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Marco Cavallo’s Final Ride for All Freedoms

The final stages of Marco Cavallo’s journey have brought the blue horse to Brindisi and Bari, two strategic ports in southern Italy facing the Adriatic and looking towards Albania. From these shores, Italy is experimenting with the externalisation of borders…

From Asylums to Detention Centres: Marco Cavallo’s Long March Against Confinement

In Brindisi, Basaglia’s Twin “Blue Horses” Challenge the Adriatic Border A powerful symbol of the liberation of psychiatric asylums in the 1970s, Marco Cavallo, the celebrated “blue horse” born in Trieste, at the far north-eastern edge of the Italian peninsula,…

International Day of Action Against the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum in Brussels

On 10 April 2025, more than 200 people gathered at Place du Luxembourg in Brussels to protest against the consequences of the “EU Pact on Migration and Asylum”, approved precisely one year ago by the European Parliament. This demonstration, launched…

Students and professors in Albania mobilise to promote nuclear weapon ban

On November 19, 2015 at Aleksandër Moisiu University in Durrës, Albania 100 students of political sciences and law participated in an event organised for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) to raise awareness of the dangers posed by…

It’s not about you, me or ‘them’ – its about us.

A protest action is taking place mainly in Europe urging at least temporary placement of the now homeless Albanian Roma families that were put on the street August 7, 2013. This is when thirty-seven Roma families were forced out of…