The activists will travel towards Vlora, where protests have formed around the so-called “Flamingo Revolution”, a protest opposing controversial luxury tourism developments along Albania’s southern coast. “I am part of the Albanian diaspora in Italy. “And this is where, for me, memory meets what is happening today with the Flamingo Revolution and why we decided to sail. Italian-Albanian and Global Sumud Flotilla activists say these struggles are connected to the broader question of who controls Mediterranean land and resources. “The fact that a piece of the Albanian diaspora is returning in support of the Flamingo Revolution, using boats born from solidarity with Palestine, is very powerful,” La Piccirella added.