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Dorothy Healey, 91; Lifelong Communist Fought for Working People
Los Angeles Times ^
| August 8, 2006
| Dennis McLellan
Posted on 08/08/2006 4:47:23 PM PDT by calcowgirl
Dorothy Healey, a onetime labor organizer, civil rights activist and Marxist radio commentator who was chairwoman of the Southern California district of the Communist Party USA from the late 1940s through the 1960s, has died. She was 91.
Healey, dubbed "the Red Queen of Los Angeles" by headline writers during her heyday, died Sunday of pneumonia in the Greater Washington Hebrew Home, said her son, Richard. She had been a resident of Washington, D.C., since 1983.
The diminutive Healey, who stood just under 5 feet tall and once wore a pendant that pictured a clenched fist raised as a symbol of solidarity and militancy, fought a lifelong battle against what she called the oppression of the middle class and minorities.
"She was a heartfelt revolutionary of her time," Donna Wilkinson, the widow of national civil liberties leader Frank Wilkinson, told The Times on Monday. "She was always so fiercely partisan for working people. Yes, of course, she cared about war and peace and women's issues, but she was always concerned about working people."
The daughter of Hungarian Jewish immigrants, Healey was born in Denver on Sept. 22, 1914. Her father was a traveling salesman, and the family moved from Denver to California when she was 6. Constantly on the move because of her father's work selling smoked meat and cheese, Healey attended 19 schools. Her father died when she was 16.
Healey, whose Socialist mother was a founding member of the Communist Party in America, joined the Young Communist League in 1928, when she was 14.
"I joined the Young Communist League out of a feeling of hate and love," she told an audience at Golden West College in Huntington Beach in 1977. "I hated the system that reduced all humans to a feeling of total helplessness . . .
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: communists; cpusa; dorothyhealey; dorothyhealy; healey; losangeles; nofoollikeanoldfool; obituary; redqueen
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A glowing obituary from the LA Times. Big surprise! /s
To: calcowgirl
Which supports the theory that only the good die young...
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posted on
08/08/2006 4:49:07 PM PDT
by
WV Mountain Mama
(God bless Israel and their men and women fighting against an evil, cowardly enemy.)
To: calcowgirl
Lifelong Communist
Fought for Working People
There, fixed it.
To: calcowgirl
Sounds like a wonderful person. /gag
To: calcowgirl
My guess is that she was as utterly disconnected from actual working class Americans as the democrat party is.
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posted on
08/08/2006 4:50:48 PM PDT
by
snowrip
(Liberal? YOU HAVE NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT. Actually, you lack even a legitimate excuse.)
To: Larry Lucido
Lifelong Communist Fought
for Working People
There, now I really fixed it.
To: calcowgirl
Hate is always a key to leftists.
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posted on
08/08/2006 4:51:27 PM PDT
by
DuxFan4ever
(The next rational liberal I meet will be the first.)
To: calcowgirl
Gorbasm for this woman from the author.
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posted on
08/08/2006 4:52:12 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(August 22)
To: calcowgirl
What can one say? A life dedicated to...?Now that she has passed over she can reap her real reward. I suspect she is feeling rather warm right about now.
To: DuxFan4ever
The joke's on Zarqawi.
She becomes one of the 72 virgins.
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posted on
08/08/2006 4:52:56 PM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(A few clever bones tossed on gay unions, flag burning & Iraq still don't absolve GWB over BORDERS)
To: calcowgirl
later was active in the DS of A ,, once a commie, ..
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posted on
08/08/2006 4:53:23 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ......Help the "Pendleton 8' and families -- http://www.freerepublic.com/~normsrevenge/)
To: calcowgirl
It might be interesting to see who will show up at the funeral.
To: calcowgirl
Unfortunately her ideology didn't die with her.
Prayers for her soul.
13
posted on
08/08/2006 4:53:25 PM PDT
by
Jean S
To: calcowgirl
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posted on
08/08/2006 4:53:58 PM PDT
by
Axhandle
To: calcowgirl
Only surprising thing is that the Times used "communist" in the headline instead of their usual codeword "Activist".
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posted on
08/08/2006 4:54:14 PM PDT
by
Argus
To: calcowgirl
"I hated the system that reduced all humans to a feeling of total helplessness . . . So did we.
To: JeanS
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posted on
08/08/2006 4:54:45 PM PDT
by
SmithL
(The fact that they can't find Hoffa is proof that he never existed.)
To: calcowgirl
18
posted on
08/08/2006 4:55:05 PM PDT
by
Texas_Jarhead
(Doing the jobs Americans won't do? Guess you haven't seen "Dirty Jobs")
To: calcowgirl
Substitute "National Socialist" for "Communist" in the obit and see how it reads. Hardly any difference in governing philosophy, anyway. ;)
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posted on
08/08/2006 4:55:31 PM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
To: Larry Lucido
"Communist Fought for Working People"
Correction:
Communist imprision free people, destroy the destiny of mankind.
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posted on
08/08/2006 4:56:35 PM PDT
by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
To: calcowgirl
To: calcowgirl
But but but! McCarthy was wrong, there were no Communists in the USA. < /sarcasm >
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posted on
08/08/2006 4:57:20 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: WWTraveler
It might be interesting to see who will show up at the funeral."Married and divorced three times, Healey moved from Los Angeles to Washington to be near her son, who, along with two grandsons, survives her".
Doesn't sound like a whole lot for a person in their 90's.
