calendar in DC were cancelled as venues were shut down, including the Supreme Court.
--The DC Council passed on Tuesday an emergency bill in response to the COVID epidemic.
--Some educators and organizations are raising concerns about privacy on the Zoom video conferencing service.
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'ON THE GROUND' FOR MARCH 13, 2020
As coronavirus is declared to be an official pandemic by the World Health Organization, the United States proves to be a drag on testing, on treatment and on the world economy. We speak to Gerald Horne.
Plus nurses speak out on safety for healthcare workers on a national day of action, while Code Pink protests at the U.S. Treasury Department against sanctions on countries like Iran and Venezuela that are preventing those countries from fighting the coronavirus. Voices include Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold.
And as Democratic Party elites rush to coronate Joe Biden as their nominee, progressives raise the alarm about evidence of election fraud and voter suppression that is, once again, cheating the insurgent candidacy of Bernie Sanders. We speak to Dan Kovalik.
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ON THE GROUND FOR MARCH 6, 2020
With 'Super Tuesday' in the rearview mirror, the United States turns its attention to the Coronavirus. We speak to Dr. Margaret Flowers. And women tell the Supreme Court that they are not going back to the days of back-alley, illegal abortions.
Plus headlines with Gerald Horne and Chantal James on Super Tuesday, Black Southern voters, Syria and the ICC Bears Down on U.S. for suspected war crimes.
Esther Iverem with Dr. Margaret Flowers, Gerald Horne and Chantal James. Other voices: Rep. Barbara Lee (CA) and Rep. Diana DeGette (CO) and the Rev. Darcy Roake of Louisiana.
ON THE GROUND FOR FEBRUARY 28, 2020
Sixty five years after the lynching of Emmett Till shocked the nation and spurred the civil rights movement, Congress passes legislation making lynching a federal hate crime. Meanwhile, slanted news coverage of the U.S. presidential race continues to reveal the true face of corporate media as media for the one percent. Plus headlines:
-Frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders faces barrage at debate.-Bloomberg and Buttigieg display their one percent credentials.Rep. Tulsi Gabbard speaks out on on money in the Democratic race. Congress passed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez reads Green New Deal proposal into the record. U.N. says Trump assault on environment is violation of human rights. Protesters rallied outside the Supreme Court where oral arguments began in a case that will determine whether a pipeline can cross the Appalachian Trail.Rallies in support of Julian Assange, facing possible extradition to U.S.Smithsonian Institution releases 2.8 million images to public. Documentary on lynching, "Always in Season," premieres on PBS.
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ON THE GROUND FOR FEBRUARY 21, 2020
As Bernie Sanders continues to surge in the presidential race , he gets an assist in putting billionaires in their place. We speak to political scientist Niambi Carter about the competition in the Democratic Party and the Trump administration's proposed budget. And in this month's episode of "The F-Word," Omali Yeshitela, head of the African People's Socialist Party, says that the majority of the world needs to fight colonialism rather than fascism. Historian Gerald Horne also joins us for news from Africa and the Pan-African Film Festival.
Headlines: Fireworks at the Democratic Nevada debate and Trump's proposed budget. Wet'suwet'en protests in Canada continue. U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on whether a pipeline can cross the Appalachian Trail. Chantal James reports on panel featuring indigenous environmental activists. 10,000 DMV Safeway grocery store workers rallied to set a strike vote. A coalition of peace and press freedom activists is planning daily rallies starting February 24th when a London hearing is scheduled to begin to determine if Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will be extradited to the United States.On Friday February 28, members of the Venezuela Embassy Protectors collective are scheduled to head back to court. Their first trial resulted in a hung jury and on the 28th they will learn if the Trump administration plans to try their case again..
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Photo: credit: image of Omali Yeshitela from the African People's Socialist Party
ON THE GROUND FOR FEBRUARY 14, 2020
If you think that this year's Iowa Caucus is proof that the U.S. is quickly becoming a banana republic, wait until you hear about the proceedings inside the federal court where the Venezuela Embassy Protectors are on trial. And then to the movies: What other flicks from 2019, in addition to the Oscar-winning 'Parasite,' offered sharp critiques of the neoliberal order? I speak with writer and activist Kymone Freeman. Gerald Horne on White supremacists in the U.S. military - and much more.
UPDATE: There was a MISTRIAL in the case of the VENEZUELA EMBASSY PROTECTORS, meaning that the jurors did not decide to convict or acquit. The protectors are counting this as a VICTORY but need to ascertain whether the Trump administration will attempt to retry them.
On their website, DefendEmbassyProtectors.com, the defendants state that "While a mistrial is better than finding the four guilty, they are not through with the process. The judge ordered the four to return to court on Friday, February 28 at 9:30 am so the government can decide whether to drop the charges or try the case again. The four defenders with the support of their legal team and this defense committee are making preparations for a likely second prosecution."
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A tumultuous week in U.S. politics includes a State of the Union reality show, an acquittal for the third U.S. president impeached, and a dubious beginning to the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. Also, Lydia Curtis reports: a DC Council member says that District officials are working more for developers than for the most vulnerable residents in public housing. We speak to journalist Max Blumenthal and the prolific historian Gerald Horne.
Plus headlines: --Iowa Caucus debacle, Trump's big week, including impeachment acquittal and State of the Union address, Chantal James attends Democratic Socialists of America discussion on Green New Deal. In Culture and Media, the Institute for Public Accuracy is planning to picket outside ABC studios in DC about biased media coverage of the 2020 presidential race. The projectis called Accuracy2020. There is a fundraiser for the Venezuela Embassy Protectors, and the family of jazz curator Vernard Gray is seeking donations and assistance for his memorial.
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The impeachment trial of Donald Trump may be winding down but the assault by the U.S. on human rights here and abroad goes on unabated. And we speak to April Goggans of Black Lives Matter DC about the case of a police officer arrested and charged with murder in the DC suburbs. Plus headlines and much more.
Voices: Esther Iverem, Chantal James, Gerald Horne, Rev. Graylan Hagler, Carl Dix, April Goggans.
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With increased attacks on presidential candidate Bernie Sanders by corporate media, and with reporters, whistleblowers and truthtellers around the world under assault, we talk to journalist Jon Jeter about today's world of news, lies and videotape. And on the holiday celebrating what would have been the Rev. Martin Luther Kings 91st birthday, activists marched and rallied for a variety of causes related to human rights and human survival. Plus headlines: -Sanders Surges in Polls -Trump finalized a rule to allow companies to dump pesticides and other pollutants directly into many of the nation's streams and wetlands. -At Davos, Trump tells CNBC that he would consider cutting Medicare and Social Security in a second term. -DC Attorney General Karl A. Racine announced a lawsuit against Trump's inaugural committee. -Starting with this year's Women's March, activists have been in the streets of DC for a variety of issues for human rights and human needs. -Saturday, January 25th at noon, a rally is scheduled in front of the White House as part of the global 'No War with Iran' protests. -The one-woman stage play, The Fannie Lou Hamer Story, Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired, will be at Prince George's Community College Center on January 25.
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ON THE GROUND FOR JANUARY 17, 2020
For this hour, voices from the Fire Drill Fridays climate protest held January 10, 2020 outside the U.S. Capitol, organized and mced by actress Jane Fonda, This protest focused on the role of banks and other financial institutions in continuing to fund the extraction of oil, gas and coal that is making earth uninhabitable. With Jane Fonda, Rebecca Adamson, Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, Omekongo Dibinga, Tara Houska, Naomi Klein, Greenpeace USA's Annie Leonard, 350.org's Bill McKibben, Joaquin Phoenix, June Diane Raphael, Martin Sheen, Tasina Sapa Win Smith, Kat Taylor, Amber Valletta, Susan Sarandon and more. Post photo by Fire Drill Fridays.
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The U.S. assassination of Iran's top general is ratcheting fears of war around the globe and re-awakening the anti-war movement in the United States. Voices from the No War on Iran protest in front of the White House on January 4, 2020, including Jane Fonda, Brian Becker and Sean Blackmon. And as apocalyptic images from Australia emerge of wildfires engulfing up to 25 million acres, we present part two of our coverage of congressional testimony from scientists on October 23, 2019 about oil giant Exxon lying for decades about Climate Change.
Voices: Martin Hoffert, Ed Garvey, Naomi Oreskes, Susan Eubanks, Mustafa Santiago Ali, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Sean Blackmon, Kevin Zeese, Brian Becker, Mara Verhaden-Hilliard, Jane Fonda
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The first of two shows featuring extraordinary testimony from former Exxon scientists about the oil giant knowing and lying for decades about climate change. Experts say that an intense corporate disinformation campaign has led to decades of inaction and to today’s climate crisis.
Voices include Former Exxon scientists Martin Hoffert and Ed Garvey, Naomi Oreskes, Susan Eubanks, Mustafa Santiago Ali, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Photo credit: Green Peace action in 2017 at U.S. Capitol by Robert Meyers / Greenpeace.
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OUR 2019 YEAR-END SPECIAL WITH ON THE GROUND CONTRIBUTORS Professor Gerald Horne, Chantal James and Lydia Curtis weighing in with their top stories, from the right to affordable housing in DC, to the movement for Black Lives to the imperialist posture of the United States on the world stage. And we have a special interview with Roxane Johnson, mother of Jamaal Byrd, who died in the custody of the DC Department of Corrections just seven hours after being arrested. She still needs answers from district officials.
Headlines:
Even though the House of Representatives voted last week to impeach President Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi still has not sent the articles of impeachment to the Senate. Meanwhile, more writers are weighing in on the additional articles of impeachment that could have been. A top Syrian official said Tuesday that the U.S. Has 'Absolutely No Right' to Occupy or Plunder his Nation's Oil Fields. Bolivian President Evo Morales said in an interview that he is "absolutely convinced" the United States orchestrated the military coup that removed him from power last month.Starting today, Friday, December 27, China, Russia and Iran will hold joint naval drills in the Gulf of Oman. Headlines:
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'ON THE GROUND' FOR DECEMBER 20, 2019
Whether it is the brutal repression of Muslims in India or the doublespeak of American creation mythology, Gerald Horne breaks down the elements of today's incipient fascism for our final F-Word segment for 2019. And scores of people have joined actress Jane Fonda in being arrested every Friday at the US Capitol to demand action on the climate crisis. We present voices at 'Fire Drill Fridays' speaking about a just transition to green energy with good jobs. Headlines:
The House voted to impeach President Donald Trump.The Senate pushed through 12 more Trump, right-wing judges.The secretive FISA court accused the FBI of misleading its judges.The Senate approved a $738 billion budget for the Pentagon.An analysis found that "exposure to toxic air, water, soil, and chemical pollution" kills 8.3 million people worldwide each year, Several actions in DC this week, addressed violence against women.Chantal James reports on a forum to protect lack girls from sex trafficking. A setback and a victory for the Fight for $15 movement.
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ON THE GROUND FOR DECEMBER 13, 2019
The Donald Trump impeachment hearings overshadow a new report detailing lying, cheating and cover-ups by the FBI. We speak to CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou about the IG Report on the origins of Russiagate and about the FISA Court. And as the protectors of the Venezuela embassy head to court, false charges are dropped against journalist Max Blumenthal in a case related to that illegal siege this year in Northwest DC. Also, DC residents press their case to purchase public housing. We have Gerald Horne. And MUCH more.
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'ON THE GROUND' FOR DECEMBER 6, 2019
From the Trump impeachment hearings to NATO's 70th anniversary, we speak to journalist Jon Jeter and activist Ajamu Baraka about the priorities and actions of elites that are destroying lives around the globe. And as the UN World Climate change conference is underway in Madrid, we hear from veterans who launched the environmental justice movement in the United States.
With Jon Jeter, Ajamu Baraka, Roxane Byrd mother of Jamaal Byrd, April Goggans, Peggy Shepard of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Beverly Wright of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, Former South Carolina State Rep. Harold Mitchel, Richard Moore and Michele Roberts of the Environmental Justice Health Alliance.
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Post photo of Jamaal Byrd with children. Byrd, 33, died in custody of DC's Metropolitan Police Department on October 1, 2019. Nearly two months later, his mother said she had not been told how her son died.
ON THE GROUND FOR NOVEMBER 29, 2019
For this hour, DC-based journalist Max Blumenthal and journalist and comedian Lee Camp joins fellow writerS Margaret Kimberley and Aaron Mate on a panel titled: 'Propaganda: How Propaganda Manufactures Consent', sponsored by the Big Apple Coffee Party at the Community Church of NYC on Tuesday, November 19, 2019. SUPPORT 'ON THE GROUND' ON GIVING TUESDAY! REAL JOURNALISM AND TRUTH ARE UNDER ATTACK. HELP US FIGHT BACK! MAKE YOUR TAX-DEDUCTIBLE PATREON OR PAYPAL. https://onthegroundshow.org/support-donate/
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ON THE GROUND FOR NOVEMBER 22, 2019
As the U.S.-backed military coup in Bolivia continues to kill and attack peaceful protesters, a rare eyewitness report from a massive rally in La Paz by Medea Benjamin of Code Pink. And what is it about foreign policy that separates the real left from the fake left? Journalist Ben Norton on Elizabeth Warren's true colors. Plus headlines
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While impeachment hearings about one man dominate the news, thousands rally at the Supreme Court for an immigration case that could impact millions. And all around the world, from the Congo to Chile, from Iraq to Honduras, it is young people who are taking to the streets to fight for a future. In that spirit, we present our second feature from our recent trip to Cuba: An interview with two Americans training in Cuba to be doctors. Plus Headlines:
Thousands rallied outside the court in an action called “Here Is Home” to demonstrate support for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.Chantal James reports on one SCOTUS case that prompted one heartbroken family to travel to DC from Mexico. Medea Benjamin of Code Pink was assaulted at the press conference by right-wing thugs then, later, DC police attempted to arrest Benjamin at her home, saying that she assaulted Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz at the same press conference. Journalist Aaron Mate gives feedback on first day of Trump impeachment hearings. A federal court has ruled that US government agents cannot search travelers’ electronic devices at the border or at airports without reasonable suspicion of illegal contraband. And finally major social justice actions are happening this weekend: The Puerto Rican Diaspora Summit; the ANSWER Coalition is rallying against the coup in Bolivia; Refuse Fascism is holding rallies to oppose the Trump -Pence regime; the family and supporters of death row inmate Rodney Reed are holding vigils for him in Texas, Los Angeles and here in DC at the Supreme Court.
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Part one of our coverage from a gathering of 1500 people from around the globe who met in Havana, Cuba for the Anti-Imperialist Solidarity Meeting, for Democracy and Against Neoliberalism. The conference occurred as millions around the world, from Iraq to Haiti, from Chile to Honduras, protest in the streets against vast wealth inequality, poverty, environmental collapse and all the social ills brought about by the exploitation of people and natural resources for profit. Headlines:
For the 28th time, world leaders at the United Nations overwhelmingly voted for the United States to end its illegal embargo of Cuba. Ben Norton of the Grayzone reports on a longtime U.S. diplomat outlining a strategy for the United States to hold hostage or steal Syria's oil and prevent reconstruction of the remainder of the country, which she describes as “rubble.”The Black is Back Coalition held its Annual March & Rally on the White House. More than two million people have signed a petition protesting the scheduled execution of Rodney Reed.Chantal James reports from the Post-Conviction Forum in DC. Pacifica Radio’s New York station, WBAI, is back to airing local programs after a New York court ruling.
Millions Protest Bitter Fruits of Neoliberalism..Hundreds Gather in Cuba for Anti-Imperialist Conference...Remembering the Best of Jon Conyers and More Headlines: NOTE: THIS SHOW DID NOT AIR ON THE DC STATION SO CHECK IT OUT HERE.
After weeks of mass protests throughout Iraq, a number of rockets struck near the US embassy in Bagdad’s Green Zone. Hundreds of people are gathering through Sunday, November 3 in Havana, Cuba for the Anti-imperialist Meeting of Solidarity, for Democracy and against Neoliberalism. Several members of the Congressional Black Caucus led a tribute on the House floor to former Representative John Conyers (D-MI), who died on October 27 at the age of 90. A coalition of foreign and American car companies is backing the Trump administration in an ongoing lawsuit with California over fuel economy standards. A climate action called Fire Drill Fridays, initiated by actress Jane Fonda, is rallying at the U.S. Capital every Friday.Hundreds attended the Reclaim Rent Control campaign kick-off in Northwest DC.The 14h birthday of Relisha Rudd, a girl who went missing from a DC homeless shelter six years ago, was celebrated this week. The National Park Service has scrapped a plan to consider charging fees for demonstrations around the National Mall and the White House.Max Blumenthal, editor of the news site The Grayzone, was arrested on the morning of October 25 on a fabricated charge related to this year’s siege of the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, DC.The embattled New York Pacifica radio station WBAI heads back to court on November 6th seeking to have its local programming restored, after Pacifica’s interim director John Vernile forcibly shut down the station on October 7th and piped in content from California without authorization from the foundation’s full national board. Ronald Moten, co-founder of Don’t Mute DC, wrote an op-ed about the high cost of Nats World Series tickets.
