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Amplify Stroud @amplifystroud.com · 7d

GLOUCESTER WELCOMES REFUGEES
In the wake of anti-refugee protests outside the Ibis hotel in Gloucester, an upcoming gathering in solidarity with refugees and asylum seekers is planned for Sunday 5 October.

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Gloucester Welcomes Refugees

A peaceful, non-confrontational gathering will be held in Gloucester on Sunday 5 October to show support for people seeking asylum and challenge attempts to stoke division and racism.

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Amplify Stroud @amplifystroud.com · 19d

STOP ROSEBANK
Our latest piece from writer Kamal Longia

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Stop Rosebank — More than just a Bad Deal for the UK

At 500m barrels, Rosebank is the UK's largest undeveloped oil field. It lies about 80 miles north-west of Shetland. The Norwegian Energy giant Equinor has partnered with Israeli owned Ithaca Energy to...

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Amplify Stroud @amplifystroud.com · 19d

Wise words from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

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I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot

Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Amplify Stroud @amplifystroud.com · 28d

Note - it's 12 / 13 September

Amplify Stroud @amplifystroud.com · 29d

A woman smiles to camera. She has brownish shoulder-length hair and oval glasses with a dark frame. She wears a blue and grey scarf. Overlaid on a pink block is the following text: With a packed schedule of talks, workshops, and socials, it's a timely gathering for anyone interested in building resilient, equitable futures amid ongoing social and environmental challenges.   Simon Opher, Pam Warhurst,  Indy Johar,  Andy Goldring , Tony Cealy,  Jess Steele, Jem Bendell,  Matthew Slater, Sue Bell,  Dil Green, Tom Woodroof , Zoë Blackler

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Amplify Stroud @amplifystroud.com · 29d

A bearded man in a check shirt stands giving a presentation. Overlaid on a pink background is the following information: Stroud Festival of Commoning  14 / 15 September Lansdown Hall & Centre for Science & Art  “Bringing together thinkers, activists, and practitioners from across the UK and beyond, the event promises a deep dive into how communities can reclaim power through shared resources, innovative governance, and mutual support.”   Article by Chikara Shimasaki

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Amplify Stroud @amplifystroud.com · 29d

DATELINE: 10 SEPTEMBER
TITLE: STROUD FESTIVAL OF COMMONING
WRITER: CHIKARA SHIMASAKI

Chik breaks down the Festival of Commoning taking place in Stroud on 14 / 15 September.

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Stroud Festival of Commoning - a weekend of collaborative ideas and action

Stroud becomes a hub for rethinking community, economy, and democracy this September.

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Amplify Stroud @amplifystroud.com · Sep 1

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At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no one left to keep you informed.

Hundreds of media outlets, brought together by the campaigning platform Avaaz and Reporters Without Borders (RSF), are waging a campaign calling for the protection of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, ...

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Amplify Stroud @amplifystroud.com · Jun 30

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Amplify Stroud @amplifystroud.com · Jun 30

“And particularly, I'm fed up with certain leaders of the Orthodox conservative Jewish tradition who claim to speak on behalf of the whole Jewish community. I am not alone in this.”

— Colin Levine from Na'amod Gloucestershire

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Amplify Stroud @amplifystroud.com · Jun 30

“I've felt that it's important for me to identify as a Jew who feels this way, rather than simply as a person who feels this way, because I think Jewish people are generally perceived as supportive of Israel, and if we don't say anything, then that's what people will assume.

Pictured is a man wearing a red beanie hat, a reddish-orange scarf and small black round glasses. He is holding a large banner which is charcoal coloured and has the word Na'amod written on it in yellow, along with the tagline "UK Jews against occupation & apartheid"

Overlaid on a pink background are the following words: Na'amod - “We Stand” exists to bring about change within the Jewish community in Britain.

Local activist Jeremy Green interviews Colin Levine from the recently formed Na'amod Gloucestershire branch to get his perspectives on the Jewish campaigning organisation that is calling for an end to the Occupation and Apartheid.

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Amplify Stroud @amplifystroud.com · Jun 30

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Introducing Na'amod
June 2025

Na'amod is a growing movement of British Jews that openly rejects the narrative of complete unswerving support for Israel. Na'amod is calling for an end to the Occupation and an end to the practice of Apartheid by the State of Israel.

Introducing Na’amod

Local activist Jeremy Green interviews Colin Levine from the Gloucestershire branch of Na'amod to get his perspectives.

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Amplify Stroud @amplifystroud.com · May 30

Nick Hayes is the co-founder of the Right to Roam campaign and author of The Book of Trespass.

It’s part history, part nature diary and spans several centuries of land rights in the UK.

This potent mixture of topics and styles made reading it feel as easy as a glass of cold water on a hot day.

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Amplify Stroud @amplifystroud.com · May 30

“Between Emma’s down to earth humour and Nick’s relaxed and impish charisma, it’s a highly entertaining and informative hour. There’s no pretentiousness here, and I was immediately drawn to the way that Nick talks about the outdoors.”

