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FWD   Fri, 14 Jan 2000 00:27:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Jeremy Weir Alderson [NPR RADIO SHOW HOST]

THE 3RD ANNUAL HOMELESSNESS MARATHON [scheduled guests & times appear below]

800-213-WEOS = 800-213-9367 to CALL IN YOUR COMMENTS ON AIR

	The 3rd Annual Homelessness Marathon will run from 7pm EST,
Tuesday, January 25th to 9am EST, Wednesday, January 26, 2000 and will be
available FREE to stations across the country via the NPR satellite on
Channel A67.7 mono, ID# 00-000-000018.

	The marathon is not a fund-raising event, but a consciousness
raising event; a national teach-in on issues of homelessness and poverty,
featuring experts, call-ins, and above all, the voices of homeless people.
The marathon isn't about charity or do-gooderism.  It's about respecting
the rights of our fellow citizens and the urgency of changing our national
priorities.

	The marathon will be hosted on the air by "Nobody," (aka Jeremy
Weir Alderson), host of "The Nobody Show - Your Unabashed Voice of the
Left and Left Out," broadcast regularly (for seven years) on WEOS in
Geneva, NY.  To dramatize the plight of the homeless, he will broadcast
all night from outdoors.  This year he will be on the street in Champaign,
Illinois, where the marathon will be hosted on the ground by community
radio WEFT.

	"Nobody" will have more than a dozen co-hosts who will discuss
various aspects of homelessness such as affordable housing, health
problems of the homeless, housing the "mentally ill," homeless vets,
challenging the myths of homelessness, and much more.

	The 2nd Annual (1999) Homelessness Marathon almost certainly holds
the record for airing the most voices of homeless people in the history of
American broadcasting, a record that the 3rd Marathon will endeavor to
break.  As has been the case in the past, activists will be welcome to
coordinate candlelight vigils, sleep-outs, teach-ins, benefits for local
shelters, showing movies on homelessness, and other events with the
broadcast.

		3RD ANNUAL HOMELESSNESS MARATHON
7pm EST,Tuesday,  January 25th to 9am  EST, Wednesday, January 26th
		channel A67.7mono   ID#00-000-00018
			BROADCAST SCHEDULE

HOUR 1, 7pm EST - OPENING REMARKS BY "NOBODY," then "ANYTOWN USA:
HOMELESSNESS IN CHAMPAIGN-URBANA."  Co-Hosts: City Council member
and tenant union director Esther Patt and Captain George Windham of the
Salvation Army.

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Note:  After the first hour, evry hour of the marathon will begin with a
discreet, five-minute segment and end with a one-minute announcement that
leaves space for station ID's in the last ten seconds. Only the main,
54-minute, segments are listed below.
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HOUR 2, 8:06pm EST - WHAT DO THE NUMBERS SHOW? -- Statistics on
Homelessness and Poverty in America.  Co-Host:  Gene Lowe, Assistant
Executive Director, U.S. Conference of Mayors.

HOUR 3, 9:06pm EST - A PANEL OF HOMELESS "MENTALLY ILL."

HOUR 4, 10:06pm EST - INSTITUTIONALIZED HOMELESSNESS:  MIGRANT WORKERS.
Co-Hosts:  Hugh Phillips, director of El Centro por Los Trabajadores in
Champaign, Illinois and Greg Asbed, staff member Coalition of Immokalee
Workers, Immokalee, FL

HOUR 5, 11:06pm EST - GLOBALIZATION: WHEN MORE IS LESS.  Co-Hosts:
Prof. Joel Blau, author of "The Visible Poor:  Homelessness in the
United States" and Prof. Benjamin Barber, author of "Jihad vs. McWorld."

HOUR 6, 12:06am, EST - PANEL OF HOMELESS VETS.

HOUR 7, 1:06am, EST - REPORT FROM NYC: GUILIANI'S REIGN OF TERROR.
Co-Hosts:  Indio, editor of "Street News," and Robert Lederman, president
of A.R.T.I.S.T.

HOUR 8, 2:06am, EST - ACCESS TO FOOD:  ARE AMERICANS GOING HUNGRY?
Co-Hosts:  Anuradha Mittal of Food First, Tom Slater, director, and
Elizabeth Crocket, nutritionist, Food Bank of Central New York.

