Our community has lost a great fighter for human rights. Helen Quirini, who founded the GE Retirees Union, was an avid human rights activist. Helen took on the likes of Jack Welch and won. Her fight was legend and Gail George wrote a play about Helen's feud with Welch. Helen fought for the youngest and most vulnerable among us. She helped develop the Refreshing Springs Daycare Program with Sr. Georgetta Dix. Helen was active with Statewide Senior Action Council and was a lifetime member there. Helen took her causes to the City Council and the County Legislature. I was with her in the Governor's mansion when we were honored together on Martin Luther King Day by Governor Elliot Spitzer. She cornored Silda Spitzer to speak about the plight of seniors who couldn't afford prescriptions. She fought for the Free Health Clinic and fought hard against the closing of Bellvue Hospital. If you were a political figure doing a good job, Helen told you and if you weren't she would kick your butt publicly. Helen could amass a gang of protestors in thirty minutes. People would show up with signs and chanting slogans for the cause of the moment.
Helen was an iconic figure that is known across the country for her dedication and commitment to this country, to the poor, GE Retirees and the elderly.
The fight is over Helen. Rest in Peace.
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October 16, 2010, 3:13pm
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The fight isn't over - she's trained others to fight in her footsteps and carry on her legacy, while she supervises from above and guides.
Helen was a great woman. I am honored and privileged to have known her.
Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord .. and let perpetual light shine upon her.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
Helen was a great woman. I am honored and privileged to have known her.
Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord .. and let perpetual light shine upon her.
And she also spoke out against all the theft from taxpayers for the rich downtown.
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
And I heard that the gazette did a little article on her death...BEFORE....she was dead!!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Helen was a kind and broad-minded person. One didn't have to always agree with her -- but one always admired her.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
I don't think so. They did an article on her yesterday. She died Thursday.
I heard that the family was upset that the gazette printed the article before the obit was in and everyone was notified!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
One time about ten years ago she had this nice petition going to remove the sales tax on heating fuels in the county, and I gladly signed it. I had a high opinion of her based on the reputation she had and as someone glorified for her work for seniors. She said that the democraps would remove it if they took over the county because of how disprorportionately it effected the poor and the seniors and that it was very unjust. Well A few years after that Sue Savage took over the county and I saw Helen at a meeting and said " Now is the time to get that petition in and ask them to get rid of the tax on heating." Helen said some mumbo jumbo and acted confused, and then changed the subject. Everytime I saw her I asked her the same thing "Remember when you had the petition against that fuel tax?" Each time she would basically walk away from me, and when I personally began to make hay about it she refused to support the removal of the tax. She wanted nothing to do with it, no matter how supposedly strongly she once felt about it.
That is basically how I remember her, someone who only wanted to do something to move her socialist policies ahead if it hurt the other side, but when it came time to expect the democraps to do something, she held them to a different standard. So. as God is my witness this is true. I will swear on my dead family members grave. I swear to Jesus, and all the saints. This is truth. It is sad that ultimately she was as political s the next politician in that respect, and fell right into line with the socialist party, even if it hurt the people she claimed she was speaking out for. So recognizing the politics of it all, that is very sad that she had compromised her integrity n such a way from what she supposedly represents to the people who admired her.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
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