[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 117 (Monday, September 9, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1267]
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                     IN RECOGNITION OF ARKY MARKHAM

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                         HON. JAMES P. McGOVERN

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                       Monday, September 9, 2013

  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask the House of 
Representatives to join me in recognizing Arky Markham of Northampton, 
Massachusetts.
  Ms. Markham has dedicated her entire life and professional career to 
a simple pursuit: helping those in need, and giving a voice to the 
voiceless.
  As a social worker, she has spent a career protecting and promoting 
the human rights of vulnerable populations, including war veterans, and 
those without healthcare.
  As a political activist, she has stood up time and again for the 
causes that matter to her, demonstrating against nuclear weapons, and 
leading her community for peace, and against wars.
  Ms. Markham has routinely volunteered and founded groups on behalf of 
social justice causes, including the American Friends Service 
Committee, where she was a co-organizer and chief fundraiser for the 
first Martin Luther King celebration in Northampton; Social Workers for 
Peace and Justice; The Middle East Peace Coalition; the Franklin/
Hampshire Health Care Coalition which later helped to form Mass-Care, a 
state-wide organization that continues to advocate for single-payer 
health care; the Northampton Bill of Rights Defense Committee and the 
Alliance for Peace and Justice.
  As Ms. Markham's community, friends, and colleagues gather this month 
to celebrate her 98th birthday and her life's work of `doing good,' I 
ask that the House of Representatives join me in honoring a true 
champion of human rights.

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