Alice Franchini
@alicefranchini.bsky.social
PhD candidate in social movements studies at Scuola Normale Superiore | Co-founder & advocacy officer at EgyptWide | working on activism and civil society in the Mediterranean region, BHR (arms trade, energy).
Activist. Views mine.
lei / ləi
Activist. Views mine.
lei / ləi
Reposted by Alice Franchini
'Pick up the torch': The revival of Algerian feminist media - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/the-revival-of-algerian-feminist-media
'Pick up the torch': The revival of Algerian feminist media
A new generation of female journalists is using social media and magazines to give voice to Algerian women and denounce gender violence
www.middleeasteye.net
November 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM
'Pick up the torch': The revival of Algerian feminist media - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/the-revival-of-algerian-feminist-media
Reposted by Alice Franchini
What is happening in Darfur is utterly devastating, made more painful by how we all saw it coming. You can’t really say you didn’t know, but if you didn’t, read this:
An atrocity foretold: How the RSF siege of El Fasher turned into genocidal slaughter
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
An atrocity foretold: How the RSF siege of El Fasher turned into genocidal slaughter
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
An atrocity foretold: How the RSF siege of El Fasher turned into genocidal slaughter
Communication networks are down but a deluge of shocking videos point to mass killings on a devastating scale.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
November 5, 2025 at 8:12 AM
What is happening in Darfur is utterly devastating, made more painful by how we all saw it coming. You can’t really say you didn’t know, but if you didn’t, read this:
An atrocity foretold: How the RSF siege of El Fasher turned into genocidal slaughter
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
An atrocity foretold: How the RSF siege of El Fasher turned into genocidal slaughter
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
Reposted by Alice Franchini
#Brazil: Illegal cattle ranching has devastated territories in the #Amazon, right where #COP30 will be held
Some of that beef may have come into the EU - and keep coming if EU Deforestation Law #EUDR is delayed
New @hrw.org report: hrw.org/news/2025/10...
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
Some of that beef may have come into the EU - and keep coming if EU Deforestation Law #EUDR is delayed
New @hrw.org report: hrw.org/news/2025/10...
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
October 15, 2025 at 10:31 AM
#Brazil: Illegal cattle ranching has devastated territories in the #Amazon, right where #COP30 will be held
Some of that beef may have come into the EU - and keep coming if EU Deforestation Law #EUDR is delayed
New @hrw.org report: hrw.org/news/2025/10...
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
Some of that beef may have come into the EU - and keep coming if EU Deforestation Law #EUDR is delayed
New @hrw.org report: hrw.org/news/2025/10...
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
Reposted by Alice Franchini
Horrifying images coming out of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, this morning after a massive Russian drone and missile attack overnight.
As Syrians, we stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian nation, which is under terrorist attack.
Targeting residential neighborhoods is a war crime.
As Syrians, we stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian nation, which is under terrorist attack.
Targeting residential neighborhoods is a war crime.
September 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Horrifying images coming out of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, this morning after a massive Russian drone and missile attack overnight.
As Syrians, we stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian nation, which is under terrorist attack.
Targeting residential neighborhoods is a war crime.
As Syrians, we stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian nation, which is under terrorist attack.
Targeting residential neighborhoods is a war crime.
“This revelation highlights the continued presence of Western technology in Moscow's weapons, despite years of sanctions”
⚡️ Russian missile that hit government headquarters contained over 30 foreign-made parts, Ukraine says.
"Compared to missiles from previous years, there are fewer components from Europe and the U.S., and more from Russia and Belarus," presidential sanctions commissioner Vladyslav Vlasiuk said.
"Compared to missiles from previous years, there are fewer components from Europe and the U.S., and more from Russia and Belarus," presidential sanctions commissioner Vladyslav Vlasiuk said.
