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, […]
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. Let me tell you about the death of Pio Coban — the death list appeared in […]
I can’t give them Fairy Tale Lives
Based on the Television Documentary Kid Shields about the problems confronting childrens protective service 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. I can’t give them Fairly Tale Lives
Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
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 …
Social Worker Meltdown -2
Social Worker Meltdown
