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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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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

November 20, 2014

Reviewed: “What did you learn at work today?” The Forbidden Lessons of Labor Education” by Helena Worthen

November 16, 2014

OO#10 Unionizing Mass Machine

October 31, 2014

Algiers – Prayers and the Din of Translation

September 20, 2014

OO #9 Odyssey Interrupted – Boston Busing 40th Anniversary

September 12, 2014

OO # 8 Mass Machine and the United Electrical Workers (UE)

August 29, 2014

40 days and 40 Nights: A Most Unusual Victory at Market Basket

August 14, 2014

When a strike is a strike: The saga of Market Basket in New England

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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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