US radio stations will carry the 13th US Homelessness Marathon,
Canadian stations will carry the 8th Canadian Homelessness Marathon.
US:
http://homelessness-marathon.blogspot.com/2010/02/third-time-is-charm.html<snip>
The 13th Annual Homelessness Marathon will originate from Detroit, MI, starting at 7pm, ET, on Tues., Feb. 23rd and running overnight until 9am, Weds., Feb. 24, 2010.
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The broadcast will originate from 12025 Woodrow Wilson St. in Detroit, a building in the Cass Community Social Services complex. Homeless people will be gathered there so that they can speak directly to the nation. The broadcast will also feature the voices of diverse experts, callers from around the country and, if possible, politicians.
WHFR, 89.3 FM in Dearborn, Michigan, the radio station of Henry Ford Community College, will be the on-air host of the broadcast. Other participating Detroit area radio stations will include WHPR, 88.1 FM, in Highland Park, Michigan, and CJAM, 91.5 FM in Windsor, Ontario.
The Homelessness Marathon will also air on around 100 American radio stations and will be simulcast, in part, over the 45 or so Canadian radio stations carrying a parallel Canadian Homelessness Marathon, now entering its eighth year. The broadcast will be made available to stations free of charge over the Public Radio Satellite System, the Pacifica satellite Ku-band and through a webcast.
More information about the Homelessness Marathon, including schedules and sound clips from previous broadcasts, can be found at:
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Canada:
http://ckdu-fm.blogspot.com/2010/02/ckdu-881fm-presents-8th-homelessness.html<snip>
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.
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http://artthreat.net/2010/02/homelessness-marathon-an-unofficial-olympic-event/Homelessness Marathon: an unofficial Olympic event
by Amanda McCuaig on February 22, 2010 ·
Take a break from Olympic recaps on CTV Tuesday night and tune your radio to 90.1 CJSF (in the Vancouver area) or listen online at CJSF Campus/Community Radio, based out of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC, and Vancouver musician Adaline will be speaking with local artists who have been affected by homelessness as part of the International Homelessness Marathon / Canadian Homelessness Marathon. Those in the area can come to a live studio braodcast at the W2 Culture and Media House at 112 W Hastings from 8–10pm.
Running through the night, this 14-hour marathon is a collaboration of national community and campus radio programming featuring the voices and stories of homeless people in the United States and Canada.
The Homelessness Marathon was started in 1998 by Jeremy Weir Alderson, host of “The Nobody Show” which was then broadcast weekly on WEOS in Geneva, NY, as a result of the heartsickness he was feeling at the huge homelessness problem in New York City.
The Marathon took up force in Canada after being adopted by McGill University’s CKUT radio in 2004.
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