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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 podcast network: launching July 2020