Protest in Albania against work on luxury development linked to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner

[meganl@mas.to]

Albanian and EU scientists and environmentalists were raising alarm bells about the development in Albania for years before an event in May catalyzed the #FlamingoRevolution

One of those Albanian scientists has published a new paper: "On Spring Biodiversity And Natureconservation In The Vjosa Basin, Albania" which speaks of the results of the now-annual Science Week documenting the biodiversity of the Vjosa River Basin.

DOI: 10.70827/WYQC5783.2026.39.5

https://jns.edu.al/on-spring-biodiversity-and-natureconservation-in-the-vjosa-basin-albania/

#Albania #Corruption #Balkans #Europe #Environment #Science #Ecology #Biodiversity

[meganl@mas.to]

Day 48 of anti-corruption protest in Tirana, Albania

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTwfQsb2l_o

#Albania #USpol #Corruption #Balkans #Europe #FlamingoRevolution #Environment

[meganl@mas.to]

Day 49 of anti-corruption protest in Tirana, Albania, live as I post it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7gUm8Gxvc4 #Albania #Corruption #Balkans #Europe #FlamingoRevolution #Environment

[universidadxclima@mastodon.social]

Traducción: Científicos y ecologistas albaneses y UE llevan años dando la voz de alarma sobre el desarrollo en #Albania antes de que un suceso ocurrido en mayo catalizara la #FlamingoRevolution
Un científico albanés publica nuevo artículo: «Sobre la #biodiversidad primaveral y la conservación de la naturaleza en la cuenca del Vjosa, Albania», que recoge los resultados de la #Semanadela Ciencia, en la que se documenta la biodiversidad de la cuenca del río Vjosa
DOI: 10.70827/WYQC5783.2026.39.5

[universidadxclima@mastodon.social]

https://jns.edu.al/on-spring-biodiversity-and-natureconservation-in-the-vjosa-basin-albania/

#Albania #Corrupción #Balcanes #Europa #Medio ambiente #Ciencia #Ecología #Biodiversidad

[meganl@mas.to]

Day 50 of anti-corruption protests in Tirana, Albania

You have to admire how Albanians have gotten out on the streets in their hundreds and sometimes in the thousands for 50 days straight now. I've never witnessed anything that coalesced like this each day that lasted as long (that is, it's not an encampment or sit-in).

Looks like a light turnout tonight, but that's normal after a big weekend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAxpV1PiNfE

Albania #Corruption #Balkans #Europe #FlamingoRevolution #Environment

[selvari21106@mastodon.social]

@meganL so it's just their daily routine now? Wake up, get dressed, eat breakfast, brush teeth, go protest?

[meganl@mas.to]

Inside Albania’s biggest protests EVER: Why Gen Z is taking to the streets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqZNsShQnCk ##Corruption #Balkans #Europe #FlamingoRevolution #Environment #USpol

[meganl@mas.to]

@Selvari21106 This looks like it's a good recent report. The guy they're talking to is a very impressive orator (even though I don't understand much Albanian). It shows more behind the scenes stuff. (He has a good job by Albanian standards. The crowd is diverse in age and circumstances so remember not everyone is the same demographically...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqZNsShQnCk

[meganl@mas.to]

Day 51 of anti-corruption protest in Albania

51 ditë revoltë! Shqiptarët nuk ndalin rezistencën, kërkojnë dorëheqjen e Edi Ramës: Shqipëri e re!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHg66UvN_oI #Corruption #Balkans #Europe #FlamingoRevolution #Environment #USpol

[meganl@mas.to]

Day 52 of anti-corruption protest in Tirana, Albania.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdQ2MH6Ya-k #Albania #Corruption #Balkans #Europe #FlamingoRevolution #Environment #USpol

[meganl@mas.to]

Day 53 of anti-corruption protests in Tirana, Albania

Revolta në ditën e 53-të kundër qeverisë/ Shqiptarët kërkojnë dorëheqjen e panegociueshme të Ramës

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUwMcwn3DaE #Albania #Corruption #Balkans #Europe #FlamingoRevolution #Environment

[meganl@mas.to]

Day 54 of anti-corruption protest in Tirana, Albania

I'm not sure what happened, but it seems like police have ramped up their response again.

