When: Saturday, December 9, 2023, 9:00-11:00 a.m. PT (Noon-2 ET). Register HERE: https://bit.ly/3QR5D2T
Topic: Can We Engage Military Veterans in the Fight for Universal Health Care?
Speakers: Suzanne Gordon and other observers of the Veterans healthcare system.
A panel and interactive discussion will focus on the intersection of Veterans and intergenerational social justice movements. Come help build Communication, Trust, and Activism across generations.
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, The Washington Monthly, The American Prospect, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, JAMA, The Annals of Internal Medicine, The BMJ, and others. She is the co-editor of the Culture and Politics of Health Care Work series at Cornell University Press.
She has authored or co-authored 11 books including, Wounds of War: How the VA Delivers Health, Healing, and Hope to the Nation’s Veterans and Our Veterans.
Suzanne is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the UCSF School of Nursing and an Affiliated scholar with the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine’s Wilson Centre and is the Senior Policy Fellow at the Veterans’ Health Care Policy Institute.
Emcee: Chuck Pennacchio, Ph.D., (he, him). Co-founder and president of the One Payer States network and founder of the Justice for All Network, Chuck is a five-decade issue, electoral, and union organizer, senior advisor to Healthcare for All Pennsylvania, co-founder of Our Revolution PA, and producer on the single-payer documentary "Fix It: Healthcare at the Tipping Point." Also relevant to our upcoming veteran-centered summit, Chuck was a military personnel caseworker on Congressman Ron Dellums' (Armed Services Committee) staff, 1979-1981.
The Intergenerational Justice Summits are created and curated by younger and older social justice organizers and leaders to build and amplify connections across age, class, race, gender, identity, and geographical lines. Previous Summits were on 8/27/22, 11/19/22, and 2/18/23. The Summits use music, story, and conversation; embracing our shared vision and values in the form of the “Intergenerational Unity Statement”; and providing strategy-driven training tools and action steps to win Transformative Justice for All.