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The Stansbury Forum is a website for discussion by writers, activists and scholars on the topics that Jeff focused his life on: labor, politics, immigration, the environment, and world affairs.

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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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July 17, 2015

Olney Odyssey # 14 – Advent Corporation – “On the Line”

May 13, 2015

Justice for Janitors: A Misunderstood Success

April 27, 2015

Just a whisper now: a look back at the AFL-CIO New Voice after 20 years

April 13, 2015

Two Rubes in Gotham in ‘67 – Extra Innings Revisited

March 30, 2015

Welcome to San Francisco! – The Jimmy Herman Memorial at Pier 27

March 14, 2015

Olney Odyssey #13. Stay or Pay – Fighting the Runaway Shop

March 7, 2015

International Day of the Recyclers – Convention March 1

February 15, 2015

Olney Odyssey #12 – Big Battles in a Small World

February 7, 2015

The Spiritual in the Struggle-Book Review

January 25, 2015

OO #11 – First Contract at MMS

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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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