Jonida Gashi

London Consortium alumna. Researcher at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and the Study of Art, Tirana. Founder of DebatikCenter of Contemporary Art.

[Jonida Gashi @jonida_gashi]

This coming Monday, 31 July 2023, starting at 7pm, join us at ZETA Contemporary Art Center for the opening of Moving Billboard 2, the second chapter of the Eden, Eden, Eden exhibition, part of Manifesto Desertion.

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

“Today is the 40th day of continued protest,” says left-wing Albanian Parliament member Redi Muçi. “[It] has the potential, we feel, to bring down the government, and not just the government of Prime Minister Edi Rama, but the whole system that has been built for the past 35 years.”

The mass protests, known as the Flamingo Revolution, began as environmental demonstrations against plans for an Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner-backed luxury resort but have turned into the biggest uprising in Albania since the fall of communism in the early 1990s.

[David Adler @davidrkadler]

Good morning 🌞🇦🇱

Today, the @ProgIntl publishes Edi Rama Files 🚨, an explosive dossier that places Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama at the helm of an illicit real estate empire that stretches from the country’s coast to its capital.

Just last week, I was in Tirana to support the ‘Flamingo’ protest movement: Albanians rising up against the Trump family’s billion-dollar scheme to privatize their protected wetlands.

These files reveal the scheme as merely the tip of an iceberg — a sprawling system of permits, designations, and dispossession presided by one man: Edi Rama, the EU's darling.

The files are a forensic window into the political economy of kleptocracy on Europe's doorstep — and the first time these documents have been published and presented to an international audience.

So take a look — spread the word — and stand with the people of Albania as they take to the streets, day after day, to alert the world to Edi Rama's quiet but lethal coup against their country.

Read now ⏬
https://t.co/rO5QczxRce

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

"As the protesters carrying their pink flamingos make clear, Albania will not be sold—not to Trump, not to Kushner, not to anyone." https://t.co/k1cUl4GP6t

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

The Files expose a real estate network that spans from Albania's coastline to its capital, authorised by Prime Minister Edi Rama himself.

https://t.co/EDb8wvm0F9

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

REVEALED 🇦🇱 The Prime Minister Kingpin of Albania’s Shadowy Real Estate Empire.

Read The Edi Rama Files — compiled from explosive new court documents — online now.

[Palestinian Feminist Collective @PalFeminist]

This report comes at a time when it is crucial that we acknowledge and act against Israel's historical and present systemic sexualized and gendered violence. We must all stand against Israel's predatory actions against Palestinians as we fight for total liberation of Palestine.

[Palestinian Feminist Collective @PalFeminist]

This report exposes the relationship between Israel’s sexualized violence and the systematic targeting of reproductive health and freedom. The report shows that this violence is not incidental.

It is a systemic and historical mechanism of settler-colonial rule.

[Palestinian Feminist Collective @PalFeminist]

We are proud to announce the release of our groundbreaking report titled “A Predatory State: Israel's Systemic Sexualized and Gendered Violence Against Palestinians” in partnership with @ProgIntl. 

https://t.co/rxegiajIOg

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

ALBANIA IS NOT FOR SALE 🇦🇱 Inside the Trump-Kushner bid for Sazan Island and the Vjosa-Narta coast.

Read the investigation on the Reactionary International: https://t.co/GmuQ7s8mW1

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

REVEALED 🇦🇱 The transnational network behind Edi Rama's secret deal to sell Albania to the Trump family.

As Albanians rise up in the name of their national sovereignty, we dive into the hidden forces seeking to conquer their coastline.

Out now 👉 https://t.co/TVEVk8B4vK

[David Adler @davidrkadler]

Good morning 🌞 I am en route to Tirana with the @ProgIntl to work with @levizjabashke and the courageous people of Albania who are rising up — week after week — to resist the Trump-Kushner plans to colonize their coastline and their capital. More soon.

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

HAPPENING NOW 🇦🇱 Thousands of Albanians are marching under a single banner: Albania Is Not for Sale.

They are facing down the full weight of a government that rewrote its own laws to hand the coastline to Donald Trump’s son-in-law: Jared Kushner.

[عاتيق 𓂆 @qudratiKath]

dear palestinian cinema admirers, i recently discovered a google spreadsheet compiling the list of palestinian cinema index on letterboxd. The spreadsheet has downloadable links to over 700 docs and films.

Kindly, retweet and spread the word!

https://t.co/mihqpeg7gQ

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The New World (Dis)Order isn’t West vs the rest,North vs South. It’s UP vs DOWN: filthy rich vs everyone else, with a cohort of cowards, racists & opportunists in between, sustaining an imperial war-driven system bombing ppl into submission.
Time for an ethical course correction

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Il Board of Peace è l'antitesi delle Nazioni Unite: un comitato dominato da affaristi che si contenderanno le spoglie di un pezzo di terra strappato al suo popolo genocidato. Una vergogna.
"Dall'immobilismo all'immobiliarismo" (cit.)

[Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @Jairo_I_Funez]

The board of peace will only bring more death and destruction.

[Hala Jaber @HalaJaber]

⚠️ Reuters has now confirmed what many suspected.

In early 2024, U.S. diplomats blocked internal cables describing northern Gaza as an “Apocalyptic Wasteland.” The reports included harrowing details: human bones scattered in the streets, bodies left abandoned in cars, & a total collapse of access to food, clean water, and medical aid.

These cables were not speculation. They were based on first-hand field observations from U.N. agencies & humanitarian workers on the ground.

So why were they blocked?

Because they were considered “too graphic.”
Because they “lacked balance.”
Because they might make Israel look bad.

Senior officials at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, including Ambassador Jack Lew & Deputy Chief Stephanie Hallett, stopped the reports from reaching higher levels of the U.S. government. They feared the cables would contradict the administration’s public narrative & disrupt ongoing political cover for Israel’s actions in Gaza.

According to former officials, humanitarian experts were sidelined, ignored, & outright dismissed. Inside meetings, the question from officials was not how to respond to starvation, but reportedly, “Where are all the skinny kids?”

This was not merely policy misjudgment, but complicity on a grand scale.

The Biden administration had access to concrete evidence of mass death, starvation, & social collapse. Instead of sounding the alarm, it chose to suppress the truth to preserve its political position.

They did not just ignore the warnings. They buried them.

Let that sink in.

An exclusive by @mokhbersahafi
https://t.co/YXvrDs1EG7

[Jonida Gashi @jonida_gashi]

@tong_lam @nuitblancheTO @UofTCities @AI_UofT @Hist_Studies @UT_HistDept Congrats on the exhibition, @tong_lam!

[Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg]

Gaza has unravelled the world. It isn't Trump and it isn't craziness. It is the thoughtful, rational sentencing of a people to annihilation and the thoughtful, rational facilitation and continuation of this annihilation that have unravelled the world.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

The international fleet continues its proud, unwavering course toward Gaza, despite Israeli piracy and the interception of some ships.
​With dozens of vessels still sailing, including the entire Greek contingent, the Global Sumud Flotilla is now less than 44 nautical miles away.