Homelessness Marathon bannerThe Homelessness Marathon
America's only national broadcast focusing on
homelessness and poverty.
The 21st Homelessness Marathon live broadcast will take place in Boston on Wednesday, July 24, 2019 from 10 A.M. to midnight in conjunction with WMBR in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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| The broadcast booth at the 20th Homelessness Marathon in Washington, DC in 2018. |
The Homelessness Marathon is a unique radio program that
gives homeless people and their allies a chance to speak with the nation about
their experiences. Broadcasting from a different city each year, the annual
14-hour Marathon features live reports, interviews with advocates and experts,
and calls from listeners all over the country.
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The Homelessness Marathon goes underground
to talk with some of the forgotten people of Washington, DC. |
Above all, the program centers the voices of homeless people talking about their real circumstances, obstacles, and potential solutions.
The goal is to create a dialogue on
poverty, its causes and effects, and ideas for solving the homelessness crisis.
This goes beyond just talking about homelessness: instead, the Marathon focuses
on hearing and learning from the lived experiences of homeless people around
the nation... ideas and voices that are completely missing from current
political discourse.
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| Outside the 16th Homelessness Marathon, which took place at the First Baptist Church of Brattleboro,Vermont in February 2014. |
