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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

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April 19, 2023

A Handy Reference for Committed Organizers

April 8, 2023

Can labor seize its ‘movement moment’?

January 1, 2023

A New Year

December 17, 2022

“We’re the ones who fill the trucks—so Bezos makes a billion bucks”: Global Actions on Black Friday Unite Workers to ‘Make Amazon Pay’

November 17, 2022

Jon Melrod – Labor Lessons Learned

November 4, 2022

The Union Difference Behind the Orange Curtain – Working the Mid-terms in Little Saigon

October 20, 2022

Peak Season for Action at Amazon

September 18, 2022

Book Review: “Power Concedes Nothing”, Edited by Linda Burnham, Max Elbaum and Maria Poblet

August 18, 2022

Lessons of 1998: The Fight to Defeat Prop 226

July 10, 2022

It’s a “Movement Moment” In the U.S.

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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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