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The 5th Annual Homelessness Marathon, February 5-6, 2002 / director, Jeremy Weir Alderson, aka "Nobody" ; a production of "The Nobody Show", KBOO Community Radio, and Street Roots, the homeless paper of Portland, Oregon.
LIBRA HV4504 .A55 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Conference/Event
- Sound recording
- Conference Name:
- Annual Homelessness Marathon (5th : 2002 : Portland, Or.)
- 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.
- Lectures.
- Speeches.
- Physical Description:
- 7 audiocassettes (14 hours) : analog
- 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in.
- Other Title:
- Fifth Annual Homelessness Marathon
- Annual homelessness marathon
- Homelessness marathon
- Place of Publication:
- Portland, Oregon : [J. Alderson], 2002.
- System Details:
- analog
- magnetic
- 1 7/8 ips
- full (1) track
- Contents:
- Hour 1. Opening remarks by "Nobody." Then, a panel of homeless people who aren't all the same
- Hour 2. Homeless deaths. The economics of homelessness
- Hour 3. A country without homelessness as we know it. Welfare: who gets kicked out when limits kick in?
- Hour 4. The growing criminalization of homelessness. Sex on the street where you live
- Hour 5. Homeless youth. Homeless enterprise: can homeless people work?
- Hour 6. Street poetry. NYC after 9/11: homelessness up when the Towers came down
- Hour 7. Homelessness in Alaska. Open mic [i.e. mike] hour: What should we do to help homeless people?
- Hour 8. Our shrinking investments in public housing. Dignity Village: are Hoovervilles an answer?
- Hour 9. Are these people too crazy to come in out of the rain? America's cruelest cities
- Hour 10. The definition of poverty
- Open mic hour: What should the homeless movement be?
- Hour 11. Is there a First Amendment in Cincinnati? Squatting: is there a right to seize shelter?
- Hour 12. Street poetry. Homelessness abroad: what does it tell us about homelessness at home?
- Hour 13. Does a rising tide lift all boats? Rural homelessness: hidden in the open
- Hour 14. Does a rising tide drown people on the shore? Going hungry in America.
- Notes:
- "The Homelessness Marathon is primarily composed of short, prerecorded segments that focus intensely on a single issue and longer live segments during which we take calls and have broader discussions" --Container.
- "These are the recordings of a live broadcast and, as such, contain ... flaws..."--Container.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 63598678
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