On the Ground w Esther Iverem

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‘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 the Zionist occupation of Palestine now threatens
‘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 as the Trump administration eyes Greenland for 21s
‘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, researchers and lawmakers speaking out at a protest
‘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 the job. We speak to journalist Jon Jeter. And here
‘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 work done for the American people. We speak to a
‘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 back against the Trump-Musk billionaire agenda. W
‘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 Gaza. But outside the White House, we the people had
‘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 a
As the Trump Administration attacks the gains of the 1960s Black Freedom Movement, which addressed centuries of racist apartheid and greatly benefitted all of U.S. society, we interview Gerald Horne a
‘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 Inauguration Day, vowing to organize against Trump's bill