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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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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].

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]

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

What the blog Really Ought to Be?

Toward the end of a recent podcast during which Jeremy Alderson was interviewed by Kevin Barbieux (The Homeless Guy), which is featured on The Homeless Guy Podcast site (here), Jeremy mentioned that he would like to know the thoughts of people concerning what the Homelessness Marathon blog really ought to be.

Feel free to leave such thoughts within the comment section of this particular post.

The Homeless Guy Podcast: Jeremy Alderson

Check out Kevin Barbieux's (The Homeless Guy) Podcast featuring guest Jeremy Alderson, here.

In addition, read Kevin's blog post about it, here.

North American Homeless News Network (NAHNN) is Back!

[cross-posted from Norsehorse's Home Turf, here]

The North American Homeless News Network (NAHNN) is back!: nahnn.blogspot.com

The North American Homeless News Network (NAHNN) is an effort to provide notice of news items, columns and other information available online concerning homelessness and related matters in a central location.

Featured on NAHNN as well will be a selection of original articles, columns, essays and poetry written by people who are homeless or formerly homeless.

NAHNN has no paid staff.

While I cannot promise how frequently I will be able to post to this particular blog, after a rather lengthy hiatus of three and a half (3 1/2) years or so, I figured it was time to bring NAHNN back again.


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Democratic Presidential Candidates Invited to Historic Debate

Press Release (excerpted):

For immediate release

Contact: Jeremy Weir Alderson, [--snip, snip--]

DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN HISTORIC DEBATE

The Homelessness Marathon, America's only national broadcast focusing on homelessness and poverty, has invited the Democratic presidential candidates to participate in a debate unlike any other in American history: The sole topic will be the candidates' plans for ending poverty, and all of the questions will be asked by homeless people.

This debate will take place in San Francisco, starting at 5 p.m., PST, on Wednesday, January 30, 2008.

The debate will be incorporated into the next edition of the Homelessness Marathon, an annual, 14-hour-long live radio broadcast that this year aired on 120 stations coast-to-coast. Free Speech Television, which reaches, potentially, 25 million homes, will televise this event live. And the debate will be supported by a coalition that so far includes:

- KBOO - San Francisco's "Poor People's Radio"
- Poor Magazine
- Dollars and Sense Magazine
- Progressive Democrats of America
- San Francisco Bay View ("National Black Newspaper")
- San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness
- Western Regional Advocacy Project

"We're relatively small organizations," comments the Homelessness Marathon's founder, Jeremy Weir Alderson, "but we stand for something big, and that's that the people, themselves, have a place in this process. We'll have questions asked by all kinds of homeless citizens, whether they're vets, former foster kids, migrant farm laborers, mothers, minimum wage workers or disabled people whose disability checks aren't big enough to get them housing."

"Everyone knows," Alderson adds, "that the candidates spend a lot of time courting the rich, but will they turn out for the poor? We're betting that they will."

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