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.
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Activist. Views mine.
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A precious reading on #ecocide and #oil, the “state within the state” in #Iraq by Azhar al Rubaie, Sara Manisera and Daniela Sala
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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
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The #OHCHR report on the Impact of Arms Transfers on Human Rights is out!
So honored by the inclusion of #EgyptWide ‘s contribution on the “revolving doors” in state authorisation processes and licensed #arms production offshore.
🇪🇺 exporters, we see you!
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So honored by the inclusion of #EgyptWide ‘s contribution on the “revolving doors” in state authorisation processes and licensed #arms production offshore.
🇪🇺 exporters, we see you!
🔗 documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ge...
April 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The #OHCHR report on the Impact of Arms Transfers on Human Rights is out!
So honored by the inclusion of #EgyptWide ‘s contribution on the “revolving doors” in state authorisation processes and licensed #arms production offshore.
🇪🇺 exporters, we see you!
🔗 documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ge...
So honored by the inclusion of #EgyptWide ‘s contribution on the “revolving doors” in state authorisation processes and licensed #arms production offshore.
🇪🇺 exporters, we see you!
🔗 documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ge...
@adalahjustice.bsky.social launched a petitition in support of Palestine advocate #MahmoudKhalil facing arbitrary detention & risk of deportation from the #USA over his activism at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social.
#StopGenocide, free 🇵🇸 & all political prisoners!
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#StopGenocide, free 🇵🇸 & all political prisoners!
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March 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
@adalahjustice.bsky.social launched a petitition in support of Palestine advocate #MahmoudKhalil facing arbitrary detention & risk of deportation from the #USA over his activism at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social.
#StopGenocide, free 🇵🇸 & all political prisoners!
actionnetwork.org/letters/rele...
#StopGenocide, free 🇵🇸 & all political prisoners!
actionnetwork.org/letters/rele...
Licensed/offshore arms production is the manufacturing of existing models by another firm/state via trade of property rights. It is the case of the Egyptian #Helwan920 machine gun, an adaptation of the FN MAG by #Herstal, now largely in use to army & ANSAs in #Sinai.
February 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Licensed/offshore arms production is the manufacturing of existing models by another firm/state via trade of property rights. It is the case of the Egyptian #Helwan920 machine gun, an adaptation of the FN MAG by #Herstal, now largely in use to army & ANSAs in #Sinai.
#LicenseToAbuse started from a simple question: if transfers of arms are internationally regulated, why production lines and property rights are (almost) not?
So we documented the consequences of this gap looking at 🇪🇬 +🇧🇪 deals, and demand that policymakers now answer that question
So we documented the consequences of this gap looking at 🇪🇬 +🇧🇪 deals, and demand that policymakers now answer that question
February 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
#LicenseToAbuse started from a simple question: if transfers of arms are internationally regulated, why production lines and property rights are (almost) not?
So we documented the consequences of this gap looking at 🇪🇬 +🇧🇪 deals, and demand that policymakers now answer that question
So we documented the consequences of this gap looking at 🇪🇬 +🇧🇪 deals, and demand that policymakers now answer that question
Our report coming Feb24 explores the issue of #offshore licensed #arms production, an established trend in global arms production and transfers which remains under the radar of policymakers but significantly contributes to proliferation and lethal violence.
#LicenseToAbuse
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February 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Our report coming Feb24 explores the issue of #offshore licensed #arms production, an established trend in global arms production and transfers which remains under the radar of policymakers but significantly contributes to proliferation and lethal violence.
#LicenseToAbuse
Egyptwide.org
CNAPD.be
#LicenseToAbuse
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🇧🇪 Despite the EU arms embargo of 2013, Walloon Decree of 2012, and the #ATT, Walloon arms manufacturers consolidated business ties with Sisi’s Egypt for years, supplying weapons, ammo, and components currently in use to the Egyptian army in #Sinai.
💡New report coming 24/02 on egyptwide.org
💡New report coming 24/02 on egyptwide.org
February 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
🇧🇪 Despite the EU arms embargo of 2013, Walloon Decree of 2012, and the #ATT, Walloon arms manufacturers consolidated business ties with Sisi’s Egypt for years, supplying weapons, ammo, and components currently in use to the Egyptian army in #Sinai.
💡New report coming 24/02 on egyptwide.org
💡New report coming 24/02 on egyptwide.org
#EGYPES2025 has been the theatre of another triumph of #ENI ‘s greenwashing strategy that capitalizes on escalating tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean, while #Egypt consolidates international leverage thanks to #LNG exports while unable to achieve energy security.
Neoliberalism at its finest
Neoliberalism at its finest
February 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
#EGYPES2025 has been the theatre of another triumph of #ENI ‘s greenwashing strategy that capitalizes on escalating tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean, while #Egypt consolidates international leverage thanks to #LNG exports while unable to achieve energy security.
Neoliberalism at its finest
Neoliberalism at its finest
SESAMO denounces the threat to academic freedom posed by Law bill 1236, particularly under art.31 which commits universities & research institutes to cooperate with the secret services.
In short, another repressive device against engaged research & mobilisation.
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In short, another repressive device against engaged research & mobilisation.
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January 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
SESAMO denounces the threat to academic freedom posed by Law bill 1236, particularly under art.31 which commits universities & research institutes to cooperate with the secret services.
In short, another repressive device against engaged research & mobilisation.
👉 www.sesamoitalia.it/ddl-sicurezz...
In short, another repressive device against engaged research & mobilisation.
👉 www.sesamoitalia.it/ddl-sicurezz...
Verità e giustizia per #RamyelGaml, ucciso a 19 anni da profilazione razziale e brutalità della polizia in Italia.
