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Our Veterans: Winners, Losers, Friends, and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans Affairs
Featured Book
Our Veterans Winners, Losers, Friends, and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans Affairs
In Our Veterans, Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early, and Jasper Craven explore the physical, emotional, social, economic, and psychological impact of military service and the problems that veterans face when they return to civilian life. The authors critically examine the role of advocacy organizations, philanthropies, corporations, and politicians who purport to be “pro-veteran.” They describe the ongoing debate about the cost, quality, and effectiveness of healthcare provided or outsourced by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). They also examine generational divisions and political tensions among veterans, as revealed in the tumultuous events of 2020, from Black Lives Matter protests to the Trump-Biden presidential contest. Frank and revealing, Our Veterans proposes a new agenda for veterans affairs linking service provision to veterans to the quest for broader social programs benefiting all Americans.
This book will be available for purchase at the event.
About This Event
Join us for an urgent conversation about the future of veterans’ healthcare in America. Authors Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early will discuss their work, Our Veterans Winners, Losers, Friends and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans Affairs, exposing the corporate-driven push to privatize the VA one of the last fully integrated public healthcare systems in the United States and what’s at stake for the millions of veterans who rely on it.
Featured Author
Suzanne Gordon
Suzanne Gordon is an award-winning journalist, co-founder of the Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute, and author of nearly twenty books on veterans’ healthcare and patient safety.
In Conversation With
Steve Early
Steve Early is a veteran labor journalist, organizer, and lawyer whose decades of work have made him a leading voice on the intersection of workers’ rights and veterans’ issues.
About the Venue
Pilsen Community Books
Pilsen Community Books is a worker owned and operated independent bookstore that specializes in new and used literary fiction, radical history and politics, and literature in translation. The staff's goal is to unite their bookselling experience with their belief that labor is entitled to all it produces.
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