On the Road to the United States Social Forum
Tonight in the USA, and around the world by internet, a national 14 hour radio program features the struggles and movements of poor and homeless people and workers in Detroit, Canada and across the United States. . . Hear the voices of poor and homeless people and their leadership as we organize for the U.S. Social Forum!!!
LIVE FROM DETROIT, Michigan, USA
Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and PPEHRC
Help Host the Annual Homelessness Marathon
Broadcast TONIGHT for 14 hours on radio stations across the country from Detroit, Michigan, the site of the upcoming U.S. Social Forum!!
The broadcast will start at 7 p.m. U.S. Eastern time on February 23rd and end at 9 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time on Wednesday, February 24th.
The general call-in number for this broadcast is 001-877-NOBODY-8. People who are homeless, formerly homeless or afraid they're about to be homeless may call 001-877-LEFT-OUT.
We encourage everyone to call in with your stories and/or to see how to get involved in a movement to end poverty and homelessness. See http://homelessnessmarathon.org/ for information on how to tune in from your community or by internet.
See www.economichumanrights.org to link to the U.S. Social Forum website and to find out how to join PPEHRC's National March and Caravan from New Orleans to the U.S. Social Forum (April 4 to June 21, 2010).
BROADCAST SCHEDULE
13th ANNUAL HOMELESSNESS MARATHON -- BROADCAST SCHEDULE
The Homelessness Marathon
is primarily composed of short, pre-recorded reports and longer live discussions. Double Testimony hours are when we have two or more guests who are not speaking on the same topic. All hours will also include calls as well as comments from homeless people at the microphone in Detroit . All times are eastern.
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HOUR 1
7-8 p.m |
Welcome from host "Nobody." Then "There But For The Grace of God And AFG." A panel of young women saved from life on the streets by programs at Detroit' s Alternatives for Girls. | |
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HOUR 2
8-9 p.m. |
Short | "Playin' For Change - The Story of A Homeless Musician" |
| Long | An Open Mic Hour, during which Michigan Senator Carl Levin, on the phone, will field questions and comments directly from the homeless people at our broadcast site. | |
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HOUR 3
9-10 p.m. |
S hort | "Foreclosed!" |
| Long | "Homelessness in Detroit ." Co-hosts: Maureen Taylor, state chairperson of Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and John Cromer, with Neighborhood Legal Services | |
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HOUR 4
10-11 p.m. |
S hort | "A Rural Soup Kitchen's Struggle to Keep Up" |
| Long | "Health Care Here And There." Homeless people in America and Canada compare notes on how they get help with medical issues. | |
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HOUR 5
11 p.m. - 12 mid. |
S hort | "A Homeless Theater Company" |
| Long | A Double Testimony Hour, featuring Dr. Christopher Parks of the Tumaini Center, Detroit's shelter of last resort and Nick Monterosso, outreach coordinator for Detroit's "211" system. | |
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HOUR 6
12-1 a.m. |
S hort | "Collecting Bottles" |
| Long | A 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. Guest host, Robert Norse, Founder of Homeless United for Freedom and Friendship. | |
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HOUR 7
1-2 a.m. |
S hort | "Pre-Natal Care for Homeless Women" |
| Long | "Do Not Move On Unless You're Marching," a discussion on forming a homeless movement with guest hosts, Cheri Honkala, director of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC), and Paul Boden, director of the Western Regional Advocacy Project. | |
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HOUR 8
2-3 a.m. |
S hort | "A Homeless Couple in Rural Tennessee" |
| Long | "There's No Place Like Home," a live remote from WFHB in Bloomington, Indiana , on the problems of homeless families. Then open mic time with guest hosts Boden and Honkala. | |
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HOUR 9
3-4 a.m. |
S hort | "A Tent City Portrait" |
| Long | First, "Live And Homeless From Los Angeles ," a discussion with homeless people in L.A.' s notorious skid row. Then, "The Story of Safe Haven," a tent community in Urbana , Illinois that is now on its way to permanency. | |
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HOUR 10
4-5 a.m. |
S hort | "Homeless Peers Reaching Out" |
| Long | A Double Testimony Hour, featuring Kathleen Johnson, director of Katrina Relief in Mississippi and Chris Hellman of the National Priorities Project. | |
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HOUR 11
5-6 a.m. |
S hort | "A UN Inspector Tours LA" |
| Long | First, "Live and Homeless From Belfast ," then, talking auto industry with Ron Gettlefinger, president of the UAW. | |
| HOUR 12 6-7 a.m. | S hort | "Burying Homeless Dead In France" |
| Long | A Double Testimony Hour, featuring Conn Carol, blogger at "The Next Right," and Peter O'Driscoll, executive director of ActionAid USA . Guest host, Robert Norse. | |
| HOUR 13 a.m. |
S hort | "Street Poetry" |
| Long | "Taking It From The Streets To City Hall." Homeless people in Detroit talk to representatives from the Mayor's office. Guest host Matt Johnson, president of the Detroit Action Commonwealth, a grass roots homeless organization. | |
| Hour 14 8 - 9 a.m. |
S hort | "Spare Change," The Newspaper |
| Long | "All Degreed Up With Nowhere To Go," a panel of people with post-high-school degrees who are, nonetheless, homeless. | |