2008 Homlessness Marathon Topics / THEMES [in no particular order]
WINTER 2008: THE HOMELESSNESS MARATHON / L'HIVER 2008: MARATHON DES SANS-ABRI
from sunset on Wednesday February 20th until sunrise...diffusé mercredi du 20 février à compter du coucher du soleil à 17h.
YER COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR GUESTS OR QUESTIONS ARE WELCOME AT marathon@ckut.ca.
1. racisme et pauvreté dans la rue / racism and poverty in the street
2. les réfugiéEs dans la rue / refugees and homelessness
3. OPEN MIC Rants, Poetry, and Music on the Streets / MICRO OUVERT Declamations,
chialage, poésie et musique sur la rue avec/with CKUTs Off the Hook
4. Homelessness by Numbers / L'itinérance en chiffres.
5. poverty on the move - from downtown to the suburbs / la chasse aux pauvres,
du centre-ville aux quartiers aux banlieues
6. a critical look at services / un regard critiques sur les services communautaires
7. theater in the streets / théâtre dans la rue
8. Policing poverty / Judiciarisation de la pauvreté
9. homelessness and working/travailler et vivre dans la rue
10. disabilities in the streets / être sans-abri avec un handicap physique
11. Physical and Mental Health on the Street / La santé mentale et physique dans la rue
12. homeless nation hour of power / l'heure du pouvoir
13. literacy and education in the streets / analphabétisme et éducation dans la rue
14. Indigenous Hour / L'Heure autochtone
YER COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR GUESTS OR QUESTIONS ARE WELCOME AT marathon@ckut.ca.
How about this as another topic. Cause a few of you know we here in Victoria have been fighting the governemnt and everyone who chooses to challenge us on this issue ad at this point we are winning. In fact our court case is just over two years old and we are now set to go to supreme court on Jan9 &10. The court case is a carter challenge so this means when we win we will have done it for everyone in all of Canada. Because we have done it using the constituent. Should we win this round then we are set to go to trial for five days from the week of Jan 27 to Feb 2
hello Rose and all--
the posters are ready! follow these links or let me know if you want us
to print some for you and ship them your way (they are 11x17):
http://www.ckut.ca/hm/hmposter2008EN1.pdf
http://www.ckut.ca/hm/hmposter2008FR1.pdf
also ROSE, we want to book folks from tent city for the last hour. is this possible to have several folk son from victoria?
and if you want to be a guest or have a suggestion for who to invite, let us know - marathon@ckut.ca.
Obviously we need very immediate solutions to homelessness & we've discussed this issue extensively.
However, what about a solution that would resolve the entire issue? So why not implement a guaranteed livable income for everyone? I don't consider this solution far fetched at all, it's a concept that's been around for a long,long time.
There's an excellent website all about it entitled Livable Income For Everyone LIFE.
In the meantime, we need immediate life affirming remedies, not piecemeal housing projects that don't begin to cover the actual need for housing for everyone.
And obviously we need our own land. However, in lieu of land entitlement for everyone, the crown could at the very least, let us make use of their unused crown land in order to establish tent cities for people who have no other options available to them.
I'd also like to see squatters rights established. Squatters rights have worked in the Netherlands and there's no reason why they won't work here.
thanks also for the website address on this subject.thanks for contributing..cheers.JH