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Wednesday, March 17, 2004
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Bay Area Health Care Workers to Exhibit Unique Photography Project at Oakland City Hall
Wednesday, April 7, 5-7 PM
Oakland City Hall, One Frank H. Ogawa Plaza
Please join Bay Area health care workers in celebrating the opening of a unique photography exhibit at Oakland City Hall that offers an inside glimpse at their daily lives. The 45 photographs were taken by a wide range of hospital and homecare workers, who participated in an innovative free photography course offered by their union, SEIU 250. The class was taught by Richard Bermack, a long time Bay Area photographer, writer, editor and labor activist.The striking photographs are emotionally powerful and sometimes disturbing, combining both workplace and family photographs. Each photograph will be accompanied by an intensely personal written description by the health care worker-photographers.
The class is also the first step towards founding a "cultural wing" of the union, which would facilitate members' creative expression in all areas of the arts. Such a project would take its inspiration from "Bread and Roses", the organization that was founded in 1979 by the New York health care workers union, 1199. Bread and Roses was created in order to achieve a vision of unionism that encompasses all the needs and aspirations of working people, including creative expression.
To learn more and see a selection of photos, go to www.seiu250.org/ourlocal.
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