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13th Annual Homelessness Marathon
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Date:
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Time:
4:00 PM
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4:00 AM
Event Type:
Radio Broadcast
Organizer/Author:
Robert Norse
Location Details:
FRSC 101.1 FM http://www.freakradio.org
also available at http://www.homelessnessmarathon.org/
also available at http://www.homelessnessmarathon.org/
The 13th Annual Homelessness Marathon will be broadcasting this year out of Detroit, MI nationwide. It'll actually run 14 hours rather than 12 hours, but indymedia log-in doesn't have a way of stating this directly.
The broadcast will start at 4 p.m. Pacific time on February 23rd and end at 6 a.m. Pacific time on Wednesday, February 24th.
The 13th Annual Homelessness Marathon will originate from 12025 Woodrow Wilson Street in Detroit, a building in the Cass Community Social Services complex (http://www.casscommunity.org).
Homeless people will be gathered there so that they can speak directly to the nation. The broadcast will also feature the voices of diverse experts, callers from around the country and, if possible, politicians.
The general call-in number for this broadcast will be 877-NOBODY-8. People who are homeless, formerly homeless or afraid they're about to be homeless may also call 877-LEFT-OUT.
At any given moment, there are at least 13,000 to 14,000 homeless people in Detroit, of whom 60% are families with children. Shelters there cannot keep up (in 2002, well before the current economic crisis, the shortfall was already estimated at 7500 beds per night), and the situation is completely out of control.
For example, Alternatives For Girls, a Detroit non-profit that tries to keep homeless young women between the ages of 15 and 20 from a life on the streets, reports that last year it had to turn away 800 otherwise qualified candidates for shelter because no beds were available.
Worse yet, the framers of Detroit's "10 Year Plan To End Homelessness" acknowledge that their plan will not accomplish its stated purpose. The plan's "Expected Ten Year Outcomes" include, "Increasedfunding dedicated to long-term solutions" and "Increased numbers moving into permanent housing" but there is no expectation that homelessness in Detroit will actually come to an end.
In other words, Detroit's plan to end homelessness is actually a plan to leave thousands of people on the streets!
"We chose Detroit," explains the Homelessness Marathon's founder, Jeremy Weir Alderson, "because it is the center of America's meltdown. American jobs were shipped abroad with nothing in place for the American workers who were losing them. Surely the American people ought to look at what created this social disaster and ask if the nation might not be better served on a different course."
WHFR, 89.3 FM in Dearborn, Michigan, the radio station of Henry Ford Community College, will be the on-air host of the broadcast. Other participating Detroit area radio stations will include WHPR, 88.1 FM, in Highland Park, Michigan, and CJAM, 91.5 FM in Windsor, Ontario.
The Homelessness Marathon will also air on around 100 American radio stations and will be simulcast, in part, over the 45 or so Canadian radio stations carrying a parallel Canadian Homelessness Marathon, now entering its eighth year. The broadcast will be made available to stations free of charge over the Public Radio Satellite System, the Pacifica satellite Ku-band and through a webcast.
Acclaim for the Homelessness Marathon can be found at: http://homelessnessmarathon.org/2008/09/thank-yous-acclaim.html
Robert Norse of Santa Cruz HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) will be hosting two hours of the Marathon:
Hour 6 from 9 to 10 PM on Tuesday 2-23
A Double Testimony Hour, featuring Mike Rhodes, editor of the Community Alliance newspaper in Fresno, California, Brian O’Neil, a Detroit musician who lived homeless to understand what it is like, and Anthony Dixon who is trying to start a shelter but getting no help from the city.
Hour 12 from 3 AM to 4 AM on Wednesday 2-24.
Subjects will be: “Burying Homeless Dead – In France” and A Double Testimony Hour, featuring Conn Carol, blogger at “The Next Right,” and Peter O’Driscoll, executive director of ActionAid USA.
Call-in's are invited.
