https://media.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/p/content.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/US_FINAL.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | RSSRundown In this spooktacular crossover episode, Mexie and Marine are joined by Ash and Jon from the Horror Vanguard podcast to review Jordan Peele’s second think-piece, “Us”. We discuss a number of pertinent themes including […]
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https://media.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/p/content.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/Economic_Refugees_Final.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | RSSRundown In this episode, Mexie interviews Greg from In The Roots Podcast about the role of our global financial institutions in the making (and re-making) of the Global South and in exacerbating the refugee crisis. […]
https://media.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/p/content.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/Radical_Education_Final.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | RSSRundown In this episode, Mexie interviews radical activist and educator Alexis Fawn about the importance of arming students with critical thinking skills and class consciousness before they enter university. Inspired by Paulo Freire and his […]
https://media.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/p/content.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/meat_tax_podcast.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | RSSRundown In this episode, Mexie and Leslie from Mad Blender respond to a question from one of the listeners about whether taxing meat for the climate is a productive idea. We start by exploring the […]
https://media.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/p/content.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/warren_podcast_final_ed.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | RSSRundown In this episode, Mexie interviews Dr. Warren Bernauer about the relationship between what John Bellamy Foster terms ‘ecological imperialism’ and the criminalization of Indigenous resistance to extractive capital. We discuss Warren’s co-authored article called […]
https://media.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/p/content.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/headlines_draft_1_online-audio-converter_com_.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | RSSRundown Well, we gave it a shot! Following the advice of our beloved adrienne maree brown and Emergent Strategy, in this episode we put our energy towards dreaming the future we want to see. We […]
https://media.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/p/content.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/permaculture_1.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | RSSRundown In this episode, Mexie interviews Becky Ellis, a PhD candidate at the University of Western Ontario and the host of the Permaculture fo the People podcast, about how and why permaculture is important for […]
https://media.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/p/content.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/FIXED_POWER.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | RSSRundown In this episode, Mexie and Marine discuss the ways in which sexual dimorphism, which has been exaggerated by millennia of social oppression, is at the root of patriarchy and rape culture, and informs our […]
https://media.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/p/content.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/Spenser_Rapone.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | RSSRundown In this episode, Mexie interviews the (in)famous Spenser Rapone, a veteran who was deployed in Afghanistan and became radicalized by his experiences there, becoming a virulent anti-war, anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist activist. We discuss the […]
https://media.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/p/content.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/emergent_strategy_final.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | RSSRundown In this episode Marine and Mexie reunite once again to discuss creative and revolutionary ideas for movement building. Our discussion was inspired by reading adrienne marie brown’s Emergent Strategy. Drawing on quotes and concepts from […]
https://media.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/p/content.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/alex_jones_with_robbie.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | RSSRundown In this episode Mexie talks with Robbie Martin, documentary filmmaker and co-host of Media Roots Radio, about the recent co-ordinated banning of Alex Jones and Infowars off of most of the prominent social media […]
https://media.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/p/content.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/mental_health_online-audio-converter_com_.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | RSSRundown In this episode, Mexie is joined by Leslie (Mad Blender on YouTube) to discuss the political economy of mental health and addiction. We draw from Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism to put the present-day rise in […]
https://media.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/p/content.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/why_vegans_should_be_leftists_online-audio-converter_com_.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | RSSRundown Flipping it on ya today! In more than one way. First off, Mexie is solo on this podcast as Marine is focusing on an exciting new IRL endeavour (go Marine!). And secondly, we’re flipping […]
https://media.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/p/content.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/form_over_substance_final.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | RSSRundown In this episode we dig into the way that capitalist society teaches us all from a very young age to prioritize the form over the substance, and what implications that has for our collective well-being as well as […]
https://media.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/p/content.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/bee_autonomy_online-audio-converter_com_.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | RSSRundown In this episode, Mexie interviews Becky Ellis, a bee expert and PhD candidate at the University of Western Ontario. Becky explains what’s been causing the alarming decline of our pollinators and what implications this […]
https://media.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/p/content.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/rojava.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | RSSRundown This week Mexie interviews Josh Walker, a comrade who fought with the YPG in the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria. Josh lays out the history and political ideology of the revolution, the extent to […]
https://media.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/p/content.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/Antinatalism_MY.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | RSSRundown In this episode we analyze the links between the antinatalist, vegan, and anticapitalist movements. We start by discussing what antinatalism is and distinguish it from merely a personal preference not to have children. We […]
https://media.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/p/content.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/Youtube_Rant_f_online-audio-converter_com_.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | RSSRundown In this episode we talk about our experiences in the minefield that is online (leftist, vegan) activism. We talk about vulnerabilities, gendered responses to our work, speech habits, view counts, the efficacy of debates, […]