By a large margin, US military veterans favored Donald Trump for president in 2016�and voted for him again by a smaller margin in 2020. As Trump gears up for another White House run, he continues to woo veterans and their families, plus active duty military personnel, as part of his right-wing political base.
Progressive veterans organizations, like Common Defense, Veterans for Peace and About Face are working with unions and other allies to counter these efforts. Among the issues they are organizing around are the parallel threats of privatization of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the US Postal Service, two of the biggest unionized employers of former military personnel.
Speakers: Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early, co-authors of “Our Veterans: Winners, Losers, Friends and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans Affairs” (Duke University Press, June, 2022). In their new book, “Our Veterans,” Richmond-based journalists Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early report on these and other struggles which affect millions of poor and working class people who have served in the military�and need more support from labor and the left.
Suzanne Gordon is an award-winning journalist and author. She has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Nation, Washington Monthly, American Prospect, Jacobin, and many other media outlets. She has co-edited a series on the Culture and Politics of Health Care Work for Cornell University Press. She is the author of two previous books on veterans healthcare.
Steve Early was a national staff member of the Communications Workers of America for thirty years and continues to be active in the CWA/NewsGuild. He is the author of four previous books about labor or politics, including “Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City” (Beacon Press, 2018), about municipal reform struggles in Richmond, CA.
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We fight against spy drones, facial recognition, tracking equipment, police body camera secrecy, anti-transparency laws and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones; we oppose “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” — to list just a few invasions of our privacy by all levels of Government, and attempts to hide what government officials, employees and agencies are doing.
Powerful forces want to grab our precious public lands for oil and gas drilling, mining, logging and development—an ongoing American tragedy. Learn more when Green Sofa Cinema Series hosts a discussion of the film “Public Trust—The Fight for America’s Public Lands” (watch in advance on YouTube).
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