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Vanguard Army (@VanguardArmyPod) is a weekly podcast within the Rezistans Nwa network (@RezistansNwa) hosted by Lili Smallwood daGraça (@LilTheTrill) in Canada and Aaron Thorpe (posadist_trapgd) in the United States. Focusing on the politics of our respective countries through an anti-capitalist framework, we examine and discuss issues rooted in settler colonialism and white supremacy with nuance and accessibility for those who not only read theory but live it.

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  • Aug 25, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
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Episode 6: Allied Courses

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2020 72:08


Vanguard Army (@VanguardArmyPod) joins forces with the Progressive Army (@ProgressiveArmy) with Lili (@LilTheTrill) and Aaron (@posadist_trapgd) welcoming Benjamin Dixon (@BenjaminPDixon) to discuss the DNC, the VP pick, and the paths to November for everyone.

Episode 5: Black Cons

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2020 93:59


Lili (@LilTheTrill) & Aaron (@posadist_trapgd) react to the VP announcement, and welcome T (@RickyRawls) from the Champagne Sharks Podcast (@ChampagneSharks) to discuss Black conservatives, the history of Black conservatism and the evolution to Black Neo-Cons and beyond.

Episode 4: Useful Negroes

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2020 85:49


Lili (@LilTheTrill) and Aaron (@posadist_trapgd) interview Irami Osei-Frimpong (@IramiOF), a philosopher, political thinker, and host of the YouTube channel The Funky Academic. Discussing the black misleadership class and their collusion with corporate Democrats to maintain the status quo, Cori Bush, and more.

Episode 3: Racialnomics

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2020 98:45


Lili (@LilTheTrill) and Aaron (@posadist_trapgd) welcome Vanguard Army's (@VanguardArmyPod) first guest and Rezistans Nwa (@RezistansNwa) founder Andray Domise a.k.a. Q (@andraydomise) to break down the economic reality for Black people in Canada and the US during Covid, and the decades of systemic economic prejudice that got us here.

Episode 2: Back To "Normal"

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2020 64:52


Lili (@LilTheTrill) and Aaron (@posadist_trapgd) discuss the push for a "post" Covid reopen, the delusion of back to normal liberal politics, and how both continue to put Black people at risk.

Episode 1: Fever Pitch

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2020 73:29


In Vanguard Army's inaugural episode, Lili (@LilTheTrill) and Aaron (@posadist_trapgd) discuss the politics and dialectics of the pandemic and Black Lives Matter in Canada and the U.S., and why liberal parties in both countries have failed Black people.

Rezistans Nwa: Launching Soon

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2020 2:08


Rezistans Nwa podcast network: launching July 2020

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