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A new report on FBI surveillance details how nearly every major social movement of the past decade -- including Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter-- has been targeted by the FBI. And while this week's Washington drama included Republicans bumrushing Trump's impeachment hearing, far more dramatic testimony was heard about fossil fuel giants like Exxon knowing and lying for decades about climate change.
Headlines: on Syria; Impeachment; Baby Foods Test Positive for Heavy Metals; Catholic activists opposed to nuclear weapons known as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 found guilty; Advocates for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange are fighting against his extradition from the UK; Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is grilled by lawmakers; New book on untold history of music; Don't Mute DC upcoming events.
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Post image: Cover art by Autumn for the report "Still Spying on Dissent: The Enduring Problem of FBI First Amendment Abuse" published at RightsandDissent.org
At the Rage Against the War Machine March, peace activists stop at The Washington Post to speak out against corporate medias complicity in warmongering. The march and die-in provides the perfect opportunity to remember the real costs of war.
Headlines: Biden's Syria Lie; Sanders Makes Comeback; Update on Chicago Teachers and UAW Strikes; Elijah Cummings; DC Continues Plan to Destroy McMillan Park; Oct. 19 Activism in DC: March for Migrants, National Network on Cuba and Celebration for the 50th anniversary of the Washington Blade and LGBTQ+ History Month.
Voices: Cindy Sheehan, Margaret Flowers, Kevin Zeese, Gerald Horne
From housing displacement, to police abuse, to raging against the war machine, people are raising their voices and fists against the forces of exploitation. And scientists make a shocking discovery in the Arctic ocean. Where before the ocean floor was solid ice, it is now giving way to methane boiling up from the deep.
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ON THE GROUND FOR OCTOBER 4, 2019
On this show, calls for justice for Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered one year ago in Saudi Arabia's embassy in Turkey. And this week also marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China. What is the impact of China's revolution today? We speak to Brian Becker of the ANSWER Coalition. Headlines on Guaido faction looting Venezuela and more…
Links: Anya Parampil on the looting of Citgo by Guaido gang.
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ON THE GROUND FOR SEPTEMBER 27, 2019
While the media swarm focuses on Trump's telephone conversation with Ukraine's president, why is it ignoring a bigger Ukraine story involving U.S. military support for neo-Nazis? We speak to journalist Ben Norton. And those impacted by Trump's Muslim ban finally get their day in Congress to speak out!
Headlines on Trump at the U.N., impeachment inquiry and more...
Links: Ben Norton's story at the Grayzone
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For young people on the front lines of climate change, the crisis is not a future reality, but, rather, a clear and present danger that fills them with anxiety, depression and uncertainty about what is permanent. DC activists march and rally in the Global Climate Strike demanding that U.S. lawmakers treat the climate crisis like the emergency that it is.
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Family Members of Those Killed on Boeing 737 Max Speak Out in DC…John Bolton is OUT…Headlines on No Asylum for Bahamians, Voter Suppression, Trump Appoints Lifetime Arch Conservative Judges and More…
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On this show, writers speak out at the Poets for Puerto Rico fundraiser held at the American Poetry Museum in Northeast DC on September 22nd 2018, one year after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, killing 3,000 TO 8,000 people as the island languished in neglect from the U.S. federal government. With Tony Medina, Seve Torres, Ana Portnoy Brimmer, Evelyn Mejil, C. Thomas, Anthony Morales, Noel Quiñones, Nicole Capó Martinez, Sami Miranda
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ON THE GROUND FOR AUGUST 30, 2019
With a combination of anger and mourning at the intentional burning of the Amazon Rainforest, activists from Extinction Rebellion and other groups rally outside the Brazilian Embassy, demanding an end to the destruction. And hundreds rallied in Northwest DC to protest the leasing of a building to serve as a detention center for immigrant children. Plus headlines.
Headlines: Community activists go to court to prevent the District of Columbia from demolishing historic McMillan Park. Janet and Eddie Africa of the Philadelphia group MOVE on panel at Shaw library August 31 at 2pm. Kankouran West African Dance Company holds annual conference and concert.
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ON THE GROUND AUGUST 23, 2019
Israel’s banning of two Congresswomen, two Muslim women of color, because of their support for the Boycott, Divestment Sanctions movement, was just the latest in an ongoing series of political firestorms involving the relationship between Israel and the United States, and the power that Israel and the Israeli lobby exert on U.S. laws, including free speech. Earlier this year, hundreds of activists and scholars meeting at the National Press Club boldly confronted these same issues. We feature a key address at that gathering by Professor Walter L. Hixson, author of the meticulously researched new book, Israel's Armor: The Role of the Israel Lobby in the History of the Palestine Conflict. Rebroadcast with updates.
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Late August 2019 is the actual time period marking the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Africans in the English colony of Jamestown in 1619. So we have a rebroadcast of our interview with historian Gerald Horne about this international commemoration and opportunity to reexamine the world-altering impact of the enslavement of African people. And August has many anniversaries. From Mike Brown being shot to death by police in Ferguson five years ago, to the many historical markers of what is known as Black August, we remember how the past informs the present.
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ON THE GROUND AUGUST 9, 2019
From DC, to Mississippi, to Venezuela, to Mozambique, people all over the globe are fighting back against white supremacy and U.S. imperialist violence. And with accused mass murderers echoing the racist rhetoric of Donald J. Trump, a reprise of our conversation with author Henry Giroux, about the rise of neoliberal fascism in the United States and how fascism starts with language.
Headlines on White House protests against Trump's racist rhetoric and against new economic blockade of Venezuela. The Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance press conference. The African Diaspora Film Festival and more...
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ON THE GROUND AUGUST 2, 2019
On the Ground was in Cuba in April and May 2019 as part of the 14th Annual May Day International Brigade of Voluntary Work and Solidarity with Cuba, during which we traveled to throughout Western and Central Cuba, hearing from Cubans about their lives and views about what is happening internationally. As is happening in Venezuela, the stepped up imperialist attack in Cuba is uniting the population of 11 million, which had just overwhelmingly voted to ratify its new constitution, affirming that Cuba is a socialist country.
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ON THE GROUND JULY 26, 2019
On this month's F-Word segment on fascism, author and cultural critic Henry A. Giroux, says that fascism starts with words. His new book is The Terror of the Unforeseen, in which he describes the rise of neoliberal fascism in the United States. Gerald Horne on the latest U.S obsession with Russia… Headlines on Mueller, Tulsi Gabbard and more..
Mueller Testimony is a BustHead of Customs and Border Patrol Grilled by Congress on Abuse of Migrants and on Conduct of CBP Officers.House Holds First Hearing in 50 years on Expanding Social Security.Presidential Candidate Tulsi Gabbard Sues Google over Alleged Election Interference after Tech Giant Disabled Her Ad AccountPublic Citizen reveals that Media Coverage of Climate Deniers.In DC, a Hearing on Designating Barry Farm Public Housing as Historic Landmark.13-Year-Old Palestinian Journalist Janna Jihad Speaks in DC During U.S. Tour.
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After announced immigrant raids all but fizzled, this week, the Trump administration turned to attack four progressive members of Congress, all women of color, who fought back. And as the politics of distraction heats up before the 2020 election, progressive activism keeps the focus on policy and human needs. Plus headlines:
Rep. Ilhan Omar introduced a resolution Wednesday affirming the use of boycotts as a tactic that is a constitutionally-protected form of free speech.The House of Representatives passed the Raise the Wage Act, aimed at guaranteeing all American workers a minimum wage of $15 an hour. Sen. Bernie Sanders gave a presidential campaign speech about Medicare for All at George Washington University.The Grand Canyon Centennial Protection Act was passed in the House Natural Resources Committee.A coalition of environmental justice and national climate organizations announced the Equitable and Just National Climate Platform.The new Hollywood drama, ‘Official Secrets,’ about government lies told in the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, was previewed at two standing-room-only events in DC.
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Days before the Trump administration is set to begin raids on immigrant families around the country, Yazmin Juarez, who came to the U.S. seeking asylum, offers heart-wrenching testimony to Congress about the death of her daughter just after she was released from a U.S. border detention facility. And as British commandos still hold a seized oil tanker belonging to Iran, Gerald Horne weighs the implications of U.S.-backed provocations around the globe. Also, an interview with immigration attorney Heather Benno.
Headlines:A vigil called Lights for Liberty is scheduled for in front of the White House July 12th, 7pm, to to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies, that have led to the abuse, sexual assault and deaths of children in U.S custody. The other big story in DC this week is fallout from the arrest of billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.The American Federation of Teachers union filed a lawsuit against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday. Climate activists march on Capitol Hill and score a victory when Sen. Bernie Sanders and Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Earl Blumenauer introduced resolutions declaring that climate change is a national emergency.In culture and media, on Saturday, July 13th at 4pm the Party for Socialism and Liberation is screening The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson.On Wednesday July 17th, there is free DC preview screening of the movie "Official Secrets" sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies. And the National Black United Front is celebrating its 40th anniversary in DC with a series of events, including the program "From Gentrification to Reparations: Activism in the Millennial Era, Saturday, July 13, 2019 at 12 PM – 2 PM, at the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum, 1925 Vermont Ave in Northwest DC.
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'ON THE GROUND' FOR JULY 5, 2019
As Donald Trump spends millions to promote U.S. militarism on Independence Day, anti-war activists gather on the national mall to denounce tanks and war planes used as political props.
And as outrage grows over increased abuse of asylum seekers by the U.S. federal government, human rights defenders mark the tenth anniversary of the U.S.-backed coup in Honduras, which they say has given rise to a narco dictatorship, that is forcing Hondurans to flee north to the U.S.
Voices: Gerald Horne, Liana Montecinos, Sean Blackmon, Andrea Molina, Juanita Cabrera Lopez, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Medea Benjamin. Music by Navasha Daya, Conrado Muluc and Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five.
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From 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 and DC police, a Superior Court judge orders Washington, DC to begin collecting information about the race of those they stop and frisk.
Plus Headlines:-Progressives in the House of Representatives were outraged this week after House speaker Nancy Pelosi first rejected then accepted a Senate bill that gives the Trump administration $4.6 billion dollars more for the southern border without rules stipulating that the funds be used for humanitarian relief.
-Freshmen lawmakers issued a joint statement denouncing Trump's announced mass deportations of undocumented immigrants and denouncing the additional funding to border agencies that they characterized as "radicalized" and "criminal."
-The Supreme Court struck down at least temporarily the Trump administration's proposal to put a citizenship question on the census but allowed partisan gerrymandering of electoral districts to stand.
-Gerald Horne on G20, attempted coup in Ethiopia and his new book, Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music. Plus more Culture and Media.
Voices: Jon Jeter, Scott Michelman, Gerald Horne, Rep. Tony Cardenas, Scott Michelman Music break featuring Conrado Muluc.
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'On the Ground' for June 21, 2019
At a Congressional hearing this week, witnesses offered expert testimony about the need for reparations for the descendants of enslaved Africans living in the United States. And on this month's episode of the F-Word on fascism, an activist says that Americans need to wake up and confront the reality of what this country is becoming.
Plus headlines:--The New York Times reported that Donald Trump approved a missile strike on Iran on Thursday but abruptly halted the operation. --In national news, there were Congressional hearings on reparations and on the national budget.--Jacqueline Luqman joins me to talk about Trump officially kicking off his 2020 re-election campaign and other election news.--Young activists work to prevent police in Prince Georges County, MD from collaborating with officers of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).--In DC, the formation of the Save Our Votes Political Action Committee was announced on the anniversary of the day that DC voters approved a measure to increase the pay of restaurant workers.--Chantal James reported from a hearing about tax credits for building affordable housing.--In Culture and media, the Stop Police terror Project DC is holding a liberation fundraiser, June 21, 6-9 pm at the Smith Smith Public Trust in Northeast DC. --The 40th Anniversary of the Great Labor Arts Exchange is happening through June 23rd at the Tommy Douglas Conference Center in Silver Spring, Maryland.-- And visual artist Sonya Clark will give an artist talk on her "Beaded Prayers Project, Wednesday, June 26, 6 PM, at the George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum. If you enjoy our grassroots news show, which we provide free online, on podcast and on Pacifica stations and affiliates, please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. You can also give a one-time donation on PayPal. The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Thank you!
'On the Ground' Show for June 14, 2019
Rallying in front of the White House this week, faith leaders from around the country handed down what they called a moral indictment against the Trump administration, for a range of wrongs, from denying health care to millions, to ripping migrant children from their parents. And in what some analysts are calling a suspicious provocation for war, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blames Iran for attacking two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. Plus other headlines:
--Gerald Horne on Trump and election "dirt, Hong Kong, Mexico and Poland. --Sen. Bernie Sanders described his vision of democratic socialism as completing the unfinished agenda of President Franklin Roosevelt. --Boston University professor Neta C. Crawford reveals in the report that from 2001 to 2017, the Pentagon generated at least 1.2 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases, exceeding the annual planet-warming emissions of industrialized countries such as Portugal or Sweden. --Climate activists rallied at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, protesting the committees continued refusal to hold a presidential candidate debate focused solely on climate change. --Cuban ambassador to the U.S. Jose Ramon Cabanas told a gathering Tuesday night in Northeast DC. that the Trump administration's recent ban on most U.S. tourism to Cuba was a reaction to the fact that more Americans were visiting the island and learning that they actually liked Cuba and Cuban people. --Coming up this weekend is Prince Georges County's 2019 Juneteenth Celebration. That's Saturday June 15th 2019 12-5pm Watkins Regional Park. --June 15th is the opening reception for Plans to Prosper You a free exhibit about the resilience of the Black Church and the struggle to stop the desecration of Moses Cemetery by the Montgomery County Housing Opportunities Commission. --Also, The DC Jazz Festival is underway until Sunday, June 16th. And the Harlem Fine Arts Show is also at Howard University's Interdisciplinary Research Building until Sunday, June 16th.
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'ON THE GROUND' FOR JUNE 7, 2019
PART TWO OF THOM HARTMAN ON THE U.S. AND GUNS
At the second in a series of congressional hearings on white supremacist violence in the United States, lawmakers questioned this week the priorities and placement of resources by the FBI and other federal agencies. And as the United States faces the horror of the latest mass shooting in Virginia Beach, a new book traces Americas deadly relationship to guns to this country's founding on genocide and slavery. We speak to journalist and author Thom Hartmann.
Plus Headlines:
-The Grand Canyon Centennial Protection Act introduced to ban uranium mining at the world heritage site. Impacting the drinking water for more than 5 million people along the Ohio River, the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission, known as ORSANCO, voted to overturn water pollution control standards, which it has overseen for more than 60 years.The Democratic National Committee will not host a climate-specific presidential primary debate and will punish candidates who attend a debate hosted by any other organization. At a hearing of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, testified that, even though flawed, facial recognition software is being utilized throughout federal law enforcement and safety agencies. The Electronic Privacy Information Center, held a conference on AI (or artificial intelligence) and human rights.Members of the DC Coalition for the Defense of the Cuban Revolution are denouncing the Trump Administration’s decision this week to ban most American tourism to Cuba.Proposed legislation will decriminalize sex work in the District of Columbia. On Tuesday, June 11, a service will be held to celebrate the life of Robert L. White who was shot by police one year ago in Montgomery County, MD. A DC Council hearing was held on Monday to support the survival of the Sankofa Books and Video store, owned By filmmakers Shirikiana and Haile Gerima. The DC Caribbean Filmfest is underway until June 12.The 27th Annual International Commemoration for African Ancestors who perished in the Middle Passage -- the Maafa -- and those who survived, is June 8 and June 9.Gerald Horne on U.S.-China relations, Trump's trip to the UK, Mexico and Sudan.
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'ON THE GROUND' SHOW FOR MAY 31, 2019
Marchers rallied at the White House on May 25th for African Liberation Day and called on the Trump administration to end crippling sanctions against the Southern African country of Zimbabwe. And in DC, advocates for quality health care vow to continue the fight for DC's only full service hospital east of the Anacostia River.
Plus headlines on: -the Medicare for All Emergency Ambulance Tour. -a Maryland man set himself on fire in a busy tourist area near the white House on Wednesday. -Greenpeace gave each Democratic presidential candidate a climate grade this week. -the Department of Energy set out a press release referring to Americas fracked natural gas as molecules of freedom or freedom gas. -Brooklyn artist Dano Wall has created a 3-D rubber stamp that replaces the face of the genocider and slave owner Andrew Jackson with the face of Harriet Tubman. And it's totally legal!
Correction: the DC broadcast and podcast version of this show misstates the date of the DC Council vote on funding for United Medical Center (UMC). The vote was on May 28, 2019.
