Hundreds turned out for the Malden Unites Against Hate vigil at the city’s high school tonight.
The event began with a “Solidarity Standout,” including group chants, along Salem Street in front of the high school. (Disclosure: My wife helped lead the standout.) Then the crowd processed into the school courtyard. There Nichole Mossalam began the interfaith vigil, saying, “We’re united against those who seek to divide and those who seek to hate.”
Organizers had written: “Please join us for a peaceful interfaith community vigil against bigotry and for peace in Malden, in response to last weekend’s white supremacist violence in #Charlottesville, Virginia; the vandalism of Boston’s Holocaust Memorial and subsequent arrest of a Malden teen; and the Nazi rally planned for Boston this weekend. As one of the most diverse cities in the entire region, we seek to be a model for how this diversity makes us a stronger community. Let us stand up to bigotry and violence in Malden and everywhere.”
Photos copyright 2017 Greg Cook.
