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DESCRIPTION:The 13th Annual Homelessness Marathon will be broadcasting this year out of 
 Detroit, MI nationwide.  It'll actually run 14 hours rather than 12 hours, 
 but indymedia log-in doesn't have a way of stating this directly.\n\nThe 
 broadcast will start at 4 p.m. Pacific time on February 23rd and end at 6 
 a.m. Pacific  time on Wednesday, February 24th. \n\nThe 13th Annual 
 Homelessness Marathon will originate from 12025 Woodrow Wilson Street in 
 Detroit, a building in the Cass Community Social Services complex 
 (www.casscommunity.org). \n\nHomeless people will be gathered there so that 
 they can speak directly to the nation.  The broadcast will also feature the 
 voices of diverse experts, callers from around the country and, if 
 possible, politicians.\n\nThe general call-in number for this broadcast 
 will be 877-NOBODY-8. People who are homeless, formerly homeless or afraid 
 they're about to be homeless may also call 877-LEFT-OUT.\n\nAt any given 
 moment, there are at least 13,000 to 14,000 homeless people in Detroit, of 
 whom 60% are families with children.  Shelters there cannot keep up (in 
 2002, well before the current economic crisis, the shortfall was already 
 estimated at 7500 beds per night), and the situation is completely out of 
 control.   \n\nFor example, Alternatives For Girls, a Detroit non-profit 
 that tries to keep homeless young women between the ages of 15 and 20 from 
 a life on the streets, reports that last year it had to turn away 800 
 otherwise qualified candidates for shelter because no beds were 
 available.\n\nWorse yet, the framers of Detroit's "10 Year Plan To End 
 Homelessness"  acknowledge that their plan will not accomplish its stated 
 purpose.  The plan's "Expected Ten Year Outcomes" include, 
 "Increasedfunding dedicated to long-term solutions" and "Increased numbers 
 moving into permanent housing" but there is no expectation that 
 homelessness in Detroit will actually come to an end.   \n\nIn other words, 
 Detroit's plan to end homelessness is actually a plan to leave thousands of 
 people on the streets!\n\n"We chose Detroit," explains the Homelessness 
 Marathon's founder, Jeremy Weir Alderson, "because it is the center of 
 America's meltdown.  American jobs were shipped abroad with nothing in 
 place for the American workers who were losing them.  Surely the American 
 people ought to look at what created this social disaster and ask if the 
 nation might not be better served on a different course."\n\nWHFR, 89.3 FM 
 in Dearborn, Michigan, the radio station of Henry Ford Community College, 
 will be the on-air host of the broadcast.  Other participating Detroit area 
 radio stations will include WHPR, 88.1 FM, in Highland Park, Michigan, and 
 CJAM, 91.5 FM in Windsor, Ontario.\n\nThe Homelessness Marathon will also 
 air on around 100 American radio stations and will be simulcast, in part, 
 over the 45 or so Canadian radio stations carrying a parallel Canadian 
 Homelessness Marathon, now entering its eighth year.  The broadcast will be 
 made available to stations free of charge over the Public Radio Satellite 
 System, the Pacifica satellite Ku-band and through a webcast. \n\nAcclaim 
 for the Homelessness Marathon can be found at:  
 http://homelessnessmarathon.org/2008/09/thank-yous-acclaim.html\n\nRobert 
 Norse of Santa Cruz HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) will be 
 hosting two hours of the Marathon:\n\nHour 6 from 9 to 10 PM on Tuesday 
 2-23  \nA Double Testimony Hour, featuring Mike Rhodes, editor of the 
 Community Alliance newspaper in Fresno, California, Brian O’Neil, a 
 Detroit musician who lived homeless to understand what it is like, and 
 Anthony Dixon who is trying to start a shelter but getting no help from the 
 city.  \n\nHour 12 from  3 AM to 4 AM on Wednesday 2-24.  \nSubjects will 
 be:  “Burying Homeless Dead – In France” and  A Double Testimony 
 Hour, featuring Conn Carol, blogger at “The Next Right,” and Peter 
 O’Driscoll, executive director of ActionAid USA. \n\nCall-in's are 
 invited.\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/02/22/18638467.php
SUMMARY:13th Annual Homelessness Marathon
LOCATION:FRSC 101.1 FM www.freakradio.org\n\nalso available at 
 http://www.homelessnessmarathon.org/
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