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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 …
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 …
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. …