{"id":1189,"date":"2017-06-12T13:58:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T13:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stefaniamizara.com\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:37:03","slug":"kitchen-soup-in-athens-part-of-the-web-documentary-democracy-game-over-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefaniamizara.com\/?p=1189","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen Soup in Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1189\" class=\"elementor elementor-1189\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-649190f9 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"649190f9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-800c1b5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"800c1b5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>During the summer of 2011 Athenians went on the streets and occupied Syntagma square for almost three months. They wanted to protest against the agreements that were signed on the austerity measures but soon they discovered that their quest was directed against the political system and the way Greek society is living with it. The slogan was \u201cAmesi Dimocratia\u201d meaning \u201cDirect Democracy\u201d.<br \/>Within the two months of the occupation of Syntagma Square, the occupants formed different working groups to assure food, security, medical help, entertainment\/art creation and communication.<br \/>The Syntagma movement unveiled the need of Greek society to restructure the social bonds between the people within the urban environment.<br \/>Several months later, in autumn 2011 while the political situation in Greece has been stabilized in a precarious way but without giving any solution in a social level, some of these groups, formed during the summer, start social action.<br \/>Solidarity groups, associations and neighborhood committees are formed to collect food, clothes, books and medicine or \u201ctime banks\u201d (exchange of services ) for the \u201cnew poor\u201d Athenians, are organized. We observe a mutation of the protest character of these groups, a passage from Syntagma square (Syntagma meaning Constitution in greek, a place that became a symbol of protest against the political system) to the neighborhoods and residential areas, to positive and concrete social action.<br \/>Kostas, was unemployed for 3 years already in 2011. He has organized the collective kitchen \u201co allos anthropos\u201d (\u201cthe other person\u201d). The kitchen soup has been functioning ever since!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(part of the web documentary Democracy Game Over-in progress)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,118],"tags":[95,96,60,61,97,98],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-social-issues","category-the-world","tag-athens","tag-economic-crisis","tag-financial-crisis","tag-greece","tag-kitchen-soup","tag-solidarity","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefaniamizara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefaniamizara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefaniamizara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefaniamizara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefaniamizara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/stefaniamizara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13109,"href":"https:\/\/stefaniamizara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/13109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefaniamizara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefaniamizara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefaniamizara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}