On this week’s show, your host, Justin Mog, interviews some of our new neighbors here in the Heyburn Building from VOCAL-KY (https://vocal-ky.org). Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL) is a statewide grassroots membership organization that builds power among low-income people. On today’s show, we speak with Executive Director, Shameka Parrish-Wright; Organizer, Jennifer Twyman; and Lead Grow Team member, Jessica Lawrence.

VOCAL-KY is building a movement of low-income people dedicated to ending the AIDS epidemic, the war on drugs, mass incarceration, and homelessness across the country. They fight for systemic change rooted in justice, compassion, and love, and they approach this work with a firm belief in reducing harm and ending stigma, and the knowledge that the issues impacting our communities are driven by institutional oppression, not personal failings.

Check out VOCAL-KY’s 2022 Roadmap for Louisville Metro Government to End Overdose and Reverse the Harms of the War on Drugs at https://vocal-ky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Louisville-Metro-Government-2022-Roadmap_final.pdf

Join them on Thursday, Dec. 1st at 10am for a World AIDS Day rally at the Hall of Justice, 600 W. Jefferson St. More info at https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=145740221548156&set=a.144183501703828

As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW!

Sustainability Now! is hosted by Dr. Justin Mog and airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at http://forwardradio.org

The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at http://appalatin.com