Research methods Wallraff came to prominence thanks to his striking journalistic research methods and several major books on lower class working conditions and tabloid journalism. This style of research is based on what the reporter experiences personally after covertly becoming part of the subgroup under investigation. Wallraff would construct a fictional identity so that he […]
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GREECE Interrogation Department-Military Police, Bouboulinas, KEVOP, Leros: The junta’s torture chambers and the brutality of its interrogators
According to official records, from 1967 to 1974 more than 90,000 people were arrested. The vast majority endured beatings, electric shocks, mock executions and every imaginable cruelty. [Note: It is never mentioned that the Military Police torture facility at present-day ‘Liberty Park’ is a block away from the U.S, embassy. Or that former victims at […]
GREECE Why We Still Talk About the Polytechnic Uprising, 52 Years Later
But the Polytechnic is not only the moment the tank entered. It is three days and a few hours during which tens of thousands of young people lived a revolutionary surge that swept the entire country away. Boys and girls who stood against the junta, overthrowing at the same time everything imposed on them until […]