Aaron Beale was disqualified from the DSU elections for an infraction he says was beyond his control. Photo: DSU elections.

Two DSU election candidates won the most votes for the positions of President and VP Academic, but due to disqualifications, the positions have been awarded to opposing candidates.

Jamie Arron (candidate, DSU President, 58.3% of votes) and Aaron Beale (candidate, DSU VP Academic, 61.2% of votes) have both filed an appeal to the DSU elections committee, citing the disqualifications as being unfair.

CKDU spoke with Aaron Beale about his appeal. Since this interview, CKDU has learned that the elections committee has ruled against both appeals. The candidates have 5 days to re-appeal, this time to the Judicial Board. The DSU Elections Committee that turned down both appeals is the same body that originally ruled to disqualify both candidates.

CKDU was unable to reach Jamie Arron for an interview. He has set up a public website to share his appeal letters and supporting documents.

Old Man Luedecke will be performing songs at CKDU's Homelessness Marathon on February 22nd. Entry is free. Photo credit: Mark Maryanovich.

Old Man Luedecke will be performing songs at CKDU’s Annual Homelessness Marathon, February 22nd at St. Matthew’s Church, 1479 Barrington Street. The event is free, and the live broadcast is from 7 pm to 11 pm. Old Man Luedecke will be performing at 8:30 pm between live discussion panels on the sale of St. Pat’s Alexandra school in Halifax’s North End (7 pm to 8:30 pm), and on Occupy Nova Scotia and Occupy Wall Street (9 pm to 10 pm).

We have more amazing artists lined up from 10 pm to 11:30 pm: Paper Beat Scissors, The Occupiers (Antigonish, NS), Bentley Burke, and Wayne Sponagle. Afterwards the floor will open up to an Open Mic, and then a song circle lead by The Occupiers. Everyone is invited to come up and sing a song!

The entire broadcast will be aired on CKDU 88.1fm in Halifax, and on-line at ckdu.ca. CKDU will provide 1 hour of content for the national Homelessness Marathon, organized by CKUT Montreal, from 9 pm to 10 pm.

The Marathon will continue until 8 am the following morning. Free food, coffee and tea will be available all night long.

Please visit our web page for the detailed schedule, list of guests, and more information.

This year's discussion topics will by Occupy Nova Scotia and the Sale of St. Pat's Alexandra.

CKDU is proud to announce the detailed schedule of the 10th Annual Homelessness Marathon in Halifax.

FROM: 6:00 PM, Wednesday, February 22nd
TO: 8:00 AM, Thursday, February 23rd

6:00 PM
Doors open, food, coffee and tea served.

7:00 PM
The Sale of St. Pat’s Alexandra school: Poverty, Displacement, and Development
Panel and Community Discussion featuring:
Paul O’Hara, North End Community Health Clinic
Billy Lewis, Indigenous activist
Pete Wilson, singer / songwriter

8:30 PM
Musical Interlude
Featuring:
The Occupiers, Antigonish, NS
Mike Simon
Mary Beth Carty

9:00 PM
Occupy Nova Scotia / #OWS / Occupy Together
Panel and Community Discussion featuring:
David Williams, therapist on-site at Occupy NS camp
James Wiseman, Occupy NS
Eric Antolick, Occupy NS
Courtney, Occupy NS
Vive, Spoken Word performance

10:00 PM
Music Performances:
Featuring:
Paper Beat Scissors
Pete Wilson
Bentley Burke
Wayne Sponagle

11:00 PM:
Open Mic and Song Circle
Lead by The Occupiers

8:00 AM, February 23rd:
Closing Time

LOCATION: St. Matthews Church Gym, 1479 Barrington St.

free hot food, coffee and tea all night long, prepared by Dave Ewenson of Let’s Get Baked With Mat and Dave.

Tune in: 88.1 FM
Call in: 1-866-594-7729

Thanks to our Generous Food Donors:
Planet Organic
Tarek’s Cafe
Java Blend
The Good Food Emporium
Rani’s Curry and Roti

ABOUT:

CKDU is proud to take the radio to the streets again this year, for the annual Homelessness Marathon, broadcast from Vancouver, Montreal and Halifax. Listeners are encouraged to participate in Canada’s largest discussion on poverty, housing and homelessness. Audience members will be welcomed to make comments, share their stories, and sing songs.

What is the Homelessness Marathon?

Every year, the Homelessness Marathon serves up 14 hours of people-powered radio, broadcast on nearly 40 radio stations across Canada. With the goal of being a consciousness-raising event, the Marathon will provide an opportunity for homeless people and their allies to take to the airwaves, and allow a nationwide discussion on homelessness issues and possible solutions.

CKDU 88.1 FM will be broadcasting live from the St. Matthews United Church from 7 pm to 10 pm. St. Matthew’s Church is also the site of the Out of the Cold Emergency Shelter.

History:
The Homelessness Marathon was founded in 1998 by Jeremy Weir Alderson (aka “Nobody”) as an offshoot of his regular radio program, “The Nobody Show,” broadcast weekly on WEOS, an NPR-affiliate in Geneva, NY. “That first year, I was just thinking of it as a matter of conscience,” Alderson says. “Basically, I just wanted to get on the air and say, ‘This isn’t right, and I want no part of it,’ and, of course, I wanted to bolster this argument with the opinions of experts and the voices of homeless people.” He got the idea of broadcasting from outdoors in the dead of winter, he says, because he wanted to dramatize the plight of people with nowhere to go in the cold.

Past Panelists on CKDU’s Homelessness Marathon:

Wayne McNaughton, anti-poverty activist
Jocelyne Tranquilla, Nova Scotia Common Front for Affordable Housing
Rene Ross, Stepping Stone
Gladys Radek, Walk 4 Justice
Jordan Roberts, Out of the Cold Emergency Shelter
Megan Leslie, Halifax MP
Artists of Creative Spirits East, Veith Street Gallery
Tom Hirst, former member, Halifax Coalition Against Poverty
Kendall Worth, Street Feat newspaper

The Homelessness Marathon airs in these cities:
Halifax, NS : Eskasoni, NS : Antigonish, NS : Wolfville, NS : Sackville, NB : St-John, NB : Fredericton, NB : Montreal, QC : Kingston, ON : St-Catherines, ON : Killaloe, ON : Ottawa, ON : Toronto, ON : Guelph, ON : Thunder Bay, ON : Waterloo, ON : London, ON : Peterborough, ON : Regina, SK : Saskatoon, SK : Winnipeg, MB : Lethbridge, AB : Calgary, AB : Edmonton, AB : Yellowknife, NT : Burnaby, BC : Victoria, BC : Abbotsford, BC : Nanaimo, BC : Vancouver, BC : Kamloops, BC : Smithers, BC : Nelson, BC : Crawford Bay, BC : New Denver, BC