If you don't want gentrification….just bring in immigrants…then you can increase your budgets for jails and security….then you can invest in rubber boots and toilet paper

Diverse, young, alternative, liberal …. that's gentrification!
"Solidarity" means they want to pick and choose their neighbours. Very bourgeois.

The New Democracy politician @3:40 looks scared to be there he might be on for a beating 🤭

Did the Greeks spend the 3 bailouts on spray paint for graffiti 🙄🤭

Oh look the anarchists have there own place to go after right wingers and the state drag them all out and do it up and fill it with right wingers

Is this a hippie commune?

This is an exceedingly violent and hostile place. And they are portraying it as a liberal heaven

God i hate everyone in this

Sounds like a problematic and violent place. Should remove them

The far right always trying to rip everything from the rest of us.

Euro Socialism

Damn I've rarely seen so much graffiti in one place, looks very uncared for area

Misleading, Exarchia is a drug dealer's playground and something has to be done. Nobody wants to live in this cesspool!!! 👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿

I also made a short film about Exarcheia! About the protests against the metro. It is in my page if you want to check it out.

Greece🇬🇷 have maritime disputes with Turkiye.
make maritime border agreement & peace!

This is a fairlytale view of this neighborhood. It’s very unsafe. Anarchy means wanton destruction for destructions sake. People who just want to ruin everything people they are angry at everyone and hate everything

When the communists are found out and stopped then they get aggressive and cry victim.

Sounds communist.

Commies or caviar left.

Doesn’t sound like a thriving democracy

Love Greece and Greek people!

I missed the part of "how an Athens neighborhood fights the pressures of gentrification"…. they have a free kitchen? Is that it?? That on its own can actually have a gentrification effect. The "creatives" love these places.. they move in because rents are cheap.. the neighborhood becomes trendy, politicians see the opportunity to "clean it up", rents go up, any traces of communal/occupied spaces are exterminated either by law or speculation. That's pretty much the basic recipe for gentrification that you laid out in this video.

I don't have a problem with people carving out an alternative neighbourhood for themselves. But it's hypocrical when they also resent the rest of society, vandalise it as often as possible, and demand that their lifestyle is subsidised by the government. This video makes Exarchia sound romantic. It didn't mention any of the violence, drugs or terrorism that also define the neighborhood.

As Greece gets richer mainly from tourism it will change. Enjoy it while you can.

"we don't receive any subsidies but we live in squat since 1960"
Free two-story house is a big subsidy. Its also very Greek not to pay taxes since 1960.

This is not journalism.This is political activism…DW is not reliable at all..

If something is good the right wing will stamp on it. Turn to God and protect the good in your heart!