On the Ground w Esther Iverem
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On the Ground w Esther Iverem
“On the Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation’s Capital” covers social justice activism about local, national and international issues.
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‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR OCTOBER 10, 2025: The Capital of Slavery: Washington, DC: 1800-1865… Interview with Gerald Horne about His New Book on the Roots of the U.S. Capital… Plus Headlines on Gaza Ceasefire, Judge Blocks National Guard from Chicago…. And More.
The enslaved and free African populations of what is now the Washington, DC area were pivotal in ending the scourge of slavery in the 19th century. An...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR OCTOBER 3, 2025: A Gaza Peace Plan Without Peace… Trump Attacks U.S. Citizens with Military… Cities Organize to Fight Back.. Plus Headlines
This week, the Trump administration presented a Gaza peace plan that was neither about peace nor a plan. It claimed that U.S. cities should be used fo...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR SEPTEMBER 26, 2025: Jon Jeter On the Far Right Gobbling Up U.S. Media….Colombia’s Petro Offers Final U.N. Tour De Force Speech… Plus Headlines on James Comey Indictment, Netanyahu Protests, and Much More….
As the far right continues their attack on U.S. constitutional rights, their latest front is news and information, as they gain more control over what...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR SEPTEMBER 19, 2025: The F-Word on Fascism: Is Kirk’s Murder the U.S. Reichstag Fire?…Mahmoud Khalil and Karen Attiah Speak Out… Plus Headlines on Victory Against Maryland Data Center … and More
As the death of right-wing organizer Charlie Kirk is used to jumpstart new attacks on the left, are we witnessing the U.S. version of Nazi Germany's R...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR SEPTEMBER 12, 2025: Trump’s ‘Crime Emergency’ Ends in DC But ICE and Armed Guard Remain… Thousands March Against Militarization of the Capital… Investors Rule and Ruin DC’s Housing Market… Plus Headlines
Trump's so-called 'crime emergency' in DC is over, but thousands protest as federal police, masked ICE agents and armed soldiers remain on the streets...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR SEPTEMBER 5, 2025: Will DC Streets Ever Be Rid of Armed Soldiers and Federal Police?… Epstein and Maxwell Survivors Speak on Capitol Hill… Gerald Horne on India and Venezuela… Plus More Headlines
During the final days of Trump's so-called crime emergency declared in DC, residents and lawmakers tell Congress that they want armed soldiers, masked...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR AUGUST 29, 2025: DC Resists Trump in Massive Labor March… An ‘Outrage Vigil’ for More Slain Journalists in Gaza… Major Meeting for the Global South in China… And Much More…
Here in the nation’s capital, we refuse to normalize National Guard soldiers with automatic weapons on the Metro, or racist checkpoints where Uber dr...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR AUGUST 15, 2025: DC: Trump’s Testing Ground for Fascism… When Human Rights Are Under Attack…. Plus Headlines
For this month's episode of The F-Word, historian Gerald Horne discusses DC as a laboratory for an American brand of fascism. And with revolutionary o...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR AUGUST 8, 2025: Voting Rights in Crisis…Pro-Palestine Encampment Protests Outside Corporate Media DC Offices… Plus Headlines
To thwart a redistricting scheme that will disenfranchise Black and Latinx voters in Texas, state Democratic lawmakers have fled the state to deny Rep...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR AUGUST 1, 2025: $1Billion in Taxpayer Funds for an NFL Stadium?… While Cutting Public Services, DC Set to Give Billionaire NFL Owner 22 Acres for $1 Rent… Plus Headlines On Freedom for Chris Smalls and More
The DC Council is set to vote on a controversial plan to spend one billion dollars in taxpayer funding toward a new NFL stadium for the Washington Com...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JULY 25, 2025: Jon Jeter on Media and Culture… The U.S. Looks More Like a Police State (Especially if You’re Black or Brown)… Plus Headlines With Gerald Horne on ICE, Jacksonville Police Brutality, DC Budget and More…
From brutal immigration raids, to police attacks on peaceful protesters, to inhumane immigration detention facilities, the U.S. is looking more and mo...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JULY 18, 2025: Wilmer Leon on Fascism and Education… Francesca Albanese on Profit from Genocide… Plus Headlines on Ukraine, Epstein, the DC Budget, and More…
Trump just fired half of the staff at the U.S. Department of Education, which serves more than 60 million people in the country. So for this month's e...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JULY 11, 2025: Protesters Denounce Netanyahu’s Visit to DC… Gerald Horne on Gaza, Iran, BRICS…. And More
In an upside-down world, where an indicted war criminal is feted at the White House, those opposed to the Gaza holocaust are fighting back in the only...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JULY 4, 2025: Faith Leaders Rally on Capitol Hill, and are Arrested, Protesting Trump’s ‘Immoral’ Budget
On Friday,, July fourth , Trump is scheduled to sign into law his so-called big beautiful bill which eliminates health care and food assistance for mi...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JUNE 27, 2025: Jon Jeter… It’s Official: Alternative Media is the Only Place to Get News… Walking for Juneteenth in DC… Plus Headlines, Sports and Culture
Poor news coverage of the Israeli-U.S. attack on Iran reinforces alternative media as the only place for truth about the empire. We speak to Jon Jeter...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JUNE 20, 2025: The F-Word on Fascism with Wilmer Leon…Vet Speaks at Rally Against War with Iran… Plus Headlines ..
