On the Ground w Esther Iverem

On the Ground w Esther Iverem


Latest Episodes

‘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 
September 12, 2025

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 of the capital. And as the DC Council takes a fin

‘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  
September 05, 2025

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 ICE agents and federal police out of their neighb

‘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…
August 29, 2025

Here in the nations capital, we refuse to normalize National Guard soldiers with automatic weapons on the Metro, or racist checkpoints where Uber drivers are snatched up and handcuffed by men wearin

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR AUGUST 15, 2025: DC: Trump’s Testing Ground for Fascism… When Human Rights Are Under Attack…. Plus Headlines  
August 15, 2025

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 optimism, DC activists are fighting back, defining

Voting Rights in Crisis…Pro-Palestine Encampment Protests Outside Corporate Media DC Offices… Plus Headlines
August 08, 2025

To thwart a redistricting scheme that will disenfranchise Black and Latinx voters in Texas, state Democratic lawmakers have fled the state to deny Republicans the quorum needed to pass the legislation

‘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
August 01, 2025

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 Commanders. In this debate, both sides do want to bri

‘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 Mo
July 25, 2025

From brutal immigration raids, to police attacks on peaceful protesters, to inhumane immigration detention facilities, the U.S. is looking more and more like a police state. And we speak to our media

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JULY 18, 2025: Wilmer Leon on Fascism and Education… Francesca Albanese on Profit from Genocide… Plus Headlines on Epstein, the DC Budget, and More…  
July 18, 2025

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 episode of the F-word, we speak to political scient

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JULY 11, 2025: Protesters Denounce Netanyahu’s Visit to DC… Gerald Horne on Gaza, Iran, BRICS…. And More 
July 11, 2025

In an upside down world, where an indicted war criminal is feted at the White House, those here in the U.S, fighting against the Gaza holocaust are determined to fight back the only way they knowby c

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JULY 4, 2025: Faith Leaders Rally on Capitol Hill, and are Arrested, Protesting Trump’s ‘Immoral’ Budget
July 04, 2025

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 millions of Americans, adds $150 billion more for th