#GreenSocialist Notes #72
Channel: Howie Hawkins
Date: 2022-05-14

This week Howie will be joined by special guests Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon talking about their new book Our Veterans: Winners, Losers, Friends and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans Affairs.

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Steve Early:

27 years as union representative of Communication Workers of America

Author:
- Our Veterans: Winners, Losers, Friends, and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans Affairs (Aug. 2022)
- Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City (2017, about Richmond Progressive Alliance)
- Save Our Unions (2013)
- The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor (2011)
- Embedded with Organized Labor (2009)

https://jacobinmag.com/2022/05/texas-soldiers-unionizing-right-wing-governor-greg-abbott-tseu-national-guard-organizing

Suzanne Gordon:

Suzanne Gordon is an American journalist and author who writes about healthcare delivery and health care systems and patient safety and nursing. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Gordon 

Author or co-editor of 18 books.

Professor at the University of California at San Francisco School of Nursing.

The Battle for Veterans Health Care (2017)

Wounds of War: How the VA Delivers Health, Healing, and Hope to the Nation's Veteran (2018)

Several books on nurses and their issues