The broadcast will start at 4 p.m. Pacific time on February 23rd and end at 6 a.m. Pacific time on Wednesday, February 24th.
The 13th Annual Homelessness Marathon will originate from 12025 Woodrow Wilson Street in Detroit, a building in the Cass Community Social Services complex (http://www.casscommunity.org).
Homeless people will be gathered there so that they can speak directly to the nation. The broadcast will also feature the voices of diverse experts, callers from around the country and, if possible, politicians.
The general call-in number for this broadcast will be 877-NOBODY-8. People who are homeless, formerly homeless or afraid they're about to be homeless may also call 877-LEFT-OUT.
At any given moment, there are at least 13,000 to 14,000 homeless people in Detroit, of whom 60% are families with children. Shelters there cannot keep up (in 2002, well before the current economic crisis, the shortfall was already estimated at 7500 beds per night), and the situation is completely out of control.
For example, Alternatives For Girls, a Detroit non-profit that tries to keep homeless young women between the ages of 15 and 20 from a life on the streets, reports that last year it had to turn away 800 otherwise qualified candidates for shelter because no beds were available.
Worse yet, the framers of Detroit's "10 Year Plan To End Homelessness" acknowledge that their plan will not accomplish its stated purpose. The plan's "Expected Ten Year Outcomes" include, "Increasedfunding dedicated to long-term solutions" and "Increased numbers moving into permanent housing" but there is no expectation that homelessness in Detroit will actually come to an end.
In other words, Detroit's plan to end homelessness is actually a plan to leave thousands of people on the streets!
"We chose Detroit," explains the Homelessness Marathon's founder, Jeremy Weir Alderson, "because it is the center of America's meltdown. American jobs were shipped abroad with nothing in place for the American workers who were losing them. Surely the American people ought to look at what created this social disaster and ask if the nation might not be better served on a different course."
WHFR, 89.3 FM in Dearborn, Michigan, the radio station of Henry Ford Community College, will be the on-air host of the broadcast. Other participating Detroit area radio stations will include WHPR, 88.1 FM, in Highland Park, Michigan, and CJAM, 91.5 FM in Windsor, Ontario.
The Homelessness Marathon will also air on around 100 American radio stations and will be simulcast, in part, over the 45 or so Canadian radio stations carrying a parallel Canadian Homelessness Marathon, now entering its eighth year. The broadcast will be made available to stations free of charge over the Public Radio Satellite System, the Pacifica satellite Ku-band and through a webcast.
Acclaim for the Homelessness Marathon can be found at: http://homelessnessmarathon.org/2008/09/thank-yous-acclaim.html
Robert Norse of Santa Cruz HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) will be hosting two hours of the Marathon:
Hour 6 from 9 to 10 PM on Tuesday 2-23
A Double Testimony Hour, featuring Mike Rhodes, editor of the Community Alliance newspaper in Fresno, California, Brian O’Neil, a Detroit musician who lived homeless to understand what it is like, and Anthony Dixon who is trying to start a shelter but getting no help from the city.
Hour 12 from 3 AM to 4 AM on Wednesday 2-24.
Subjects will be: “Burying Homeless Dead – In France” and A Double Testimony Hour, featuring Conn Carol, blogger at “The Next Right,” and Peter O’Driscoll, executive director of ActionAid USA.
Call-in's are invited.
For more information:
http://www.homelessnessmarathon.org/
Added to the calendar on Mon, Feb 22, 2010 6:30PM
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13th ANNUAL HOMELESSNESS MARATHON -- BROADCAST SCHEDULE
The Homelessness Marathon is primarily composed of short, pre-recorded reports and longer live discussions. “Double Testimony” hours are when we have two or more guests who are not speaking on the same topic. All hours will also include calls as well as comments from homeless people at the microphone in Detroit. All times are eastern.
SUBTRACT THREE HOURS for proper Santa Cruz broadcast times.
