Oakland Women’s March 1-20-2018 Over a million people marched nationwide for the second year in a row to support women’s rights and protest Donald Trump and the Republican Congress in their attempt to turn the clock back to the repressive culture of the 1950s. This 2018 Women’s March in Oakland was inclusive and festive, with an …
Richard Bermack photographed and interviewed building trades workers for “On the Job Site” a column in Organized Labor a publication of the San Francisco Building Trades Council from 2007 to 2017. The building trades are one of the few remaining professions where people interact with the physical environment working with their hands to create something. …
I can’t give them Fairy Tale Lives Based on the Television Documentary Kid Shields about the problems confronting childrens protective services workers and how they are able to help families and children in spite of the lack of resources they face. Produced by We Do the Work, producers Ed Herzog and Richard Bermack, 1991. The …
In the late 1930s, 2800 American volunteers fought in the Spanish Civil War in an attempt to stop fascism. When they returned home they formed the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and continued the struggle for social justice …
Credits Newspaper Organized Labor, a publication of the San Francisco Building Trades Monthly column, On the Job Site, involves going out to construction sites, photographing and interviewing people. 2007 to 2017. The SEIU Local 535 Dragon Photography, writing, design, and production, in both print and web versions, of newspaper for Local 535, which represents 27,000 …
