On the Ground w Esther Iverem

On the Ground w Esther Iverem


Latest Episodes

‘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  
May 16, 2025

The Trump administration challenges birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court the same week it grants refugee status to white South Africans fleeing the post-apartheid state.And even as the horror o

‘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  
May 09, 2025

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 of that victory 80 years later, we speak to Profess

‘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 
May 02, 2025

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 American empire, built on genocide, entering its dec

‘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  
April 25, 2025

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 trample on the first amendment, due process and othe

‘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  
April 18, 2025

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 held a prayer vigil with the family of the man, K

‘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
April 11, 2025

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 and Stop the Repression here at home. Then we speak

‘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
April 04, 2025

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 constitutional rights here in the U.S. And another crisis is

‘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 
March 28, 2025

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 
March 21, 2025

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 
March 14, 2025

SUPPORT ESTHER'S BIRTHDAY FUNDRAISER FOR ON THE GROUND UNTIL MARCH 22, 2025: https://www.facebook.com/donate/1153324579630758/?fundraiser_source=external_url UN human rights experts say that the ge