Photo Credit: Workers World, www.workers.org
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With the deaths of six migrant children in U.S. custody--and hundreds more children still separated from their parents--when will cruel immigration policies bear any responsibility for cruel outcomes?
And as DC and cities around the United States launch celebrations of the poet of democracy, Walt Whitman, we speak to one historian about new bodies of scholarship on Whitman's real legacy on human rights.
Voices: Gerald Horne, Lavelle Porter, Ofelia Calderon
Photo: Family photo of Carlos Gregorio Hernández Vásquez, who died in the custody U.S. border authorities.
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The U.S. breaks Into Venezuela embassy and arrests activists...Part 2 Interview with Gerald Horne on New S. Africa Book, 'White Supremacy Confronted'...Plus Headlines: Fourth Migrant Child Dies in Feds Custody, Green New Deal Tour and More...
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As South African voters went to the polls this week, marking 25 years since the end of the racist apartheid system, we spend the hour with the author and activist Professor Gerald Horne and his new book, White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela. Plus headlines on the occupation of the Venezuela embassy by peace activists and more…
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For this show, we are in Havana, Cuba, where millions of Cubans celebrated May Day in support of workers and against the expanded United States economic blockade and sanctions. The May 1 celebration occurred as representatives meeting here from around the world stood in solidarity with the government of Venezuela as it defeated an attempted coup and they denounced the U.S. for military, economic and other actions to destabilize sovereign countries around the globe. Also, more reports from different locations in Cuba and Cuban professor and government official Rafael Hidalgo offers a crisp analysis of U.S. illegal aggression toward Venezuela. Plus headlines.
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For this hour the keynote address by author and activist Susan Albulhawa, delivered at the Israel and American Policy conference held March 22, 2019 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC., sponsored by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
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For this month's episode of "The F-Word" on fascism, Professor Francis Boyle breaks down how the US is destroying International Law. And in continued solidarity with Venezuelas people and Bolivarian Revolution, peace activists are occupying the Venezuelan embassy at the invitation of the Venezuelan government. We hear what one Puerto Rican activist has to say about the U.S. attempted coup.
Headlines: Gerald Horne on the Mueller Report, Cuba and Sudan; Bernie Sanders on Fox, Andrew Yang at the Lincoln Memorial, Bill McKIbben's new book; Margaret Flowers and Medea Benjamin interview Puerto Rico activist. Extinction Rebellion in DC. DC hospital workers continue to oppose deal for new hospital.
Photo from Boyle's book, Palestine, Palestinians and International Law
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This week's important Congressional hearing on Hate Crimes and White Nationalism was marred by bitter partisan politics, but the four-hour meeting produced rare testimony about the dangerous rise in intimidation and violence from those espousing hate. And in the aftermath of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange being expelled from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, will the freedom of speech of journalists become the latest political football in DC? Plus headlines
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Peace activists meet in DC and denounce the NATO military alliance celebrating its anniversary on day the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Organizers said that Kings triple evils of capitalism, militarism and racism have been joined by an environmental crisis that threatens all of humanity.
Voices: Jaribu Hill – Mississippi Workers Center for Human RightsOmali Yeshitela – Chairman of Black is BackThe Rev. Graylan Hagler — Pastor of Plymouth United Church of Christ Luci Murphy and Ben Grosscup – Musical Artists Dr. Margaret Flowers—Co-founder of Popular ResistanceHowie Hawkins – Politician and activistKevin Zeese – Co-founder of Popular ResistanceMC—David Swanson of World Beyond War
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Hundreds of activists and scholars meeting at the National Press Club say that more people around the globe are demanding justice for Palestine. We hear a key address by Professor Walter L. Hixson, author of the forthcoming book, Israel's Armor: The Role of the Israel Lobby in the History of the Palestine Conflict.
Headlines: -Gerald Horne on the Mueller Report and NATO's 70th anniversary. -Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Impassioned Defense of the Green New Deal. -Senate Poised to Confirm Another Industry Lobbyist to Head Interior. -Protests will greet NATO foreign ministers meeting in DC. -National Black Memorabilia, Fine Art & Craft Show is Saturday and Sunday, April 6th and 7th.
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Cynthia McKinney on How the U.S. Creates Sh*thole Countries...Voices from UN Conference on Women...Headlines on Venezuela, Bolsonaro Visit, Liberians Face Deportation Deadline...And More...
VOICES: Cynthia McKinney, Gerald Horne, Desiree Harp, Ruihana Paenga, Fata Acquoi, Michele Roberts, Chantal James, Esther Iverem-host.
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On the one-year anniversary of the assassination of Brazilian politician and human rights champion Marielle Franco, activists gather in front of the White House to honor her legacy. And for this month’s episode of the F-Word on fascism, one Brazilian gives her take on the rise of Jair Bolsonaro and neofascism in her country.
Plus headlines: Youth Climate Strike, Trump Update, Yemen Vote, Venezuela and More…
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On International Women's Day, March 8th 2019, the lives of Venezuelan women bear witness to the struggle for human rights and against imperialism and war. And what is feminism? At an upcoming gathering, women will organize under the banner 'Feminism for the 99 percent.' Audio of Rep. Omar Tlaib and Rep. Rashida Tlaib speaking at Progressive Town Hall in DC on February 27.
Headlines: I stand with Ilhan campaign scores victory. An assortment of rallies and cultural presentations are marking International Women’s Day in the DC area. DC premiere of "Cubanas: Mujeres en Revolución"
Voices: Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Jeanette Charles, Karla Reyes
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Will testimony by Trump's former fixer, Michael Cohen, drive a stake into the heart of Russiagate? Nation writer Aaron Mate says don't bet on it. And at protests across the U.S. and world, thousands gather to say no war, no sanctions no coup in Venezuela." Plus Headlines on Jayapal's Medicare for All bill in the House of Representatives. And More...
HEADLINES: Michael Cohens testimony debunks Russiagate-Medicare For All Act of 2019 is Introduced by Representative Pramila Jayapal.-Climate activists Force McConnell to Delay Vote on Green New Deal.- Senate Republicans confirmed ex-coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.- Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) introduced the Grand Canyon Centennial Protection Act.- Michele Roberts, On the Grounds Environmental Justice Producer, testified before the House Appropriations Committee, to advocate for communities that suffer from industrial pollution and other hazards. - thousands of migrant children suffered sexual abuse while in custody of the U.S. government.- A Meeting of DCs Afro-Latino community-A New Busboys and Poets Opens in Anacostia on March 6-DC Premiere of film Cubanas, Mujeres en Revolucin, or Cubanas: Women in Revolution, a documentary by Maria Torrellas. Thats Thursday, March 7th, 6:30 PM " 9:00 PM at the True Reformer Building, 1200 U Street in Northwest DC. -Gerald Horne on Venezuela, India and Pakistan, North Korea and Russia.
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Political lines are being drawn about national sovereignty, democracy and U.S. interventionist wars around the globe. This time, Venezuela is at the epicenter of the international struggle against U.S. imperialism and propaganda.
Headlines: Venezuela...Rallying Against the Border Wall and Declaration of 'National Emergency'...Bernie Sanders…Saudi Arabia…Nukes…And More
Voices: Steve Ellner, Gerald Horne, Bernie Sanders
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Gerald Horne on Commemoration of 1619 and Legacy of African Enslavement...Headlines on Trump's Wall and "National Emergency," Ilhan Omar Grills Abrams on War Crimes, Immigration, Social Security and More.
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As the Trump administration pursues a coup in Venezuela and futile plans for a border wall, it defies a court order to reunite hundreds if not thousands of migrant children illegally seized from their parents. And activists in Maryland are arrested as part of a two-year campaign to create a memorial for an African Burial Ground desecrated and paved over by developers.CORRECTION: Broadcast versions of this show misidentified the state for U.S. Senator Ed Markey. He is from Massachusetts. We do regret the error and always strive for our best!If you enjoy our grassroots news show, which we provide free online, on podcast and on Pacifica stations and affiliates, please click here or click on the Patreon tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Thank you! Subscribe on PatreonLike us on Facebook!Follow us on Twitter! Notes:
As the Trump Administration continues an attempted coup in Venezuela, we interview journalist Dan Cohen about his new article: The Making of Juan Guaido: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela's Coup Leader. Also, Extinction Rebellion, the civil disobedience movement that sprang up in Europe to fight climate change, lifts off in the U.S.
Headlines:
--This week, the Trump Administration escalated its economic war against Venezuela.
--Allies of the Venezuelan government are calling on the U.S. to stop the illegal economic stranglehold on the country.
--Corporate Dems Support Anti-BDS Legislation.
--Russia's Economy Surpasses Germany
--Journalist Marzieh Hashemi, who was imprisoned in the U.S. for 11 days with no charges, returns to Iran to a hero's welcome.
--Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are reportedly using plastic nasal tubes to force-feed at least six detained migrants.
--DC forum explores the election of neofascist Jair Bolsanaro as Brazil’s present.
--After singer Rihanna decided to boycott performing at Sunday’s Super Bowl in solidarity with quarterback Colin Kaepernick, other artists including Cardi B, followed suit.
--Quote of the week is from John Bolton on Fox Business, chattering away about how the attack on Venezuela is really about the oil..
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On today's show, the ongoing coup attempt in Venezuela by the Trump administration underscores the rift between anti-imperialists and those championing American Exceptionalism. And crowds in DC and all over the world rally in support of Press TV journalist Marzieh Hashemi, who was released this week by US officials after being detained and imprisoned for 11 days with no charges. Headlines on the Shutdown, Extinction Rebellion and more..
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The first speech on the floor of Congress by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York breaks records for C-Span on Twitter. We hear these remarks from AOC and what more freshman members of Congress say about the government shutdown. And a new book by Michael R. Fischbach, Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color, digs into the roots of African American-Palestinian solidarity.
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On Thursday, January 10, hundreds of U.S. federal employees, joined by labor union leaders and some members of Congress, rallied near the White House before marching to the White House, stating that Donald Trump is using them as pawns in an effort to force House Democrats to spend $5.7 billion for a discredited wall or fence on the Mexican border.
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This show is the first of three devoted to unheard voices of 2018. Today, poets and writers speaking out at a powerful Poets for Puerto Rico program held at the American Poetry Museum in Northeast DC on September 22nd 2018, one year after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, killing at least 3,000 people as the island languished in neglect from the U.S. federal government. The DC program was one of several held around the country to raise funds to support grassroots organizations on the island. (Post photo by Dimitri Reyes)
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2018 in Review With Historian Gerald Horne...The New Cold War With China...The New Climate Militancy...Aretha...And MUCH More
Debunking "Russian Influence" on African American Voters...What Does the Mike Flynn Case Prove?...Headlines on Landmark Clean Energy DC Act, Justice for Jakelin, Maryland Governor's 'Private' Roads Program and More. Interviews with Gerald Horne and Gareth Porter. Maha Hilal and Darakshan Raja speaking at a Justice for Jakelin rally outside Offices of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Our monthly segment The F-word: The editors of Luqman Nation join us to talk about open racists and fascists running for elected office in the U.S. and examine how the Tea Party took over of the Republican Party. Also, Lydia Curtis reports from the memorial service for Arthur Mitchell, founder of the Dance Theater of Harlem.
Headlines: -The Senate voted Thursday 51 to 46 to end U.S. military support for Saudi Arabia's genocidal war on Yemen.- Senators also approved a separate resolution to hold Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia responsible for the death of the journalist, Jamal Khashoggi. -Chantal James reports on immigrant solidarity march to the home of Stephen Miller, sponsored by WERK-Climate activists are scrambling to save the landmark Clean Energy DC Act.-Controversial Vote expected on New Hospital for Southeast DC.-A Grassroots Effort to Repeal the DC Council Repeal of Initiative 77 is Thwarted by the Courts.-Capital Bop Series is Back and New Documentary about Sandra Bland is on HBO.
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https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/OTG-DEC7-2018SMALL.mp3 The Facts and Fiction of George H.W. Bush...The Segregationist Roots of the 'School Choice' Movement...Plus Headlines on the Green New Deal and More.
Headlines: -More than 30 members of the faculty at Temple University, where Marc Lamont Hill teaches, have signed an open letter voicing support for him and no confidence in the chairman of the board of the university, Patrick O’Connor. -Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speak at Climate Crisis Town Hall on Capitol Hill -The DC Council voted to require that George Washington University Hospital, owned by Universal Health Services, honor union contracts and allow participation from Howard University Hospital at a new hospital planned for Southeast DC. -Reading of new book, "Plan Colombia," about history US disruption in South America. -The DC Metro Coalition in Solidarity with the Cuban Revolution presents “The Return of the Granma Ship,” a fundraiser. -Dec. 10, 2018 is the deadline for the House of Representatives to reverse the FCC's deeply unpopular repeal of net neutrality.
Voices: Gerald Horne, Dianne Ravitch, Pam Tau Lee, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Marc Lamont Hill's Palestine Solidarity Speech at the UN Earns Him a Pink Slip from CNN (Full Speech) ...EJ Activist Heads to Climate Conference in Poland...Plus Gerald Horne on the Dog Days of 'Russiagate' and More Headlines:
Headlines: After 15 years of the so-called War on Terror, the Senate voted Wednesday to advance a War Powers Resolution that could end U.S. funding of Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen.
An exclusive story in The Nation revealed this week how the Pentagon, which recently flunked its first ever independent audit, has been perpetrating accounting fraud.
The DC Council gave preliminary approval to The Clean Energy DC Act.” a landmark climate policy, which will strengthen the District’s renewable electricity requirement to 100 percent by 2032.
In other DC news, health care workers held a rally and press conference Thursday to call for transparency, equity in health care services and economic justice in the building of a new hospital.
December 10 is the deadline for the House of Representatives to reverse the FCC's deeply unpopular repeal of net neutrality.
On December 1 and 2, Black Artists of DC is selling original 5x7 postcard art in a fundraiser exhibit titled “Imagine.” www.blackartistsofdc.org
Also on December 1, Code Pink wwww.codepink.org is holding a Peace with Iran Summit and Celebration.
https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/OTG-NOV23-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 Chris Hedges on His New Book: America, The Farewell Tour...A Black Lives Matter Victory in DC...Hate Crimes Rise in Capital Region...
Plus Headlines: --U.S. White supremacists train with neo-Nazis in Ukraine. --A prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia accidentally revealed recently that Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been indicted in the district, and the indictment is sealed. --As the numbers of dead and missing continue to rise in California fires, President Trump toured the devastation and doubled down on being a climate denier. --The grassroots Sunrise Movement of young climate activists kept up its pressure for a Green New Deal. --The DC Climate Coalition warns that the Chicago-based utility Exelon — which owns the District’s electrical provider Pepco — has snuck in an amendment that would undercut the efficiency measures in the proposed “Clean Energy DC Act”
Voices: Chris Hedges, Scott Michelman, April Goggans, Carl Snowden
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https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/OTG-NOV.16-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 One hundred years after the end of World War One, veterans gather to reclaim the true meaning of Armistice Day. And for this month's episode of the F-Word on fascism, human rights activist Ajamu Baraka joins us to talk about the military-industrial complex.
Plus headlines: -In climate news, dozens of young environmentalists with the Sunrise Movement, occupied the office of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, demanding a green new deal.
-VETERANS AND ACTIVISTS GATHERED AT SEVERAL ACTIONS in DC at the start of this week on the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.
-Black Lives Matter DC, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Stop Police Terror Project argues in court that the District’ of Columbia has unreasonably delayed implementation of the stop-and-frisk data collection.
-Muslim activists also met this week to discuss how federal laws target them for surveillance and harassment.
-In culture in media, the annual BZB Holiday gift and art show kicks off this November 23rd and 25th with 60 pop-up shops at the Shiloh Family Life Center, 1510 Ninth Street in northwest DC.
https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/OTG-NOV9-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 After the Midterm elections, Michele Roberts speaks to environmental justice activists about what the election means for critical issues in their communities.
Journalist Jon Jeter also weighs in on the elections: Did vote results in Florida and Georgia raise questions about the Me Too Movement?
Pete Tucker reveals the ignored story of voter suppression in Maryland.
Plus Gerald Horne on international news and more headlines: While voting suppression tactics and irregularities in Georgia and Florida made national news this week, there was comparatively little attention to the same or worse conditions in Maryland.
-In area activism news, DC Indymedia reported on a rally by Kurds outside the State Department against Turkey's renewed bombing and shelling of Kurdish communities in northern Syria. Hundreds rallied in front of the White House on November 8th protesting the forced resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and what many experts say is the illegal appointment of an interim AG without Congressional approval. And on November 7th, antifascist demonstrators demonstrated outside the northwest DC home of Fox News Show Host Tucker Carlson.
