Homeless take to the airwaves tonight
The 11th Annual Homelessness Marathon, a 14-hour national radio dialogue on poverty and housing in the US, will take place Wednesday night to Thursday morning, February 20-21. Originating this year in Nashville, the Marathon is a live, outdoor, broadcasting event featuring homeless people, advocates for the homeless and call-ins from the public. A broadcast booth is set up outside, with open mics for people who are out on the street in Nashville that night.The Marathon does not raise money for charity. Its mission is to raise consciousness, by covering a broad range of topics, speaking with experts, taking calls from around the country, and above all, by putting homeless people on the air directly. It is the largest broadcast on homelessness, and indeed on poverty, in the United States.
The Marathon will be streaming live on the program's website, or find a radio station near you that is carrying the broadcast. If you miss the broadcast, excerpts from this and previous year's marathons are posted at the program's website.
Read a Dollars & Sense article about the Marathon, from our Jan./Feb. 2007 issue.
Labels: affordable housing, Homelessness Marathon, poverty, radio
Online Resource of the Day
Dollars & Sense readers and supporters will find the PLA website most informative.The Predatory Lending Association mission: To help predatory lenders extract maximum profit from the working poor and retired poor with payday loans.
The predatory lending industry: In the last 10 years, payday loan stores have gone from being illegal to outnumbering Starbucks™ coffee shops in many states.
Maximum profit: In 2006, American families spent one in seven of their take home dollars on debt payments1. The Predatory Lending Association is the only organization dedicated to helping you capture these dollars.
The Predatory Lending Association is not related in any way to the Association of Predatory Home Lenders (APHL), which focuses on the home mortgage industry. And while we are partners, we remain separate from the Society for Credit Card Fee Maximization (SCCFM), the Association of Predatory Money Managers (APMM), and the Society of Predatory Mutual Funds (SPMF).
The PLA website is chock full of resources, including its Military Loan Finder , Working Poor Finder, and Racial Profiling Tools.
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Labels: Class, poverty, predatory lending, racism