The 3rd Annual Homelessness Marathon, January 25-26, 2000
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| Meeting name: | Annual Homelessness Marathon (3rd : 2000 : Champaign-Urbana, Ill.) |
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| Imprint: | [New Yory : Jeremy Alderson, 2000] |
| Description: | 7 sound cassettes (14 hrs.) : analog. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Homeless persons -- United States. Homeless persons -- Services for. Homeless persons -- Government policy -- United States. Homeless persons. Homeless persons -- Government policy. Homeless persons -- Services for. Homelessness -- Government policy. Homelessness -- Public opinion. United States. |
| Format: | Audio cassette Audio Spoken word recording |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4310550 |
Table of Contents:
- Hour 1. Opening remarks / Nobody ; Anytown, USA : homelessness in Champaign-Urbana / Esther Patt, Urbana City Council Member & tenant union director, and Captain George Windham of the Salvation Army
- Hour 2. The impact of welfare reform / Laurel Weir, National Legal Center on Homelessness and Poverty
- What do the numbers show? : statistics on homelessness and poverty in America / Gene Lowe, US Conference of Mayors, and Ed Lazare, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
- Hour 3. Singing at candlelight vigil
- A panel of homeless "mentally ill"
- Hour 4. Singing at candlelight vigil
- Institutionalized homelessness ; migrant workers / Hugh Phillips, El Centro por los Trabajadores in Champaign, Ill., and Greg Asbed, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Immokalee, FL
- Hour 5. Reading by the Street Roots Poetry Group
- Globalization : when more is less / Joel Blau, author of The Visible poor : homelessness in the United States, and Benjamin Barber, author of Jihad vs. McWorld
- Hour 6. "Bums like me"
- Panel of homeless vets
- Hour 7. An update on homelessness and the legal system
- Report from NYC : Guiliani's reign of terror / Indio, editor of Street news, and Robert Lederman, of A.R.T.I.S.T. (Artist' Resistance to Illegal State Tactics)
- Hour 8. How widespread is homelessness?
- Are Americans going hungry? / Tom Slater and Elizabeth Crocket, Food Bank of Central NY
- Hour 9. Homelessness in Hawaii
- How has homelessness changed in the last year? / Paul Boden, San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness, and Tom Boland, Homeless People's Network
- Hour 10. Homelessness in Canada
- Open mic hour
- Hour 11. "In the hood"
- Activism : when being polite isn't enough / Cheri Hankala, Kensington Welfare Rights Union, and Dave Bush, LA activist
- Hour 12. The promise of feminism in the gutter. Part 1
- Demonization : why are so many homeless people being murdered? / Mary Ann Gleason, National Coalition for the Homeless, and John Lee Johnson, activist in Champaign, IL
- Hour 13. The promise of feminism in the gutter. Part 2
- Health care and the homeless / Quentin Young, MD, Physicians for a National Health Program, and Claudia Lennhoff, Champaign County Health Care Consumers
- Hour 14. Poems from street newspapers
- Finding a place : the struggle for affordable housing / Sheila Crowley, National Low Income Housing Coalition, and Kathy Simms, Center for Women in Transition, Champaign, Il
- Closing remarks / by Nobody.
