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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As the number of South American boaters murdered by U.S. airstrikes continues to rise, protesters speak out at the White House against the Trump administration's threatened war on Venezuela. For people in South America and throughout the Global South, the genocide in Gaza is a grim reference point for the the U.S. empire's barbarism. Plus headlines on Palestine, Epstein, and more... ...
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On Veteran's Day, U.S. military veterans rally in D.C. against policies that continue to slaughter innocent people abroad, and put soldiers and weapons of war onto American streets.The live-streamed genocide in Gaza has awakened not only civilian populations globally to the depravity of U.S.-backed war crimes, it is spurring a new generation of active military and veterans to oppose endless wars and to remember the oath they took t...
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From the win by a Democratic Socialist in New York City, to Trump's threats against Nigeria, Gerald Horne weighs in on the news. And a majority-Black suburb of Washington, DC continues the fight against a massive, polluting AI data center. Plus headlines on SNAP, Gaza, the "Refuse Fascism" protest, the Black March on the White House, pending strike at Starbucks, and the DC premiere of "Earth's Greatest Enemy" documentary, by journa...
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The call for a general strike was the most concrete demand coming from the massive no kings day protests. And labor and pro-Palestine advocates are picking up the baton, demanding that unions in the U.S. shut it down and end US weapons and shipments to the apartheid state of Israel. And, after a border patrol agent shoots at man in DC during a routine traffic stop, a coalition of African American and Latinx activists demand that at...
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From Gaza to Venezuela, to attacks on immigrants here at home, elites use Corporate media to keep Americans blind to the facts, to make us "good Germans." We speak to journalist Jon Jeter for this month's episode of 'On the Media.' And though millions in the U.S. attended the October 18 "No Kings" protests against the Trump agenda, Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago, made the most concrete demand, for a general strike.
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The United States is in a politically turbulent time, one that calls for residents to stand up against injustice. We speak to historian Gerald Horne for this month's episode of The F-Word on fascism. And do voting rights for Black people discriminate against whites? We hear from attorneys who just argued a landmark voting rights case before the Supreme Court. Plus headlines on No Kings Day, Israel violates ceasefire and tortures pr...
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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. And historian Gerald Horne argues that today's African descendent population will be pivotal in fighting fascism in the 21st century. We spend the hour speaking to Professor Horne about his new book, The Capital of Slavery: Washington DC 1800 to 1865.
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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 for military training. Then chose to standby its wealth transfer to the rich and shut down the government. We speak to historian Gerald Horne.
Five cities threatened by Trump ban together for the fightback. And a celebration of life is held for community organizer and labor activist ...
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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 people in this country can see hear and read. We speak to journalist Jon Jeter for this month's episode of On the Media. And in his speech before the UN General Assembly, Colombian President, Gustavo Petro scolds the world for permitting the Gaza genocide, sketches a plan to fight cl...
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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 Reichstag fire? We speak to historian Gerald Horne for this month's episode of the F-Word on fascism. And two survivors of the new U.S. censorship regime, Mahmoud Khalil, former student organizer at Columbia university, and Karen Attiah, a former opinion writer for the Washington Post,...
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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 final vote on $1 billion in taxpayer funding for a new NFL stadium, Lydia Curtis exposes why hundreds of new housing units are built in DC that working families cannot afford. Plus headlines on Bolsanaro, Charlie Kirk, Qatar bombing, Vene...
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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 neighborhoods. And survivors of serial sexual predators Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell speak out on Capitol Hill, demanding that all files in the case be released, and saying that they will create their own list of Epstein's predators...
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Here in the nation’s 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 wearing masks. On this show, we hear from speakers at the massive 'Solidarity Season' labor march held Thursday, August 28th, we talk to our geopolitical analyst Gerald Horne about world happenings, and we remember Hurricane Katrina 20 years...
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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 the struggle in the district as the same as in the global south, against colonialism and snd imperialism. Plus headlines on vigil for murdered Al Jazeera journalists and more.
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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. And Pro-Palestine activists hold an encampment outside the DC offices of several corporate news organizations, accusing them of complicity in enabling the genocide in Gaza. Plus headlines.
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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 bring the professional football team home, but differ on whether the current deal is good, or whether DC should fight for a better deal. Plus headlines on Chris Smalls released from Zionist terrorist detention. And more...
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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 critic Jon Jeter about the continued murder of journalists in Gaza, and repression of free speech across Europe and in the U.S. Plus headlines on 'Stop Starving Gaza' protests, Gerald Horne on the for-profit ICE system, police brutalit...
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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 scientist Wilmer Leon about fascism and education. And speaking education and information, Trump is placing economic sanctions on the UN special rapporteur for Palestine, after she exposed the truth about dozens of companies, including Ameri...
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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 way they know: by continuing to stay in the streets. On this show, we hear from speakers at a rally near the White House in opposition to the third visit this year of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, DC. Plus, Gerald Horne on Gaza, Iran, BRICS... And More.
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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 the military, and triples the budget for Trump’s mass deportation machine, making ICE the largest police force in the country. All of this to give billionaires a massive tax cut and add more than three trillion to the national debt.
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