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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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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

Knocking The Doors #1: Working in CA45th CD

August 11, 2024

Olney Odyssey #21 LACAPS

July 10, 2024

Jane McAlevey Tribute

May 26, 2024

Muscle Memory

April 18, 2024

A Review: PRESENTE – Herb Mills – Hard Ball Press 2023

March 3, 2024

Trump Courts the Teamsters

January 29, 2024

Book Review – “The Way We Build: Restoring Dignity to Construction Work” by  Mark Erlich

January 25, 2024

Tech Workers Deserve a Union

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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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