Homelessness Marathon

[Kali]

My local community station will be broadcasting and you can stream at: http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kxci/ppr/index.shtml

other stations can be found at http://homelessnessmarathon.org/2008/09/where-to-listen.html

Homelessness Marathon

6:00PM Monday, February 23 to
7:00AM Tuesday, February 24
91.3 KXCI Tucson
www.kxci.org

Community Radio 91.3 KXCI will broadcast the 12th Annual Homelessness Marathon live, from Monday February 23 at 6:00PM through 7:00AM Tuesday, February 24. The Homelessness Marathon is an annual 14-hour radio broadcast featuring the voices and stories of homeless people from around the United States. The Homelessness Marathon features live call-ins all night long via a national toll-free number. Homelessness has always been an issue in Tucson and across the country. This year, an unprecedented number of people are becoming newly homeless.

There will be two call-in numbers for the broadcast.

ANYONE may call 877-NOBODY-8 (877-662-6398)
People who are homeless, formerly homeless or afraid they're about to be
homeless may also call 866-LEFT-OUT (866-533-8688)

Additional information available at: http://www.homelessnessmarathon.org.

The 12th Annual Homelessness Marathon will originate from Pass Christian, Mississippi. Pass Christian is next door to Waveland, MS, which the Army Corps of Engineers officially designates as the "Ground Zero," where Hurricane Katrina came ashore. We call it the "other" Ground Zero, because it's the one that didn't get the attention (or the multi-trillion dollar response) that was given to the Ground Zero in New York.

Pass Christian was less affected than Waveland, losing a mere 100% of its public buildings, 100% of its businesses and 80% of its homes. Though the Gulf Coast is probably only about 20% rebuilt and there is a drastic shortage of affordable housing, the state and Federal governments will soon remove the remaining temporary trailers and cottages. Thousands of desperately poor elderly and disabled people and single parent families with young children are about to be thrown on the streets with nowhere to go.

[annm4peace]

1. thanks for the reminder. we should all listen to this

especially in the economic times.

Several hears ago they broadcast in Fresno and give the Homeless there a voice.


Things are still bad for the HOmeless in Fresno and many saw it on National News.

1 in 4 are Veterans.

1/2 are Children

Many single woman who don't have kids aren't eligble for shelter

Many of us could become severely mentally ill, which results in losing our jobs, friends, family and we could find ourselves on the street and vunerable to all sorts of violence

[annm4peace]

2. Police assault on Homeless man in Fresno

STATEMENT

For many years, police activities in Fresno have caused many members of the Fresno community to ask if the City of Fresno and specifically the Fresno Police Department respect the rights and even the lives of the members of the community, culminating on February 9, when two FPD officers were filmed beating a homeless man.

The result is that there is a severe lack of confidence in the Fresno Police Department and in other law agencies.

To establish police accountability and community confidence in the Fresno Police Department, we call for the following actions:

1. An immediate Pattern and Practice Investigation of the Fresno Police Department by the Federal Department of Justice Civil Rights Division

2. The City Council, with the support of the Fresno Police Officers Association, take immediate action to support Mayor Swearengin's direction to the city manager and the Police Chief to establish an IPA

3. The Mayor, City Council Members, Chief of Police, and President of the Fresno Police Officers Association set up and participate in a meeting or series of meetings so that community members can come and voice their concerns

4. Culture and sensitivity training for the Fresno Police Department

5. Full implementation of a Community Based Policing Program

The immediate implementation of all five of these actions is essential both for the protection of the members of the community and for the protection of those police officers who are dedicated to serving the public.

http://www.fresnoalliance.com


Video of man being beaten
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/02/10/18569420.php

[Kali]

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