As the possibility of a new U.S. war looms in West Asia, we speak to political scientist Wilmer Lemon for this month's episode of the F-Word on fascis...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JUNE 13, 2025: Israel Goes to War On Iran… Trump Tests Illegal Domestic Use of Military… Federal Workers Continue to Fight For Jobs and Public Services
Israel, the U.S. armed outpost in West Asia, bombs Iran, assassinating several military leaders and at least one nuclear scientist. We speak to histor...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JUNE 6, 2025: U.S. Vetoes Fifth U.N. Gaza Ceasefire Resolution… Algeria, Pakistan and Somalia Speak Up for Palestine… Gerald Horne on Ukraine’s Attack on Russia and the End of Trump-Musk Bromance
After the United States vetoes, for a fifth time, a UN resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, the U.S. and Israel are more isolated than ever on...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR MAY 30, 2025: No to NATO in Dayton, Ohio… Trump As the Anti-Peace President… Five Years Since George Floyd’s Murder… And Much More
Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric of being a peace president is fading fast, as Russia, West Asia and China remain in the crosshairs. We speak to histo...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR MAY 23, 2025: Jon Jeter: What More Do We Need to See in Gaza To Act?… 90 Percent of Federal Job Safety Workers Have Been Fired But Are Fighting Back… Plus Headlines
Despite a myriad of human crises here in the U.S. and around the world, the story is still Gaza, where Israel's genocidal attacks are intensifying. We...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR MAY 16, 2025: Trump Challenges Birthright Citizenship, Grants White South Africans Refugee Status While Deporting Black and Brown People…Judge Frees Georgetown Scholar from ICE Detention… Plus Headlines
The Trump administration challenges birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court the same week it grants refugee status to white South Africans fleeing...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR MAY 9, 2025: What May 9 in Russia Means for the World… Georgetown Professor Likens Congressional Hearings to Red Scare McCarthyism… Plus Headlines
On May 9, 2025, 29 world leaders are in Moscow to celebrate the Soviet Unions victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. To explain the significance o...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR MAY 2, 2025: Federal Workers Speak Out on May Day…Tom Porter on Trump’s First 100 Days and American Decline… Plus Headlines
Workers in DC stand up for their rights and take to the streets on May Day. And, for some, the issue is not Trump's first 100 Days but, rather, the Am...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR APRIL 25, 2025: Jon Jeter on the War on Free Speech… Speaking Out for Worker Rights on Emancipation Day in DC… Plus Headlines
At an Emancipation Day speakout in DC, by a call for solidarity among American workers to fight back. And, as the Trump administration continues to tr...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR APRIL 18, 2025 – The F-Word: Gerald Horne on the U.S. as an ‘Empire of Fear’… Prayer Vigil Outside White House for Wrongly Deported Maryland Man… Plus Headlines
As Trump and the President of El Salvador met at the White House, refusing to return a wrongly deported man to the U.S., faith leaders met outside and...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR APRIL 11, 2025: Voices from the April 5 National March on Washington to End the Genocide and End the Repression, the F-Word on Fascism with Gerald Horne, Plus the Tariffs War
For most of this show, we hear from speakers and attendees we interviewed at the April 5th National March on Washington to Stop the Genocide in Gaza a...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR APRIL 4, 2025: April 5 March on Washington for Palestine and Free Speech… CFPB Workers Fight for their Jobs and for Justice… Plus Headlines
Organizers of the April 5th March on Washington say the time is now to save hundreds of thousands of people in Palestine, and to save basic constituti...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR MARCH 28, 2025: Occupation of Palestine Comes to the U.S… Will Americans Fight for the First Amendment? With Journalist Jon Jeter and Remarks from Actress Susan Sarandon. Plus Headlines
