CKDU 88.1fm Campus/Community Radio invites you to:
The 9th Annual Homelessness Marathon
6 pm, Wednesday, February 23rd - to - 8 am, Thursday, February 24th
St. Matthew's Church, 1479 Barrington Street
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Photo: 2010 Homelessness Marathon, by Jill Ratcliffe.
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Free food, coffee and tea all-night long at our live listening booth
9 - 10 PM: Panel, "Community Solutions to Homelessness and Poverty" with anti-poverty activist Wayne MacNaughton, the Nova Scotia Common Front for Affordable Housing, MP Megan Leslie and MLA Leonard Preyra
10 - 11 PM: Audience feedback hour, live discussion, debate and comments.
11 PM - MIDNIGHT: Open Mic Hour, kicking off with acoustic performance by Joel Plaskett
Call-in any time to join the discussion (toll free): 1 866 594 7729
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9th Annual Homelessness Marathon: The largest discussion on homelessness and poverty in Canada
This year's Homelessness Marathon will broadcast live from the streets of Halifax, Montreal, Vancouver, and the United States on Wednesday, February 23rd, starting at sunset (6 pm AST) and running all night long until sunrise (8 am) on Thursday, February 24th.
WHAT IS THE HOMELESSNESS MARATHON?
The Homelessness Marathon is annually broadcast by 40 campus, community and native radio stations. The 9th annual Homelessness Marathon will deliver 14 hours of people-powered radio from multiple cities across Canada. With the goal of being a consciousness-raising and empowering event, the Marathon provides an opportunity for homeless people and their allies to take to the airwaves, and allows a nationwide discussion on homelessness issues and possible solutions.
The marathon is a consciousness raising, not a fund-raising broadcast. We believe that solving the problem of homelessness requires fundamental changes in the way our nation’s priorities are structured. The whole mission of the marathon is to ignite a national dialogue about what these changes should be.
The marathon will be available via the internet on two MP3 streams from ckdu.ca/stream_links.html.
History:
The Homelessness Marathon was founded in 1998 by Jeremy Weir Alderson (aka “Nobody”) as an offshoot of his regular radio program, “The Nobody Show,” broadcast weekly on WEOS, an NPR-affiliate in Geneva, NY. “That first year, I was just thinking of it as a matter of conscience,” Alderson says. “Basically,I just wanted to get on the air and say, ‘This isn’t right, and I want no part of it,’ and, of course, I wanted to bolster this argument with the opinions of experts and the voices of homeless people.” He got the idea of broadcasting from outdoors in the dead of winter, he says, because he wanted to dramatize the plight of people with nowhere to go in the cold.
Past guest speakers on CKDU's Homelessness Marathon include:
Rene Ross, Stepping Stone
Gladys Radek, Walk 4 Justice
Jordan Roberts and Capp Larsen, Out of the Cold Emergency Shelter
Creative Spirits East, Veith Street Gallery
Students for the Streets, Dalhousie University
Tom Hirst, former member, Halifax Coalition Against Poverty
Kendall Worth and Judy Dent, Street Feat newspaper
Stations Broadcasting the Homelessness Marathon:
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
CKLB 101.9fm – Native Communications Society of the Northwest Territories
BRITISH COLUMBIA
CJSF 90.1 MHz – Simon Fraser Campus Radio Society (Burnaby)
CFUV 101.9FM – Victoria Student / Community radio at the University of Victoria
CFBX 92.5fm – Kamloops Campus/Community Radio
CHLY 101.7fm – Radio Malaspina, Nanaimo
CiTR 101.9fm – UBC, Vancouver
CIVL Radio 101.7FM – University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford
CJLY 93.5 – Kootenay Co-operative Radio, Nelson
CFRO 102.7FM – Vancouver Co-op Radio
ALBERTA
CKXU 88.3FM – University of Lethbridge
CJSW 90.9 FM – Calgary
CJSR 90.9FM – Edmonton
SASKATCHEWAN
CJTR 91.3 – Radius Communications Inc (Regina)
CFCR 90.5 FM – Saskatoon Community Radio
MANITOBA
95.9fm CKUW – Winnipeg
ONTARIO
CHUO 89.1 MHz – Radio Ottawa Inc.
CFRU 93.3 FM – University of Guelph
CJAM 91.5 MHz – Windsor
CILU 102.7 FM – Thunder Bay
CFRC 101.9 MHz – Radio Queen’s University (Kingston)
CFBU 103.7fm – St. Catharines
CHRY 105.5 MHz – York University, Toronto
CFMU 93.3 FM – McMaster Campus Radio (Hamilton)
QUEBEC
CKUT 90.3fm – University of McGill and Montréal Radio
CHOQ.FM – La radio Web de l’Université du Québec à Montréal
CINQ-FM (102.3) – FM, Radio Centre-Ville, Montréal
NOVA SCOTIA
CKDU 88.1fm – Dalhousie U. (Halifax)
CICU – Mi’kmaw Radio, Eskasoni First Nation
NEW BRUNSWICK
CHMA 106.9fm – Mount Allison University, Sackville
CFMH 107.3 – St. John
NEWFOUNDLAND
CHMR 93.5 FM – Memorial University, St. John’s