Russian missile that hit government headquarters contained over 30 foreign-made parts, Ukraine says
"Compared to missiles from previous years, there are fewer components from Europe and the U.S., and more from Russia and Belarus," presidential sanctions commissioner Vladyslav Vlasiuk said.
kyivindependent.com
September 9, 2025 at 7:12 AM
“This revelation highlights the continued presence of Western technology in Moscow's weapons, despite years of sanctions”
Reposted by Alice Franchini
ISA RC 47 “Social classes and social movements” invites:
🎙️ Lectio Magistralis by Geoffrey Pleyers, ISA President
“Social change is never linear. Social movements in polarized times”
🗓️ 9 September 2025
📍 University Guglielmo Marconi, Via Plinio 44, Rome & online
🔗 usgm.link/socialchange
🎙️ Lectio Magistralis by Geoffrey Pleyers, ISA President
“Social change is never linear. Social movements in polarized times”
🗓️ 9 September 2025
📍 University Guglielmo Marconi, Via Plinio 44, Rome & online
🔗 usgm.link/socialchange
Social change is never lineal. Social movements in polarized times
Lezione del Prof. Ceoff rey Pleyers
Social change is never lineal. Social movements in polarized times
-
Sito internet: https://www.unimarconi.it
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unimarconi/
Instagr...
usgm.link
September 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM
ISA RC 47 “Social classes and social movements” invites:
🎙️ Lectio Magistralis by Geoffrey Pleyers, ISA President
“Social change is never linear. Social movements in polarized times”
🗓️ 9 September 2025
📍 University Guglielmo Marconi, Via Plinio 44, Rome & online
🔗 usgm.link/socialchange
🎙️ Lectio Magistralis by Geoffrey Pleyers, ISA President
“Social change is never linear. Social movements in polarized times”
🗓️ 9 September 2025
📍 University Guglielmo Marconi, Via Plinio 44, Rome & online
🔗 usgm.link/socialchange
“[the] National Transitional Justice Authority […] is set to only investigate crimes committed by the Assad regime, excluding abuses by other parties. This undermines victims’ rights and any prospect for real accountability”
#Syria
timep.org/2025/08/28/o...
#Syria
timep.org/2025/08/28/o...
Only a Whole Truth and a Comprehensive Justice Can Heal a Divided Syria
Syria’s National Transitional Justice Authority is set to only investigate crimes committed by the Assad regime and not other violations committed by other parties. This undermines victims’ rights and...
timep.org
August 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
“[the] National Transitional Justice Authority […] is set to only investigate crimes committed by the Assad regime, excluding abuses by other parties. This undermines victims’ rights and any prospect for real accountability”
#Syria
timep.org/2025/08/28/o...
#Syria
timep.org/2025/08/28/o...
#ReArmEurope will impact European public spending, but what are the effects on the EU normative frameworks on #arms production and transfers?
An analysis of the new Common Position 2008/944/CFSP for IRIAD.
📌 www.archiviodisarmo.it/analisi-se-i...
#disarmament #armscontrol #europe
An analysis of the new Common Position 2008/944/CFSP for IRIAD.
📌 www.archiviodisarmo.it/analisi-se-i...
#disarmament #armscontrol #europe
Se il riarmo determina la normativa europea in materia di armamenti
www.archiviodisarmo.it
August 6, 2025 at 7:40 AM
#ReArmEurope will impact European public spending, but what are the effects on the EU normative frameworks on #arms production and transfers?
An analysis of the new Common Position 2008/944/CFSP for IRIAD.
📌 www.archiviodisarmo.it/analisi-se-i...
#disarmament #armscontrol #europe
An analysis of the new Common Position 2008/944/CFSP for IRIAD.
📌 www.archiviodisarmo.it/analisi-se-i...
#disarmament #armscontrol #europe
APPELLO della RUP al Presidente della Repubblica perché intervenga con assoluta urgenza e con ogni mezzo a disposizione per interrompere lo sterminio della popolazione di Gaza portato avanti da Israele.
