CRIP-HIP-HOP! Pushing Limits’ three part series on disabled Hip-Hop artists. Pushing Limits celebrates May Day and Cinco de Mayo with DJ Quad from a Hip-Hop group, 5th Battalion, of Los Angeles. 5th Battalion founder and producer, DJ Quad, a Latino quadriplegic, talks about the ongoing immigration debate, police harassment, mentoring other disabled hip-hop artists, his debut CD, Bringing the Heat, and AfroLatino race relations in Hip-Hop. Produced by Safi wa Nairobi and Leroy F. Moore, Jr. Stay ...
May 05, 2006•4 min
Pushing Limits hosts Doyle Saylor and Gene Sharee will present a variety of topics and issues. They will describe important upcoming events impacting the disability community. Items to be covered include a rally on workers’ rights, providing information on Workers’ Compensation deregulation in addition to interviewing injured workers. The program will also cover the deYoung Museum arts and disability event. The post Pushing Limits – April 21, 2006 appeared first on KPFA.
Apr 21, 2006•4 min
CRIP-HIP-HOP! PL’s three part series on disabled hip-hop artists kicks off today. The first hip-hop artist on crutches, Preechman, lives in Yonkers, New York. Preechman was born in Haiti and came to the NY for medical treatment for polio. He has shared the stage with DMX, Doug E. Fresh, Slick Rick and many more. He gives his thoughts, artistic talents and recent projects with pushing limits. Preechman puts a spotlight on the hip-hop industry and how it deals with crip-hip-hoppers. Produced by Sa...
Apr 07, 2006•4 min
Friday March 31, 2006 at 2:30 PM pushing limits will air a program on disability in Iraq. Doyle Saylor and Leah Gardner will co-host the show with guests Sadick Alsidir and Salam Hassan from the Joint Iraqi Development & Unity Foundation. They will discuss a wheel chair project they have developed and how disability is affected as a result of war. The post Pushing Limits – March 31, 2006 appeared first on KPFA.
Mar 31, 2006•4 min
Pushing Limits, in celebration of international women’s history month, will interview Corbett Joan O’Toole. O’Toole is a longtime, internationally influential disability rights activist as well as a writer and filmmaker. O’Toole will share her perspective on the history of disabled women in the feminist movement as well as her views on where women fit in to the disability rights spectrum on a national and international level in the future. The post Pushing Limits – March 17, 2006 appeared first ...
Mar 17, 2006•4 min
Pushing Limits’ hosts Adrienne Lauby and Leroy Moore will cover "The Media Looks at Disability". They interview Mitch Jeserich who went from KPFA’s newsroom training to interviewing Colin Powell in a few short years and Charles A. Riley who tried to compete with Oprah with "WE," a lifestyle magazine for and about people with disabilities. Charles A. Riley is the author of the new book, "Disability and the Media". Mitch Jeserich was recently Washington Editor for Free Speech Radio News. The post ...
Mar 03, 2006•4 min
This program looks at our African heritage and the peoples struggle for freedom and equality in South Africa. Biko Agozino Various parcipants in African burial ground in NYC. The post KPFA Special Broadcast – February 24, 2006 appeared first on KPFA.
Feb 24, 2006•4 min
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Feb 17, 2006•4 min
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Jan 13, 2006•4 min
Pushing Limits hosts Leroy Moore and Gerald Sanders will cover the fate of disabled musicians in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The show will highlight three blind blues musicians: Henry Butler, Snooks Eaglin and Bryan Lee by playing their music, reading latest news on their whereabouts, tour dates and how the Hurricane affected them…The show will also play a trailer of a new DVD, Make It Funky ,about the music filled neighborhoods of New Orleans. The post Pushing Limits – Ja...
Jan 06, 2006•4 min
Pushing Limits will present an original drama with a holiday theme. Our play, "What Cha Gonna Do?" takes radio listeners to a disabled poetry group, visits a pagan crip firepit and features the inner worlds of the Pushing Limits Players. The show includes music by D.J. Kno, Mary Chapin Carpenter and the Disabled In Action Singers The post Pushing Limits – December 30, 2005 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 30, 2005•4 min
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Dec 23, 2005•4 min
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Dec 16, 2005•4 min
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Dec 09, 2005•4 min
Pushing Limits will present a program on the use of the law in disability rights work. Disability activists Hollyn D’Lil and Richard Skaff will speak on current developments in the Americans with Disability Act (ADA). Co-producers Eddie Ytuarte and Doyle Saylor will also discuss whether there are limitations to how litigation is currently being used. The post Pushing Limits – December 2, 2005 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 02, 2005•4 min
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Nov 25, 2005•4 min
Pushing Limits will address post polio syndrome. Host Eddie Ytuarte will address living with post polio syndrome, about memories, cautions, and realities of the disease which has largely been eliminated in the U.S. Eddie will speak with Phyllis Hartke, polio survivor and past president of the Bay Area Post-Polio Network and Grace Lin, polio survivor who is a visual artist, painter and sculptor. Even though the disease has largely been erradicated, Eddie Ytuarte says "Nonetheless, a lot of us fol...
