KPFA Special Broadcast – February 21, 2007
10th Annual Homelessness Marathon (3am-4am): Street Poetry
10th Annual Homelessness Marathon (3am-4am): Street Poetry
10th Annual Homelessness Marathon (2am-3am): TBA
10th Annual Homelessness Marathon (1am-2am): "International Hour: Why Does Even the French Right Support the Right To Housing?" Co-Host: Marc Uhry, Policy Officer, Alpil (Action for Hosing Rights), Lyons, France.
10th Annual Homelessness Marathon (11pm-12am): "Why Do So Many Foster Kids Wind Up On The Streets?" Co-Hosts: Ducky Doolittle, a rape crisis counselor and sex educator who became a street prostitute when she first got our of foster care, and Richard Wexler, director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform and author of "Wounded … Continued
10th Annual Homelessness Marathon (10pm-11pm): "Tent Cities and Other Homeless Communities." Guest Host: Robert Norse, co-founder HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship and Freedom). Co-Hosts: Jenny Marie Flores, a homeless woman trying to help establish a homeless community in Fresno and a co-host from Seattle’s Tent City.
10th Annual Homelessness Marathon (9pm-10pm): "Fresno’s Homeless Talk Back To The City." Co-Hosts: Fresno City Councilpeople Jerry Duncan and Cynthia Sterling.
10th Annual Homelessness Marathon (8pm-9pm): "The Sweeps Were Wrong." Co-Hosts: Mike Rhodes, editor, Community Alliance newspaper; Rev. Floyd Harris, California Director, National Action Network.
10th Annual Homelessness Marathon (7pm-8pm): "Make Bad Policy Globally, Get Screwed Locally." Co-host: Paul Boden, director of WRAP, the Western Regional Advocacy Project. And Sara Hedgpeth-Harris, steering committee chair, Fresno Housing Alliance
Cuban Hip Hop Mitch Jeserich and Sujatha Fernandes explore how hip hop has found a revolutionary niche inside of Cuba. Sujatha Fernandes is the author of the new book Cuba Represent!: Cuban Arts, State Power, And the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures. Hosted and Produced by Mitch Jeserich