"Ne u dhamë ujë për të pirë, ata na dhunuan”, protestuesi: Policia tentoi të na provokojë!"

GT keeps translating 'dhunuan' as 'rape', but I'm guessing assault is a better translation.

According to one of the speakers, they were able to pressure the release of the arrested protestors.

One advantage of a video like this is because it's not live, you can use machine-translated craptions on it to get the gist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kexk9xkCdH8
#Corruption #Balkans #Europe #Democracy #Resistance #FlamingoRevolution #Albania

Protesters demand that SPAK investigate Rama/Activist submits “Albanian Files” to the Prosecutor's Office

"Protestuesit kërkojnë që SPAK të hetojë Ramën/ Aktivistja dorëzon në Prokurori “Albanian Files”"

Protestors say that peaceful protestors were assaulted by state police yesterday, arrested and separated to 3 different police stations. MPs from the Mundësia Party went to find out where they were and to press for their release. Protestors at that time said they would meet at SPAK, which is an Albanian state anti-corruption investigation unit, to demand that an investigation be launched. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Structure_against_Corruption_and_Organized_Crime

I think not everyone believes they'll actually do impartial investigation & enforcement, but folks are observing the de jure process.

The protestor here has very poised answers to questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31SGI2fUG7c

#Corruption #Balkans #Europe #Democracy #Resistance #FlamingoRevolution #Albania

RE: https://mas.to/@meganL/116844183686394975

The protestor/spokesperson at the mic was asked what organization they've done since they're calling for Rama's resignation and a transitional government. What do they intend for this transitional government? Are the intellectuals supportive, have the called on the expertise of intellectuals?

She had good answers for their strategic communications needs at this time, I think.

They are also continuing the protest at 7pm as usual (people start gathering at the square around 6pm). It's the 32nd day of protests.

#Corruption #Balkans #Europe #Democracy #Resistance #FlamingoRevolution #Albania

Megan Lynch (she/her) » 🌐 2026-07-01 / 2026-07-01
@meganL@mas.to

Protesters demand that SPAK investigate Rama/Activist submits “Albanian Files” to the Prosecutor's Office

"Protestuesit kërkojnë që SPAK të hetojë Ramën/ Aktivistja dorëzon në Prokurori “Albanian Files”"

Protestors say that peaceful protestors were assaulted by state police yesterday, arrested and separated to 3 different police stations. MPs from the Mundësia Party went to find out where they were and to press for their release. Protestors at that time said they would meet at SPAK, which is an Albanian state anti-corruption investigation unit, to demand that an investigation be launched. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Structure_against_Corruption_and_Organized_Crime

I think not everyone believes they'll actually do impartial investigation & enforcement, but folks are observing the de jure process.

The protestor here has very poised answers to questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31SGI2fUG7c

#Corruption #Balkans #Europe #Democracy #Resistance #FlamingoRevolution #Albania

This article covers a view of the causes for protest that I have not been exposed to before.

it is a very politically diverse group of protestors. The writers here are Albanian intellectuals.

https://untoldmag.org/albania-solidarity-protests-palestine/
#Corruption #Balkans #Europe #Democracy #Resistance #FlamingoRevolution #Albania #Palestine

Day 32 of anti-corruption protest in Tirana, Albania.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDaLBoWG76w #Corruption #Balkans #Europe #Democracy #Resistance #FlamingoRevolution #Albania

Machine translation: Extreme measures in anticipation of the protest, armored cars and water cannons deployed at Parliament

"Masa ekstreme në pritje të protestës, autoblinda dhe autoboti me ujë vendosen te Parlamenti "

It looks like the state is preparing to be violent tonight.

EDIT: The channel took the video down which showed the State Police's water cannon trailer. It had no voice comment. It has replaced it with another video and thus I've substituted that link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRtqEYuwX38

#Corruption #Balkans #Europe #Democracy #Resistance #FlamingoRevolution #Albania

"Ivanka Trump’s hotel project sparks mass protests: "Albania is not for sale" | kulturzeit"

Report in German. This is a good report.