-Sun, Nov. 11 9 AM EST there will be a VETERANS PEACE MARCH by Veterans For Peace, Military Families Speak Out and many others. Also on Nov. 11, there will be the Peace Congress to End U.S. Wars at Home and Abroad to build on the victory of getting Trump's military parade cancelled and reclaiming Armistice Day.
In culture and media: After Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell and fractured three ribs, well wishers flooded social media with offers of their own ribs or organs. Philadelphia Rapper Meek Mill spoke on the criminal justice system at Georgetown University. And thousands are expected to attend Catharsis on the Mall, through Sunday, November 11th. This fourth straight year for the event exists, according to its organizers, to create accessible spaces for healing.
CORRECTION: After our deadline, Tom Hucker called to tell us that The Washington Post quote that we cited on this show was not correctly reported by the Post. Hucker said he told the Post that there is "effective voter suppression," not..."An attempt at voter suppression." Also, Maryland Democrats did lose one seat in the State Senate, though they do maintain a super majority and can override any veto by the governor.
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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 embrace of White nationalism. -In addition to highlighting the rift between American Jews and the Trump administration, the massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue also highlights the rift between American Jews and Israel. --Chantal James at the Transforming Safety Forum in DC --Pete Tucker attends a packed get out the vote event for Ben Jealous. Will Heavy Democratic Early Voting Upset the Pollsters? --New research published in the journal Nature on Wednesday said that humanity may have even less time to drastically cut carbon emissions. --the Oakland Climate Action Coalition claimed victory Tuesday night after that California city passed a resolution declaring a climate emergency and committing it to urgent action to tackle the crisis. And in London a new group calling itself Extinction Rebellion rallies and faces arrests. --Culture and Media: the 45th Annual D.C. History Conference at UDC; Black is Back Coalition Meets in DC; Screening and discussion of the movie short, Trouble: Conspiracy to Riot.
Voices: Gerald Horne, Stosh Cotler, Linda Sarsour, Josh Friedman, James Zogby, Gail Bradbrook and more.
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 banks, demanding that the banks obey their own rules and stop funding fossil fuel projects that violate native land and that are fueling runaway climate change. -Women are also taking the lead Sunday October 21st for the Women’s March on the Pentagon. -The DC Council moved this week one step closer to making fare evasion a civil rather than criminal offense. -Also this week, the DC council intervened in the announced closure of Providence Hospital. -DC-based, minority-owned businesses that were illegally locked out of their worksites filed a lawsuit against the developer, 1100 Eastern LLC, a subsidiary of the Neighborhood Development Company (NDC).
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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, Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State running against Democrat Stacey Abrahams is holding up 53,000 voter registrations. -Trump campaigns as Hurricane Michael slams into Florida, holds unprecedented second swearing in ceremony at WHite House for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and lies in USA Today editorial about proposed Medicare for All legislation. Bernie Sanders responds. -Locally in DC, health care providers and residents packed a hearing in continued opposition to the announced closing of the 238-bed Providence Hospital and also protested four Black businesses being suddenly locked out of their locations by a developer. -The DC Council is moving closer to overturning a vote by city residents to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers. -In Culture and Media:"Turn Me Loose" A PLAY ABOUT COMIC GENIUS DICK GREGORY; on the big screen, "The Hate U Give;" Also, Nelson A. Denis speaks about his book, “War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony” and DC screenings of "The Unafraid" about immigrant rights and "Black Gold," about the struggle of Ethiopian farmers to be fairly compensated.
Voices: Michele Roberts EJHA, Professor Gerald Horne, Sen. Bernie Sanders and more...
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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 Walter Mosley.
Headlines: --Hundreds Arrested at Kavanaugh Protests on Capitol Hill. --World's Richest Man, Jeff Bezos, Gives Amazon Workers $15 Minimum Wage. --Activists Mark 18th Year of Afghanistan War. --Professor Gerald Horne on the U.S. and Iran, Kavanaugh and Trump Tax Fraud. --Culture and Media: the National Solar Tour, the new Entertainment and Sports Arena, opens in Southeast DC, the DC Palestinian Film & Arts Festival 2018 Continues through Sunday October 7.
Voices: Walter Mosley, Katie Huffling, Lois Wessel, Gerald Horne, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rhonda Hamilton
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 substation near a school in DC has become a flashpoint for community empowerment in a rapidly gentrifying city.
Headlines: -Protests continue daily here and around the country in opposition to the Kavanaugh nomination. -Code Pink women for Peace put the focus on how U.S. policies are impacting women in Iran. -Dozens of community organizations show support for the Clean Energy DC Act. -Appeal Inc. hosts fundraiser to start Black community owned and operated credit union. -Grand opening in DC of The Eaton, which combines the hospitality industry with social justice. -The new documentary, Jane Fonda in Five Acts is airing on HBO.
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, "Fahrenheit 11/9."
Plus Headlines: --A successful ballot initiative to raise the wages of tipped workers in DCis straining the District’s polite class divide and sparking a furor over voting rights --Heat on the Catholic Church for closing a hospital serving the poor and selling out rent-controlled tenants. --Gerald Horne on new China trade war, Iran, Yemen and Bob Woodward
MORE VOICES: Tyson Slocum, Barbara Briggs, Scott Williamson
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 "losing their jobs and homes. Now, a decade later, has there really been a recovery? We speak to analyst Dedrick-Asante Muhammad.
Gerald Horne on new dangers in Syria; Bolton's Outrageous Threats to the ICC and the Economic Summit Between Russia, China, Japan and South Korea.
Plus Headlines: --Trump says Puerto Rico Death Toll from Maria figure is fake and designed to make him 'look bad.' --New Congressional Effort to Expand Social Security. --Survivor of Waffle House Police Assault Speaks at CBC Weekend. --Activist Tameka Mallory Asks for Legal and Financial Support for Chikesia Clemons. --Code Pink Lays Backpacks in Front of Saudi Embassy to Protest Bombing and Murder of Yemeni Children. --Big Money and Big Media Tries to Take Down Ben Jealous. -- Two New 9-11 Books Challenge September 11 narrative.
Voices: Dedrick-Asante Muhammad Prosperity Now, Kristina Dahl of the Union of Concerned Scientists, Rep Debbie Dingell, Gerald Horne, Code Pink, Rep. Val Demings, Chikesia Clemons.
“On The Ground—Voices of Resistance from the Nation’s Capital” (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is “Olokun of the Galaxy,” a book of poetry and visual art about honoring Earth’s oceans and ecosystem and those who perished, survived or descended from the Atlantic Slave Trade. (Seeing Black Press).
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 Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or ANWR to oil exploration and drilling. This June, people from all over the United States came to DC and testified at the Bureau of Land Management, which is on an abbreviated timeline to rush the process of possibly drilling in ANWR, one of the few remaining unspoiled spaces for wildlife on the planet. Plus, youth voices from Standing Rock.
This show is also part of our ongoing series,"DC in the Era of Climate Change."
VOICES: Sarah James of the Gwich'in people; Subhankar Banerjee, Lannan Chair and Professor of Art and Ecology, University of New Mexico (New Mexico, USA); Michele Roberts of the Environmental Justice Health Alliance, Lena Moffett of the Sierra Club. And many more.
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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 between police and residents in DC's predominantly Black neighborhoods. And after no officers were charged in recent police-involved deaths of Black men and boys. Our regular programming will resume September 14.
Voices Include: Activists April Goggans, Eugene Puryear and Marian Gray-Hopkins; Documentarian Liane Scott from Grassroots DC; DC Councilmember Trayon White; DC Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie.
On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is Olokun of the Galaxy, a book of poetry and visual art about honoring Earth's oceans and ecosystem and those who perished or descended from the Atlantic Slave Trade. (Seeing Black Press).
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 between police and residents in DC's predominantly Black neighborhoods. And after no officers were charged in recent police-involved deaths of Black men and boys. Our regular programming will resume September 14.
Voices: DC ANC Commissioner Anthony Lorenzo Green, M.B. Cottingham, Denise Price, DC Councilman Charles Allen, DC Councilman Robert White and more.
On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is Olokun of the Galaxy, a book of poetry and visual art about honoring Earth's oceans and ecosystem and those who perished or descended from the Atlantic Slave Trade. (Seeing Black Press).
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 Lafayette Park August 12 Against Racism.
Headlines: --A federal court in Montana sided this week with opponents of the Keystone XL Pipeline and mandated a full environmental impact review for the proposed controversial project. --A Trump administration auction of more than 14,000 offshore drilling leases on Wednesday received little enthusiasm from oil and gas companies. --Young activists descended on the Democratic National Committee this week to denounce the DNCs reversal of its policy on not taking donations from fossil fuel companies. --More than 900 political candidates have already signed the no fossil fuel money pledge, including Senator Diane Feinstein and Senator Bernie Sanders. --A study by the Environmental Working Group of dozens of popular oat-based breakfast foods (EWG) were found to contain the chemical glyphosate. --More than 500 immigrant children remain separated from their parents"many of whom already have been deported. --Lawmakers sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Tuesday demanding "immediate action" to reunite the immigrant families. --Completing a month-long probe into allegations of abuse at a detention facility in Staunton, Virginia, state investigators confirmed that immigrant children were strapped to chairs with bags placed over their head, as several had alleged"but claimed that this treatment did not meet the definition of abuse. --A report obtained by the Intercept proves that the deadly Israeli missile strike that killed four Palestinians boys on a beach in Gaza in 2014 could have been avoided. --Because of the Trump administrations targeted cuts to the United Nations, the agency dealing with Palestinian refugees may not be able to open schools for half a million children because it has run out of money. --Culture and Media: Aretha Franklin joins the ancestors, Sinclair Media, Alex Jones, "Black Klansman," African Diaspora Film Festival, Annual Chuck Brown Day
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 Unite the Right 2 Rally is occurring after Black Lives Matter organizations round the country held annual "Night Out for Safety and Liberation" actions. We hear voices from the DC event.
FEATURED VOICES: April Goggans, Black Lives Matter DC; Gerald Horne; Andrew Batcher and Mike Stark with the ShutitDownDC Coalition.
PLUS HEADLINES: -Friday August tenth begins two days of counter-protests against the Unite the Right 2 Rally, planned for Sunday, August 12th, in front of the White House. A broad coalition of left, progressive and faith organizations is taking part in this weekend’s counter-demonstrations.
-Chantal James reports on screening of "Cointelpro 101."
-Criminal justice reform advocate Wesley Bell, unseated Bob McCulloch in the Democratic primary for the St. Louis County Prosecutor’s seat in a stunning political upset. McCulloch, is the prosecutor responsible for overseeing the infamous grand jury proceedings that resulted in the non-indictment of officer Darren Wilson in the killing of Ferguson teenager Michael Brown four years ago this week in August 2014.
-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is under fire for writing an op-ed that blames environmentalists for the ongoing infernos in California.
-Also, in a "major victory for public health," the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on Thursday ruled the Trump administration illegally blocked a ban on the dangerous pesticide chlorpyrifos.
-Baltimore could become the first city in the country to amend its charter to prohibit the sale and lease of its water and sewer system.
IN CULTURE AND MEDIA,DC Poor Peoples Campaign Justice Arts Movement Is holding a jam session with an open mic Sunday , August 12th...In movie theaters, the Boots Riley satire “Sorry to Bother You” has emerged as an indie summer hit...the powerful Frontline/ProPublica documentary, Documenting Hate – Charlottesville is on TV and online at www.pbs.org.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS WITH GERALD HORNE: The U.S.-backed Saudi regime bombs a school bus in Yemen, killing dozens and injuries dozens more. THE U.S. slaps new sanctions on Russia and bullies Iran.
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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 Climate -Night out for Safety and Liberation -Facebook, -Gerald Horne on Zimbabwe and More...
More Voices: Veronica Eyenja of NotaRunaway Inc. And Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, speaking before a Senate Congressional Hearing chaired by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) June 27th 2018 with Dawyna Underwood, director of children and refugee services for Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services and Heidi Altman, director of policy for the national immigrant justice center and Mimi Marziani of the Texas Civil Rights Project.
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 Development BRICS Summit in South Africa A Rewrite of the 14th Amendment?
Voices: Makani Themba, Gerald Horne, Kamala Harris, Nadia Nazar, Iris Fen Gillingham, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sharon Jackson, Tony Reardon, DC ANC Commissioner Anthony Lorenzo Green
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 for the obsession with Russia of the think-tank pundit class.
On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is Olokun of the Galaxy, a book of poetry and visual art about honoring Earth's oceans and ecosystem and those who perished or descended from the Atlantic Slave Trade. (Seeing Black Press).
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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 by members of the DC Council about recent controversial cases of police brutality and misconduct. Plus headlines.
“On The Ground—Voices of Resistance from the Nation’s Capital” (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is “Olokun of the Galaxy,” a book of poetry and visual art about honoring Earth’s oceans and ecosystem and those who perished or descended from the Atlantic Slave Trade. (Seeing Black Press).
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, activists opposed to the death penalty have been holding an annual vigil and fast in front of the Supreme Court. Plus these headlines: -Continued protests and court developments over the Trump administration's immigration policies.
- Chantal James attends the June 30th Families Belong Together Rally in DC.
-DC youth are Among those attending the Congress of the National Academy of Future Scientists and Technologists.
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The Alexander Crummell School, an historic landmark in the Ivy City community in Northeast DC since it was built in 1911, is at the center of a struggle over whether it and the land around it will be used for a community center or for upscale condos.
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The first annual DC Pan African Festival: Living The Nguzo Saba is Saturday July 7, 2018.
-Sports: the World Cup update and LeBron James goes West.
-New album, "Scorpion," by Drake.
On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is Olokun of the Galaxy, a book of poetry and visual art about honoring Earths oceans and ecosystem and those who perished or descended from the Atlantic Slave Trade. (Seeing Black Press).
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 Arrested at Capitol Hill Protest to Keep Refugee Families Together... -Crowds of demonstrators also rallied outside the Supreme Court this week as the court handed down several controversial decisions. -DC Residents react to permit given to White Supremacists to mark one-year since deadly Charlottesville attack. -James Fields, the man who drove a car through that crowd of counter-demonstrators in Charlottesville last year , has been charged with multiple hate crimes, for death of Heather Heyer and for injuring 28 other people. -In Pennsylvania East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld, has been arrested and charged with the shooting death of 17-year-old Antwon Rose Jr., 17, who was shot in the back June 19th while fleeing from a car that had been stopped on suspicion it was involved in a drive-by shooting. -Scientists and researchers are sounding the alarm over a recent proposal from the acting head of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that would remove “climate” and “conservation” from the agency’s mission statement. -Update on World Cup. -Historian Hari Jones, expert on the contributions of African Americans during the Civil War and former assistant director and curator at the African American Civil War Freedom Foundation and Museum, died on June 22.
VOICES: Gerald Horne, Ana Maria Archila, Tameka Mallory, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and Linda Sarsour
On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is Olokun of the Galaxy, a book of poetry and visual art about honoring Earth's oceans and ecosystem and those who perished or descended from the Atlantic Slave Trade. (Seeing Black Press).
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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, Lydia Curtis, Savina Martin
On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is Olokun of the Galaxy, a book of poetry and visual art about honoring Earth's oceans and ecosystem and those who perished or descended from the Atlantic Slave Trade. (Seeing Black Press).
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 across the country to say stop separating immigrant children from their parents. Plus headlines.
Headlines: -Gerald Horne on U.S-backed Saudi attack on Yemen, U.S.-North Korea Summit and African refugees taken in by Spain. -DC Muslims hold Iftar during Ramadan as an act of Resistance. -Flint resident Ariana Hawk and the Rev. William Barber speak at Congressional Hearing for the Poor People's Campaign. -Rally to support the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. -The East River Jazz festival concludes. -AFI Docs Documentary Festival underway.
Voices: Abba Solomon, Gerald Horne, Pramila Jayapal, Heidi Feldman, Ingrid Vaca, the Rev. William Barber, Maha Hilal, Ariana Hawk
@justiceformuslimscollective @dmvmuslimsmc @M4RJNow @apiresistance @JVPDCMetro @CollectiveActionforSafeSpaces @EmpowerDC @poorpeoplescampaign @AbbaSolomon, @PramilaJayapal, Heidi Feldman @IngridVaca @RevWilliamBarber, @MahaHilal @ArianaHawk @nationaldomesticworkersalliance @codepinkalert
“On The Ground—Voices of Resistance from the Nation’s Capital” (www.onthegroundshow.org), is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is Olokun of the Galaxy, a book of poetry and visual art about honoring Earth’s oceans and ecosystem and those who perished or descended from the Atlantic Slave Trade. (Seeing Black Press).
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 headlines on migrant children being separated from their parents; Trump wants to bail our nuclear and coal plants; Trump's tariff's on solar panels have prompted cancellation of $2.5 billion in solar projects and thousands of jobs; the March for the Ocean is on June 9. And more...This is part of our coverage "DC in the Era of Climate Change."
