Barbara Dudley has been a labor lawyer, a socialist-feminist writer, executive director and president of the National Lawyers Guild, executive director of Greenpeace USA, Assistant Director for Strategic Campaigns at the AFL-CIO, and founder of the Oregon Working Families Party. She current teaches at Portland State University.
Legislation proposing a publicly owned state bank, the underpinning of a truly local economy, stands a good chance of passing in this session.