To: calcowgirl
I joined the Young Communist League out of a feeling of hate and love," she told an audience at Golden West College in Huntington Beach in 1977. "I hated the system that reduced all humans to a feeling of total helplessness .
Unlike the communists who just shoot you or throw you in a gulag before your totally helpless.
I would like to see the times obit for Reagan. I bet the word conservative and controversial appear more than once.
To: calcowgirl
" Constantly on the move because of her father's work selling smoked meat and cheese..."
Guess the stuff wasn't much good.
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posted on
08/08/2006 5:00:03 PM PDT
by
decal
(Different Tagline Tomorrow!)
To: calcowgirl
fought a lifelong battle against what she called the oppression of the middle class and minorities.Cause of death?
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posted on
08/08/2006 5:00:08 PM PDT
by
Disambiguator
(Don't mess with Israel.)
To: calcowgirl
Her family was taken in by this country and she returned her hate in "gratitude". Good riddance to this nasty old bat and other fellow travelers, who undoubtedly never had a good word to say about this country and never added a decent thing to it.
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posted on
08/08/2006 5:01:08 PM PDT
by
laconic
To: calcowgirl
Communists dedicate their lives to destroying the capitalism that creates jobs. For some reporter to moon over this old dame, yapping that she fought for the working man, is beyond insanity.
Perhaps she's having a nice visit with Fidel just now. I'm sure they have lots to talk about.
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posted on
08/08/2006 5:01:28 PM PDT
by
Darnright
(http://www.irey.com/)
To: AmericanInTokyo
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posted on
08/08/2006 5:01:44 PM PDT
by
rwilson99
(R) South Park)
To: calcowgirl
I don't suppose the wonderful, idiot communist ever quite noticed that "working people" fare a hell of a lot better under liberal democracy that communism.
No. That would be asking too much of the nitwit.
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posted on
08/08/2006 5:02:04 PM PDT
by
Reactionary
(The Barking of the Native Moonbat is the Sound of Moral Nitwittery)
To: calcowgirl
Good riddance, subhuman commie-fascist bitch. Rot in hell!
To: butternut_squash_bisque
So aren't any of you guys gonna
pray for her soul? HAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
08/08/2006 5:05:48 PM PDT
by
cloud8
To: butternut_squash_bisque
that is a beautiful commentary. so poetic...thanks, i'll second it!
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posted on
08/08/2006 5:06:42 PM PDT
by
KOZ.
To: butternut_squash_bisque
Now, tell me how you really feel about her?
To: calcowgirl
First off I HATE the term "working people" as if what I do isn't "work" in their mind.
According to these people, since I am "white collar," this place I spend 50 plus hours a week at isn't "work."
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posted on
08/08/2006 5:08:34 PM PDT
by
RockinRight
(She rocks my world, and I rock her world.)
To: calcowgirl
She had been a resident of Washington, D.C., since 1983. She was a Democratic Congresswoman?
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posted on
08/08/2006 5:09:39 PM PDT
by
RockinRight
(She rocks my world, and I rock her world.)
To: Axhandle
Good riddance.
My sentiments exactly.
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posted on
08/08/2006 5:09:43 PM PDT
by
Wolfhound777
(It's not our job to forgive them. Only God can do that. Our job is to arrange the meeting)
To: calcowgirl
Constantly on the move because of her father's work selling smoked meat and cheese He should have sold that yummy sausage that folks lined up around the block for in Moscow.
To: calcowgirl
"I hated the system that reduced all humans to a feeling of total helplessness . . . So why were you a Commie?
Not too bright of a woman, apparently.
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posted on
08/08/2006 5:11:39 PM PDT
by
RockinRight
(She rocks my world, and I rock her world.)
To: calcowgirl
She died the same month as Castro. How appropriate.
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posted on
08/08/2006 5:11:52 PM PDT
by
rod1
To: cloud8
So aren't any of you guys gonna pray for her soul? Sure, but I got around 100 million souls that involuntarily went ahead of her that I gotta pray for first. I'll get around sooner or later.
To: calcowgirl
Well, she finally gets to meet Lenin and Stalin.
To: calcowgirl
When someone comes along saying "I'm, doing this for the working man/people",, they sure as hell ain't. Bet on it.
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posted on
08/08/2006 5:14:40 PM PDT
by
Waco
To: calcowgirl
Really! Anyone who thinks most newspapers are unbiased is crazy, and we know whose agenda they are advancing...
To: calcowgirl
She's hand in hand, with old Gus Hall at last.
To: calcowgirl
If there was ever a system that reduced people to total hopelessness, it is communism. No hope to ever make a better life for yourself. No hope for self reliance. No hope in an afterlife. No hope for anything period. Only mindless robotic existance in a state controlled "democratic" dictatorship.
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posted on
08/08/2006 5:17:23 PM PDT
by
vpintheak
(Yep.)
To: Disambiguator
Jihad is about "the struggle".
Mein Kampf is about "the struggle".
And leftist activism is about "the struggle".
It is a shared worldview, with eyes on the prize of making a uniform utopia.
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posted on
08/08/2006 5:17:37 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: vpintheak
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posted on
08/08/2006 5:21:02 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: NormsRevenge
Another candidate for the California Women's Museum. ;-)
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posted on
08/08/2006 5:26:43 PM PDT
by
calcowgirl
("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
To: calcowgirl
Does anyone know if she had sex with Chairman Mao?
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posted on
08/08/2006 5:27:41 PM PDT
by
montomike
(If you didn't find this funny and were offended...have a riot.)
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