On The Ground-Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is Olokun of the Galaxy, a book of poetry and visual art about honoring Earth's oceans and ecosystem and those who perished or descended from the Atlantic Slave Trade. (Seeing Black Press).
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: Voices of Resistance from the Nations Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is Olokun of the Galaxy, a book of poetry and visual art about honoring Earths oceans and ecosystem and those who perished or descended from the Atlantic Slave Trade. (Seeing Black Press).
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 Metro chapter Jewish Voice for Peace. And media critic Janine Jackson on new threats to reporters and journalism in the United States. Plus headlines on North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, NFL and more.
On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is Olokun of the Galaxy, a book of poetry and visual art about honoring Earth's oceans and ecosystem and those who perished or descended from the Atlantic Slave Trade. (Seeing Black Press).
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 The F-Word. Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka are my special guests for this month. Both give their views on how fundamental freedoms of speech and basics of democracy in the United States are being eroded. Plus headlines.
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-sanctioned violence rally at Capitol Hill.
On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is Olokun of the Galaxy, a book of poetry and visual art about honoring Earths oceans and ecosystem and those who perished or descended from the Atlantic Slave Trade. (Seeing Black Press).
Post photo by Esther Iverem
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 the corporate media can dish it out but can't take it. This was definitely a week for people in DC standing up and raising their voices, speaking truth to power. Plus headlines on teachers, auto emissions, a report from new memorial to victims of lynching terror and more.
On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is Olokun of the Galaxy, a book of poetry and visual art about honoring Earths oceans and ecosystem and those who perished during or descended from the Atlantic Slave Trade. (Seeing Black Press).
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 this new 'cold war' in the United States. And we have voices outside the Supreme Court continuing to oppose Trump's Muslim ban. Plus headlines: "Boot Pruitt" rally and more.
On The Ground-Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is Olokun of the Galaxy, a book of poetry and visual art about honoring Earths oceans and ecosystem and those who perished or descended from the Atlantic Slave Trade. (Seeing Black Press).
Links: The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
Mom's Clean Air Force
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 international news.
More Headlines: -Some members of Congress have signed a joint statement condemning Israel for killing dozens and injuring hundreds at the border of Gaza. -The failure of more members of congress, other than these eight to speak out on these attacks by Israel, which receives three billion dollars annually in US tax payer dollars, drew peace activist Code Pink to visit Capitol Hill. -The illegal missile strike on Syria, by the United States, the UK and France has led to more scrutiny by Congress of the President’s ability to take such a unilateral military action. -This week was also tax time and peace mobilizations reminded Americans that, depending on how it is calculated, up to 53 percent of each tax dollar goes for military or war-related costs. -In DC this week, there was a hearing on the grassroots movement to divest the districts money from Wells Fargo. -IN CULTURE AND MEDIA, the Split this Rock Poetry Festival is underway in DC though Sunday, April 22nd, More information is at www.splitthisrock.org. Black Star are in concert in DC tonight. EARTH DAY IS SUNDAY.
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. Headlines on Facebook and more.
On The Ground-Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is Olokun of the Galaxy, a book of poetry and visual art about honoring Earths oceans and ecosystem and those who perished or descended from the Atlantic Slave Trade. (Seeing Black Press).
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 Forces.
Plus Headlines: -Actor and activist Danny Glover speaks at Rally to End Racism. -Howard University students enter second week of sit-in protests and Student Coalition Boycotts Wendy's. -Activists continue to call for the resignation of EPA Scott Pruitt. -3000 Google employees signed a letter demanding that their employer end involvement in a Pentagon contract. -“MLK 50: A Requiem for A King” by the Soulful Symphony orchestra. -A staged presentation of the Coates book "Between the World and Me" at the Kennedy Center. -29th Annual James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art is at Howard University.
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 with our geopolitical analyst Gerald Horne. Also, unheard voices from the March for Our Lives and headlines.
Headlines: -States signaled this week that they will sue the Trump administration to block it from adding a question about citizenship to the 2020 census. -Public Citizen files suit against the Department of Education to force it to release information about its management of the TEACH grant program. Thousands of teachers are being saddled wrongly with high-interest loans. -Lawsuit alleging Trump is violating the Constitution, due to his ownership of Trump International Hotel, allowed to proceed. -Earth Hour celebrated around the world. -Gerald Horne on U.S.-Russia relations and new trade pact for Africa.
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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 music, go-go, just went home to the land of the drum, Africa. We have a report about the Backyard Band in Ghana. Headlines on: -The U.S. Senate voted this week to not to take up a proposal that could have ended U.S. support for Saudi Arabia 's bombing of Yemen. -Saudi Arabia's Mohammad Bin Salman was in Washington, DC this week and met by protests. -Bernie Sanders hosts town hall, titled "Inequality in America: The Rise of Oligarchy and Collapse of the Middle Class." -Why aren't Texas Bombings Called Terrorism? -DC Residents Work for Economic Empowerment and Against Displacement. -Diverse Contingents Expected for the March for Our Lives is Set for DC March 24.
On The Ground-Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is "Olokun of the Galaxy," a book of poetry and visual art about honoring Earth's oceans and ecosystem and those who perished or descended from the Atlantic Slave Trade. (Seeing Black Press).
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 country to demand sensible gun laws! So we have students speaking outside the U.S. Capitol.
Headlines: -Activists push for Sanders-Murphy-Lee resolution to end U.S. support of Saudi bombing ofYemen. -The Senate votes to deregulate banks on 10th anniversary of economic meltdown. -Pruitt at EPA violated Clean Air Act laws and more. -Gerald Horne on UK-Russia controversy and Yemen.
Voices: Margaret Stevens, Gerald Horne, Students at Anti-Gun rally on Capitol Hill, Sen. ELizabeth Warren, Medea Benjamin
"On The Ground-Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital" (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is "Olokun of the Galaxy," a book of poetry and visual art about honoring Earth's oceans and ecosystem and those who perished or descended from the Atlantic Slave Trade. (Seeing Black Press).
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. That 1958 conference was the first major Pan-African gathering organized on African soil and the theme was "Hands Off Africa." Organizers for this anniversary called on the global African family to continue the fight for a free, liberated and self-determined Africa.
Links: Black Alliance for Peace
"On The Ground-Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital" (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is "Olokun of the Galaxy," a book of poetry and visual art about honoring Earth's oceans and ecosystem and those who perished or descended from the Atlantic Slave Trade. (Seeing Black Press).
https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/OTG-MAR2-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3March 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 of thousands of people gathered February 24th at events around the country for the Working People's Day of Action On today's show, we hear diverse voices from the DC rally. Also, Gerald Horne on South Africa land reform, China, Russia and Syria.
Headlines on Congressional hearings on the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Funding (AUMF), which has been used for endless war; Yemen; Dreamers march 250 miles to DC and get arrested; Scientists alarmed by warm Arctic temperatures; Academy Awards; elder freedom fighter Hollis Watkins.
Rep. Barbara Lee; Rep. Justin Amash; Sen. Bernie Sanders, Prof. Gerald Horne, Liz Shuler (AFL-CIO); Elizabeth Davis Wash Teachers Union; CWA Pres. Christopher M. Shelton; Dreamer Marchers; elder Hollis Watkins; voices from Working People's Day of Act
"On The Ground-Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital" (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is 'Olokun of the Galaxy,' a book of poetry and visual art about honoring Earth's oceans and ecosystem and those who perished or descended from the Atlantic Slave Trade. (Seeing Black Press).
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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 book nerd Makani Themba talks us down about "The Black Panther" movie.
Photo: Patrice Lummba and Kwame Nkrumah at the 1958 All-African People's Conference in Accra, Ghana. Links: The Pan-African Film Festival
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"On The Ground-Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital" (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is "Olokun of the Galaxy," a book of poetry and visual art about honoring Earth's oceans and ecosystem and those who perished or descended from the Atlantic Slave Trade. (Seeing Black Press).
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 Washington, DC - and across the nation. Professor Mark Edwards of Virginia Tech University joins us for an in-depth conversation that you don't want to miss. Also, Native Americans living in the Grand Canyon are in DC to stop uranium mining from poisoning their water and land. Part of our series "DC in the Era of Climate Change."
Headlines: --Tenants march on slumlord --Workers at George Washington University Hospital walk out and rally --New foster care law --Poor People's Campaign --The 60th anniversary of the historic 1958 All-African People's Conference held in Accra, Ghana --BYP 100 publishes 'Melanation,' --"Black Panther" review.
Links: www.uswaterstudy.org www.flintwaterstudy.org
Marc Edwards Photo Credit: VTNews
March on home of developer Geoff Griffis https://www.facebook.com/medea.benjamin/videos/10155897012331480/?t=26
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 Campaign, workers at George Washington University Hospital seek unpaid wages, a stop to union-busting tactics and a new contract.
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 of the show, we hear voices from outside the White House marking one year of resistance to the Muslim Travel Ban and resistance to attacks on immigrants and refugees, which have impacted millions of men, women and children.
We also hear from Richard Wolff and Gerald Horne about Trump's first State of the Union address. Plus headlines on Fossil Free Fast, Black Lives Matter, authors Christopher Alan Chambers, Nick Licata and more.
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 occurred. And headlines.
On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nations Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is Olokun of the Galaxy, a book of poetry and visual art about honoring Earths oceans and ecosystem and those who perished or descended from the Atlantic Slave Trade (Seeing Black Press) distributed by Ingram.
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 Hope," curated by the National Museum of African American History and Culture and mounted at their gallery inside the National Museum of American History. The exhibit documents King's last work, the Poor Peoples Campaign and March, which ended in Washington, DC with a multi-racial encampment of three thousand people called Resurrection City on the National Mall. Headlines on DACA, government surveillance, Korea, Syria and more.
Post image by Laura Jones, from "City of Hope" exhibit.
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 used to invade Iraq in 2003, lies, war crimes and other violations of international law that killed, injured and displaced millions of Iraqis and destroyed their country. Day 2, featured on todays show, focuses on the costs of the invasion. The tribunal is an ongoing online project that can reached and viewed in full at www.iraqtribunal.org.
Correction: A speaker in the first half of the show is misidentified on the broadcast. His name is Matthew Hoh.
“On The Ground—Voices of Resistance from the Nation’s Capital” (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is “Olokun of the Galaxy” (Seeing Black Press) distributed by Ingram. Follow us on Facebook: onthegroundshow and Twitter: @onthegroundshow
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 viewed in full at www.iraqtribunal.org
Ray McGovern, Vijay Prashad, Rep. Barbara Lee,Medea Benjamin, Andy Shallal and more.
On The Ground"Voices of Resistance from the Nations Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is Olokun of the Galaxy (Seeing Black Press) distributed by Ingram.
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 and One DC.
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 capital. The Potomac Pipeline segment is part of our series, "DC in the Era of Climate Change"
Headlines: DACA, Tax Scam, Medical Marijuana...Gerald Horne on ANC elections in South Africa and the International Rebuke to Trump on Jerusalem.
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 their users. On the Ground was at the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday when hundreds rallied at the Net Neutrality Wake Up Call Protest just before the vote. We hear voices of activists, organizers, legislators and policy makers from that protest for most of this hour.
Headlines: Gerald Horne; Germany's Foreign Minister backs away from the U.S.; the EU, US and Japan form economic pact to counter China's growing strength and Rwanda says France was complicit in 1994 genocide.
Correction for Dec. 15, 2017 WPFW broadcast and iTunes podcast: Brianna Gibson is the last voice in the first half of the protest coverage, not at the end of the show.
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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 as the loss of healthcare for 13 million people, scores of protesters descended on the capitol this week, and we hear some of their voices. Headlines on African-American-Palestinian solidarity, The Sunrise Movement and more.
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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 My Mind/In My Heart: Voices of Women in Public Housing," which will be touring around Washington, DC in December. Also, a new video produced by the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, a movie in the works about the radical abolitionist John Brown and a report about the opening of the pricey DC Wharf project on the waterfront in Southwest DC.
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. Also, headlines and segments on March for Puerto Rico on November 19, Trump ends protected status for Haitians, the fightback against the Keystone XL pipeline and more.
On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is author of the new book, Olokun of the Galaxy, which honors the Earth’s oceans, ecosystems, as well as those who perished in or survived the Atlantic Slave Trade. http://bit.ly/olokunbook
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 decisive in the defeat of Nazi Germany, Wolff's segment will serve as this month's episode of The F-word about fascism. And during this week, when the world is meeting at the UN Climate Summit in Bonn, Germany, we will maintain our focus on Puerto Rico, with voices from aboard the Arctic Sunrise, the Greenpeace ship scheduled to dock in Puerto Rico and assist in rebuilding sustainable communities. Headlines on GOP Tax Plan, UN Climate Summit, the fight to save an African American Burial Ground in Maryland, TPS, Gerald Horne on Zimbabwe and more.
On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist.
Richard D. Wolff, Gerald Horne, Cindy Wiesner, Kandi Mossett, Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, Yoca Arditi-Rocha
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 Deferred Action for Child Arrivals. -Climate News -Saudi Arabia -Bill Binney -Gorka goes to Fox -Color of Change's new superheroes -Delores Kendrick joins the ancestors
Links: WeAreHeretoStay.org
DemocraticAutopsy.org
The Party for Socialism and Liberation
BlackIsBackCoalition.org
ColorOfChange.org
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 for the rich that economists say could be the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class since the 2008 economic crash. And Gerald Horne is joining us with news from around the globe.
Headlines: China, Centennial of the Balfour Declaration, Climate News and more...
Links: Public Citizen
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 October 9, 1967, Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara was assassinated in Bolivia. We hear voices from a recent conference in DC that explored the continuing significance and life work of each of these men. Also, media critic Janine Jackson joins us to talk about lies, damn lies and official lies coming from the Trump White House. Headlines on immigration, a coup by the big banks, Gabbard and Booker propose separate pro-environment bills.
Links: ThomasSankara.Net
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 immigrants, including Haitians, El Salvadorans and Hondurans, who came to the United States fleeing violence and other dangers in their countries who now face being stripped of their "temporary protective status" that has allowed them to live and work unafraid and support their families. Plus headlines on Puerto Rico, Trump's media war, culture.
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, Trump's Muslim Ban 3.0, Indigenous People's Day, Eminem and more.
Voices: Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), Rep. Jose Serrano (D-NY), Rep. Darren Soto (D-FL), Gretchen Sierra-Zorita-National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, Gerald Horne, Michele Roberts, Dr.Margaret Flowers and more.
Unite for Puerto Rico rally photo: Alejandro Alvarez/News2Share. Unite for Puerto Rico audio: Ford Fischer/News2Share
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 Barnett's Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox." For nearly 50 years, the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press (ANP) fought racism at home and grew into an international news organization abroad. At its head stood founder Claude Barnett, one of the most influential African Americans of his day and a gifted, if unofficial, diplomat who forged links with figures as diverse as Jawaharlal Nehru, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Nixon.
Media Critic Harry Amana breaks down the Trump effect on news organizations and Sankofa Video and Books, founded by filmmakers Haile Gerima and Shirikiana Gerima, launches its 20-year celebration. Headlines on:
-The March for Racial Justice and The March for Black Women. -Solidarity March as ICE Raids Target Sanctuary Cities. -Groups protest on Capitol Hill as Wells-Fargo CEO Tim Sloan testifies. -Gerald Horne on Boeing-Bombardier, Emerging Fascist Trends in Germany and Brazil, North Korea and more.
Post photo from Public Citizen Amanda Werner as the billionaire Monopoly man in October 4 action defending limits on forced arbitration from congressional attack.
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 DeChristopher and David Swanson speaking at the No War 2017 conference, which brought together activists from around the country to focus on war and the environment. And media critic Janine Jackson joins us to speak about topics including the Iran nuclear deal and the bloated military budget. Headlines: --The March for Racial Justice and the March for Black Women --Disastrous Disaster Relief in Puerto Rico. --Disability Activists Help Halt New Attempt to Repeal the ACA --Delegation of Hurricane Survivors Occupy Senator Mitch McConnells Office --In Culture and Media: Progressives Say the New PBS Ken Burns Documentary "The Vietnam War" Ignores Facts and History. --New Book by Mental Health Experts Says there is Overwhelming Evidence of Profound Sociopathic Traits" in Donald Trump. --Organization Raises Funds to Launch Black-Owned Credit Union
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 hundreds of activists from around the country to say no to war and U.S. imperialism. Also, more voices against a slew of new pipeline projects that could pollute and endanger communities and add to the climate killing carbon in the air. All of that plus Gerald Horne and headlines.
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 introduction of Medicare for All bill by Sen. Bernie Sanders; relief aid for survivors of Hurricanes Irma and Harvey; protesters in Virginia oppose new pipelines; protesters in DC to oppose a far-right march on the National Mall; new documentary 'Dolores' and more.
