The 3rd Annual Homelessness Marathon, January 25-26, 2000 / hosted by "Nobody" [Jeremy Alderson].

Format:

Conference/Event

Sound recording

Contributor:

Alderson, Jeremy Weir.

WEOS (Radio station : Geneva, NY.)

WEFT (Radio station : Champaign-Urbana, Ill.)

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Conference Name:

Annual Homelessness Marathon (3rd : 2000 : Champaign-Urbana, Ill.)

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 hrs.) : analog

3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in.

Other Title:

Third Annual Homelessness Marathon

Annual Homelessness Marathon

Homelessness Marathon

Place of Publication:

[New York] : [Jeremy Alderson], [2000]

System Details:

analog

magnetic

1 7/8 ips

quarter (4) track

Contents:

Hour 1. Opening remarks / Nobody ; Anytown, USA : homelessness in Champaign-Urbana / Esther Patt, Urbana City Council Member & tenant union director, and Captain George Windham of the Salvation Army

Hour 2. The impact of welfare reform / Laurel Weir, National Legal Center on Homelessness and Poverty

What do the numbers show? : statistics on homelessness and poverty in America / Gene Lowe, US Conference of Mayors, and Ed Lazare, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities

Hour 3. Singing at candlelight vigil

A panel of homeless "mentally ill"

Hour 4. Singing at candlelight vigil

Institutionalized homelessness ; migrant workers / Hugh Phillips, El Centro por los Trabajadores in Champaign, Ill., and Greg Asbed, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Immokalee, FL

Hour 5. Reading by the Street Roots Poetry Group

Globalization : when more is less / authors Joel Blau, Benjamin Barber

Hour 6. "Bums like me"

Panel of homeless vets

Hour 7. An update on homelessness and the legal system

Report from NYC : Guiliani's reign of terror / Indio, editor of Street news, and Robert Lederman, of A.R.T.I.S.T. (Artist' Resistance to Illegal State Tactics)

Hour 8. How widespread is homelessness?

Are Americans going hungry? / Tom Slater and Elizabeth

Crocket, Food Bank of Central NY

Hour 9. Homelessness in Hawaii

How has homelessness changed in the last year? / Paul Boden, San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness, and Tom Boland, Homeless People's Network

Hour 10. Homelessness in Canada

Open mic hour

Hour 11. "In the hood"

Activism : when being polite isn't enough / Cheri Hankala, Kensington Welfare Rights Union, and Dave Bush, LA activist

Hour 12. The promise of feminism in the gutter. Part 1

Demonization : why are so many homeless people being murdered? / MaryAnneGleason, National Coalition for the Homeless, and John Lee Johnson, activist in Champaign, IL

Hour 13. The promise of feminism in the gutter. Part 2

Health care and the homeless / Quentin Young, MD, Physicians for a National Health Program, and Claudia Lennhoff, Champaign County Health Care Consumers

Hour 14. Poems from street newspapers

Finding a place : the struggle for affordable housing / Sheila Crowley, National Low Income Housing Coalition, and Kathy Simms, Center for Women in Transition, Champaign, Il

Closing remarks / by Nobody.

Notes:

"Co-production of "The Nobody Show - your unabashed voice of the left and the left out", WEFT Community Radio for Champaign-Urbana Illinois, and WEOS, Geneva NY, the radio station of Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Recorded Jan. 25-26, 2000, in Champaign-Urbana, IL, by "Nobody" (aka Jeremy Alderson) with participants noted in contents.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

OCLC:

54750271