The 6th Annual Homelessness Marathon

6th ANNUAL HOMELESSNESS MARATHON
BROADCAST SCHEDULE
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Broadcast live from Portland, Maine 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	Short	*Opening Remarks by "Nobody"*
7 - 8 pm, EST	Long	*Then, a Panel Of Homeless People With Medical Conditions*
8 - 9 pm, EST	Short	Formerly Homeless service providers...
8 - 9 pm, EST	Long	The Homelessness Explosion Co-Hosts: Chuck Currie, Board Member National Coalition for the Homeless.
9 - 10 pm, EST	Short	Scottie's Place: A Respite for Kids
9 - 10 pm, EST	Long	A Panel of Homeless Youth
10 - 11pm, EST	Short	A Communique From Rebel Jill from Osaka, Japan.
10 - 11pm, EST	Long	International Hour, a simulcast with the Canadian Homelessness Marathon. Co-host: Walter Schmid, chairman of the Swiss Conference on Social Welfare and, from Brazil, a report from a delegation of formerly homeless Americans finishing up a visit to communities associated with the Landless Movement
11 - Midnight, EST	Short	Homelessness In Literature
11 - Midnight, EST	Long	Homelessness and Mental Health Co-hosts: David Oaks, executive director of Support Coalition International and Ann Deutsch, outreach worker, Portland Health Care for the Homeless. Then, a speak-out from a homeless people's town hall meeting in Denver (courtesy of KGNU)
Midnight - 1 am, EST	Short	Clerics Discuss Homelessness
Midnight - 1 am, EST	Long	Why Are People Homeless? Co-hosts: researcher Stephen Metraux, PhD and Tammy Johnson, Director of Race and Public Policy Program at the Applied Research Center of Oakland, CA. Then a speakout with residents of Seattle's Tent City homeless encampment (courtesy of KBCS)
1 - 2 am, EST	Short	Bits and Pieces of Yesterday's Poverty Guest: museum director Jan Lightfoot-Lane
1 - 2 am, EST	Long	Open Mic hour: Where Do We Go From Here? Co-host: Donald Whitehead, executive director National Coalition for the Homeless
2 - 3 am, EST	Short	Poetry by Homeless Poets
2 - 3 am, EST	Long	Homelessness and the Law Co-host: Laurel Weir, Deputy Director, National Law Center on Homelessnessness and Poverty. Also brief reports from Santa Monica, Portland, Oregon and Orlando, Florida.
3 - 4 am, EST	Short	Our Disappearing Investment In Public Housing Guest: Sheila Crowley, president of the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
3 - 4 am, EST	Long	Is The System Set-Up To Fail? Co-hosts: Paul Boden, Director for the San Francisco Coalition for the Homeless and Tom Boland, founder of the Homeless People's Network
4 - 5 am, EST	Short	Rural Homelessness -- When the Great Outdoors Isn't So Great.
4 - 5 am, EST	Long	Open Mic hour: Whose Fault Is Homelessness? Co-host: Indio, editor of Street News
5 - 6 am, EST	Short	Unspent Funds -- Why Isn't Money for the homeless being spent on the homeless? Guest: Don Gene, Director, York County Shelter
5 - 6 am, EST	Long	Whatever Happened To Labor In America? Co-hosts: labor activist Peter Kellman and Rutgers Labor Law Prof. Jim Pope
6 - 7am, EST	Short	Been There, Done That -- How Faith-Based Initiatives Failed In Texas. Guest: Samantha Smoot, director of the Texas Freedom Network.
6 - 7am, EST	Long	Health Care And Homelessness Co-hosts: Jeff Singer, chair of policy committee, National Health Care for the Homeless. Nate Nickerson, Director, City of Portland Public Health Division.
7 - 8 am, EST	Short	Poetry by homeless poets
7 - 8 am, EST	Long	Is There Enough Food To Go Around? Co-host: Robert Forney, President and CEO of America's Second Harvest.
8 - 9 am, EST	Short	Why Should We Care?, a talk with Unitarian Universalist minister, Rev. Jill Saxby.
8 - 9 am, EST	Long	Solving the Problem Co-hosts: Cheri Honkala, executive director, Kensington Welfare Rights Union. Mary Ann Gleason, director, York County Initiative To End Homelessness.