The 4th Annual Homelessness Marathon

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4th ANNUAL HOMELESSNESS MARATHON Archive
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Broadcast live from Cambridge, MA starting at 7 pm EST on Jan. 24, 2001.

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Almost Final Schedule

7 - 8pm Opening remarks by Nobody. Then panel of Homeless Youth, Missy, Amy, Chase, Anthony.
8 - 9pm Falling Out The Bottom: How The New Economy Creates New Homelessness. Co-Hosts, Ellen Frank, Professor of Economics at Emmanuel College and Tom Hirschl, Professor of Rural Sociology at Cornell and author of "Cutting Edge: Technology, Information Capitalism and Social Revolution"
9 - 10pm Homelessness and Race. Co-Hosts: Indio, former member of "The Young Lords" and current editor of Street News, the homeless paper of NYC and Willie Ratcliff, publisher of The San Francisco Bay View, a weekly African-American community paper.
10 - 11pm A Panel of Homeless Grandparents and Elders: including Claudette Chambers, homeless grandparent and Morton Thomas, homeless elder
11 - mid Homeless And Disabled: As If Things Weren't Bad Enough. Co-Hosts: David Oaks, Director Support Coalition International and Charles Swenson and Steve R., two wheelchair-bound homeless men.
mid - 1am Why Good Intentions Aren't Enough: A Look at Boston and Cambridge. Co-Hosts: Macy Delong, Director of Solutions At Work and Vicki Coleman with Homes For Families, and Ed Cameron Staff Assistant in the Emergency Shelter Commission in the Mayor's Office
1 - 2am Women and Homelessness. Julia Tripp, a formerly homeless woman now an advocate for homeless women and Stephanie Golden, author of "The Women Outside: Meanings And Myths Of Homelessness."
2 - 3am Open Mic Hour
3 - 4am Gentrification. Co-Hosts: Tom Boland, founder, Homeless People's Network On-Line and Paul Boden, director San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness
4 - 5am Going Hungry: How Do Poor People Eat? Co-Hosts: Richard Edmundson, a formerly homeless man and founder of San Francisco Liberation Radio and Kathleen Gorman, Director of the University of Rhode Island Feinstein Center For A Hunger-Free America
5 - 6am Open Mic Hour
6 - 7am Rights: Do Homeless People Have Any? Co-Hosts: Laurel Weir, Policy Director National Law Center On Homelessness and Poverty and Cheri Hankala, Executive Director, Kensington Welfare Rights Union
7 - 8am Health Care and homelessness. Co-Hosts: Dr. Jim O'Connel, physician-founder Boston Health Care for the Homeless and Steffi Woolhandler, co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program
8 - 9am Can the Problem Be Solved? Co-Hosts: Maryanne Gleason, former executive director, National Coalition for the Homeless and Rev. Dr. Deborah W. Lyttle, Executive Director Ecclesia Ministries and Priest of Common Cathedral, an open air ministry for homeless people on the Boston Commons