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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 7, 2019

The Play’s the Thing

March 10, 2019

Book Review: Can the Working Class Change the World? Michael D. Yates

February 20, 2019

Book Review: From Coors to California: David Sickler and the New Working Class

January 27, 2019

It’s Not Too Soon for a Labor Movement 2020 Election Strategy

December 26, 2018

Remembering Fred Pecker

December 16, 2018

The Man Who Fell From the Sky – Bill Fletcher Jr. – Hardball Press 2018

November 21, 2018

Yes We Did! – Flipping the House

October 19, 2018

Two old salts say get a job at Amazon!

August 5, 2018

All Out for the Mid-terms: Democrats Must Retake the House to Put the Brakes on Trump!

May 31, 2018

Teachers revolt in the USA bodes well for the future of labor

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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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