HOUR 9, 3:06am EST - HOW HAS HOMELESSNESS CHANGED IN THE LAST YEAR?
Co-Hosts: Paul Boden, executive director, San Francisco Coalition for the
Homeless and Tom Boland, founder, the Homeless People's Network on line.

HOUR 10, 4:06am EST - OPEN MIC HOUR.

HOUR 11, 5:06am EST - ACTIVISM: WHEN BEING POLITE ISN'T ENOUGH.  Co-Hosts:
Cheri Hankala,executive director of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union
and Dave Busch, a currently homeless man in Los Angeles who has been
arrested numerous times in protests.

HOUR 12, 6:06am EST - DEMONIZATION:  WHY ARE SO MANY HOMELESS BEING
MURDERED?  Co-Hosts Mary Ann Gleason, executive director, National
Coalition for the Homeless and John Lee Johnson, former city council
member and current community activist in Champaign, Illinois.

HOUR 13, 7:06am EST - HEALTH CARE AND THE HOMELESS.  Quenin Young, MD,
national coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program and
Claudia Lennhoff, director, Champaign County Health Care Consumers.

HOUR 14, 8:06am EST - FINDING A PLACE: THE STRUGGLE FOR AFFORDABLE
HOUSING then CLOSING REMARKS FROM "NOBODY."  Co-Hosts:  Sheila Crowley,
president National Low Income Housing Coalition and Kathy Simms, director,
Center for Women In Transition, Champaign, Illinois.

*****

So far, the marathon will be on (all or in part) on the following
stations:

WORT, Madison, WI
KGNU, Boulder, CO
WEOS, Geneva, NY
KPBS, San Diego, CA
WEFT, Champaign, IL
WILL, Champaign, IL
KBOO, Portland, OR
KCBX, San Luis Obispo, CA
WDBX, Carbondale, IL
KMUD, Redway, CA
KPFK in Los Angeles, CA [probable]
and also RFPI, shortwave to Latin America

This is just a PRELIMINARY LIST.  More stations should be coming aboard.
[Scores of stations carried at least part of the broadcast last year.]

[Please CONTACT YOUR LOCAL NPR RADIO STATION to ask them to broadcast
the Homelessness Marathon.]

[TESTIMONIALS]
Here are some QUOTES about last year's marathon:

	"The voices of homeless people on this marathon gives the public a
real education, and that's the only way things will ever change."  Paul
Boden, Executive Director, San Francisco Coalition for the Homeless.

	"A superb idea and a great project."  Media Critic, Norman
Solomon.

	"We think this is a very valuable program.  It created a lot of
interest with our listeners when we ran it.  One of the 'local' tv
stations came and did a story about it, and that's not easy.  They had to
come from sixty miles away."  Simon French, General Manager, KMUD, Redway,
CA.

	"Talk radio at it's finest."  Burnside Cadillac (now Street
Roots), the homeless paper of Portland, OR.

	"The show went great.  Loved your guests and the call-ins were
very successful...It was a great event, and we thank you for the
opportunity and pleasure to participate.  Count on us next year if you do
it again."  Joe Bernard, RFPI (Radio For peace International), Costa Rica.

	"It's critical that a broader segment of our society understand
the suffering homelessness imposes and the denial of its systemic causes
that we perpetuate as a nation.  The insight that the marathon provides
plants the seeds of an America that finally commits itself to trying to
bring everybody home again." Mary Ann Gleason, Executive Director,
National Coalition for the Homeless.

	"It was great, and it helped us invigorate our connection to
homeless issues in Portland."  Kathleen Stephenson, Morning News and
Public Affairs Director, KBOO, Portland, OR.

	"The marathon is one of  the best methods of making people aware
of the real deal.  The marathon participants tell it like it 'tis."
Indio, Editor of Street News, the homeless paper of New York City.

*Additionally, the 2nd Homelessness Marathon enjoys
the rare distinction, for a radio broadcast, of being archived by
libraries at Harvard, NYU, Cornell, UCLA, Berkeley and many other
institutions.*

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