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- The Stansbury Forum | The Stansbury Forum is a website for discussion . . .
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
- In memory of Paul B. Worthman – November 11, 1940 – November 3, 2024
We at The Stansbury Forum want to remember “Pete” Worthman We have reached out to family, friends and colleagues for their memories We decided to dedicate several episodes of the Forum to our friend We start with my tribute to Paul at his 60 th birthday party in Los Angeles in November of 2000
- Bloody Thursday | The Stansbury Forum
Bloody Thursday Brothers and Sisters, Do you hear the horns in the harbor? Do you feel the rumble in the rails, the cry in the crane? There was a time when they told us to carry the weight— But not the power To bleed for the profit— But never touch the throne Brothers and Sisters, The docks remember The waters recall the names Bloody Thursday, 1934— When the hands that built this
- 28 Anti-Fascist Films | The Stansbury Forum
Note: On February 7, Trump announced that he was taking over the Kennedy Center in Washington DC Not surprising, controlling the arts that has long been a dream of reaction This calls to mind the ban Hitler imposed on literary criticism — an anti-Semitic measure (Jews can “critique but cannot create” was a trope repeated in various forms ad nauseum in those years) to be sure But it
- Onigiri and Shohei Ohtani – A Japanese Sojourn – March 2025
Enough of this manufacturing talk The big story when we arrived and remains so is #17 Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers Shohei is everywhere, and the two games between the Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs on March 18-19 were massive sellouts, with bleacher seats retailing up to $900 Both teams are loaded with several Japanese stars, and baseball is omnipresent in Japan The high school playoffs are
- What is a Labor Organizer? | The Stansbury Forum
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
- Photo Friday – April 25 2025 | The Stansbury Forum
Acknowledging that community the Stansbury Forum will post images of protest signs on Fridays to celebrate people’s creativity, and community Today is the first “Photo Friday”
- Searching for Sinners | The Stansbury Forum
The depot Slim inhabits is where bluesmen such as Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and John Lee Hooker caught a train They’d played the juke joints in and around Clarksdale Firey Saturday nights where Black fieldhands and maids could laugh and drink and dance, if only for a few hours out of a week of backbreaking toil Guitars in hand, those blues artists escaped lives of drudgery spent
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