Fourteen Malden-area community service and advocacy groups are sponsoring a Grassroots Community Cookout.
Children and families are welcome, and the event will take place rain or shine.
The cookout and gathering will enable local individuals and organizations working on such issues as affordable housing, community inclusiveness, poverty, hunger, war, immigrant rights, and more to meet and talk about pressing social and economic issues and actions that can be taken. Each group
will provide information on their programs and discuss their work during an open mic program.
Sponsoring groups include Bread of Life, La Comunidad; First Parish in Malden; The Great Wall Center; Housing Families, Inc.; Malden Area Communities Against War; Malden Asian Pacific merican Coalition; Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health; Massachusetts Jobs with Justice; Multicultural Affairs Committee; Moroccan American Civic and Cultural Association; Service Employees International Union, Local 509;
Tri-City Community Action Program; and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 1445.
First Parish is located at the intersection of Elm and Pleasant Streets (Route 60), three blocks west of the Malden Center T station. Free parking is available in the lot between the church and the Beebe Elementary School.
>> For more information call the Bread of Life at 781-397-0404 or cookout@impresta.net.
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