Amplify Project

A project to amplify marginalised people’s voices through free training, mentoring, and paid publication.

Please see Amplify Q+A for more information.

Two maps of India split by a picture of the UK and a teapot pouring tea down the centre. On the left, old colonial map of British India. On the right, the 'Wastelands Atlas of India' map and a solar panel in the bottom right corner.

British colonial ‘wastelands’ system used for solar land-grabs in India

Hannah Sharland , 15th March 2023

Artwork of corporate colonialism in the Global South, depicting a wind energy land grab in Mexico. The image is split down the middle by a picture of the UK and UK bank notes flowing from it. On the left, a field of corn and a farmer walks along his crops. Trees in the distance. On the right, five wind turbines dominate the landscape. No high crops can be grown beneath them.

UK climate aid funding corporate colonialism in the Global South

Hannah Sharland , 8th March 2023

Artwork of a renewable energy land-grab in Nepal. The image is split in two by an basic image of the UK and UK bank notes flowing from it. On the left, terraced fields and a village on a green mountainside, where a lady harvests crops. On the right, a huge hydropower dam.

UK climate aid decimates multiple indigenous communities in the Global South

Hannah Sharland , 3rd March 2023

Artwork of a renewable energy land-grab. An image of the UK splits the image in half, with bank notes flowing from it. On the left, satellite image of the land before the solar park, plus a landscape scene of trees, grasses, scrub and a cow on common land. On the right, satellite image with the solar park dominating the area and a landscape image of a series of solar panels. This relates to UK climate finance being used in India

UK climate strategies are colonising indigenous villages in India

Hannah Sharland , 28th February 2023

Artwork of a solar land-grab. A yellow excavator runs through the centre of the image pushing rubble, splitting the picture in two. On the left, two farmers harvest from a field of chickpea crop. In the distance, a cow grazes on dry grasses. Trees and shrubs dot the horizon. On the right side, lines of solar panels stretch out to the horizon, where the rich and biodiverse crop field once existed. All this represents climate aid and the village of Badi in India

UK government climate ‘aid’ set to displace indigenous villagers in India

A picture of a Canary as word art for the Amplify programme

Talented writers: here’s why you should join the Canary’s Amplify scheme

Shah Jahan Mosque in Surrey representing a discussion on Muslim women

Muslim women call for male allies to step up in UK mosques

A picture of Coventry bin workers protesting in London

Coventry striking bin drivers win a pay rise

Karen Burns , 25th August 2022

An aerial shot of Leighton GRT site

Preston Traveller site to be run by co-operative after council intervenes

Richard Spence , 22nd July 2022

An image of music streaming sites logos

Suppression in the music industry leaves artists voiceless

Gav Pauze , 21st July 2022

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Government’s unlawful care home policies led to needless suffering and excess deaths

Andrew Melhuish , 19th July 2022

An image of Pride with the title Love Wins A community at risk

Love wins: a community at risk even during Pride?

Nathan Mann , 1st July 2022

More than a diagnosis, part 4: a whole-body approach to healing

Hannah Green , 30th June 2022

More than a diagnosis, part 3: the power of a new perspective

Hannah Green , 29th June 2022

More than a diagnosis, part 2: retraumatising women or dealing with the root cause?

Hannah Green , 28th June 2022

More than a diagnosis, part 1: trauma survivors are being retraumatised by mental health services

Hannah Green , 27th June 2022

Protestor being detained and carried away by police

Holyrood faces backlash over creeping authoritarianism in coronavirus bill

Mark Masson , 22nd April 2022