📝 Testo della lettera e link per aderire: cloud.reterup.it/apps/forms/s...
📝 Testo della lettera e link per aderire: cloud.reterup.it/apps/forms/s...
RUP Cloud
cloud.reterup.it
July 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
APPELLO della RUP al Presidente della Repubblica perché intervenga con assoluta urgenza e con ogni mezzo a disposizione per interrompere lo sterminio della popolazione di Gaza portato avanti da Israele.
📝 Testo della lettera e link per aderire: cloud.reterup.it/apps/forms/s...
📝 Testo della lettera e link per aderire: cloud.reterup.it/apps/forms/s...
Mabruk to #SFHR on their report documenting hundreds of enforced disappearances in #Sinai and exposing Sisi’s “security campaign” for what it is: a ruthless exercise of power consolidation through state terror
🇪🇬 sinaifhr.org//upload//2gz...
🇬🇧 sinaifhr.org//upload//1lx...
🇪🇬 sinaifhr.org//upload//2gz...
🇬🇧 sinaifhr.org//upload//1lx...
sinaifhr.org
July 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Mabruk to #SFHR on their report documenting hundreds of enforced disappearances in #Sinai and exposing Sisi’s “security campaign” for what it is: a ruthless exercise of power consolidation through state terror
🇪🇬 sinaifhr.org//upload//2gz...
🇬🇧 sinaifhr.org//upload//1lx...
🇪🇬 sinaifhr.org//upload//2gz...
🇬🇧 sinaifhr.org//upload//1lx...
Reposted by Alice Franchini
🚨 #Syria is on the brink of civil war.
Join us in urging the UN to act immediately before it’s too late.
✍️Sign the petition and share widely:
act.thesyriacampaign.org/sign/prevent...
Join us in urging the UN to act immediately before it’s too late.
✍️Sign the petition and share widely:
act.thesyriacampaign.org/sign/prevent...
Call for action to prevent civil war in Syria: Sign this petition
The hope for a peaceful Syria rooted in justice hangs in the balance.
act.thesyriacampaign.org
July 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
🚨 #Syria is on the brink of civil war.
Join us in urging the UN to act immediately before it’s too late.
✍️Sign the petition and share widely:
act.thesyriacampaign.org/sign/prevent...
Join us in urging the UN to act immediately before it’s too late.
✍️Sign the petition and share widely:
act.thesyriacampaign.org/sign/prevent...
Reposted by Alice Franchini
In solidarity with the people of Suwayda and everywhere else where civilians live in fear for their lives, loved ones and homes.
Stop the killing. We want to build a Syria for all.
Stop the killing. We want to build a Syria for all.
July 16, 2025 at 12:23 PM
In solidarity with the people of Suwayda and everywhere else where civilians live in fear for their lives, loved ones and homes.
Stop the killing. We want to build a Syria for all.
Stop the killing. We want to build a Syria for all.
Reposted by Alice Franchini
NEW – Experts: Which climate tipping point is the most concerning? | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/LkitgK7
Read here: buff.ly/LkitgK7
July 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
NEW – Experts: Which climate tipping point is the most concerning? | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/LkitgK7
Read here: buff.ly/LkitgK7
Reposted by Alice Franchini
This is the only thing that matters. Nothing European politicians claim to believe in matters. The only thing that matters is what they’re doing.
UK: banning Palestine Action
France: tried to ban Soulèvements de la Terre
Hungary: banned Budapest Pride
EU: pulling funds from NGOs
Take your pick of fossil fuel companies: suing Greenpeace
The powerful don't like criticism, and will do whatever they can to silence protest
It's #TimeToResist
France: tried to ban Soulèvements de la Terre
Hungary: banned Budapest Pride
EU: pulling funds from NGOs
Take your pick of fossil fuel companies: suing Greenpeace
The powerful don't like criticism, and will do whatever they can to silence protest
It's #TimeToResist
Court attacks and defunding NGOs: a growing pattern of silencing protest in Europe
This week, Greenpeace had its first hearing in a Dutch court to use the EU’s new protections against these types of spurious lawsuits to shut down free speech – the first time this EU law will be put ...
euobserver.com
July 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This is the only thing that matters. Nothing European politicians claim to believe in matters. The only thing that matters is what they’re doing.
