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Thursday, February 12th, 2004, UMFM wil be part of a nation-wide
Homelessness Marathon; broadcasting 9 hours of this 14-hour marathon
from Thursday at 8pm until the following Friday at 5am.
Because it is the homeless who are best able to educate people
on the issues of homelessness...
With the goal of being a consciousness raising event, this Marathon
will provide an opportunity for homeless people and their advocates
to take to the airwaves, and allow a nationwide discussion on homelessness
issues.
Broadcasting from the streets of Montreal outside Café sur
la rue.
Call in toll-free: 1-866-763-4136
For more info, please visit CKUT's
site, and the US-Based Homelessness
Marathon site.
Tentative Marathon Schedule
8pm - Hour 5
CRIMINALIZATION & SOCIAL POLICIES: including a discussion
on discrimination, ticketting, and targeting.
PRODUCER/HOST: Tamara
CONFRIMED: Alex Popvich (Coalition Opposed to Police Brutality),
Anna (CATUS), Marion - Homeless (Mtl.), Prisoner X Radio Collective
(Qc & On), Rod Graham: a writer for Street Sheet - Manitoba
(Brett), Squeegies
9pm - Hour 6
SOCIAL MYTHS & RIGHTS: A look at government policies
that create homelessness with lawyers, anti-poverty groups, and
homeless coalitions.
PRODUCER/HOST: Charlotte & Peter
CONFRIMED: FRAPRU, Kingston Homeless Coalition, POPIR (Anne-Marie)
Solutions that are available. What other social myths do we have?
Housing as a human right; If it's a right, what can we do?
10pm - Hour 7
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE & HOMELESSNESS: First nations without
a home, a discussion linking urban and rural communitites. PRODUCER/HOST:
Neil & Stéphane
CONFRIMED: Alanis Obomsawin (Filmmaker), Native Women's
Shelter (Josie Currott, Dir.)
11pm - Hour 8
OPEN MIC: Phone Calls - Check-in with Canadian Rebroadcasters
12am - Hour 9
LINK with US MARATHON: GLOBAL LOOK AT HOMELESSNESS PRODUCER/HOST:
Melissa & Nancy
Is there a housing crisis? Poverty line assesment in Canada vs
reality. Zero poverty campaign in Canada update.
1am - Hour 10
GROWING POPULATIONS ON THE STREETS: featuring youth, women, and
people in precarious situations.
PRODUCER/HOST: dx
CONFRIMED: Dans la rue (Yaffa), Nelson BC Committee on Homelessness
Vulnerability & exploitation. Boys/girls reality on the street.
Sex work. Difference in treatment by police
2am - Hour 11
ADDICTION: Media Hype and Reality.
PRODUCER/HOST: Sophie.
CONFRIMED: Frederic Galbrun (Journal de la rue), VANDU (Jill)
3am - Hour 12
OPEN MIC: Phone Calls - Check-in with Canadian Rebroadcasters
4am - Hour 13
ACTIVISM & HOMELESSNESS: with OCAP, the Anti-Poverty
Coalition in Vancouver, and the Kitchener/Waterloo Youth Collective.
PRODUCER/HOST: Aaron
CONFRIMED: OCAP, APC-Vancouver, KW-Youth Collective, Group
from Japan, CLAC Logement
Excersising the Right to Sleep Safely
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