On September 18, 2022 starting at 3pm at Bombyx in Florence, Massachusetts the Markham-Nathan Fund for Social Justice will celebrate the life and work of our beloved Marty Nathan, MD.
Dr Marty Nathan – A Celebration of Life
Please join us to to celebrate and honor an extraordinary life. Our beloved Marty passed away on November 29, 2021 and we’re inviting you to remember her with us.
The event will commence at 3pm in the Sanctuary at Bombyx. Afterwards we will share some food, generously, donated and provided by Mi Tierra, in the Peacock room at Bombyx. We will commence with some community sharing (open mic).
Speakers will include
Elliot Fratkin
State Senator Jo Comerford
Paul and Sally Bermanzohn (survivors of the Greensboro massacre)
Milta Franco, La Cliniquita
Ahriel Braxton, Brightwood Healh Center Susan Theberge, Climate Action Now – Western Massachusetts
Musicians will include
Paul Arslanian
Michel Moushabeck
Avery Joi
Ben Grosscup
Javier Luengo-Garrido
Photography by Julian Parker-Burns.
Cinematography by The Darkside Studios (Khalif Neville).
All donations to the Markham-Nathan Fund surrounding this event will be matched by the Wellspring Fund. Thank you!
This event is free and open to the public.
Everyone is welcome.
Marty Nathan, MD (1951-2021)
Marty Nathan, MD was a physician residing in Northampton. Before her retirement she worked at Brightwood Health Center in Springfield. After the death of her first husband, Michael, Marty and other survivors successfully sued Klansmen, Nazis and Greensboro Police and, with the judgment won in this case, Marty helped initiate and for 15 years directed the Greensboro Justice Fund as a funding organization. Over the next twenty years the GJF raised and gave away $500,000 as grants to small groups fighting for civil rights and social justice in the US South. Marty lived in the Northampton area since 1995, and was a founder, with her friend Arky Markham, of the Northampton Bill of Rights Defense Committee, the Pioneer Valley Coalition Against Secrecy and Torture and the Pioneer Valley Coalition to Prevent War on Iran. She was on the steering committee of Climate Action Now and founding member of The Cliniquita Fund of the Pioneer Valley Project. She is survived by her husband Elliot Fratkin and her three children: Leah Nathan, Mulugetta and Masaye Fratkin.
Marty and Arky, with their friends, created the Markham-Nathan Fund for Social Justice in honor of their husbands. It serves grassroots social justice and peace groups in Western Massachusetts.