Some say that the Trump administration's abduction and imprisonment of pro-Palestinian students at U.S. colleges and universities is a sure sign that...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR March 21, 2025: How the U.S. Military Left a Deadly Toxic Legacy on an Alaska Island… 60 Years After Selma’s Bloody Sunday… Plus Headlines on Gaza and More with Gerald Horne
An annual gathering to celebrate the successful fight for voting rights turns into a movement update for all citizen rights in the United States. And...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR MARCH 14, 2025: UN Human Rights Experts: Israel’s Attack on Gaza Destroys International Law, Human Rights, and is an Attack on All of Us
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‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR MARCH 7, 2025: Trump’s Unkindest Cut to NOAA’s Scientists and to Humanity’s Future… Europe Talks Loud but Says Nothing on Ukraine… Plus more Headlines with Gerald Horne
As the Trump-Musk administration fires hundreds of federal workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration, we hear from scientists, re...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR FEBRUARY 28, 2025: Jon Jeter on Corporate Media Failing to Meet the Moment… Americans Speak Against Dismantling of Government Services… Plus Headlines with Gerald Horne… And More…
Dramatic changes in the world require news organizations to be fearless truth tellers, but in this heady moment, corporate media are falling down on t...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR FEBRUARY 21, 2025: Trump Ditches Europe and Ukraine… U.S. Federal Workers Organize to Fight Back… Marking 60th Anniversary of Malcolm X Assassination
As the Trump administration shatters traditional alliances abroad, at home it is firing thousands of federal workers, upending countless lives and the...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR FEBRUARY 14, 2025: Is the U.S.-Provoked War in Ukraine Finally Ending?… In Washington, Federal Worker Protests and Lawsuits Counter Musk-Trump Billionaire Agenda… Plus Headlines
Is it possible that the U.S.-provoked war in Ukraine is ending? We speak to historian Gerald Horne... And, here in DC, workers and unions are fighting...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR FEBRUARY 7, 2025: Trump’s Gaza ‘Takeover’….Musk’s U.S Government Takeover… The Trade War That Wasn’t…. Voices of Protest… And More…
Inside the White House on February 5th, Donald Trump entertained wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu and announced a so-called U.S. takeover of Gaz...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JANUARY 31, 2025: Gerald Horne on His New Books: African Americans and a New History of the USA… and Armed Struggle? Panthers and Communists; Black Nationalists and Liberals In Southern California through the Sixties and Seventies … Plus Headlines
As the Trump Administration attacks the gains of the 1960s Black Freedom Movement, which addressed centuries of racist apartheid and greatly benefitte...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JANUARY 24, 2025: Thousands March to Oppose Trump ‘Billionaire Agenda’… Jon Jeter on TikTok and Censorship… Trump’s ‘Shock and Awe’… And More
The new Trump administration launches a shock and awe blitzkrieg of controversial executive orders, but tens of thousands in the U.S. march on Inaugur...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JANUARY 17, 2024: The Center Cannot Hold — Brian Becker on Jan 20 We Fight Back Protests… Cuba Closes Out International Decade for People of African Descent… U.S. Healthcare Workers Gather Courage to Speak Out… Plus Headlines with Gerald Horne on Gaza Ceasefire, Sam Husseini and Max Blumenthal Ejected from Blinken Farewell Press Conference, and More…
On January 20th, Inauguration Day in the U.S., the We Fight Back movement will launch in dozens of cities against the Trump billionaire agenda. For th...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JANUARY 10, 2025: The Fragility of Health and Life in the New Order… MD Residents Protest State Funding of Israeli Weapons Makers… Plus Headlines on Free Dr. Abu Safiya and More…
Whether its wildfire smoke, rage at the for-profit heath care, or murder of doctors and nurses in Gaza, the issue of healthcare and health are much in...
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JANUARY 3, 2025: Gerald Horne on Carter, Brzezinski, 2024 and 2025… Author Susan Abulhawa on Defeating Defeatism and Censorship… DC Residents Fight for Rock Creek Park
What was the importance of 2024, and what to look for in this new year? We hear from historian Gerald Horne. Also, DC residents speak to their elected...