HOUR 1 7-8 p.m.
Welcome from host “Nobody.” Then “There But For The Grace of God And AFG.” A panel of young women saved from life on the streets by programs at Detroit’s Alternatives for Girls.
HOUR 2 8-9 p.m.
Short: “Playin’ For Change - The Story of A Homeless Musician”
Long: .Open Mic time, during which Michigan Senator Carl Levin, will call in for ten minutes (at quarter past the hour) to field questions and comments directly from homeless people.
HOUR 3 9-10 p.m.
Short: “Foreclosed!”
Long; “Homelessness in Detroit.” Co-hosts: Maureen Taylor, state chairperson of Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and John Cromer, with Neighborhood Legal Services
HOUR 4 10-11 p.m.
Short: “A Rural Soup Kitchen’s Struggle To Keep Up”
Long: “Health Care Here And There.” Homeless people in America and Canada compare notes on how they get help with medical issues.
HOUR 5 11p.m. – 12 mid.
Short: “A Homeless Theater Company”
Long: A Double Testimony Hour, featuring Dr. Christopher Parks of the Tumaini Center, Detroit’s shelter of last resort and Nick Monterosso, outreach coordinator for Detroit’s “211” system.
HOUR 6 12-1 a.m.
Short: “Collecting Bottles”
Long: A Double Testimony Hour, featuring Mike Rhodes, editor of the Community Alliance newspaper in Fresno, California, Brian O’Neil, a Detroit musician who lived homeless to understand what it is like, and Anthony Dixon who is trying to start a shelter but getting no help from the city. Guest host, Robert Norse, Founder of Homeless United for Freedom and Friendship.
HOUR 7 1-2 a.m.
Short: “Pre-Natal Care for Homeless Women”
Long: “Don’t Move On Unless You’re Marching,” a discussion on forming a homeless movement with guest hosts, Cheri Honkala, director of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, and Paul Boden, director of the Western Regional Advocacy Project.
HOUR 8 2-3 a.m.
Short: “A Homeless Couple in Rural Tennessee”
Long: “There’s No Place Like Home,” a live remote from WFHB in Bloomington, Indiana, on the problems of homeless families. Then open mic time with guest hosts Boden and Honkala.
HOUR 9 3-4 a.m.
Short: “A Tent City Portrait”
Long: First, “Live And Homeless From Los Angeles,” a discussion with homeless people in L.A.’s notorious skid row. Then, “The Story of Safe Haven,” a tent community in Urbana, Illinois that is now on its way to permanency.
HOUR 10 4-5 a.m.
Short: “Homeless Peers Reaching Out”
Long: A Double Testimony Hour, featuring Kathleen Johnson, director of Katrina Relief in Mississippi and Chris Hellman of the National Priorities Project.
HOUR 11 5-6 a.m.
Short: “A UN Inspector Tours LA”
Long: First, “Live and Homeless From Belfast,” then, talking auto industry with Ron Gettlefinger, president of the UAW.
HOUR 12 6-7 a.m.
Short: “Burying Homeless Dead – In France”
Long: A Double Testimony Hour, featuring Conn Carol, blogger at “The Next Right,” and Peter O’Driscoll, executive director of ActionAid USA. Guest host, Robert Norse.
HOUR 13 7-8 a.m.
Short: “Street Poetry”
Long: “Taking It From The Streets… To City Hall.” Homeless people in Detroit talk to representatives from the Mayor’s office. Guest host Matt Johnson, president of the Detroit Action Commonwealth, a grass roots homeless organization.
HOUR 14 8–9 a.m.
Short: “Spare Change – The Newspaper”
Long: “All Degreed Up With Nowhere To Go,” a panel of people with post-high-school degrees who are, nonetheless, homeless.
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The Homelessness Marathon is primarily composed of short, pre-recorded reports and longer live discussions. “Double Testimony” hours are when we have two or more guests who are not speaking on the same topic. All hours will also include calls as well as comments from homeless people at the microphone in Detroit. All times are eastern.
