‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR APRIL 24, 2026: Protesters Target Meta, Open AI, Microsoft, Apple and the World Data Center Conference… New Documentary Explores Early Work of Renowned Educator Paulo Freire, Author of ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed’… Plus Headlines

About this episode

The episode covers protests against AI data centers and features a documentary about educator Paulo Freire.

As community opposition grows to AI data centers across the country, activists in DC protest outside the World Data Center Conference, and march to the offices or locations of Apple, Meta, Open AI and Microsoft, demanding a moratorium on the building of these resource-sucking centers. And there’s a new documentary about world renowned educator Paulo […]

People in this episode

Host: Esther Iverem

Topics covered

• protests
• AI data centers
• activism
• education
• documentary
• Paulo Freire

Keywords

• protests
• AI
• data centers
• Paulo Freire
• documentary
• education
• activism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Meta, Open AI, Microsoft, Apple

Books & works: Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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