Noteworthy for interviewing a wheelchair-using Albanian. There have been disabled people protesting as well. It's a very diverse protest with diverse issues and politics. The corrupt fast tracking of development of public land by Kushner, et al is really just a match that lit the powderkeg. The fuel has been stacking up for a while. Protestors want the prime minister to resign, all corrupt government members to resign, for there to be a temporary caretaker government while the Albanian People decide how they want democracy to be structured. They want accountability.

#Corruption #Balkans #Europe #Democracy #Resistance #FlamingoRevolution #Albania #Albanien

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izo1WqocKOI

Machine translation: Clash of tensions before Parliament, plenary session begins / Protesters' call: "Parliament of crime"

"Përplasje e tensioneve para Kuvendit, nis seanca plenare/ Protestuesit thirrje: Parlament i krimit"

The cops are out in force, standing behind barricades and massing near their vans.

Protestors were scheduled to protest outside SPAK and Parliament at 10am this morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nLgmyyJiy8 #Corruption #Balkans #Europe #Democracy #Resistance #FlamingoRevolution #Albania

A quotation from Harry Commager

But if our democracy is to flourish it must have criticism, if our government is to function it must have dissent. Only totalitarian governments insist upon conformity and they — as we know — do so at their peril. Without criticism abuses will go unrebuked; without dissent our dynamic system will become static. The American people have a stake in the maintenance of the most thorough-going inquisition into American institutions. They have a stake in nonconformity, for they know that the American genius is nonconformist.

Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1947-09), “Who Is Loyal to America?” sec. 3, Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168

More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #harrycommager #Americans #criticism #democracy #dissent #feedback #government #nonconformity #selfcorrection #totalitarianism

✊️ It's time to reclaim the word "Palantir" for J.R.R. Tolkien: a humanist breakdown of surveillance architecture https://www.zig.art/p/its-time-to-reclaim-the-word-palantir

#tolkien #palantir #ai #surveillance #democracy

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Thiel's secret society, 20 years of silence, cracked open because someone left the member directory in a webpage's source code. The panopticon-builders can't run a firewall.

#Politics #Surveillance #Resist #Democracy #P...”

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The plot against Palestine Action

"British courts have upheld the proscription of Palestine Action & sentenced four of its activists as terrorists."

"A series of abuses of legal process ensured these outcomes were all but predetermined."

Official repression culminated this week with the Court of Appeal upholding the government’s 2025 "proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organization."

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/

#UKPol #USPol #EUPol #palestine #palestineAction #news #democracy .

Alt...

Palestine Action demo

Was Hobbes Right in Leviathan? Only partially.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/hobbes-was-right?r=pvxh5

#philosophy #blog #history #reading #substack #monarchy #democracy #history #books #politics #governance #empire #nature #foundation #anarchy #Leviathan #Hobbes #violence

Data Privacy is not just about privacy.

Data privacy is also about safety, about democracy, about diversity, about equality, about empathy, and, perhaps most important of all, about consent.

When you fight for privacy rights, you also fight for all of the above. You fight for a better freer and safer society for all.

#Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy

Anyone asserting encryption is a tool for crime is either painfully misinformed or is attempting to manipulate legislators to gain oppressive power over the people.

Encryption is not a crime,
encryption is a shield.

Encryption protects you from cyberattack, identity theft, discrimination, doxxing, stalking, sexual violence, physical harm, and much more.

For safety, for privacy, for democracy, and for all our human rights, it's critical that we defend our right to encryption.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/11/encryption-is-not-a-crime/

#Privacy #Encryption #DigitalRights #HumanRights #Democracy #RootForE2EE

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/116764928310205984

You know what they call someone who sits at the same table as a fascist? A fascist.

“…Kaja Kallas - Vice President, European Commission. Fmr. Prime Minister, Estonia…”

CC @EUCommission Hey folks, how was Peter Thiel’s fascist party? Did Kaja enjoy it? Did she learn anything she can bring back to the EU?