SUBTRACT THREE HOURS for proper Santa Cruz broadcast times.
HOUR 1 7-8 p.m.
Welcome from host “Nobody.” Then “There But For The Grace of God And AFG.” A panel of young women saved from life on the streets by programs at Detroit’s Alternatives for Girls.
HOUR 2 8-9 p.m.
Short: “Playin’ For Change - The Story of A Homeless Musician”
Long: .Open Mic time, during which Michigan Senator Carl Levin, will call in for ten minutes (at quarter past the hour) to field questions and comments directly from homeless people.
HOUR 3 9-10 p.m.
Short: “Foreclosed!”
Long; “Homelessness in Detroit.” Co-hosts: Maureen Taylor, state chairperson of Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and John Cromer, with Neighborhood Legal Services
HOUR 4 10-11 p.m.
Short: “A Rural Soup Kitchen’s Struggle To Keep Up”
Long: “Health Care Here And There.” Homeless people in America and Canada compare notes on how they get help with medical issues.
HOUR 5 11p.m. – 12 mid.
Short: “A Homeless Theater Company”
Long: A Double Testimony Hour, featuring Dr. Christopher Parks of the Tumaini Center, Detroit’s shelter of last resort and Nick Monterosso, outreach coordinator for Detroit’s “211” system.
HOUR 6 12-1 a.m.
Short: “Collecting Bottles”
Long: A Double Testimony Hour, featuring Mike Rhodes, editor of the Community Alliance newspaper in Fresno, California, Brian O’Neil, a Detroit musician who lived homeless to understand what it is like, and Anthony Dixon who is trying to start a shelter but getting no help from the city. Guest host, Robert Norse, Founder of Homeless United for Freedom and Friendship.
HOUR 7 1-2 a.m.
Short: “Pre-Natal Care for Homeless Women”
Long: “Don’t Move On Unless You’re Marching,” a discussion on forming a homeless movement with guest hosts, Cheri Honkala, director of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, and Paul Boden, director of the Western Regional Advocacy Project.
HOUR 8 2-3 a.m.
Short: “A Homeless Couple in Rural Tennessee”
Long: “There’s No Place Like Home,” a live remote from WFHB in Bloomington, Indiana, on the problems of homeless families. Then open mic time with guest hosts Boden and Honkala.
HOUR 9 3-4 a.m.
Short: “A Tent City Portrait”
Long: First, “Live And Homeless From Los Angeles,” a discussion with homeless people in L.A.’s notorious skid row. Then, “The Story of Safe Haven,” a tent community in Urbana, Illinois that is now on its way to permanency.
HOUR 10 4-5 a.m.
Short: “Homeless Peers Reaching Out”
Long: A Double Testimony Hour, featuring Kathleen Johnson, director of Katrina Relief in Mississippi and Chris Hellman of the National Priorities Project.
HOUR 11 5-6 a.m.
Short: “A UN Inspector Tours LA”
Long: First, “Live and Homeless From Belfast,” then, talking auto industry with Ron Gettlefinger, president of the UAW.
HOUR 12 6-7 a.m.
Short: “Burying Homeless Dead – In France”
Long: A Double Testimony Hour, featuring Conn Carol, blogger at “The Next Right,” and Peter O’Driscoll, executive director of ActionAid USA. Guest host, Robert Norse.
HOUR 13 7-8 a.m.
Short: “Street Poetry”
Long: “Taking It From The Streets… To City Hall.” Homeless people in Detroit talk to representatives from the Mayor’s office. Guest host Matt Johnson, president of the Detroit Action Commonwealth, a grass roots homeless organization.
HOUR 14 8–9 a.m.
Short: “Spare Change – The Newspaper”
Long: “All Degreed Up With Nowhere To Go,” a panel of people with post-high-school degrees who are, nonetheless, homeless.
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