5 Things: 'String Swing,' Health Clinic, Women's Day
A few things you need to know on Friday, March 8, 2013, in Weston.
1. 'String Swing' at EPOCH. Three guitarists will be at EPOCH to perform big band music from the 1920s and 30s. The event is free and open to the public.
2. Weekly Health Clinic. Parmenter Community Health Center will offer its free health clinic today featuring blood pressure and blood glucose screenings.
3. Town Caucus is Coming. Weston's annual Town Caucus happens on March 11. If you're interested in running for a town office, you'll want to check out these details.
4. Post on Patch. We're always interested in seeing your announcements and events on Weston Patch, and it's quick and easy to add them to the site yourself. Talk about instant gratification. Just click "join" in the upper, right-hand corner; create a username and password; and then head to the Events of Announcements section to add your own info.
5. Celebrate a Woman in Your Life. Today is International Women's Day. The day has been around since the end of the 19th century and is commemorated annual by the United Nations.
Isabella Jancourtz
8:45 am on Friday, March 8, 2013
This International Women's Day I recall two women warriors, Florence Luscomb (1887-1985) and Florynce Kennedy (1916-2000), whom I had the privilege of meeting in my lifetime.
Ms. Luscomb was an MIT trained architect and a life-long activist for universal suffrage and for peace, who had been inspired as a young child seeing Susan B. Anthony speak. When I met her, she was in her 90's and living communally with a bunch of young people in Cambridge, still speaking out and standing up for equal rights and for peace.
Flo Kennedy was a radical feminist New York lawyer and an ardent activist for civil rights and for peace. I saw her speak in Boston and was blown away by her forthright and flamboyant style, the phrase "sugar coated shit" repeated like a mantra to a wildly appreciative crowd.
"Niggerization is the result of oppression and it doesn't just apply to black people . . . Sure there are differences in degree, but we've got to stop comparing wounds and go after the system that does the wounding."
Thanks to these great ladies and to all the women who have fought for equal rights for all people and for peace in our time. Happy International Women's Day to all!