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The Murals of Valparaíso
Valparaíso, home of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, in the artists section of town every street seemed decorated with murals.
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Global Climate Change Strike
Global Climate Change Strike Millions of people world wide took to the streets calling on world leaders to take action to stop climate change. The demonstrations were in response to a call by 15-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg to go on strike to stop climate change. Thunberg had been skipping school one day a week …
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Breaking Boundaries: Helping People with Disabilities Lead Fulfilling Lives
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 …
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Bishops’ Coffeehouse
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.
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Rise for Climate, Jobs and Justice
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.
Portraits of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Portraits of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade The following are photographs of American veterans of the Spanish Civil War, who fought to defend the Spanish Republic against a fascist insurrection led by General Franco, with the support of Hitler and Mussolini, in what would be a prelude to World War II. Fascism was spreading all over …
Oakland Women’s March 1-20-2018
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 …
New Orleans-Style Funeral to Memorialize George Floyd
June 6, 2020, Berkeley, demonstration in response to the killing by police of George Floyd
Keeping Families Together-Berkeley
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 …
Global Climate Change Strike
Global Climate Change Strike Millions of people world wide took to the streets calling on world leaders to take action to stop climate change. The demonstrations were in response to a call by 15-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg to go on strike to stop climate change. Thunberg had been skipping school one day a week …
Front Lines of Social Change
Front Lines of Social Change Photographs of the Lincoln vets in their senior years taken by Richard Bermack, paired with photographs from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives taken during the war. These pages are from Bermack’s book, Front Lines of Social Change: Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Many of the photos were exhibited at …
Father Ron Burke: Liberation Theology and the Odyssey of a Priest in Guatemala
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 …
ALBA Programs
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 …
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archive
In the 1980s I began photographing members of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade at their annual reunions in the San Francisco Bay Area and in New York. Growing up I had heard little about them, except from reading Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls. They were some of the nearly 3000 American volunteers …
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Father Ron Burke: Liberation Theology and the Odyssey of a Priest in Guatemala
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 …
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