Homelessness Marathon blog

... ending homelessness isn't a matter of charity, but a matter of changing the way our society is structured. -- Homelessness Marathon founder, Jeremy Weir Alderson, aka Nobody.

Saturday, March 22, 2008

11th Annual Homelessness Marathon Archived Videos

Archived video taken during the first three (3) hours of the 11th annual homelessness marathon held in Nashville, Tennessee is available online for viewing, here (part 1) and, here (part 2) [via FreeSpeech TV].

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Piece O' Crap Library Computers

They won't let me upload my photos of the Homelessness Radio Marathon.

Homeless Radio Program Back on the Air via ABC30 Fresno, CA

Homeless Radio Program Back on the Air via ABC30 Fresno, CAView the archived video and read the transcript of ABC30's coverage concerning the state of affairs in Fresno, CA and the annual homelessness marathon, here.
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Homelessness Marathon Kicks Off via KMPH News

Homelessness Marathon Kicks Off via KMPH NewsClick onto image to be redirected to source page in order to view archived video and read transcript, here [via KMPH News; Fresno, CA].
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Nashville Homelessness Radio Marathon Photo via cwage

Nashville Homelessness Radio Marathon:
Nashville Homelessness Radio Marathon Photos via cwage
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Nashville Homelessness Radio Marathon Photos via cwage

Nashville Homelessness Radio Marathon:
Nashville Homelessness Radio Marathon Photos via cwage
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Nashville Homelessness Radio Marathon Photo via cwage

Nashville Homelessness Radio Marathon:
Nashville Homelessness Radio Marathon Photo via cwage
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Nashville Homelessness Radio Marathon Photo via cwage

Nashville Homelessness Radio Marathon:
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Back from WGDR & Listening In

Had left here around 8PM [ET] for the WGDR 91.1 FM radio studio in Plainfield (VT) and was on with Joseph Gainza from 9PM to 11PM cutting in with breaks from the national feed during the long programs in order to provide a local perspective. Dana ended up volunteering to stay at the station all night and keep the national broadcast on air from 11PM to 6AM, although they may cut in here and there with songs and local perspective from time to time. Thus I decided to take a ride home at 11PM instead of staying, particularly since I pulled an all night Tuesday evening and only got five hours sleep Wednesday and am not as well rested as a result. Thank you to Joseph, station manager Greg  Hooker the everyone else at WGDR as well as the listening audience for participating.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Show airs, focused on area homeless: Part of nationwide marathon broadcast

Read the article, here [via Daily Tar Heel; Chapel Hill, N.C.; 2/20/2008].

Monday, February 18, 2008

WGDR 91.1 FM Plainfield VT

*Updated*

Just found out today that WGDR 91.1 FM located in nearby Plainfield, Vermont plans on airing a portion of the 11th annual homelessness marathon from 8PM to 1AM and, if all goes as planned, I will be in the WGDR studio from 9PM to 1AM.

*Update*: Read a local news report concerning it, here [via Barre - Montpelier Times Argus; 2/19/2008].


*Note*: last updated on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 5:35 AM [EST].

Video Excerpts from 2004 Homelessness Marathon


Video excerpts from the annual homelessness marathon held on the streets of Cleveland, Ohio in February of 2004. This was shot and edited by Julia M. Brindle. [...]

[via YouTube, here; posted by homelesstaskforce (February 07, 2008); length: 9:26 minutes/seconds]

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

11th Annual Homelessness Marathon Schedule

The Homelessness Marathon is divided into short (5-minute) prerecorded segments and longer (53 minute) live segments. All times are eastern.

The broadcast starts at 7 p.m., EST, on Wednesday, Feb. 20th and ends at 9 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 21st.

Hour 1 - SHORT: Welcome from "Nobody" (live)
(7pm) LONG: A panel of homeless Nashvillians.

Hour 2 - SHORT: Performing A One Night Count
(8pm) LONG: Homelessness in Music City - Part 1 - The Civic View.
Co-hosts: George Gruhn, CEO of Gruhn Guitars and Howard
Gentry, Chairman, Mayor's Homelessness Commission.

Hour 3 - SHORT: Housing First
(9pm) LONG: Homelessness in Music City - Part 2 - The Street
View. Co-Hosts: Father Charlie Strobel, founding director,
Campus for Human Development, and Patricia Bryant, a
currently homeless Nashvillian.

Hour 4 - SHORT: Poetry by Homeless Teens
(10pm) LONG: National Hour I - A survey of homelessness in three cities
in the east and midwest.

Hour 5 - SHORT: Homeless Vets
(11pm) LONG: Homelessness, Crime and Criminalization. Co-Hosts:
Matt Leber, organizer, Nashville Homeless Power Project
and Tulin Ozdeger, civil rights director, National Law
Center on Homelessness and Poverty.

Hour 6 - SHORT: Street Poetry
(mid) LONG: "The War and The Poor - Co-Hosts: Norman Solomon,
author of "War Made Easy" and Frances Fox Piven, author
of "The War At Home: The Domestic Cost of Bush's
Militarism."

Hour 7 - SHORT: Addressing Rural Homelessness
(1am) LONG: The Fight in Fresno - A live remote from Fresno, CA.

Hour 8 - SHORT: A Homeless Job Program
(2am) LONG: The Working Poor. Co-Hosts: William Miles, Nashville
Jobs with Justice, Cornell Professor of Sociology
Thomas Hirschl.

Hour 9 - SHORT: Registering Homeless Voters
(3am) LONG: National Hour II: A survey of homelessness in three cities
on the West Coast, including Los Angeles.

Hour 10 - SHORT: Generational Homelessness
(4am) LONG: International Hour. Co-host to be Peter Fredriksson,
senior adviser to the Housing Ministry of Finland.

Hour 11 - SHORT: Homeless School Kids
(5am) LONG: Fighting Back - Co-Hosts to be Cheri Honkala, director
of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign,
Paul Boden, director of the Western Regional Advocacy
Project and Clemmie Greenlee, this year's "Nashvillian
of the Year!"

Hour 12 - SHORT: Street Poetry
(6am) LONG: Health Care and Homelessness. Co-hosts, John Lozier,
Director National Health Care for the Homeless, and
co-host TBA.

Hour 13 - SHORT: TBA
(7am) LONG: Will the Foreclosure Crisis Drive People to the
Streets? Co-hosts Danilo Pelletiere, research director,
National Low Income Housing Coalition and a co-host TBA.

Hour 14 - SHORT: TBA
(8am) LONG: First: Where Is The Housing? Co-Host, Jeremy Rosen,
executive director, National Policy and Advocacy
Council on Homelessness. Next: TBA