Breaking Boundaries: Helping People with Disabilities Lead Fulfilling Lives Creativity gives meaning to life, connecting all humanity. The Disabled Student Services Department of San Francisco City College provided art and drama classes for people with disabilities. “Breaking Boundaries” was a photo exhibit produced in collaboration with the Disabled Student Services Department of San Francisco City …
On September 8, 2018, approximately 30,000 people marched from San Francisco’s Embarcadero to the Civic Center. They were part of a global day of protest over climate change. Hundreds of thousands of people marched in an estimated 1000 demonstrations all over the globe.
Bishops’ Coffeehouse The Bishops’ Coffeehouse in Oakland, California, was a center for Vietnam War resistors in the 1960s. In the 1970s it became a community center with a lunch program for seniors and those on disability and cultural programs at night. These photos were taken in 1975.
Flower Piano Flower piano, San Francisco Botanical Gardens July 2018 12 pianos were tucked away in the San Francisco Botanical Garden creating an alfresco concert hall in Golden Gate Park. Everyone was invited to play and listen and take a break from all the gloomy political news. The players ranged from amateurs to accomplished performers, with …
From 1995 to 2003 Richard Bermack along with Ed Herzog produced The Dragon. The Dragon was a publication of by Service Employees International Union Local 535 which represented at the time approximately 28,000 workers in California, including county and community social workers, welfare workers, health care professionals, mental health workers, recreation workers, criminal justice workers, …
Keeping Families Together-Berkeley June 29, 2018, Berkeley. Over 1,500 people demonstrated against Trump’s anti-immigration policies. The Berkeley demonstration was one of an estimated 700 events nationwide, in all 50 states. Protestors called for an end to US immigration policies, including seizing the children of immigrant parents, part of the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy for …