#fascism #PeterThiel #KajaKallas #EUCommission #Palantir #humanRights #democracy

Report: Palestine Action : The UK Court of Appeal says the govt's Palestine Action ban is lawful.

It overturned an earlier High Court ruling that the govt's ban was "unlawful & discriminatory".

The High Court had said the govt ban was a breach of the European Convention of Human Rights regarding freedom of expression & peaceful assembly & also was inconsistent with UK govt policy.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-court-appeal-rules-favour-government-ban-palestine-action-uk-court-appeal-overturns

#UKPol #USPol #EUPol #news #palestine #palestineAction #Autocracy #Democracy #racism .

You Can’t Have Both Democracy and Billionaires

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/you-cant-have-both-democracy-and-billionaires

#politics #democracy #classwar #culture #wealth

In a parallel universe somewhere, all of the non-fascist-led Western nations conspired together behind the scenes to use the push for age verification as a way to free their citizens from all US platforms, and migrate them to the fediverse and FOSS en massé in a well conceived & perfectly executed stunning maneuver.

#politics #privacy #democracy

Do not provide your ID or facial scan to access social media.

I repeat, do NOT provide your ID or facial scan to access social media when requested.

This is not a drill.

If everyone refuse to comply, and let their accounts dormant instead, I promise you the platforms themselves, with their immense budget and network of lobbyists, are going to fight these absurd laws to recover their users.

They need you more than you need them.
Make them fight for your rights.
Do not comply.
Spread the word and boycott ID checks ✊

#StopIDSurveillance #AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy #Safety #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism

1/2 YES! I have been looking for something like this brilliant talk by @carissaveliz , that explains in a clear way exactly why democracy dies as privacy is taken away from us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPRouBvgFE

She is also spot on about how technology is not completely neutral. Pots and pans invite you to make food. Guns don't. In the same way, digitization and surveillance tech invites people to spy on others.

#privacy #democracy #surveillance

#AI data centers stealing your job, stealing our water, taking our electricity, building more effing carbon burners and stealing our climate, stealing our data, stealing privacy, stealing our democracy.

JFC

NO.

Time to end this nonsense.

Seriously. No. Let's not do this.

Let's STOP this, end this.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/130-billion-in-data-center-projects-blocked-by-protests-so-far-this-year/

#survielence #privacy #democracy #inflation #coup #techBro

A quotation from Adlai Stevenson

If I were to attempt to put my political philosophy tonight into a single phrase, it would be this: Trust the people. Trust their good sense, their decency, their fortitude, their faith. Trust them with the facts. Trust them with the great decisions. And fix as our guiding star the passion to create a society where people can fulfill their own best selves — where no American is held down by race or color, by worldly condition or social status, from gaining what his character earns him as an American citizen, as a human being and as a child of God.

Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1956-09-13), “Democratic and Republican Administrations,” Pennsylvania Farm Show, Harrisburg

More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaistevenson #character #democracy #opportunity #progress #thepeople #wethepeople #equality

But even Christians have their idols (dogmas, creedos, liturgies, customs, rituals) that blind them to the one and only one truth.

"My people perish for lack of knowledge ..."

Instead many Christians believe they have chosen the right narrow path, which is just one lane in the broad road superhighway to hell.

Real democracy for electing rulers is done by lottery, not by party ballot. Every citizen puts a name in the ballot box and then a random name is selected, and the candidate is examined. If the candidate passes muster, then he is the one put in the office. No campaigns, no campaign finance, no speeches, none of that garbage has any place in actual democracy.

The Bible has multiple instances in the law of God for casting lots (lottery) to choose a leader or successor for an office. That is real democracy. The Greeks called ballots for party or public candidate by a Greek word: Oligarchy.

Everyone who calls elections by the name of democracy doesn't know what democracy is. Democracy is not the 'choice of the people' but rather the 'random choice of God' from among the people. This is how the Greeks and Israelites originally practiced democratic elections. The idea of 'running for office' was anciently seen as a form of insurrection or oligarchy, not democracy.

#Democracy #Elections #Oligarchy #Vote #Government