Collaborative cafe “Perivolaki” is a place in which labor relations are determined by the exchange rate, solidarity and companionship, decisions are taken collectively by the general assembly process and the responsibility shared equally between the members of the team.
The “Perivolaki” together with other relevant projects with which Togetherness in Networking Cooperative ventures Athens (kolektives.org) is including an experiment in addition to a first solution to the problem of the livelihood of the people involved in it, it attempts to scan streets field of ensuring human dignity in labor relations, and to explore structures of another organization of work and society at large, not under capitalism as “autonomous island” but after the transgressio.
At the same time, he seeks to present the creation of an affordable meeting space and entertainment. It is thus part of a demand for social change, which, in today’s conditions, it is increasingly necessary.
The primary desire of the team that works at “Perivolaki” is to offer quality products at prices as much as possible fair for producers and affordable for its guests, avoiding the logic of profit and “competitiveness”.
In its plans for the future include the establishment of a reserve to be used to strengthen other similar ventures or to be brought into action to disseminate and develop the idea of solidarity economy or industrious etc. social struggles.