Voices: Professor Richard D. Wolff, Bernie Sanders, Linda Johnson Camacho, Dr. Margaret Flowers
'On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nations Capital' (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist.
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 the ground about what television cameras are not showing.
Headlines: DACA Michael Bennett March for Racial Justice September 30 118-mile march from Charlottesville to DC Days of Action Against the Blockade People’s Convergence 2017 the People’s Congress of Resistance “Strong Island" and other culture and media
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 joined two other members of Antifa on the show today, pushes back on the spreading demonization of the anti-fascist organization and quotes Holocaust survivor Franz Frison: "If fascism could be defeated in debate, I can assure you that it would never have happened, neither in Germany, nor in Italy, nor anywhere else."
Also our geo-political analyst Gerald Horne on Hurricane Harvey and the Confederacy.
Headlines: A march and vigil outside Rex Tillerson's DC home The Ministers March for Justice The 118-mile march from Charlottesville to DC Against White Supremacy Exhibit--Journey: The Artistry of Curlee Raven Holton A drumming circle for Dick Gregory
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 weeks ago to protest the gathering of White supremacists came from the Washington, DC area and were on hand to speak.
Voices include: Rev. Graylan Hagler, journalist Dave Zirin, Rev. Abhi Janamanchi, Rev. George Gilbert Jr., Rabbi Alana Suskin, Rev. Roberta Robinson and more.
“On The Ground—Voices of Resistance from the Nation’s Capital” (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist.
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 that city. During this Friday night service, hundreds of torch-carrying men gathered outside the church, invoking Nazi chants and menacing worshippers before marching onto the University of Virginia campus, where they attacked students and other counter protesters.
On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem is creator, executive producer and host.
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's Nuremberg Laws, the Jim Crow laws, the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Naturalization Act of 1870."--Chris Hedges
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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 introduced in Congress at the Summer for Progress rally held on Capitol Hill July 25, 2017.
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 Senator Nina Turner. Also, it's the fourth Friday and media critic Janine Jackson is in the house to discuss possible U.S. war crimes in Mosul, Fox News and right-wing trolls. Headlines on Trump's Trans ban in the military; in the midst of the healthcare debate, Medicare turns 52; activists protest anti-BDS Senate bill and Gerald Horne discusses Russia-China military maneuvers, the Ray McGovern-Bill Binney report on the so-called DC 'hack' and solidarity with Venezuela.
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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 was released from prison in June 2017 after serving two and a half years on trumped up charges of changing the dates on a recall petition in Benton Harbor, Michigan. To many impartial observers, Pinkney was a political prisoner and his ordeal is a microcosm of the dangers of neo-fascism in the United States. Voices from DC on voting rights, healthcare and denouncing the National Rifle Association.
Voices: The Rev. Edward Pinkney, Nekima Levy-Pound, the Rev. Lennox Yearwood and Jason Walker. Photo this page by Diane Bukowski, Detroit Voice.
On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nations Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is We Gotta Have It: Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies (Hatchette Book Group).
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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." Headlines on Trump in Paris, women march on the NRA, rallying for affordable housing and Bernie Sanders endorses Ben Jealous in his bid to be the next governor of Maryland.
Voices: Aliya Hana Hussain, Luis E. Rumbaut, Lt. Colonel Thomas Sterling, Maha Hilal , Gerald Horne, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ben Jealous, Tamika Mallory, Sen. Elizabeth Warren
On The Ground-Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is We Gotta Have It: Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies (Hatchette Book Group).
Producer and Host: Esther Iverem Assistant Producer: Chantal James
Topics Poverty and Wealth | International News | Civil Liberties | Torture | Africa | Western Africa | Cuba | France
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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--and which is vigorously opposed by the people and the newly elected president of South Korea.
Voices: The Rev. Sounghey Kim, Hyun Lee, Kate Youngjoo Shim, Will Griffin, Danny Kim
On The Ground-Voices of Resistance from the Nations Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show that brings alternative news from DC. We cover social justice activism and activists, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist.
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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, public transit and more… Image from photo by Rosie H-Kap.
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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 Muslim girl kidnapped and murdered in northern Virginia. And those gathered also raised up the names of Charleena Lyles, just killed by police in Seattle, and Philando Castile, whose killer just walked free in Minnesota. Gerald Horne joins us to talk about war. Also, it's the fourth Friday and Janine Jackson, host of "CounterSpin," is in the house for our monthly look at media and culture. Headlines on Trumpcare, update on DAPL, hundreds attend anti-war conference, J20, ACLU sues DC police and more...Photo courtesy of Colette Heiser
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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 activists confront the Dollar Tree discount chain at a shareholder meeting in Chesapeake, Virginia to protest the chain continuing to sell toxic products to the public. Headlines on Medicaid, the continuing campaign to bail out mothers not convicted of any crime, House Republicans gut Dodd-Frank, 200 members of Congress file lawsuit against President Trump. And more...
Links: Website to read Alperovitz Principals of a Pluralist Commonwealth.
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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; and 100 years since the Balfour Declaration, which set the stage for the Zionist movement to colonize Palestine and later to establish a Jewish state.
Organizations across the country and world staged actions this week to demand an end to Israel's brutal occupation as part of a commitment to justice for all Palestinians, whether in Palestine or in exile. One action, by Defense for Children International-Palestine,was a Congressional hearing held June 8, 2017 on Capitol Hill, a hearing that might be more consequential than the hyped James Comey hearing, given that the U.S. is giving $38 billion in military aid to Israel over the next ten years. Speaking on the lives of Palestinian children living under Israeli repression are Omar Shakir of Human Rights Watch; Brad Parker of Defense for Children International-Palestine; Yazan Meqbil, a student at Goshen College and Nadia Ben-Youssef, director of the Adalah Justice Project.
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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 announcement means and does not mean. The other speech this week was by Sen. Bernie Sanders, before the graduating class at Brooklyn College in New York City. It's obvious that Sanders reads science, history and understands something about the humanities. In the second half, we hear his message to the class of 2017. Headlines on the proliferation of hate crimes, changing international political alignments, solidarity with Venezuela and Brazil, the upcoming online forum "Gerald Horne's Black Radical History" and more.
On The Ground"Voices of Resistance from the Nations Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show produced for WPFW Pacifica Radio in Washington, DC devoted to activists for social justice, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is We Gotta Have It: Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies (Hatchette Book Group).
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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 terrorism and what innocent civilians are worthy of news coverage. And in the second half, cell phone, tablet and wireless technology is so ubiquitous that we have become oblivious to its dangers. But scientists and activists are sounding the alarm. Plus, Gerald Horne on the Manchester bombing, Libya, the Supreme Court's big voting rights decision and much more.
On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nations Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show produced for WPFW Pacifica Radio in Washington, DC devoted to activists for social justice, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Her most recent book is We Gotta Have It: Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies (Hatchette Book Group).
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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 giant and Muslim minister Malcolm X. Had he not been taken away from us and lived, he would be 92 years old today. We play more excerpts of his speeches. Also, an important behind-the-scenes thing happening this week that is NOT being covered by the corporate media—is the FCC actually making moves to gut net neutrality, to gut rules that keep the Internet open, free and equally accessible to everyone. There was a big FCC meeting on May 18 to start the nefarious process and an even BIGGER response outside by a rally of demonstrators saying hands off my Internet. More headlines.
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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-plus days in office have included an assault on our environment and on efforts to combat climate change. Wenonah Hauter of Food and Water Watch will offer her take on the latest. Also, headlines on Flint families threatened with losing their homes, bailing mother's out of jail for Mother's Day and more.
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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 power here—like this week those who testified before the DC Council to urge the district to divest from Wells Fargo bank, and to create a public bank owned by the people.
Headlines: Recent developments in cases of police terror; Code Pink protester convicted for laughing during Jeff Sessions confirmation hearing; "Trumpcare" passes House; spending bill averts cuts to domestic programs--for now--and still boosts the already bloated military budget. In culture and media: cartoons of Palestinian Mohammad Sabaaneh; "Risk" is the new documentary about Julian Assange by Oscar-winner Laura Poitras; Andrea Bray, longtime Pacifica programmer, the "hat lady" and "queen of old-school rhythm and blues," joined the ancestors this week.
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 conversation about media and culture with Janine Jackson, host of the nationally syndicated show "CounterSpin." Headlines and a look at this week with writer and activist Gerald Horne, professor of history and African American Studies at the University of Houston: Trump's first 100 days, North Korea, Venezuela, affordable housing in DC and more.
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 Youth, long-time social justice activist, professor, civil rights attorney with a Ph.D. in indigenous knowledge, sister of scholar and activist Angela Davis.
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. Martin Luther King Jr. opposing the Vietnam War, which killed more than 3 million Vietnamese people and left their country to this day polluted by chemical weapons and riddled with unexploded munitions. We hear from activists Eugene Puryear, Medea Benjamin and Maria Santelli. Also Gerald Horne on the alleged chemical "attack" by Syrian military. Headline on the expanded push for Medicare for All by the Healthcare over Profit Coalition and Physicians for a National Health Program.
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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 speaking with former CIA analyst turned human rights activist Ray McGovern, who says the surveillance state is the real story of Russia-gate. Also, a forum held here in DC this week about how community land trusts are the answer to preserving affordable housing in this country.
On The Ground"Voices of Resistance from the Nations Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show produced for WPFW Pacifica Radio in Washington, DC devoted to activists for social justice, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, creator, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist.
Photo from RayMcGovern.com from his recent trip to Israel. The caption on that website reads: This brave man was convicted of leaking secrets because he blew the whistle on Israel’s nuclear bomb-making capabilities. He spend 18 years in prison, and he is not allowed to leave Israel. He’s also not allowed to meet with foreigners, unless it’s by chance, which this was.
Producer and Host: Esther Iverem Engineer: Michael Nasella Contributors: Michele Roberts, Lydia Curtis and Michael Byfield
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 from Willa Mae Taylor-Richmond, who was only 13 years old when she became a foot soldier in the historic 1965 march for voting rights, which became known as bloody Sunday, when peaceful protesters in Selma Alabama were viciously attacked by police. Headlines on a DC resolution to divest from Wells-Fargo, churches launch sanctuary movement and DC residents continue to fight for historic park and open green space.
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 address, "The Rise of Trump," given this month by author and activist Chris Hedges, in Vancouver, Canada.
Recorded March 3, 2017 by Collectivista and Democracy North at the program "After Trump and the Pussy Hats" sponsored by the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter and the Asian Women's Coalition Against Prostitution in Vancouver, Canada.
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 7 and culminating in mass march and rally on March 10.
Featuring Susana Sandoval, Verona Iriarte, Rowie Shebala.
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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, deliver what they called their Resistance Address in front of the White House on Feb 28 as Trump prepared to give his address to Congress.
Rosie O'Donnell, Larry Cohen, Wenona Hauter, the Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Speakers Representing National Nurses United, ACLU, Dream Defenders, Standing Rock, Our Revolution, Jews, Muslims, Black Lives Matter, Environmentalists and Labor. Plus headlines and interview with Gerald Horne.
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 Fascism and Resisting Neoliberalism" Feb. 17, 2017 in Northwest. DC. Headlines on protesters at Netanyahu visit to White House, DAPL and Black History: A Maryland church fights desecration of historic African-American cemetery and Jerome Scott, leader with the the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, visits Howard University.
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 speak with attorneys about controversial family detention centers"and the practice of holding families of asylum-seekers, including children, in what amounts to a prison. Also, in front of White House, DAPL Water Protectors Vow to Resist Pipeline...Week in Review with Gerald Horne on Jeff Sessions, Black Lives Matter and More.
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 HORNE WHO IS A FREQUENT CONTRIBUTOR TO THIS SHOW AND ACROSS THE PACIFICA NETWORK. HEADLINES ON TRUMP'S FIRST WEEK IN OFFICE.
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 invade Iraq in 2003—lies, war crimes and other violations of international law that killed, injured and displaced millions of Iraqis and destroyed their country. Day 2, featured on today’s show, focuses on the costs of the invasion. IN ADDITION TO THE FIVE TRILLION in US TREASURE WASTED on the illegal war,the additional costs to the people and land of Iraq, ongoing human costs to the invading country—the United States, costs to the planet and so much more. Participants called for truth and accountability because To this day, in 2017, no one has been held accountable as the United States continues to make war in Iraq, throughout the Middle East and builds up arms and soldiers on the border of Russia. The tribunal is an ongoing online project that can reached and viewed in full at www.iraqtribunal.org. Pictured on this post: Rachel Gilmer of the Dream Defenders and the Movement for Black Lives testifying at the tribunal.
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 full at www.iraqtribunal.org
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 back at 2016 with Professor Gerald Horne. Plus headlines on the National Watch Night Service with the Rev. William Barber, Israeli Settlements, Russia Sanctions, A DC Tribute to Fidel and More.
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 Islamophobia, a vigil for the homeless and more.
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 activism with whats happening right now in DC in the Movement for Black Lives and we hear from veterans of the Black Power movement 50 years ago. Also Professor Gerald Horne puts Black Power in an historical context. Headlines on marches against DAPL and a proposed Muslim registry and veteran intelligence professionals debunk Russia hack hysteria. Plus culture and media. Image from Griffin Vision.
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 by 100,000 people, to a total of 672,000, and that was the first increase in 50 years! Most of the influx was from young white professionals and so the percentage of African Americans in DC decreased from 60 percent to just less than half. To help unpack with this change means, as well as the history, We sat down this week with George Derek Musgrove, Associate Professor of History and Affiliate Professor of Africana Studies at the University Maryland Baltimore County and co-author of Chocolate City: Race and Democracy in the nations capital, due out next fall from UNC Press. We also spoke with Detrice Belt, a resident and tenant organizer at the Barry Farms public housing complex in DC.
On The Ground"Voices of Resistance from the Nations Capital (www.onthegroundshow.org) is a weekly show produced for WPFW Pacifica Radio devoted to activists for social justice, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, founder, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet, visual artist and activist. Producer and Host: Esther Iverem.
Contributors: Chantal James, Michael Byfield and Floyd DJ Waheed Aaron
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 the apparent death of the Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP. These actions are also occurring in the wake of Trumps appointment of Steve Bannon, leader of the racist alt-right movement, as a senior advisor, and the appointment of other elements of the far-right, including persons recommended by corporate lobbyists.
Today, well also continue our coverage of the monumental fight for clean water, land and air at Standing Rock and this is the third week of the month and in the second half wel have a new installment of "The F Word," our exploration of fascism, proto-fascism and pre-fascism in the United States and emanating from the United States. Our guest today is Brian Becker, national coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition and host of "Loud and Clear" at Sputnik Radio.
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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 $27 trillion dollars worth of gold, diamonds, copper, cobalt, uranium, tin and coltan is under the ground. Coltan is used for our mobile phones, tablets, laptops, flatscreen TVs and other electronics. In addition to these mass killings, up to a million women, girls, boys and some men have survived rape and other forms of sexualized brutality that have maimed or sterilized them for life. This is also Congo Week, an international action designed to draw urgent attention to this genocide in the Congo. We speak with Maurice Carney, executive director of Friends of the Congo AND an organizer for Congo Week and author and activist Gerald Horne. Photo from www.Telema.org, the organization of Congo youth fighting for justice.
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.
https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/OTG-JULY1-EDITTPF-2016.mp3 As the 15th anniversary of 9/11 is commemorated and the movie "Snowden" opens in theaters, a rebroadcast of this important panel discussion, 'Social Movements and the Surveillance State' featuring Chip Gibbons (Bill of Rights Defense Committee/Defending Dissent Foundation) Brandi Collins (Color Of Change) Hendrik Voss (School of the Americas Watch) and Dr. Maha Hilal (National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms). The panel was co-sponsored by the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and Defending Dissent Foundation, DC Jacobin and the DC Area Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. Screen image from The Intercept.
https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/OTG-SEPT9-2016-MONOF.mp3 A post-Labor Day special featuring voices of workers from the first Fight for $15 Convention held August 12-13, 2016, two hours south of DC in Richmond, Virginia, a site chosen intentionally as the seat of the former Confederacy. Organizers of the Fight for $15 movement say that since its launch four years ago with fast-food workers, 20 million low-wage workers have gained significant raises and that the movement has helped to spotlight the working poor and wealth inequality in the United States. The movement has expanded to include childcare teachers, adjunct professors, janitors and homecare workers. Our show begins with the convention march and rally, including a keynote address by the Rev William Barber, and ends in the second half with remarks by workers attending the convention.
https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/OTG-SEPT2-2016-MONO.mp3 There is a global refugee crisis with 65 million people displaced in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. It is estimated that one-third of those officially recognized as refugees are Iraqi or Syrian. But so many people in our own hemisphere are not designated as refugees fleeing violence in Honduras, El Salvador or Guatemala, violence in which the United States is complicit. Rally organizers wanted to press policy makers to increase the paltry number of 10,000 Syrian refugees in the U.S.. A number of organizations, including Amnesty International, joined together under the banner of Rally4Refugees.org, where there is information about fundraising and volunteer opportunities to help refugees. Recording artists Gregory Porter and Common, featured at the rally, have also joined in to produce the song "Running: The Refugee Song," which can be downloaded online and all proceeds will benefit refugees.
