The 5th Annual Homelessness Marathon

5th ANNUAL HOMELESSNESS MARATHON
BROADCAST SCHEDULE
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Broadcast live from Portland, Oregon starting at 7 pm EST on Feb. 5, 2002.

The Homelessness Marathon is primarily composed of short, prerecorded segments that focus intensely on a single issue and longer live segments during which we take calls and have broader discussions.

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7 - 8 pm, EST	Opening remarks by "Nobody." Then, a panel of homeless people who aren't all the same.
8 - 9 pm, EST	Short	Homeless Deaths Guest: Michael Stoopes, community organizer with the National Coalition for the Homeless.
8 - 9 pm, EST	Long	*The Economics of Homelessness* Co-Hosts: Mike Leechman, policy analyst with the Oregon Center for Public Policy and Dennis Culhane, Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
9 - 10 pm, EST	Short	A Country Without Homelessness As We Know It Guest: Walter Schmid, chairman of the Swiss Conference on Social Welfare.
9 - 10 pm, EST	Long	*Welfare: Who Gets Kicked Out When Limits Kick In?* Co-Hosts: Deborah Noble of the Welfare Made a Difference Campaign and Lisa Gonzalez, researcher with the Center for Study of Women In Society.
10 - 11pm, EST	Short	The Growing Criminalization of Homelessness Guest: Laurel Weir, Deputy Director fo the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty.
10 - 11pm, EST	Long	Sex On the Street Where You Live Special Guest Host: Ani Haines of KBOO Radio A panel of women who were prostituted while homeless (in recovery with the Lola Greene Baldwin Foundation)
11 - Midnight, EST	Short	Homeless Youth Guest: Greg Owen, study director for the Wilder Research Center.
11 - Midnight, EST	Long	*Homeless Enterprise: Can Homeless People Work?* Co-Hosts: Bryan Pollard, editor Street Roots, the homeless paper of Portland, OR, and Genny Nelson, co-founder of Sisters of the Road Cafe.
Midnight - 1 am, EST	Short	Street Poetry
Midnight - 1 am, EST	Long	*NYC After 9/11: Homelessness Went Up When the Towers Came Down* Co-Hosts: Joel Berg, executive director N.Y. Coalition Against Hunger and a representative of NY's Coalition for the Homeless.
1 - 2 am, EST	Short	Homelessness in Alaska Guest: Beth Porterfield, chairman of the Alaska State Coalition on Housing and Homelessness.
1 - 2 am, EST	Long	*Open Mic hour: What Should We Do To Help Homeless People?* Co-host: Indio, editor of Street News in NYC.
2 - 3 am, EST	Short	Our shrinking Investment in Public Housing Guest: Sheila Crowley, president of the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
2 - 3 am, EST	Long	*Dignity Village: Are Hoovervilles An Answer?* Co-Hosts: a panel of residents of Portland's Dignity Village, one of a number of latter-day Hoovervilles springing up around the country.
3 - 4 am, EST	Short	Are There People Too Crazy To Come In Out Of The Rain? Guest: David Oaks, director of Support Coalition International.
3 - 4 am, EST	Long	*America's Cruelest Cities* Co-Hosts: Paul Boden, Director San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness and Tom Boland, founder of the Homeless People's Network.
4 - 5 am, EST	Short	The Definition of Poverty Guest: Tom Kaplan, associate director, Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin.
4 - 5 am, EST	Long	*Open Mic Hour. What Should The Homeless Movement Be?* Co-Host: Donald Whitehead, executive director, National Coalition for the Homeless.
5 - 6 am, EST	Short	Is There A First Amendment in Cincinnatti? Guest: Alicia Beck, executive director of the Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless.
5 - 6 am, EST	Long	*Squatting: Is There A Right To Seize Shelter?* Co-hosts: Anders Corr, author of "No Tresspassing: Squatting, Rent Strikes and Land Struggles Worldwide" and Cheri Hankala, executive director of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union.
6 - 7am, EST	Short	Street Poetry
6 - 7am, EST	Long	*Homelessness Abroad: What Does It Tell Us About Homelessness At Home?* Co-hosts: Walter Schmid, chairman of the Swiss Conference on Social Welfare and John Clarke, organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty.
7 - 8 am, EST	Short	*Does A Rising Tide Lift All Boats?* Guest: Francine Cavanaugh, co-director, "Boom The Sound Of Eviction."
7 - 8 am, EST	Long	Rural Homelessness: Hidden In The Open Guests to include: Mary Ann Gleason and Don Gean of the York County Shelter, Mike Finnegan from the Maine State Housing Authority, and Carrie Buntrock, Consumer Advocate from Preble Street Resource Center. Note: It will not be possible to take calls during this segment which will originate from WMPG in Portland, ME
8 - 9 am, EST	Short	Does A Rising Tide Drown People On The Shore? Guest: Mark Weisbrot, co-director, Center for Economic and Policy Research.
8 - 9 am, EST	Long	*Going Hungry In America* Co-Hosts: Cassandra Garrison of the Oregon Food Bank and Bill Ayres, executive director of World Hunger Year.