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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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January 10, 2022

Olney Odyssey # 19 California, Christina and Beyond

October 1, 2021

Think Bigger: New possibilities for building workers’ power at Amazon

June 13, 2021

To win in 2022 and 2024 we must connect the rural and the urban – find out how

June 7, 2021

Labor Must ‘Block and Build’ to Defend Democracy

May 24, 2021

A call to action….

April 28, 2021

Taking a stand in Massachusetts: Gig economy workers are employees, not independent contractors

March 25, 2021

Strike Hard, Have Fun, Make History – Amazon general strike in Italy – March 22, 2021

March 9, 2021

Time to Defy History, Win in 2022

December 16, 2020

On the Sidelines: DSA’s Abstentionism on Biden vs. Trump

November 15, 2020

Georgia – The road leads back to you!

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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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