SOME VOICES: Recording artists Gregory Porter and Common, Iraqi Journalist Ali Al Mshakheel, Tom Andrews, Ty Cobb, refugees and immigrants from Sudan, Syria, Iraq, El Salvador, West Africa and other regions. Pictured on this post: members of the Pihcintu Refugee Chorus.
https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/OTG-AUGUST26-2016-MONO-EDIT.mp3 As Black August draws to a close, activists continue to mark the month by organizing, through education and other through acts of resistance. The Nat Turner Rebellion, which happened during this week 185 years ago, is in the news because of a soon-to-be released biopic about his life. A distinguished panel, Bridgett M. Davis, Kenneth Carroll and L.D. Crittenden, discusses the controversy surrounding the film, 'The Birth of a Nation' and the director, writer and lead actor Nate Parker. Also, we get an update on the Boycott Divestment Sanctions Movement, including the fact that DC Mayor Muriel Bowser and Maryland Governor Larry Hogan have signed onto a list of governors opposing BDS. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, or BDS, targets Israel and institutions complicit in its oppression of Palestinians. Plus headlines on Black Lives Matter, protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline and oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and cultural happenings. Plus more headlines.
https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/OTG-AUGUST19-2016-MONOf.mp3 In this show, we speak to one of the organizers who shut down a gathering of the Fraternal Order of the Police in Baltimore and we speak to the convener of a TOWN HALL MEETING AGAINST POLICE MURDERS & MASS INCARCERATION in DC. Finally, in the second half Historian and Author Robin Kelley will join us for this month s episode of The F-Word exploring fascism, neo-fascism, pre-fascism, proto-fascism in the United States today. Plus headlines.
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Gerald Horne discusses the latest Department of Justice Report detailing the horror we already knew of Baltimore's Black community basically living in a totalitarian, Jim Crow, police state. We also hear from the president of the Washington Teachers' Union that is part of a national action to discourage teachers and parents from buying school supplies at Walmart because of the chain s deplorable labor practices and because Walmart s owners, the Walton Family, are huge supporters of privatizing public schools.
Headlines on the Movement for Black Lives, a planned September 9, 2016 prisoner work stoppage and more.
On The Ground "Voices of Resistance from the Nation s Capitalis a weekly show produced for WPFW Pacifica Radio devoted to activists for social justice, those who are in the DC area and those who come to DC from across the nation or from across the globe to speak truth to power. Esther Iverem, founder, executive producer and host, is an award-winning journalist, poet and visual artist whose most recent book is We Gotta Have It: Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies, 1986-2006 (De Capo Press).
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A New National Platform for the Movement for Black Lives...The "After Bern" in DC...Thousands of Journalists of Color Descend on DC for a convention of the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
Plus headlines on the National Night Out for Safety and Liberation and other Black Lives Matter news; a protest at the embassy of the United Arab Emirates against the Green Mile Safari group; activities for the 71st anniversary of the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and culture and media offerings and more.
Guests and Voices: Janae Bonsu, BYP100; Jeremiah Lowery, DC for Democracy; Raphael Mimoun; Akili Ramsess, executive director of the National Press Photographers Association; April Goggans; Vincent Intondi.
https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/OTG-JULY29-2016.mp3 Despite the pictures of unity, mass protests were held everyday inside and outside of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on issues of Democratic support for war and the war industry, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Treaty, Black Lives Matter, fracking, and the occupation of Palestine. In the DMV, we learned that no police officers in Baltimore will be held responsible for the death of Freddie Gray in police custody. Yes, as state prosecutor Marilyn Mosby said in a statement that we hear during this show, Freddie Gray did not kill himself! We speak to journalist, professor and attorney E.R. Shipp about the latest from Baltimore and in the second half speak to delegates who were on the floor at the DNC in Philadelphia in support of environmental justice in this the year of Flint, of fracking and record heat. This is our week for environmental justice and EJ producer Michael Roberts, National Co-Coordinator at Environmental Justice Health Alliance, is in the house. Headlines and more.
https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/OTG-JULY22-2016-MONO.mp3 ON THE ROAD TO PHILADELPHIA: OCCUPYING, RESISTING AND CREATING A COUNTER-NARRATIVE TO THE Democratic National Convention and definitely to the Republican National Convention. Starting Monday is the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia and thousands of activists are gathering in the City of Brotherly Love to push the party to again be the party of working people, of racial justice and of environmental justice. And some are building independent movements. Today we ll feature an interview with the organizer of "The People s Convention," which kicks off Saturday in Philadelphia and later in the show speak to our geopolitical analyst Gerald Horne about Donald Trump, the Republicans and so much that has happened during the past week.
Headlines: -Climate Activists Blockade the DNC. -Thousands of activists in the Movement for Black Lives rallied at actions around the country yesterday for the Freedom Now: July 21 Collective Action for Justice. -THURSDAY’S NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION OCCURRED as new video of a senseless shooting of a Black man by police went viral, and as another Baltimore police officer, Brian Rice, was acquitted of all charges in death of Freddie Gray, an African American man who died with his spine nearly severed in police custody last year. -Justice First is organizing a March Against Slumlords in DC. -The Leonard Peltier Freedom Ride 2016 of motorcyclists is scheduled end up here in DC after traveling 3000 miles from Oregon. The riders are gathering outside the U.S. Capital on Saturday and Sunday. -Culture and Media
Links: Beyond Extreme Energy Greenpeace The People's Convention in Philadelphia 2016 SURJ-Standing Up for Racial Justice
https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/OTG-JULY15-2016.mp3 In 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 is no protest then our murder is normal and normalized. A conversation with author and activist Gerald Horne, plus Danez Smith at the Brave New Voices: International Youth Poetry Slam Festival at The John F. Kennedy Center.
Headlines: -Teachers, parents and community organizers gathered here in DC for the Save Our Schools People’s March for Public Education & Social Justice, with portions of remarks from 12-year-old Asean Johnson and Jitu Brown of Chicago. -Kevin Poole of Pennsylvania was one of the Black farmers who gathered outside the Supreme Court to protest what they say is “unremitting discrimination” from the United States Department of Agriculture. -Organizations such as Food and Water Watch are asking the public to contact the white house and urge President Obama to veto the so-called Dark Act, which they say will leave consumers in the dark about whether or not their food contains genetically modified ingredients. -Newly released federal documents reveal that the U.S. has approved fracking offshore leading to billions of gallons of wastewater to be dumped into the Gulf of Mexico. -A 15-turbine wind farm was approved by Long Island Power Authority off the coast of eastern Long Island. -In DC, neighbors in Lincoln Park and across the district are forming a co-op with the help of DC SUN to make it easier to save money on the purchase of solar panels. -Culture and Media
Links: SaveOurSchoolsMarch.org SchoolHouseLive.org SaneEnergy Brave New Voices
https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/OTG-JULY8-2016-MONO-EDIT.mp3 THIS 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 others seriously injured by what is believed to be at least two snipers. Today we have a panel, including civil rights attorney Latoya Francis, the Rev Graylan Hagler and Scott Roberts, of Color of Change who will join us. And also, words of encouragement from attorney Nkechi Taifa to the next generation of freedom fighters for legal justice.
Guests and Voices Latoya Francis The Rev. Graylan Hagler Scott Roberts Nkechi Taifa Daniel Walkoff Mark Richardson Diamond 'Lavish' Reynolds
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Participants: Chip Gibbons (Bill of Rights Defense Committee/Defending Dissent Foundation) Brandi Collins (Color Of Change) Hendrik Voss (School of the Americas Watch) Dr. Maha Hilal (National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms)
Links: Bill of Rights Defense Committee/Defending Dissent Foundation Color of Change School of the Americas Watch National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms
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This week, a continued upswell of activism—and a challenge to business as usual in DC—in the aftermath of the massacre of 49 people inside a nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Early in the week, 18 people were arrested after staging a die-in at the headquarters of the powerful pro-gun lobby the National Rifle Association, the NRA, in Fairfax, Virginia. Democrats staged a 25-hour sit-in on the floor of the House of Representatives to demand a vote on gun reform legislation, while outside the capitol protesters gathered to support the sit-in and to demand that lawmakers do their job.
These continued actions about gun violence occurred during Torture Survivor Awareness Week. And we also had two important Supreme Court decisions. It was one of those weeks when it seemed like what was happening in the whole world—from the Brexit vote in the UK, to support for Venezuela—was reflected in some way in DC and the DMV.
GUESTS AND VOICES: Gerald Horne, ER Shipp, Josh Fox. In the Bees segment, Anna Aurillo and Jim Goodman. The Rev. Ron Steef on torture.
Headlines: -The trial for a third Baltimore police officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray last year has resulted in acquittal on all charges. -In a 4-3 ruling yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the University of Texas at Austin's affirmative action program but deadlocked on Obama’s immigration plan, which was also challenged b Texas. -Torture and the role of the United States in torture is the focus of actions for Torture Survivor Awareness Week, which is ongoing through Sunday, sponsored by the Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition. -Writer, scholar and veteran activist Angela Davis joined grassroots activists at ONE DC to celebrate the organization’s ten years of fighting for equity in the District. -In planet news, beekeepers, farmers and scientists were among those who rallied outside the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday to save bees & support sustainable agriculture. -Monday, 9 pm will be the HBO premiere of “How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change." This is the third documentary by the Oscar-nominated director Josh Fox.
Links: Hands Off Venezuela Venezuelan Embassy in DC Intercept article on Difference Between How U.S. Treats Brazil and Venezuela
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Here in DC this week, much of the activity in the streets, suites, halls and assemblies focused on last weekend’s massacre inside the gay nightclub, Pulse, in Orlando Florida and, unlike the simplistic narratives in the mainstream media, diverse populations in the DMV are exploring the intersection of anti-immigrant rhetoric, islamophobia and attacks on the LGBTQ COMMUNITY. Today we’ll hear some of THESE voices from a massive vigil held at Dupont Circle in Northwest DC and, in the second half, a conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs, whose poem “Pulse” is one of the few expressions by a queer Black person to be heard online at least after the massacre.
Headlines: -In Congress, this latest tragedy, in the midst of election season., is actually creating more discussion about a change in the country’s gun laws but the debate appears mired in partisan and election season politics.
-All around the DMV, there were prayers, vigils, moments of silence. Outside the White House on Wednesday night, those gathered to stop the raids and deportations of immigrant families also made the links to this week’s tragedy. Chantal James has more. - the Scottish Parliament has voted for a national ban on fracking. And the same vote has been taken by Butte County in California.
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In Black Lives Matter News: nationally the movement continues to send support to Jasmine Abdullah and locally Beverly Smith, mother of Alonzo Smith, who died in the custody of DC Special Police last year, is sponsoring a Circle Of Love And Support (COLAS).
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this week, Mayor Bowser signed legislation for the homeless family shelter plan passed unanimously on May 31st by the DC Council. -Details of the agreement ratified this month between 40,000 striking workers, including thousands in our region, and Verizon.
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STATEHOOD CONVENTION UNDERWAY! Today at 6pm and tomorrow at 9 am and Wilson High School in Northwest DC.
-IN CULTURE AND MEDIA, the DC Jazz Festival is underway though Sunday, Michael Franti performs at the Fillmore in Silver Spring tonight, and a special program at the African American Civil War Museum, broadcasted on WPFW, commemorated the 50th anniversary of Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Toure calling for Black Power on June 16th 1966 AT A RALLY IN MISSISSIPPI. The program was one of several hosted around the country by veterans of SNCC and their Black Power Chronicles project.
Links: The Black Power Chronicles “Pulse” by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, video of her reading the poem.
https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/OTG-JUNE10-2016.mp3 Activists in the Brazilian community in the U.S. are fighting against the legislated coup against President Dilma Rousseff in their country. Also, the latest from those active in the Boycott Sanctions and Divestment Movement in the DMV. What's happening in the capital region as a new effort from the corporate establishment and Israel lobby tries to squash the BDS Movement. Guests and Voices: Benjamin Douglass, Jewish Voice for Peace-DC Metro; Joao Fenix, Brazilian performing artist and member of Brazilian Expats for Democracy in Washington, D.C.; Luiza Nassif Pires, a PhD candidate in economics at The New School for Social Research in New York City, where she is a member of Defend Democracy in Brazil.
Headlines: -Tens of Thousands of fans and friends, as well as family members, are gathering today for the funeral of Muhammad Ali. -The fate of millions of immigrant families is the subject of The “Faces of DAPA and DACA+ Exhibition” a traveling show of photography that opened here in DC Monday at the Center for Community Change in Northwest DC and is scheduled to displayed on the steps of the Supreme Court this morning. -Supporters of the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment Movement, designed to pressure Israel to comply with international law and respect Palestinian rights, are declaring an executive order by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to be unconstitutional. -House Speaker Paul Ryan used the House of Help-City of Hope, a church-run social services program in Anacostia, for a Tuesday press conference backdrop to unveil his national plan to fight poverty called ‘A Better Way. -Deborah Weinstein, executive director of the Coalition on Human Needs, criticized Ryan’s report, saying that assistance to poor families should be expanded and improved, not cut. -The DC presidential primary is Tuesday and presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders addressed a crowd on the grounds of RFK Stadium last night, encouraging his supporters to come out and vote next week. -Veteran activist the Rev. Graylan Hagler, other faith leaders and grassroots activists are circulating a flyer calling for people to vote for Sanders to keep the debate for justice alive in the Democratic Pa rty. -The DC Jazz Festival is underway through next weekend, with dozens of concerts at venues all around town. This year’s festival features Kamasi Washington. -The Fly By Light Spring Showcase featured this week students from high schools across the city.
Links: Center for Community Change Jewish Voice for Peace-DC Metro Brazilian Expats for Democracy in Washington, D.C. Defend Democracy in Brazil
https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/OTG-JUNE3-2016.mp3 Gerald Horne, just returned from London, gives an exclusive report on what’s happening there and on other current events. Then we present two more voices from the recent 'Breaking Through Power' mobilization in DC: Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, on how the TPP—or Trans Pacific Partnership-will give corporations more power than nation states. Then Medea Benjamin of Code Pink on fighting back against perpetual U.S. war.
Links: Breaking Through Power Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch Code Pink
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The third day of the historic Breaking Though Power mobilization held in DC focused on war. The organizer, Ralph Nader, said that the day was dedicated to "enhancing the waging of peace over the waging of war...the horrors of war, its huge costs here and abroad to innocents and the weakening blow backs of Empire amidst a collapse of constitutional and international law." We feature author and activist William Hartung. Also, journalist E.R. Shipp joins us to talk about the acquittal of one of six Baltimore police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray and activist Kymone Freeman discusses a "Displacement-Free Zone" economic forum happening in Wards 7 and 8 in DC.
Headlines: -Veteran consumer and civic engagement advocate Ralph Nader sponsored the 'Breaking Through Power' gathering this week, which brought together an array of those working for social justice to the nation's capital. -The fight for $15 took to the streets yesterday as McDonald's held its annual meeting outside Chicago in Oak Brook, Illinois. -A national strike is ongoing in France. As protests against President François Hollande's controversial set of labor reforms deepened, workers in France's nuclear plants joined the nationwide action. -In Brazil, suspicions have been confirmed that the ouster of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff is, in fact, a coup designed to eradicate a wide corruption probe, Brazil's largest newspaper on Monday published evidence of a "national pact" between a top government official and oil executive. -This week’s Black Lives Matter news comes from Baltimore, where Police Officer Edward Nero was acquitted of all charges in the death of an unarmed African American man, Freddie Gray. Journalist E.R. Shipp joins us to discuss the case.
Links: BreakingThroughPower.org Displacement-Free Zone Equitable Economic Development Forum
https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/OTG-MAY20-2016.mp3 A National Youth Summit, sponsored by the Smithsonian Museum of American History, focused on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. At that time, the United States government forcibly removed more than 120,000 Japanese Americans from the Pacific Coast. These individuals, two-thirds of them U.S. citizens, were sent to ten camps built throughout the western interior of the United States. Many would spend the next three years living under armed guard, behind barbed wire. The summit discussed the relevance of this crime in history to today, when Muslims, immigrants and African Americans continue to be targeted by the state, politicians, new laws and policies. Guests and voices: the Rev.Lennox Yearwood, Rep.Eleanor Holmes Norton, Gerald Horne, Karen Korematsu, David Ono, Lorraine Bannai, Hussam Ayloush, Mariko Fujimoto Rooks, George Takei.
