REVOLT AND CRISIS IN GREECE
11 It is not clear how large the police force is in Greece, but a low estimate would be 55,000, i.e. one police officer for every 200 residents. 12 At the same time, the participants of December who were supposed to give the answers to such questions were meeting elsewhere, at the occupied universities, town halls, schools, at the town’s squares, neighbourhood gatherings, at the self-organised spaces, parks, and squats. They were discussing how to move the movement forward, how to deepen it, how to involve more people, more neighbourhoods, more groups, how to self-organise, how to communicate with each other, how to express themselves. For them, “December was a question…” and one still to be answered. 13 Karamesini, M. (2009) “Difficulties of Youth Employment in Greece,” Epochí 18 January [in Greek] http://www.epohi.gr/portal/?option=com_ content&task=view&id=2043. 14 For example see VIMAgazino, “Days of rage—December 2008—Athens,” 21 December 2008 [in Greek]. 15 Whose main concern is to protect the money of the German and French banks that was lent to the Greek state; thus the necessary writing off of the debt (aka “haircut”) would be minimal and restructuring would mainly take the form of extension of its debt repayments.
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