Reposted by Alice Franchini
Family and friends of Syrian activist Ali Mustafa, forcibly disappeared by Assad since 2013, gathered in Damascus to commemorate the first anniversary of his arrest since the fall of the tyrant, and to demand truth and justice for Ali and all of Syria’s disappeared.
📸 Ali Haj Sulieman
📸 Ali Haj Sulieman
July 4, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Family and friends of Syrian activist Ali Mustafa, forcibly disappeared by Assad since 2013, gathered in Damascus to commemorate the first anniversary of his arrest since the fall of the tyrant, and to demand truth and justice for Ali and all of Syria’s disappeared.
📸 Ali Haj Sulieman
📸 Ali Haj Sulieman
Still very relevant and insightful today, especially the considerations about campism and centring the agency of ordinary citizens and movements👇 🇸🇾
An interview with Joseph Daher on the revolution in Syria looking at the forces on the ground
Joseph Daher is a Swiss-Syrian academic and activist. He is the author of Syria After the Uprising: The Political Economy of State Resilience (Pluto, 2019)
anticapitalistresistance.org/understandin...
Joseph Daher is a Swiss-Syrian academic and activist. He is the author of Syria After the Uprising: The Political Economy of State Resilience (Pluto, 2019)
anticapitalistresistance.org/understandin...
Understanding the rebellion in Syria
This extensive interview with Joseph Daher
analyses the fall of Assad and the possibilities it opens up
anticapitalistresistance.org
July 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Still very relevant and insightful today, especially the considerations about campism and centring the agency of ordinary citizens and movements👇 🇸🇾
Shame on #EU
The full leaked EU report is now public - and it’s damning
Despite cowardly phrasing, the conclusion is clear: Israel is in breach of art. 2 of the Association Agreement
EU ministers meeting Monday must act accordingly, demand a suspension of the deal: euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
Despite cowardly phrasing, the conclusion is clear: Israel is in breach of art. 2 of the Association Agreement
EU ministers meeting Monday must act accordingly, demand a suspension of the deal: euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
June 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Shame on #EU
A precious reading on #ecocide and #oil, the “state within the state” in #Iraq by Azhar al Rubaie, Sara Manisera and Daniela Sala
@irpimedia.eu
🔗 irpimedia.irpi.eu/iraq-ecocidi...
@irpimedia.eu
🔗 irpimedia.irpi.eu/iraq-ecocidi...
June 6, 2025 at 7:10 AM
A precious reading on #ecocide and #oil, the “state within the state” in #Iraq by Azhar al Rubaie, Sara Manisera and Daniela Sala
@irpimedia.eu
🔗 irpimedia.irpi.eu/iraq-ecocidi...
@irpimedia.eu
🔗 irpimedia.irpi.eu/iraq-ecocidi...
An amazing resource on the political landscape in #Syria post-revolution and the struggle of Syrians for the future of their beautiful country👇
Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution is out!
In Episode 1, @leilashami.bsky.social @ayoub.bsky.social go through what the STIR podcast is about, and why Syria?
Available for free on Patreon and wherever you get your podcasts
www.patreon.com/posts/128666...
Part of @fromtheperiphery.com
In Episode 1, @leilashami.bsky.social @ayoub.bsky.social go through what the STIR podcast is about, and why Syria?
Available for free on Patreon and wherever you get your podcasts
www.patreon.com/posts/128666...
Part of @fromtheperiphery.com
June 2, 2025 at 8:50 AM
An amazing resource on the political landscape in #Syria post-revolution and the struggle of Syrians for the future of their beautiful country👇