On the Ground w Esther Iverem

On the Ground w Esther Iverem


Latest Episodes

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR MAR 30, 2018: ‘Gaslighting’ the Public…Media Critic Janine Jackson on 50 Years After Kerner…15 Years After Start of Iraq Invasion…Unheard Voices from the March for Our Lives and Headlines on Education, Climate and More…
March 30, 2018

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/OTG-MAR30-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On today's show, truth and lies in the news. 'Gaslighting' is a form of manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targ...

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR MAR 23, 2018: Marking 15 Years Since the U.S. Invasion of Iraq…Go-Go Music Goes to Ghana…Headlines on Yemen, Sanders Town Hall, Texas Bombings and More
March 23, 2018

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/OTG-MAR23-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On this show, we mark the 15th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which killed up to two million Iraqis, displaced millions more and destabilized the entire Mi...

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR MAR 16, 2018: The F-Word: Margaret Stevens on Fascism Exported to the Caribbean and Africa…Students Say Disarm the NRA…Gerald Horne on May’s Russia Gamble…Headlines on Yemen, Deregulation of Banks and More…
March 16, 2018

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/OTG-MAR16-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On this show, our first 2018 episode of 'The F-Word,' when we talk about fascism. Professor Margaret Stevens, author of the new book,

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR MAR 9, 2018: From the Congo, to Venezuela to the U.S.: Ajamu Baraka, Maurice Carney and Angela Simms Mark 60 Years Since the Historic 1958 All-African People’s Conference in Accra, Ghana
March 09, 2018

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/OTG-MAR9-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 Today we spend the hour with the scholar Angela Simms and the activists Maurice Carney and Ajamu Baraka speaking at a 60th anniversary program marking the historic 195...

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR MAR 2, 2018: U.S. Labor Under Attack…The Working People’s Day of Action…Congress Actually Pushes Back on Endless War…South Africa Land Reform…And More Headlines
March 02, 2018

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/OTG-MAR2-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3March is beginning with lots of big issues being addressed in DC. This week, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments in Janus v. AFSCME,

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR FEB. 23, 2018: The Real Africa and the Fantasy Africa…Featuring Makani Themba, Ajamu Baraka and Gerald Horne…Headlines on Student Gun Protests, Poor People’s Campaign and More
February 23, 2018

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/OTG-FEB23-2018-DIST-small.mp3 On today's show, news and topics about real Africa - and about the fantasy Africa on the big screen. The 60th Anniversary of the All-African People's Conference was j...

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR FEB. 16, 2018: Professor Who Revealed the Truth About Lead Poisoning in Flint and Washington, DC, Talks about ‘Third World’ Water Quality in the U.S.
February 16, 2018

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/OTG-FEB16-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On this show, from DC, to Flint, Michigan to the Grand Canyon, access to safe water is being threatened by lead contamination, corporate polluters,

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR FEB. 9, 2018: Gerald Horne on his New Book–The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean…Launch of Poor People’s Campaign..
February 09, 2018

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/OTG-FEB9-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 On this show, we spend the hour with historian, author and activist Gerald Horne and his new critically praised book, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots ...

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR FEB. 2, 2018: Muslim-Refugee Ban: A Year of Resistance…Horne and Wolff on the State of the Union…Headlines on Fossil Free Fast, Black Lives Matter and More
February 02, 2018

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/OTG-FEB2-2018-DISTsmall.mp3 At the end of January 2018, there were dozens of actions in and around DC this week, some related to the now infamous State of the Union address. Some dealing, rather,

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JAN. 26, 2018: Richard Wolff on the Economics of Immigration Politics…Voices on the Women’s March…Gerald Horne on South Africa and Israel…Headlines on DACA, Medicare For All Town Hall, Hugh Masekela and More
January 26, 2018

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/OTG-JAN26-2018small.mp3 We speak with economist Richard Wolff about the economics behind the immigration catastrophe and about 6400 retail stores closing in the U.S. in 2017.