This Wednesday (February 17th, 2016) starting at 7pm and continuing until 9am Thursday morning, WVEW-lp (Brattleboro’s all volunteer Community Radio station) will once again forgo its usual programming to air the annual Homelessness Marathon. It is not a fundraiser. It is the only national broadcast which addresses homelessness in our country, and is carried mostly on independent and Community Radio stations. This year the broadcast originates from the streets of Washington, D.C. The Marathon is sponsoring a petition to H.U.D. (the Department of Housing and Urban Development) for better treatment of people who are Homeless. You can sign the petition at their website:
http://news.homelessnessmarathon.org/
We hope you’ll listen in.
WVEW-lp 107.7fm, or wvew.org
DC
This is always interesting to listen to each year, as it is rare that homeless people are given air time to tell their stories. It’s great that they do the marathon, and great that we have a local radio station that participates.
Coming from DC, it should be especially interesting given the typical news from that city.