She also traveled to Cuba a few times to meet with Afeni in the 80s and 90s. She always supported social justice associations, and went back to school for her masters after Frank died in 1990, and worked as a counselor for disabled students at Hunter College and afterwards as a program director -
Dee was friends with Assata Shakur in the 60-90s and due to having been educated in S America while her father was on diplomatic assignment to Peru helped Assata pick out the name Tùpac Amaru for her child (Kathleen Cleaver told Assata at Tùpac’s funeral never to tell the story of his naming again
Barbara Heller neè Coombs a/k/a Dee Ziths first marriage was to Frankie Ziths, BPP, NCDPP and was responsible for saving his photo archive as well as his papers from the BPP, NCDPP, and BLA which she donated to UMass Amherst SCUA in 2021 scua.library.umass.edu/ziths-frankie/
Who helped her through the 9 or so days she was in inpatient hospice. Her wishes are for direct cremation, no services. Donations in her name can be made to Pet’s Alive where she adopted her last 2 Bull dogs. @kelliblue.bsky.social has adopted her dog and 2 cats.
Sry I haven’t been on for a few days. Barbara passed on Monday in hospice and it’s been a tough couple days. Her GFM is no longer accepting donations, but I want to thank everyone who donated. She hadn’t raised enough funds to pay for home hospice, but your donations went toward a private aid 1/?
It’s made me very sad to learn my old friend Barbara, who has been a rock for everyone, is in bad shape and likely nearing the end of her life. Please consider helping with her GFM if you have the means. She really is in a bad position. Please share widely if you can. gofund.me/f5357fbb
Hi, my name is Barbara. I’m 80 years old. I live in NYC, and was a guida… Barbara Heller needs your support for Pay for home health care and hospital co-pays
Bell had it made illegal to connect any equipment to the phone system that wasn’t owned by them. This guy Lippman had invented the answering machine and it really screwed him over.
Wait, Trump does exactly what the people who vote for him want, and Democrats refuse to do what their voters want, but we are supposed to believe voting for Democrats is what’s going to save democracy?
Wow voters dont want to be involved in killing thousands and thousands of people for no fucking reason SHOCKER
The Bell Corporation had lobbied Congress to make answering machines illegal, so they didn’t really take off until that was overturned