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VOCAL describes its 120-county strategy as one that reaches “from the hood to the holler,” and it relies on coalition-building, organizing, and public education to build a healthier, more just society. VOCAL’s members mobilized for and attended every one of the Opioid Abatement Community Town Halls, which were designed to gather input on how the

Parrish-Wright, director of the grassroots organization VOCAL-KY aimed at ending AIDS, drug war, mass incarceration and homelessness, praised the Justice for Breonna movement in a tweet.

This week, VOCAL-KY and community partners unveiled a 2022 “roadmap” for the Louisville Metro Government to address the crisis.

Former Democratic mayoral candidate and director of advocacy organization VOCAL-KY Shameka Parrish-Wright, who was prominent during the racial justice protests in the summer of 2020, released a statement acknowledging the work of the Louisville demonstrators, as well as the journalists who stayed on the story.