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Amplify Stroud @amplifystroud.com · May 30

“WE NEED OUR FARMERS TO BE ARTISTS” — Nick Hayes & Emma Kernahan at NeoAncients

“IT FEELS LIKE SOMETHING OF a moment for me to cover a conversation between Emma Kernahan and Nick Hayes at day two of the NeoAncients festival 2025 on a sunny weekend in Stroud.”

— Roma Robinson | The RYSE

“We need our farmers to be artists” — Nick Hayes and Emma Kernahan

IT FEELS LIKE SOMETHING OF a moment for me to cover a conversation between Emma Kernahan and Nick Hayes at day two of the NeoAncients festival 2025 on a sunny weekend in Stroud.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · May 30

Toxic pesticide levels found in tampons 40 times higher than legal limit for water

Glyphosate, an herbicide linked to cancer, is also abundant in the United States.

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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · May 30

After my post on vaccinating my children when they were babies, I got asked to have ‘nuanced’ convos with antivaxxers.

No.

I’m not platforming lies that led to the drop in vaccines, sick children with lifelong impacts and dead children.

Vaccines save lives and protect health.

Period.

We have had years of convos with antivaxxers as they rant on about pharma, toxicity etc. That's one reason vaccine uptake has dropped: we've been treating this like a topic to discuss. People are sick/ dying because of antivaxxers. Chatting with them more? That's how you want us to treat killers?

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Dr Adam Levy @climateadam.bsky.social · May 30

absolutely badass tool!

Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · May 30

Is it hot right now in the UK?

New interactive website allowing anyone to explore live temperatures hour-by-hour across the UK, and whether they are cool, warm or hot relative to normal.

istheukhotrightnow.com

Built by @roostweather.bsky.social.

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The i Paper @theipaper.com · May 13

Her happiness is dependent on their compassion and skills - yet the average pay for care workers is £11 an hour, less than you earn at a supermarket

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Text reads: My mother's in a care home. The system will collapse without immigrants Image:Christina Hopkinson: ‘We’ve had British born carers – some were fabulous, others were less than ideal’ (Photo: Tom Pilston)

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Amplify Stroud @amplifystroud.com · May 13

Tattie Baker, writing for The RYSE, finds out more.

A photograph of a young person, with short spiky hair and earrings. They are wearign a blue t-shirt under a charcoal hoodie and a silver necklace. They have a quizzical expression, part considerate, part smoiling. Overlaid on a pink panel is the following text: “Starting with the personal is great, so how do we open these conversations up further, to create the emotive spaces that we need, so we can talk about our grief over the climate emergency and those in other parts of the world who are dying from the overreach of UK arms industry.”  — Tattie Baker | The Ryse

Amplify Stroud @amplifystroud.com · May 13

One of the talks was about an ambition project from the minds of Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond, situationist anarchists. The People’s Pyramid is being built in Birkenhead one brick at a time from the cremated ashes of ordinary people to form an anti-capitalist monument for the generations.

A monochrome print of an artist's impression of the People's Pyramid. A towering structure made of 34,592 individual bricks containing cremated remains. Overlaid on a pink background is the following text: “The panel described the structure as “part manifesto, part peoples artwork”, intended to create situations of profound feelings – love and loss, grief and joy – attempting to open us up to talk about death in more honest and insightful ways. ” “Seeing projects like the The People's Pyramid tackle as deep and humbling topics as the end of life and still come away with rampant joy is delightful. ” — Tattie Baker | The Ryse

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Amplify Stroud @amplifystroud.com · May 13

NeoAncients is the Beltaine Festival of Weirdness that pops-up once a year in Stroud. Organised by Julie Howe, John Best and Ben Wardle, in partnership with “Weird Walk” magazine it presents a varied and eclectic diet of oddness and out-there events: dance, music, books, spoken word and comedy.

A bald man with a sharp beard holds a brick (off camera) in one hand and a microphone in the other. The light glistens off the top of his head. He is wearing a dark shirt and black jeans. Overlaid in a pink panel to the right is the following text: “Something that struck me about the speakers was how rascally they seemed, like they had never lost their sense of play. Call it a twinkle in their eyes. “They seemed completely convinced of their unserious-ness yet (un)grounded in deeply sincere work, calling potential mourners in with untethered joy and “ambient house residual sludge”.  — Tattie Baker | The Ryse

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Amplify Stroud @amplifystroud.com · May 13

MAY 2025
TATTIE BAKER | THE RYSE
NEOANCIENTS — THE PEOPLE’S PYRAMID

“Something that struck me about the speakers was how rascally they seemed, like they had never lost their sense of play. Call it a mischievous twinkle in their eyes.”
— Tattie Baker

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NeoAncients — The People's Pyramid

Something that stuck me about the speakers was how rascally they seemed, like they had never lost their sense of play. Call it a mischievous twinkle in their eyes.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · May 8

Helping people imagine lives without car dependency. Exciting to see this from @gregmarsden-leeds.bsky.social and crew
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Leeds residents to design alternatives to car ownership

A multimillion-pound project to encourage people in Leeds to design and try an alternative to private vehicle ownership has been announced by researchers.

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Amplify Stroud @amplifystroud.com · May 8

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#crafts #environment #nature
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