The Annual Homelessness Marathon

8th ANNUAL HOMELESSNESS MARATHON
BROADCAST SCHEDULE
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Broadcast live from from outside of Columbus House, a homeless shelter in New Haven, Connecticut starting at 7 pm EST on Feb. 14, 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"*
7 - 8 pm, EST	Long	First:Welcome. Second: Then Why Are There So Many Of Us On The Streets? A Panel of Homeless Single Women
8 - 9 pm, EST	Short	The Causes of Homelessness Part 1
8 - 9 pm, EST	Long	First: Housed Teens Talk With Homeless Teens. A Remote from Portland, ME. Second: Open Mic Time Co-Hosts: Israel Bayer of Street Roots and Indio of Street News
9 - 10 pm, EST	Short	The Causes of Homelessness Part 2
9 - 10 pm, EST	Long	Who Profits From Poverty? Co-Host: Frances Fox Piven, author of "The Breaking of the American Social Compact" and, most recently, "The War At Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism," and housing activist Frank Morales
10 - 11pm, EST	Short	Homelessness In Literature
10 - 11pm, EST	Long	Homelessness in New Haven Co-Host: Alison Cunningham, executive director of Columbus House, and Bonita Grubbs, director, Christian Community Action, New Haven
11 - Midnight, EST	Short	What Happened to Federal Housing Funds? Guest: Sheila Crowley, president National Low Income Housing Coalition
11 - Midnight, EST	Long	How I Spent My Summer Vacation Guest Host: recent Green Party VP candidate, Pat LaMarche, talks with homeless people she met during the campaign
Midnight - 1 am, EST	Short	Global Homelessness Guest: Medea Benjamin, director "Global Exchange"
Midnight - 1 am, EST	Long	We're Here, We're Queer, We're On The Streets -- Don't Get Used To It. A remote from KUNM, Albuquerque, NM
1 - 2 am, EST	Short	Street Poetry
1 - 2 am, EST	Long	Violence in the Homeless Community Guest host: Kerry Seed Guest: Steve Huston, consumer advocate at the Preble Street Resource Center, Portland Maine
2 - 3 am, EST	Short	Hurricanes and Homelessness Guest: Ginger Ferguson, director Coalition for the Hungry and Homeless of Brevard County (Florida)
2 - 3 am, EST	Long	Open Mic Hour
3 - 4 am, EST	Short	Schooling Homeless Children
3 - 4 am, EST	Long	Media, Menace and Mendacity Co-hosts: Chance Martin, editor of San Francisco's "Street Sheet" and Tom Boland, Founder of Homeless People's Network
4 - 5 am, EST	Short	Fresno vs. Freedom Guest: Independent journalist Mike Rhodes
4 - 5 am, EST	Long	Green Spaces As Safe Spaces A simulcast with the Canadian Homelessness Marathon
5 - 6 am, EST	Short	Rising from the Ashes
5 - 6 am, EST	Long	Homelessness Abroad Co-hosts: Inger Koch Nielsen, Danish representative to FEANTSA (European Federation of Organizations Working With the Homeless) and Cheri Hankala, executive director, Kensington Welfare Rights Union (just returned from the World Social Forum)
6 - 7am, EST	Short	Street Poetry
6 - 7am, EST	Long	No Global Warming In Washington: Why Homeless People Are Out In The Cold Co-hosts: Brad Paul, Director National Policy and Advocacy Council on Homelessness and Tom Gomez, co-founder Mayday DC
7 - 8 am, EST	Short	Homeless News #1
7 - 8 am, EST	Long	Homelessness By The Numbers Co-host: Dennis Culhane, Professor of Social Welfare Policy, University of Pennsylvania and Dona Anderson, director, Institute for Children and Poverty
8 - 9 am, EST	Short	Homeless News #2
8 - 9 am, EST	Long	Aren't We the Truly Needy? A Panel of Disabled Homeless People