HALIFAX - The eighth annual Homelessness Marathon will once again serve up 14 hours of people-powered radio. With the goal of being a consciousness-raising event, the Marathon will provide an opportunity for homeless people and their allies to take to the airwaves, and allow a nationwide discussion on homelessness issues and possible solutions.
In Halifax, CKDU FM campus/community radio will broadcast live outside St. Matthew's United Church, 1479 Barrington Street, right beside the Out of the Cold Emergency Shelter. We will offer hot food and hot coffee and tea all night long in our indoor listening booth. Participants are encouraged to get on the microphone outside and have their voices heard across the country. Halifax will broadcast live from 7pm until 11pm, and then again between 1 am and 2 am.
WHAT IS THE HOMELESSNESS MARATHON?
This year’s Homelessness Marathon will broadcast live from the streets of Halifax, Montreal, Vancouver, Windsor and Thunder Bay on Tuesday, February 23rd, starting at sunset (6pm AST) and running all night long until sunrise (8am) on Wednesday, February 24th.
The Homelessness Marathon is annually carried by 40 campus, community and Native radio stations. Listeners are invited to call-in with their
questions or comments toll-free: 1-866-594-7729. Listeners can tune in at 88.1 FM in Halifax, or online at www.ckdu.ca.
2010 Marathon Schedule: Tuesday, February 23rd
:: HOUR 1, 6pm
Intro to the Homelessness Marathon 2010 - Poverty and Media (CKUT, Montreal)
:: HOUR 2, 7pm
Women, sex work, and homelessness (CKDU, Halifax)
:: HOUR 3, 8pm
The State of Affordable Housing (CKDU, Halifax)
:: HOUR 4, 9pm
Mental Illness (CKDU, Halifax)
:: HOUR 5, 10pm
Grassroots Responses to Poverty (CKDU, Halifax)
:: HOUR 6, 11pm
Health and Poverty Canada and USA (US Marathon and CJAM, Windsor)
:: HOUR 7, Midnight
Homeless in the Olympic City: Views from the poor (CJSF, CiTR, Coop,
Vancouver)
:: HOUR 8, 1am
Open Mic (CKUT, Montreal and CKDU, Halifax)
:: HOUR 9, 2am
Poverty and Homelessness Northwestern Ontario (CILU, Thunder Bay)
:: HOUR 10, 3am
Literacy and Education on the Streets (CKUT, Monreal)
:: HOUR 11, 4am
First Nations theme, To Be Announced (CKUT, Monreal)
:: HOUR 12, 5am
Policing Poverty (CKUT, Monreal)
[The French segment will be from 6am to 8am]
:: HOUR 13, 6am
IntervenantEs intervenuEs: quelques histoires de rue (CKUT, Monreal)
VIH dans la rue (CKUT, Monreal)
WEBSITE: http://ckut.ca/homeless.html
