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New fronts in the Flamingo Revolution. 75th day of protest

More days and weeks have passed, and the protest has entered its third month. Today, the “Flamingo Revolution” marks its 75th consecutive day. Despite the heat and the holiday season, Albania remains gripped by a mobilization that has not lost…

Hundreds of the Albanian Diaspora Expected in Tirana for Day 76 of Flamingo Revolution Protests

After 76 days of peaceful protest against the government and development projects linked to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, the Flamingo Revolution movement awaits the arrival of hundreds of diaspora members on August 14, 15, and 16, who will join…

The Flamingo Revolution continues despite arrests and intimidation

On July 23—now the 54th day of the protest—demonstrations took place not only at the usual afternoon time but also in the morning, starting at 8:00 AM, in front of Parliament. Several hundred people gathered around the building while a…

35th Day of Protests in Tirana

This Saturday, too, the challenge was met, and the Flamingo Revolution continues to soar. The square was filled with a sea of tens of thousands of people who had come from all over. On Thursday, July 2, clashes broke out…

Albania: Protests in Tirana Against Kushner’s Mega Tourism Project

For the second day in a row, thousands of people gathered in Tirana to protest a luxury tourism project on Sazan Island, a protected national park. The project has been granted “strategic investor” status, which guarantees special privileges and expedited…

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…