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Peter Olney

Peter Olney is retired Organizing Director of the ILWU. He has been a labor organizer for 50 years working for multiple unions before landing at the ILWU in 1997. For three years he was the Associate Director of the Institute for Labor and Employment at the University of California. With co-editor Glenn Perušek they have edited Labor Power and Strategy by John Womack Jr and available now from PM Press. Peter B. Olney Papers can be read at Robert S. Cox Special Collections & University Archives Research Center,

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November 16, 2025

Block, Build, and Bella Ciao

November 5, 2025

MAMDANI WINS!!! – Now the Hard Work Begins!

April 2, 2025

Onigiri and Shohei Ohtani – A Japanese Sojourn – March 2025

March 14, 2025

Where’s The Heat, Where’s The Hammer

December 15, 2024

In memory of Paul B. Worthman – November 11, 1940 – November 3, 2024

November 19, 2024

Glenn Perušek – A Celebration of Life

November 12, 2024

Oil in them there hills! Signal Hill and Beverly Hills no less!

October 20, 2024

Hope and Heroes – Stewart Acuff’s Poems from the Frontlines of the Class Struggle

September 23, 2024

Book Review: Ground Wars – Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns Rasmus Kleis Nielsen – 2012 Princeton University Press

September 8, 2024

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This site is operated by two friends, Peter Olney and Robert Gumpert, introduced to each other by Jeff Stansbury. We thank the family, Gretzel Stansbury, Kevin Stansbury and Gwendolyn Stansbury for allowing us to run the site in his memory.

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