Selita’s second-hand market is demolished despite residents’ resistance

Residents from river communities across Albania gathered outside the Prime Minister’s Office under the call “No HEC in our rivers.” The action joined local struggles over drinking water, farmland, and...

Residents from Zall-Gjoçaj and surrounding villages gathered near the water source to stop construction work on a hydropower project. They said the source was essential for farming and daily life...

Residents from four Mat villages met in Kamza with EcoAlbania to discuss opposition to two hydropower projects inside the protected area. Residents described a resistance tent at the planned water...

With market trading and recycling work curtailed by pandemic restrictions, Roma and Egyptian residents of Selita made a video protest asking institutions for food assistance. Their action showed how a...

Municipal authorities gave traders in Selita an ultimatum to clear a second-hand clothing market that provided income for about 30 families, many Roma and Egyptian. Residents resisted the demolition...

LGBTQ+ organizers continued Pride online during social distancing, treating the annual gathering as an ongoing process of solidarity rather than a single street event. More than 100 activists and...

Activists and residents marched from Fushë-Arrëz Municipality to a branch of the Fan i Madh River after pollution linked to a copper processing plant. The protest was called “Don’t Kill Our Children”;...

Residents traveled from Mat to Tirana’s Pyramid Square to protest hydropower construction inside their protected area, despite COVID restrictions on gatherings. They framed the protest as a last...

Oil refinery workers from Ballsh and their supporters gathered outside the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure to demand wages they said had been unpaid for more than two years. Workers described...

Residents and activists organized a symbolic protest near the Flim and Urakë rivers as dam works advanced. A community performance of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People turned art into...