Nov 18, 2005•4 min
Pushing Limits will cover the California Special Election. The show will discuss the various ballot propositions and the impact the outcome will have on the disability community. Ruthanne Shpiner and Tom Ross will interview Paul Johnson, systems change advocate and client assistance program coordinator for Berkeley’s Center for Independent Living and Marilla Arguelles, president of the home care workers’ union, SEIU Local 616. The post Pushing Limits – November 4, 2005 appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 04, 2005•4 min
Pushing Limits presents the third show of a series on disability and visual arts. Hosts Doyle Saylor, Safi wa Nairobi and Nora Ryerson speak with nationally recognized artists, Casper Banjo, Bill Bruckner, Kathleen Flannigan and Chuck Close. These artists discuss how their art is shaped by the disability experience. The post Pushing Limits – October 7, 2005 appeared first on KPFA.
Oct 07, 2005•4 min
Pushing Limits will present the second of a four part series on disability and visual arts. Host Nora Ryerson will narrate a collage of interviews with artists, staff and administrators from Creativity Explored, Creative Growth and the National Institute for Art and Disability, art centers which serve primarily the developmentally disabled. Produced by Safi wa Nairobi with the assistance of Nora Ryerson and Doyle Saylor. The post Pushing Limits – September 30, 2005 appeared first on KPFA.
Sep 30, 2005•4 min
Pushing Limits will kick off a series of four programs about disability visual arts. On Sept. 16, 2005, hosts Eddie Ytuarte and Doyle Saylor will speak with two directors of bay area art centers which primarily serve people with developmental disabilities. Listeners will hear from visual artist, Chuck Close who has a facial disability. Later shows in the series will 1) take a closer look at the art centers 2) be a show about visual artists with disabilities, and 3) be a program about low vision ...
Sep 16, 2005•4 min
Pushing Limit’s producer Leroy F. Moore, Jr. will explore the question of whether there is a network of African American Disabled artists with two accomplished East Coast Musicians, Rob Da Noize Temple and Robin "Bird" Williams. The guests’ work span hip-hop, rhythm and blues, jazz, reggae, soul and hard rock. Tune in to hear about how disability consciousness has affected their careers, mentoring and lives. The post Pushing Limits – September 4, 2005 appeared first on KPFA.
Sep 04, 2005•4 min
Pushing Limits will air "Portraits of Johannah", stories of a lesbian with a mental disability, who has survived child abuse, gay bashing and anti-disabled discrimination, had many interesting adventures, and does all this with humor, wit and grace. Pushing Limits Shelley Berman with correspondent Thyme Siegel interview Johannah Lee to air these stories on Pushing Limits. Johannah’s stories reflect society’s lack of support and discrimination experienced by many marginalized people who are poor,...
Aug 21, 2005•4 min
Hosts Adrienne Lauby and Leroy Moore will address psychiatric disabilities. "Mad Pride Is Human Pride" . In honor of Mad Pride Month, celebrated this year in four nations, Pushing Limits will feature the extraordinary story of Catherine Penny, who recovered from severe psychosis without the use of psychiatric drugs. The hosts will interview Dr. Daniel Dorman, psychiatry professor at UCLA, will report on a mental health funding success in San Francisco and chat with two local people who are livin...
Aug 07, 2005•4 min
Pushing Limits will discuss and play the music of selected jazz musicians with disabilities. Hosts, Eddie Ytuarte, Nora Ryerson, Doyle Saylor and Leah Gardner will present the music of singer Jimmy Scott who had Kallmann’s Syndrome, a hereditary hormonal deficiency that stunted his growth and kept his voice from developing a deeper sound, blind musician Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and pianist Michel Petrucciani who was born with osteogenesis imperfecta. The post Pushing Limits – July 31, 2005 appeared ...
Jul 31, 2005•4 min
Hosts Adrienne Lauby and Leroy Moore will address psychiatric disabilities. "Mad Pride Is Human Pride" . In honor of Mad Pride Month, celebrated this year in four nations, Pushing Limits will feature the extraordinary story of Catherine Penny, who recovered from severe psychosis without the use of psychiatric drugs. The hosts will interview Dr. Daniel Dorman, psychiatry professor at UCLA, will report on a mental health funding success in San Francisco and chat with two local people who are livin...
Jul 17, 2005•4 min
Hosts Leah Gardener and Doyle Saylor discuss disabled athletes in a variety of contexts. The hosts will cover The Sidney Gay Games in 2002 and will interview Paralympics Judo silver medalist Lorie Pierce. The energy these athletes express about their sport and accomplishments is dynamic and exciting. The post Pushing Limits – July 3, 2005 appeared first on KPFA.
Jul 03, 2005•4 min
Commentaries and Conversations Short pieces by individuals living with disabilities. Interviews and opinions on a variety of topics related to the disability experience. The post Pushing Limits – June 19, 2005 appeared first on KPFA.
Jun 19, 2005•4 min
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Jun 05, 2005•4 min
Brown Broken Disabled Bodies: Stories & Cases of Police Brutality from Boston, Denver, Toronoto, Chicago and San Francisco. Guests: Allegra "Happy" Haynes, City Liaison of Denver, Elizabeth Bruckmann of Parkdale Community Legal Services of Toronto, Keith Jones of SoulTouchin’ Experiences, Boston, Ruth Pena of Families of the Wrongfully Convicted in Chicago and Malikia Parker of Ella Baker Human Rights Center Oakland. Host: Leroy Moore and Gerald. The post Pushing Limits – May 29, 2005 appear...
May 29, 2005•4 min
