Amplify FM

In May of 2020, Amplify Stroud published an article by co-founders Jamie O'Dell and George Thomas titled examining Stroud’s relationship to the slave trade. Subsequently, the pair were invited to speak at the Historic Towns and Villages Forum's November 5th webinar 'Whose Heritage Is It Anyway?'

For their presentation, Jamie and George put together a video reflecting on Stroud's questionable abolitionist history, in light of that summer's BLM protests. We thought their presentation would make a nice podcast episode, so we have reproduced it here on Amplify FM.

Original Article: Stroud, Slaver and the Mis-Remembering of William Wilberforce

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In this episode we are joined by Gareth Dennis to discuss the political, environmental and economic dimensions of the HS2 infrastructure project and why the libertarian right hate public transport.

Gareth is an engineer and writer, specialising in transport systems. He is a sustainable transport advocate and regularly appears on television and radio explaining engineering and transport ideas to a broad audience.

At the end of January, he published an article in Left Foot Forward, arguing that environmentalist direct action would be better directed towards road building projects such as the less well known Road Investment Strategy 2 or RIS2.

You can hear more from Gareth on twitter @GarethDennis, on his website https://garethdennis.co.uk/ or on YouTube where he hosts a regular stream called #RailNatter

In this episode, Cas and Jamie discuss the grassroots left-wing media platform Amplify Stroud. What is Amplify, how did it get started and where is it going?

Amplify FM is a podcast from the grassroots left-wing media platform Amplify Stroud. This episode gives a short introductory overview to of this this outlet