in response to Greece's post-2008 austerity programs
"we witnessed on the ground [...] a radical proliferation of solidarity and alternative economic networks"
"Marketised relations gave way to voluntary networks of care, mutuality and interdependency. It is estimated that between 2011 and 2014, Greece witnessed the emergence of forty-seven self-managed food banks; twenty-one solidarity kitchens distributing hundreds of food parcels every week; forty-five without-middlemen distribution networks with more than 5,000 tons of distributed products; and around thirty solidarity education initiatives"