7th ANNUAL HOMELESSNESS MARATHON
BROADCAST SCHEDULE

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Broadcast live from Cleveland, Ohio starting at 7 pm EST on Feb. 12, 2004.

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.


7 - 8 pm, EST

Short

Opening Remarks by "Nobody"
Long Over Hill Over Dale, We Will Hit the Garbage Pail
A panel of homeless veterans
8 - 9 pm, EST

Short

Homeless News Update #1
Long Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate
(They were all invited, see who shows up)
9 - 10 pm, EST

Short

Homeless Teens
Long What Causes Homelessness?
Co-Hosts: Brian Davis, director of the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless and Dennis Culhane, Prof. of Psychology and Social Welfare at the University of Pennsylvania
10 - 11pm, EST

Short

Housing Cuts
Long First: Cracking Down On Shantytown
An interview with Mike Rhodes from Fresno CA
Second: Getting Ripped Off: The Day Labor Trap
11 - Midnight, EST

Short

Homelessness and AIDS
Long NIMBYism: Does America Really Care
Co-Hosts: Sister Donna Hawk of Transitional Housing, Inc. and Rebecca Troth of the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty
Midnight - 1 am, EST

Short

Street Poetry
Long First: a report from Street Roots, the homeless paper of Portland, Oregon, "Police and Homeless: When Worlds Collide."
Second: A remote speak-out from homeless veterans at the Standing Rock Nation of the Hunkpapa Lakota in South Dakota, courtesy of KLND
1 - 2 am, EST

Short

Migrant Workers in Wine Country
Long International Hour
This will be a simulcast with the Canadian Homelessness Marathon. It will feature Walter Schmid of the Swiss Social Welfare Conference and Michael Shapcott of Toronto Disaster Relief
2 - 3 am, EST

Short

Homeless in Chicago's Union Station
Long

Homelessness and Race
Co-Hosts: Angelo Anderson, formerly homeless job coach at Cleveland's New Life Community and TBA

3 - 4 am, EST

Short

Street Poetry
Long Deficits, Hoops and Hurdles: The Shape of Things To Come.
Co-hosts: Paul Boden, Director San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness and Tom Boland, founder Homeless People's Network
4 - 5 am, EST

Short

Homelessness in Literature
Long First: Does Immigration Cause Homelessness?
Second: A remote speakout from Atlanta courtesy of WRFG.
5 - 6 am, EST

Short

The Environmental Effects of Homelessness
Long Totally Open Mic hour
Co-hosts: Indio, editor of NYC's Street News and Mary Ann Gleason of the York County Initiative to End Homelessness
6 - 7am, EST

Short

At The Men's Shelter
Long

Out of Prison and Onto the Streets
Co-host: Joyce Chisar of the Cleveland Parole Authority

7 - 8 am, EST

Short

From Homelessness to Advocacy
Long

Politics and Protest: Bringing America Home
Co-hosts: Donald Whitehead, director of the National Coalition for the Homeless and Cheri Hankala, executive director, Kensington Welfare Rights Movement

8 - 9 am, EST

Short

Homeless News Update #2
Long Women and Children First
A panel of homeless mothers