One More Shot
On November 4, 2018, Gordon Mar was elected Supervisor of San Francisco’s District 4, a surprising change for the Sunset district. Gordon’s election was decisive and signaled that progressives can Read full post…
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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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Mimosa Is Not a Flower
This excerpt is taken from my novel “Mimosa Is Not a Flower” (Edizioni La Gru), which draws inspiration from the tragic 2017 flood in Livorno to tell the story of Read full post…
Orgreave – Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied
There are few more poignant sights in Britain than a mining village or town with no colliery. One legacy of the government of 1979 has been the proliferation of blighted Read full post…
An Open Letter to the California Labor Movement
When we are united we win, and when we allow ourselves to be divided, we lose After more than a half century studying, teaching, writing about and participating in the Read full post…
Workplace Democracy Is Essential to Defending Democracy
“As a fourteen-year-old boy getting my first job at the grocery store down the street I learned power relationship the first day I placed the apron on. I learned that Read full post…
Winning Majorities
We need to wrestle with how to formulate campaign language and public policy that are both just and can win the support of electoral majorities. “Progressives” must recognize that everyday Read full post…
Patricia Hills: Museum Curator, Feminist, Marxist
Appreciating equally the work of a Gilded Age portrait painter such as John Singer Sargeant and an artistic chronicler of the Great Migration and daily life in Harlem such as Read full post…
Let America Be All That It Can Be
In response to this 250th year moment I am releasing a short video from the opening song of The Moment Was Now, my musical about reconstruction called Let America Be All that it Read full post…
In Memoriam – Chris Silvera
F. Christophe “Chris” Silvera, the longtime leader of Teamsters Local 808 is the closest you will probably ever come to an actual revolutionary in the Teamsters union. I believe that Read full post…
Review of Three Roads: Labor, Music, Ecology, by Joe Uehlein
Any book bearing blurbs by Billy Bragg, Steve Earle, and Tom Morello, with a foreword by Si Kahn, is pretty solid evidence that the author has music world friends of Read full post…