Dee Myles

Template:TOCnestleft Denise (Dee) Banks-Myles is a Registered Nurse and Chief Steward, Provident Hospital, Chicago.

Education

Studied at Howard University Went to William Penn High School (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Working for Washington

Dee Myles, was one many Communist Party USA members who worked on Harold Washington's Chicago mayoral campaigns. She worked in the 1983 campaign as a precinct worker and in the 1987 campaign as a ward coordinator in the independent political committee in the 7th ward.

Dee Myles described the campaign of 1983 as a real "people’s movement". She remembered "people riding on the bus to work in South Chicago wearing their blue Washington for Chicago buttons. After his election, a city ban on public musicians was lifted, and there just seemed to be more music in the city", Myles said. “It was really a period of engagement that was quite astonishing.”

Black Radical Congress

In March 1998 “Endorsers of the Call” to found a Black Radical Congress included Dee Myles, Chicago.

Endorsed Communist Party Call

On March 30 2002 the Communist Party USA paper People’s Weekly World called for a national holiday in honor of late Farm Workers Union leader Cesar Chavez. The article was followed by a long list of endorsers including Dee Myles, Almost all endorsers were confirmed members of the Communist Party USA.

Communist Party USA

As at Feb. 22, 2002 Dee Myles was a National Board Member of the Communist Party USA.

In the Feb. 28-March 5, 2004 edition of the PWW, P. 16, Myles was a speaker at a NYS Communist Party & Political Affairs magazine forum at their Unity Center, 235 W. 23 St, NYC, as a "longtime activist and educator, Chair of the CPUSA Education Commission".

In September 2006 the Peoples Weekly World listed several members of the Illinois Communist Party USA.

Joan Elbert, Barbara Russum, Bea Lumpkin, William Appelhans, Bill Mackovich, Carolyn Black, Carroll Krois, Dee Myles, Doug Freedman, Frank Lumpkin, John Bachtell, Kevin Collins, Lance Cohn, Mark Almberg, Marguerite Horberg, Martha Pedroza, Mike Giocondo, Pepe Lozano, Roberta Wood, Scott Marshall, Shelby Richardson, Sijisfredo Aviles, Sue Webb, Terrie Albano.

In 2009 Dee Myles was a contributing editor and a member of the of the Editorial Collective of Political Affairs, theoretical journal of the Communist Party USA.

"The Life & Legacy of Nelson Mandela"

Tuesday, December 17 2013, the Communist Party USA held a special People's World teleconference presentation on the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela. People's World co-editor Joe Sims and Communist Party International Secretary Emile Schepers with host Dee Myles discussed "this historic and global figure in the fight for freedom".

Ecuador communist conference

Dee Myles and Rossana Cambron represented the Communist Party USA at the 16th Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties, Nov. 13-16, 2014 in Ecuador.

African American Equality Commission

In July 2015, Members of African American Equality Commission Communist Party USA FaceBook group included Dee Miles.

Closed working group for the African American Equality Commission of the CP USA. This is a space for members of the commission to brainstorm, communicate, and work through ideas between official meetings..

Political Affairs

In 2015 Dee Myles served on the editorial board of the Communist Party USA's Political Affairs.

New member phone bank

New member phone bank Public · Hosted by Communist Party USA.

Saturday, April 15, 2017 at 11 AM - 4 PM EDT

Your living room

We're organizing a phonebank to our new members on Saturday and we need your help. The callfire service allow you to make the calls from home, using your smartphone, laptop or deskstop. You'll get a real charge from talking to them! Aint' nuthin like it!! Please click "going" if you can make calls! Thanks!

Those saying they went, on Facebook included Dee Miles.

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