17th Annual Homelessness Marathon
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Jeremy Alderson
Feb 16, 2015, 1:45:37 PM2/16/15
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The 17th Annual Homelessness Marathon is set to air. If you've never seen or
heard it, it is, literally, like no other broadcast in the world (except for
our daughter broadcast, the Canadian Homelessness Marathon). This is the world
turned upside down and looked at from the perspective of the
poorest-of-the-poor, and featuring their voices as they speak for themselves.
The broadcast will start tomorrow (Tuesday the 17th) at 7p.m., eastern time,
and it will run for fourteen hours until 9a.m., eastern time, on Wednesday the
18th.
A list of stations where it can be heard, all or in part, may be found here:
http://news.homelessnessmarathon.org/2008/09/where-to-listen.html
(check local listings for exact hours of carriage).
The entire broadcast will be televised on Free Speech Television's website at
http://www.freespeech.org.
And from 1-5a.m., eastern time, on the morning of Wednesday the 18th, the
broadcast will also be televised on channel 9415 of the Dish Network and
Channel 348 on DirecTV.
A schedule of the topics to be covered may be found here:
http://news.homelessnessmarathon.org/2008/08/broadcast-schedule.html
(but bear in mind that this is a live broadcast that is always full of
unscheduled twists and turns).
This is not a charity event or a pity party. Homeless advocates have been
warning for decades that the same economic factors causing homelessness would
affect more affluent Americans too. Now that just about everybody in America
is struggling, maybe it's time to learn what the poor have known all along.
The great secret about homeless people isn't the percentage that are mentally
ill or addicted. It's that almost all of them are American citizens. The
government should not be in the business of demonizing whole classes of
people, herding them around like cattle and jailing them for the crime of
being poor just like in Dickens' time. But nonetheless, we've created a
society where there is no legal place to be free, once you've lost your
housing.
For this broadcast, we'll focus on the criminalization of homelessness,
and remember, the number one thing that homeless people say is, "I never
thought it could happen to me." If you don't want it happening to YOU,
tune in.
Jeremy Weir Alderson
director, Homelessness Marathon
heard it, it is, literally, like no other broadcast in the world (except for
our daughter broadcast, the Canadian Homelessness Marathon). This is the world
turned upside down and looked at from the perspective of the
poorest-of-the-poor, and featuring their voices as they speak for themselves.
The broadcast will start tomorrow (Tuesday the 17th) at 7p.m., eastern time,
and it will run for fourteen hours until 9a.m., eastern time, on Wednesday the
18th.
A list of stations where it can be heard, all or in part, may be found here:
http://news.homelessnessmarathon.org/2008/09/where-to-listen.html
(check local listings for exact hours of carriage).
The entire broadcast will be televised on Free Speech Television's website at
http://www.freespeech.org.
And from 1-5a.m., eastern time, on the morning of Wednesday the 18th, the
broadcast will also be televised on channel 9415 of the Dish Network and
Channel 348 on DirecTV.
A schedule of the topics to be covered may be found here:
http://news.homelessnessmarathon.org/2008/08/broadcast-schedule.html
(but bear in mind that this is a live broadcast that is always full of
unscheduled twists and turns).
This is not a charity event or a pity party. Homeless advocates have been
warning for decades that the same economic factors causing homelessness would
affect more affluent Americans too. Now that just about everybody in America
is struggling, maybe it's time to learn what the poor have known all along.
The great secret about homeless people isn't the percentage that are mentally
ill or addicted. It's that almost all of them are American citizens. The
government should not be in the business of demonizing whole classes of
people, herding them around like cattle and jailing them for the crime of
being poor just like in Dickens' time. But nonetheless, we've created a
society where there is no legal place to be free, once you've lost your
housing.
For this broadcast, we'll focus on the criminalization of homelessness,
and remember, the number one thing that homeless people say is, "I never
thought it could happen to me." If you don't want it happening to YOU,
tune in.
Jeremy Weir Alderson
director, Homelessness Marathon
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