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. […]
Political Economy
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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/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/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/Slaughterhouses_2_1_.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | RSSRundown In this episode we explore the intersections of speciesism, capitalism, racism, and climate change by taking a sobering look at the threats to public health and safety for communities living near factory farms. From […]
https://media.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/p/content.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/Carceral_Feminism_Final.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | RSSRundown In this episode we break down the term “carceral feminism,” which refers to movements that seek to redress violence against women through increased prosecution and harsher punishment for abusers. We discuss the history of […]
https://media.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/p/content.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/universal_basic_income_final.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | RSSRundown In this episode we tackle Universal Basic Income from a critical leftist perspective. We start by discussing why we’ve reached a point where so many people, on both the Left and Right sides of […]
https://media.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/p/content.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/laminated_blueprint_1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | RSSRundown You asked for it, and we delivered! A laminated blueprint on exactly how to end capitalism, and what to build in its place! Joking aside, in this episode we explain capitalism, socialism, communism, and […]
https://media.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/p/content.blubrry.com/veganvanguard/competition_podcast.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | RSSRundown In this episode we break down the loaded and pernicious trope of “competition”. We start by discussing our own experiences growing up and being encouraged at an early age to compete, compete, compete! We […]