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The 2nd annual homelessness marathon, January 27-28, 1999 / [Jeremy Weir Alderson].
LIBRA HV4504 .A55 1999 tapes 1-7 (in container)
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Conference/Event
- Sound recording
- Conference Name:
- Annual Homelessness Marathon (2nd : 1999 : Geneva, N.Y.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homeless persons--United States.
- Homeless persons.
- Homelessness.
- Public opinion.
- Homeless persons--Government policy.
- United States.
- Homeless persons--Services for--United States.
- Homeless persons--Services for.
- Homeless persons--Government policy--United States.
- Homelessness--Government policy--United States.
- Homelessness--Government policy.
- Homelessness--United States--Public opinion.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 7 audiocassettes (14 hours) : analog
- 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in.
- Other Title:
- Second annual homelessness marathon
- Annual homelessness marathon
- Homelessness marathon
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : [Jeremy Alderson], [1999]
- System Details:
- analog
- magnetic
- 1 7/8 ips
- quarter (4) track
- Summary:
- Recorded January 27-28, 1999 from the streets of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second Annual Homelessness Marathon records commentary by advocates for the homeless and the voices of homeless people who have nowhere to go in the winter.
- Contents:
- Hour 1. Opening remarks / Cheri Hankala, Kensington Welfare Rights Union
- Hour 2. Do we have poverty in America? / Neil Bennett, Dennis Culhane, Stephen Metraux
- Hour 3. Homeless teens
- Hour 4. Homeless vets and the Pentagon budget / Eugene Carroll, Center for Defense Information
- Hour 5. How the global economy and national budget drive people to the bottom / Doug Henwood, Left business observer, and Marilyn Clement, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
- Hour 6. Recovery : helping addicts off the street / Sister Margaret and others with New Jerusalem
- Hour 7. Framing our views of the homeless : Media issues / Norman Solomon ; Religious issues / Brooke Sexton, the Simple Way
- Hour 8. Sharon Pearson, Campaign for Legal Places to Sleep, Portland, Oregon ; Indio, editor of Street news in NYC
- Hour 9. Tom Boland, Homeless People's Network ; Paul Boden, San Francisco Coalition for the Homeless
- Hour 10. Rural homelessness / Sue Phillips, Elim Transitional Housing
- Hour 11. Homeless mothers
- Hour 12. Impact of welfare reform / Laura Whittman, Women and Poverty Public Education Network, and Maryanne Gleason, National Coalition for the Homeless
- Hour 13. The criminalization of poverty / Laurel Weir, National Law Center on
- Homelessness and Poverty ; Mark Davis, Philadelphia inquirer
- Hour 14. Tom Slater and Liz Crocket, Food Bank of Central NY.
- Notes:
- Recordings of "live broadcast...which contains occasional technical flaws."--Container.
- "The 'Homelessness Marathon' is an offshoot of 'The Nobody Show -- Your Unabashed Voice of the Left and Left Out' a weekly talk show hosted by Jeremy Weir Anderson (aka "Nobody") on WEOS, 89.7 FM, in Geneva, NY" --Container.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 63598673
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