Protests mostly have been happening in the evenings, but there have been day events when protestors have had to support protestors cops brutalized and snatched away, and also when there are particular Parliamentary events where the protestors want to confront MPs with their corruption.

#Albania #Corruption #Balkans #Europe #FlamingoRevolution #Environment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FES5uF0hXhs

[meganl@mas.to]

Machine translation: "Elderly woman tries to block the road, police drag her away. Here's what happens at the protest in front of the Parliament
Jul 23, 2026 at 9:32 AM
A moment of tension was recorded during the protest in front of the Parliament, where an elderly woman tried to block the Elbasan road, while she was faced with the intervention of police forces. According to footage from the scene, the officers intervened to remove the woman from the blocked area, dragging her on the asphalt. While earlier"

https://www.balkanweb.com/live-e-moshuara-tenton-te-bllokoje-rrugen-policia-e-terheq-zvarre-ja-cfare-ndodh-ne-protesten-para-kuvendit/#gsc.tab=0
#Albania #Corruption #Balkans #Europe #FlamingoRevolution #Environment

[meganl@mas.to]

Machine translation of headline: Protesters tried to cross the fence, pepper spray and tear gas were used on citizens, they responded with eggs

https://www.balkanweb.com/tensione-dhe-kaos-prane-kuvendit-protestuesit-tentuan-te-kalonin-gardhin-uje-me-piper-dhe-gaz-lotsjelles-ndaj-qytetareve-ata-pergjigjen-me-veze/#gsc.tab=0

#Albania #Corruption #Balkans #Europe #FlamingoRevolution #Environment

[meganl@mas.to]

July 16, 2026 “The Command and Control Center, inaugurated today, lies at the heart of a new philosophy and approach adopted by the Albanian government toward public safety. The ‘Smart City’ program is not merely a camera project. Anyone who sees it that way is either deliberately downplaying it or has not yet understood its true scope,” Lamallari said.

The minister explained that the system is built on three integrated components: information sources distributed across the country, a centralized command and control platform, and artificial intelligence that analyzes incoming data in real time."
#Corruption #Surveillance #Albania #FlamingoRevolution https://euronews.al/en/rama-and-lamallari-present-smart-city-command-and-control-center-system-detects-threats-in-real-time/

[meganl@mas.to]

It must be said that while the #FlamingoRevolution is a big tent movement, most of its real movers & shakers are....students and student age.

#Protest #Privacy #Corruption #Surveillance #Albania

[meganl@mas.to]

Machine translation of headline: "Barbaric violence against citizens during the protest, protesters throw eggs and police use tear gas"

Surprisingly, this network calls out that the cops were prepared to be violent and that plainclothes cops were planted in the crowd, but crossed over once their buddies started shit.

They say the cops were also trying to keep the media from getting outside of the corral and filming what was happening to protestors.

They targeted press.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUNDENanAdk #Albania #Corruption #Balkans #Europe #FlamingoRevolution #Environment

[meganl@mas.to]

Machine translated: "Edi Rama's police have arrested, using violence, one of the biggest activists of the civic reaction that has been going on for 54 days.

Edison Lika, one of the coordinators of the protest, has been arrested.

Dozens of police in suits rushed at him and dragged the protester away.

Even the reaction of those who were near him could not stop the revenge of Rama's police."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SycPHYx8Tw4

https://www.syri.net/amp/index.php?id=905089

#Albania #Corruption #Balkans #Europe #FlamingoRevolution #Environment

[meganl@mas.to]

“Protesta 54-ditore ua prishi rehatinë politikës”/ Gazetari: Rama në hall, Berisha në grackë

“The 54-day protest ruined the comfort of politics”/ Journalist: Rama in trouble, Berisha in a trap

Journalist who's been covering the protests since the beginning gives his analysis of how it's developed and what happened today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q71ZCqechno

#Albania #Corruption #Balkans #Europe #FlamingoRevolution #Environment