Truth and justice for Ramy el Gaml, killed at the age of 19 by racial profiling and police brutality in Italy.
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Truth and justice for Ramy el Gaml, killed at the age of 19 by racial profiling and police brutality in Italy.
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January 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Verità e giustizia per #RamyelGaml, ucciso a 19 anni da profilazione razziale e brutalità della polizia in Italia.
Truth and justice for Ramy el Gaml, killed at the age of 19 by racial profiling and police brutality in Italy.
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Truth and justice for Ramy el Gaml, killed at the age of 19 by racial profiling and police brutality in Italy.
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No matter what is to come, Syria’s liberation from the Assad family’s half-century long reign of terror deserves celebration and the Syrian people, so long betrayed by the international community, deserve unconditional solidarity in their quest for freedom and dignity.
#Syria
Art by Hani Abbas
#Syria
Art by Hani Abbas
December 8, 2024 at 8:03 AM
No matter what is to come, Syria’s liberation from the Assad family’s half-century long reign of terror deserves celebration and the Syrian people, so long betrayed by the international community, deserve unconditional solidarity in their quest for freedom and dignity.
#Syria
Art by Hani Abbas
#Syria
Art by Hani Abbas
However, the EAF operate under a regime of unaccountability which doesn’t prevent + sanction breaches of IHL/IHRL, and cases such as the Maspero massacre and Operation SIRLI show why the distinction between lethal/non-lethal arms is inadequate to prevent civilian harm.
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December 2, 2024 at 1:46 PM
However, the EAF operate under a regime of unaccountability which doesn’t prevent + sanction breaches of IHL/IHRL, and cases such as the Maspero massacre and Operation SIRLI show why the distinction between lethal/non-lethal arms is inadequate to prevent civilian harm.
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The package shall cover the cost of services and training at request of the EAF + the purchase of “non-lethal” materials produced by French group DCI (which the EU also put in charge of the provision of arms to 🇯🇴 , 🇨🇮, 🇸🇴 and has previously collaborated in training EAF personnel).
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December 2, 2024 at 1:40 PM
The package shall cover the cost of services and training at request of the EAF + the purchase of “non-lethal” materials produced by French group DCI (which the EU also put in charge of the provision of arms to 🇯🇴 , 🇨🇮, 🇸🇴 and has previously collaborated in training EAF personnel).
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Per questo, per altro, per tutto.
For decent working conditions in healthcare & education, for #GKN, for #FreePalestine, for an education sector free from the military-industrial complex, for #RamyelGaml, died at the hand of police officers in Milan.
For all of this, and so much more.
For decent working conditions in healthcare & education, for #GKN, for #FreePalestine, for an education sector free from the military-industrial complex, for #RamyelGaml, died at the hand of police officers in Milan.
For all of this, and so much more.
November 29, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Per questo, per altro, per tutto.
For decent working conditions in healthcare & education, for #GKN, for #FreePalestine, for an education sector free from the military-industrial complex, for #RamyelGaml, died at the hand of police officers in Milan.
For all of this, and so much more.
For decent working conditions in healthcare & education, for #GKN, for #FreePalestine, for an education sector free from the military-industrial complex, for #RamyelGaml, died at the hand of police officers in Milan.
For all of this, and so much more.
In the absence of evidence, the article goes as far as indicating social media posts as a source of threat. This way the dehumanising narrative of Arab/Muslim “barbarism” spreads unquestioned and uncensored, from Israel back to Europe and the West, entrenching racism, consolidating impunity.
November 25, 2024 at 11:51 AM
In the absence of evidence, the article goes as far as indicating social media posts as a source of threat. This way the dehumanising narrative of Arab/Muslim “barbarism” spreads unquestioned and uncensored, from Israel back to Europe and the West, entrenching racism, consolidating impunity.
Jasbir K. Puar denounced the co-optation of #queerliberation struggles by Western imperialism coining the term “homonationalism”. #Israel, a world leader in this practice, uses #rainbowashing to dehumanise #Palestinians, contributing in turn to the dehumanisation of Arabs & Muslims in the “West”.
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November 25, 2024 at 11:15 AM
Jasbir K. Puar denounced the co-optation of #queerliberation struggles by Western imperialism coining the term “homonationalism”. #Israel, a world leader in this practice, uses #rainbowashing to dehumanise #Palestinians, contributing in turn to the dehumanisation of Arabs & Muslims in the “West”.
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New to Bluesky, will share here a few things done recently:
💡co-founded EgyptWide.org (yes I’m the 🇮🇹 quota) 2021
✊ #Florence student encampment for #Palestine🇵🇸 (from a disabled perspective)
🖊️ campaigning against cross-border bombings in 🇮🇶Kurdistan with #ICSSI since 2020
💡co-founded EgyptWide.org (yes I’m the 🇮🇹 quota) 2021
✊ #Florence student encampment for #Palestine🇵🇸 (from a disabled perspective)
🖊️ campaigning against cross-border bombings in 🇮🇶Kurdistan with #ICSSI since 2020
November 14, 2024 at 9:44 AM
New to Bluesky, will share here a few things done recently:
💡co-founded EgyptWide.org (yes I’m the 🇮🇹 quota) 2021
✊ #Florence student encampment for #Palestine🇵🇸 (from a disabled perspective)
🖊️ campaigning against cross-border bombings in 🇮🇶Kurdistan with #ICSSI since 2020
💡co-founded EgyptWide.org (yes I’m the 🇮🇹 quota) 2021
✊ #Florence student encampment for #Palestine🇵🇸 (from a disabled perspective)
🖊️ campaigning against cross-border bombings in 🇮🇶Kurdistan with #ICSSI since 2020