https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/OTG-JULY1-EDITTPF-2016.mp3 Social Movements and the Surveillance State, a panel co-sponsored by the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and Defending Dissent Foundation,

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/OTG-JUNE24-2016.mp3 - 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.

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/OTG-JUNE17-2016.mp3 - 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,

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,

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 'Breaki...

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/OTG-MAY27-2016.mp3 - 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 wagin...

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,

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.

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.

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 Obam...