Headlines: -As part of an historic, global protest to keep fossil fuels in the ground, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the White House on May 15 to demand an end to offshore drilling in U.S. waters. -Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee passed a bill to block the District of Columbia from enacting a measure to allow the district to spend its own tax dollars without first getting approval from Congress. -Verizon workers continued their strike this week with a march to the White House, a unity rally outside a Verizon Store in downtown DC, and a benefit fundraiser. The workers are also planning a national kids and families day of action. -4. Updates on the Movement for Black Lives: Symone Marshall, Wakeisha Wilson, the "Grim Sleeper" cases, San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr steps down, one of the 276 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram two years ago has been rescued. Amina Ali Nkeki and her baby were reunited with her family. -Gerald Horne interview on Russia, China and Latin America.
Links: -The National Museum of American History, National Youth Summit - Japanese American Incarceration in World War II
-Break Free From Fossil Fuels
https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/OTG-MAY13-2016.mp3 A MOTHER’S DAY PEACE FESTIVAL is held Saturday in front of the White House to mark the original meaning of Mother's Day--for the world to disarm. Grassroots groups came together to reject war, violence, militarization of the police, mass incarceration and killing of black youth across the US. Guests and voices: Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, Kate Youngjoo Shim and Mary Ann Wright. The Rev. Graylan Hagler and Allison Timms also speak about the #SaveMyStore campaign by grocery workers at Giant, which plans to sell eight stores in the DMV.
Headlines: -The strike by 39,000 CWA and IBEW members at Verizon has hit the one-month mark. -Hundreds of Local 400 members, Giant customers, brothers and sisters from other unions, deliver thousands of petitions telling the company, “Save My Store!”. -Color of Change is supporting the first piece of federal bail reform legislation, the "No More Money Bail Act" introduced recently by Congressman Ted Lieu. -Four days of major direct actions against fossil fuels are planed across the United States. The DC event will be Sunday, May 15, 1:30pm at Lafayette Park. -Interview with Gerald Horne about recent Obama decisions and legacy.
Links: Code Pink: Women for Peace Communication Workers of America The Save My Store Campaign Color of Change
https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/OTG-MAY6-2016.mp3 VOICES FROM MAY DAY, INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY IN DC, And in the second half, we hear from a local leader of Verizon Workers who are entering the fourth week of their strike. More than 39,000 Verizon workers are on strike from Massachusetts to Virginia. Guests and voices: Gerald Horne, Van Jones, Terry Richardson
Headlines: -Dozens of DC Public Schools teachers were out protesting yesterday in upper Northwest. DCist reported that about 75 educators from Wilson High School, Deal Middle School, and Murch Elementary School were raising awareness about the failure of DC Public Schools to sign a new contract. -In planet news, a state of emergency has been declared in the Canadian province of Alberta, where a massive wildfire has grown to five times its initial size and continues to rage. -As the political ground continues to shake after the declaration of Donald Trump as the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, little attention has been given to scandals brewing this week among Democrats. -Politico reported this week that only one percent of the 61 million dollars that the Hillary Clinton campaign said it was raising for candidates in states has gone to those campaigns. -Social media is also abuzz over the YouTube video of the Chicago Board of Elections. -Van Jones needed to inject facts into CNN's pro-Clinton electoral coverage. -Gerals Horne on the election. -The Party for Socialism and Liberation will have a discussion on Hillary Clinton. -The Green Festival kicks off at noon today and goes through Sunday at the DC Convention Center. -The Mother’s Day Peace Festival is May 7, at 2pm at Lafayette Square, 17th and H Streets NW, in front of the White House celebrating the original Mother’s Day call for an end to violence and war.
Links: -Clinton fundraising leaves little for state parties -Communication Workers of America -
https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/OTG-APRIL29-2016.mp3 Economist and author Julianne Malveaux is here with her new book, Are We Better Off? Race, Obama and Public Policy that asks if African Americans are better off after the Obama presidency. And we hear from 86-year-old Mariam Fathallah, who was forced to flee her village in Palestine in 1948 when she was just 18 years old and has spent the past 48 years living in a crowded refugee camp in Lebanon. Now, she is traveling around the United States until June on what is called the North American Nakba Tour. Nakba means in English “the catastrophe” and this is the word Palestinians use to describe the genocide and mass displacement that occurred in 1948 when they were forced from their homes and land during the founding of the state of Israel.
Headlines: -As Verizon workers enter the third week of their strike, they and their supporters picketed the L Street Verizon Wireless store in downtown DC. -Workers and police clash in several cities in France during protests over government reforms that workers say will compromise hard-won worker protections. -Thousands of people marched in Mexico City Tuesday to mark 19 months since the disappearance of 43 students in the southern state of Guerrero. -May 1st, May Daym marks the 6th month anniversary of the death of Alonzo Smith at the hands of so-called special police officers in Southeast Washington. A rally is planned. - Other MAY DAY activities for this weekend include May Day Workshops / Panels / Discussions and a March on May Day for Workers beginning at 2PM at Malcolm X Park in DC. - DC Labor Filmfest kicks off tonight at the AFI Silver Theater in Silver Spring with "Trumbo," about the successful screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was targeted during the McCarthy period and House Un-American Activities Committee’s Communist witch hunt.
Links: The North American Nakba Tour Julianne Malveaux's website DC Labor Fest
Producer and Host: Esther Iverem Contributor: Netfa Freeman Engineer: Michael Nasella
https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/OTG-PARIS-TO-DC-RE-EDIT.mp3 This is a special presentation of On the Ground for Earth Day, April 22, 2016. From Paris to DC: Acting for Affordable Clean Energy, is a panel discussion that was held March 3, 2016 at the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area. The focus was 2015 Paris Climate Agreement and the next steps that local residents can take in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Northern Virginia. Featured Speakers: • Michelle Moore (Moderator), CEO, Groundswell • Mark Davis, CEO, WDC Solar • Reid Detchon, Vice President for Energy and Climate Strategy, United Nations Foundation • Dr. Theresa Sabonis-Helf, Professor of National Security Strategy, National War College and • Mike Tidwell, Founder and Director, Chesapeake Climate Action Network
https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/OTG-APRIL22-2016-EARTH-DAY.mp3 We talk to people fighting for justice for the residents of Flint, Michigan, who have been poisoned by actions of the state. We also talk to environmentalists about what has happened since last November’s historic Paris Climate Agreement, and we’ll catch up with local activists in the DMV who are continuing to wage battle with energy regulators who continue to approve more drilling, fracking and mining, despite stated commitments to curb greenhouse gases. Guests and Voices: Anjali Waikar, the Rev. Allen Overton, Jose T. Bravo, Richard Moore, Michelle Roberts and Ted Glick.
Headlines: -More than 150 world leaders are gathering at the United Nations to sign the historic 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. -Africa’s human existence and development is under threat from the adverse impacts of climate change. -More than 90 percent of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is suffering some level of coral bleaching and will likely never return to its original state. -DCI Group, a Washington DC public relations and lobbying firm, is the latest group subpoenaed in an expanding investigation into the funding of climate change denial by ExxonMobil. -Pipeline company Kinder Morgan has suspended its plans to build a fracked gas pipeline from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts. -In India, solar power is a more cost-effective option than the old fossil-fuel staple, coal. -Oscar Nominated director Josh Fox of "Gasland," has a new movie, "How to Let Go of the World and Love All The Things Climate Can't Change."
Producers and Hosts: Esther Iverem and Michelle Roberts Links: -Concerned Pastors for Social Action -National Resources Defense Council -Just Transition Alliance -Environmental Justice Health Alliance
Web Extra: Earth Day 2016 edition of "Community Watch and Comment with listener calls: https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/EARTH-DAY-COMMUNITY-COMMENT.mp3
https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/OTG-SPECIAL-DEMOCRACY-AWAKENING-BROADCAST-EDIT.mp3 After a week when hundreds were arrested at the U.S. Capitol in the Democracy Spring movement, thousands gathered at the Capitol for the Democracy Awakening rally on Sunday April 17, 2016. Featured speakers included the Rev. William Barber II of the Moral Monday Movement; Cornell William Brooks, president of the NAACP; David Goodman, brother of civil rights martyr Andrew Goodman; the Rev. Ezra Tillman of Flint, Michigan; Annie Leonard, executive director of Greenpeace and also singing group Sweet Honey in the Rock.
Producer and Host: Esther Iverem Field Producer and Contributor: Lydia Curtis Engineers: Michael Nasella and David Kelly
Links: Democracy Awakening
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On what is traditionally Tax Day, hundreds at the U.S. Capitol are arrested as a part of Democracy Spring to get money out of politics, to advocate for voting rights and for racial justice. We hear voices from the racial justice rally at Democracy Awakening. Also, Tony Medina, editor of the new poetry anthology, Resisting Arrest, joins us and reads from the book that includes more than 80 poets. Guests and voices: Tiffany Hunter, Gerald Horne, April Goggans, Stewart Anderson, Shani Smith, Dorie Ladner and more.
Headlines: -Democracy Spring at the U.S. Capitol. -Fight for 15 strikes and actions in more than 300 cities. -Maryland General Assembly passes police reform legislation. -So far the other shoe has not dropped in the hack of Mossack-Fonseca. List of U.S. individuals and groups involved has not been released. -Gerald Horne visits the DMV for his new books, Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, The Haitian Revolution and the Origins of the Dominican Republic and Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary
Links: Democracy Spring Resisting Arrest poetry anthology Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, The Haitian Revolution and the Origins of the Dominican Republic Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary
https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/OTG-APRIL8-2016.mp3 A new generation of civil rights advocates question whether the Black Congressional Caucus is working for Black people or for corporations. And while leaders of 50 nations gathered here last week to talk about the threat of nuclear terrorism, anti-nuclear forces said to U.S. leaders, well, WHY NOT start with the getting rid of the 15,000 nuclear existing nuclear weapons? Guests and Voices: Gerald Horne, Phil Mendelson, Omolola Adele-Oso, Rashad Robinson, activists at the Global Zero anti-nuclear rally April 1, 2016 in DC.
Headlines: -So is there more to this data leak from Mossack Fonseca than the corporate media is telling us? -Police, criminal justice reform are the subject of several events and actions in the DC region. -A broad coalition is supporting legislation currently being considered by the Maryland General Assembly that would overhaul the state’s controversial Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights. -Second anniversary of nearly 300 girls in Nigeria being kidnapped by the extremist organization Boko Haram. -Black Millennials for Flint is holding a NoLeadZone Old School Pajama Jam.
https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/OTG-MAR31-2016.mp3 Michele Roberts, national co-chair of the Environmental Justice Health Alliance, kicks off this show’s renewed commitment to cover issues of the environment and sustainability. We speak to her and Pam Nixon about one Black West Virginia community a fighting David-versus-Goliath battles against corporate pollution, about a recent big victory, and about how the lead poisoning water crisis in Flint Michigan is just the top of the iceberg of not only deficiencies in the country’s water infrastructure but of structural environmental racism. Guests and voices: Michele Roberts, Pam Nixon, Chen Kane, Democracy Spring, voices from "West Virginia Water Crisis" by Krista Bryson.
Headlines: -Nuclear Summit is underway here in the nation’s capital. -The Nuclear Threat Initiative hosts a panel on nuclear security in the Middle East. -Global Zero/ globalzero.org rallies against 15000 ready-to-fire nuclear weapons in the world with a a life-size inflated nuclear missile. -After the shocking decision by the DC Public Service to allow the nuclear giant Exelon to take over Pepco, Power DC is continuing the fight. -Democracy Spring starts this Saturday with a march from the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to DC, where from April 11th to 18th, thousands have pledged to engage in civil disobedience. -Nigerians are vehemently opposing Monsanto’s attempts to introduce genetically modifiedcotton and maize into Nigeria’s food and farming systems. -Beekeepers in Minnesota have received compensation from the state’s department of agriculture after hives destroyed by pesticides. -Congresswoman Maxine Waters introduced landmark legislation that would provide $13 billion dollars to end homelessness in America. -In Black Lives Matter News, Minneapolis police officers win Minnesota who shot and killed unarmed 24-yearold Jamar Clark will not face charges, prosecutors announced on yesterday. Brian Encinia, the Texas state trooper seen on video harassing bullying and assaulting Sandra Bland during a false arrest last year was just fired from him job and here locally progressive activists are winning in some of their demands to the Maryland General Assembly for police reform in the state. -Black Millennials for flint is holding a NoLeadZone Old School Pajama Jam (April 8, 2016 10:00 PM-1:00 AM) in DC. -'Miles Ahead,' the biopic about Miles Davis starring Don Cheadle opens tomorrow here in the DMV. Also opening is the comedy 'Meet the Blacks'. Also tomorrow, the poetry anthology Resisting Arrest edited by poetTony Median drops tomorrow. -Jamila Bey on the elections and announcing her nrew show in our exisiting time slot. "On the Ground" is moving to Friday 10am, 89.3 FM in the DMV and and streaming live at www.wpfwfm.org.
Producer and Host: Esther Iverem Contributors: Michele Roberts Chantal James Lydia Curtis Michael Byfield Dj Wah-Heed with remixes of "Alright" by Kendrick Lamar and "Mercy, Mercy Me, The Ecology" by Marvin Gaye.
https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/OTG-MAR24-2016.mp3 Voices of protest and civil disobedience at the large DUMP TRUMP AND DISARM AIPAC RALLY outside the Washington, DC gathering of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobby, as presidential Donald Trump was scheduled to speak. MUCH OF THE NEWS CYCLE this week was consumed with the bombings in Brussels and the meeting of AIPAC, and speeches before AIPAC by all the Republican presidential candidates and Democrat Hillary Clinton—all of whom fell all over themselves to appear the most pro-Israel and how they would even exceed the $30 billion that the US supplies in military equipment to Israel, in apparent violation of US laws forbidding these weapons be used to commit human rights abuses. In its 2014 invasion of Gaza, more than 2,200 Palestinians were killed, including 500 children.
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The U.S. presidential race continues to be the big story—with violence at Donald Trump rallies, the continued corporate media snub of Bernie Sanders, and a very superficial discussion about what is political freedom of speech and what is proto-fascism. We speak to prolific author and activist Gerald Horne and we honor Women’s History Month with two activists speaking on the particular plight and challenges of women in Saudi Arabia. Political commentator Jamila Bey weighs in ON ELECTIONS 2016. Guests and voices: Sen. Bernie Sanders, Lydia Curtis, Gerald Horne.
Headlines: -The Bernie Sanders campaign insists to its supporters that there is still a path for their candidate to win the Democratic nomination. -Mixed reactions among progressives to President Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland. -Protest for UNITE HERE Local 23 Against L.L. Creations, a federal contractor accused of racial discrimination and other unfair labor practices. -Hearing underway on the DC's plan to shut down the DC General family shelter. -A growing worldwide shift to renewable energy has played a "critical role" in stalling global carbon emissions. -The World Health Organization has found that nearly a quarter of all deaths around the world are caused by living and working in polluted environments. -The Obama administration is poised to ban offshore drilling in the Arctic and much of the Atlantic until 2022. -In PENNSYLVANIA, a jury has handed down a $4.2 million verdict—and vindication—to two families whose wells wer polluted by fracking. -A bill dubbed The Deny Americans the Right to Know, (DARK) Act, was defeated in the Senate. The legislation would HAVE robbed consumers of the right to know which foods are genetically modified. -The family of DJ Henry, an African-American college student fatally shot by police in Pleasantville, New York in 2010, has reached a $6 million settlement with the village and the officer. -Two prosecutors, controversial for their handling of murders by police, were voted out of office
Producer and Host: Esther Iverem Contributors: Chantal James, Lydia Curtis and Jamila Bey Engineer: Michael Nasella
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This show's focus is on the wide-ranging keynote address by the activist and award-winning author Chris Hedges at the Summit on Saudi Arabia organized by Code Pink, March 5th and 6th 2016 in Washington, DC. Spanning from what Hedges referred to as the atrocity of the House of Saud, to the U.S. presidential race, to specter of American fascism, he pulled no punches in his opposition to the stranglehold of global corporate capitalism. Voices: Chris Hedges, Protesters against the National Policy Institute NPI in Washington, DC.
Headlines: -Protesters rally outside a conference held by the white supremacist think tank National Policy Institute NPI in Washington, DC. -The Foundation for Middle East Peace, Human Rights Watch and Americans For Peace is holding a panel discussion on Capital Hill on Human Rights Watch’s new report, Occupation, Inc.: How Settlement Businesses Contribute to Israel’s Violations of Palestinian Rights. -Environmental activists hold a Cove Point Spring Break Action Camp in southern Maryland for activists, college students and anyone else wanting to learn more about the battle that’s being waged against fracking in the mid-Atlantic region. -"Trapped” is a new documentary about the same issues at the heart of the current Supreme Court abortion case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, and features several of the players in the SCOTUS case.
Producer and Host: Esther Iverem Engineer: Michael Nasella