“In terms of style and methodology there were a lot of things wrong; on the other hand in terms of what we were trying todo, I have no apologies.” HAROLD ROSSMAN, Newspaper Guild Organizer, Labor Journalist, Communist By Richard Bermack The books on his shelf range from a Long View From The Left, by Al …
By Richard Bermack, based on interviews with Linda Wilson in 1990, updated in 2019. San Francisco, 1989 Over calamari and white wine at the Clam House on Bay Shore, a popular seafood restaurant in an industrial section of San Francisco, Linda’s brother mentioned that he was having problems with his kidneys and that the prognosis …
The Radical Elders Oral History Project began in the mid-1970s as a vehicle for 1960’s radicals to interview the older generation of radicals from the 1930s. The 1930s radicals included Lou and Edith Laub, Fred Cody, Tuese Mende, Virginia Maubin, Al and Ann Wasserman, the younger radicals included Bruce Kaiper, Marge Lasky, and Jeff Johnson. …
Father Ron Burke: Liberation Theology and the Odyssey of a Priest in Guatemala The following narrative was edited from a series of interviews by Richard Bermack conducted in San Bruno, California, in 1983 with a priest who spent 12 years working with Indians in Guatemala. The story is told in his words. This was all …