Accessible outdoorsPushing Limits talks with bay area nature mavens, Bonnie Lewkowicz and Ann Sieck. Bonnie Lewkowicz, dancer, wheelchair user, and access specialist, is the author of the book, "A Wheelchair Rider’s Guide: San Francisco Bay and the Nearby Coast," Ann Sieck is an enthusiastic outdoors woman with a passion to explore and share semi-accessible trails, that is, those not formally designated, but still usable by many people with mobility impairments For more information visit Bonnie ...
Jun 29, 2007•4 min
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Jun 22, 2007•4 min
Voting machines. Hosts Adrienne Lauby and Ruthanne Shpiner address voting machines and discuss how the fundamental right for all citizens to vote privately and independently applies to people with disabilities. Can these rights be realized by the machines currently in use and have elections be secure? Adrienne Lauby and Ruthanne Shpiner provide background plus interview voting rights activist, Emily Levy and Contra Costa County registrar of voters, Stephen Weir on the accessibility and the secur...
Jun 15, 2007•4 min
Superfest Pushing Limits host Doyle Saylor interviews Peni Hall. Peni Hall is the president of Culture Disability Talent, the group that produces Superfest. Superfest is the longest running international disability film festival in the world. Superfest takes place yearly in Berkeley, and is two days of top notch international disability films. Doyle Saylor speaks with Peni Hall about the various films that will air this year at the film festival and what goes into producing the project yearly. T...
Jun 01, 2007•4 min
Corbett O’Toole interview Friday May 4, 2007, in celebration of the 30 year anniversary of the section 504 demonstrations Pushing Limits hosts Adrienne Lauby and Leah Gardner interview local legend, Corbett Joan O’Toole. O’Toole is a writer and filmmaker with 30 years of stories from a life of disability activism. She talks about international issues, disabled women in the feminist movement, disabled women in a male dominated disability movement, people of color and poor people in the disability...
May 04, 2007•4 min
Tanyalee Davis What are you staring at? Pushing Limits hosts Leah Gardner and Amber Dipietra interview comedian Tanyalee Davis. Ms. Davis is a three foot, six inch comedian who has appeared at clubs and universities worldwide. Ms. Davis shares her no holds barred, irreverent thoughts and views. Pushing Limits will air CD clips of her performances as well. The post Pushing Limits – April 20, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.
Apr 20, 2007•4 min
Housing Friday April 6, 2007 at 2:30 PM Pushing Limits discusses housing issues for people with disabilities. Hosts Eddie Ytuarte and Leah Gardner interview attorney Laura Lane. Laura Lane is director of Housing Practice at the East Bay Community Law Center. People with disabilities who are tenants encounter multiple problems with their housing. Ms. Lane addresses major issues in tenant-landlord relations – rent control, evictions, just cause, security deposits, accessibility and discrimination ...
Apr 06, 2007•4 min
Epilepsy Pushing Limits addresses the invisible disability of epilepsy. Host Doyle Saylor interviews Michelle Frank. Ms. Frank has lived with epilepsy since birth. She speaks about the realities of living with epilepsy and the challenges it poses to her as a person living with the disease but also how epilepsy impacts her life as a wife and mother of three. Ms. Frank explains the different forms of epilepsy. She discusses the reality of life with the disease and dispels many of the stereotypical...
Mar 30, 2007•4 min
Pushing Limits examines the developmental disability of Autism. Hosted by Doyle Saylor, the show explores Autism from both the perspectives of a person with Autism and the perspective of his family. Doyle Saylor presents a story written and read by Meg Tuttle about life with her autistic child, Chas. Doyle Saylor also interviews Jim Divine who is a high functioning person with Autism plus who has a child with Aspergers syndrome. Jim Divine talks about services in California for developmentally d...
Mar 16, 2007•4 min
Mental Health System Part 2 Pushing Limits completes a two-part series on emotional health and mental illness. Pushing Limits presents testimonials from the community, and we want to speak with you. What are your experiences with the mental health system. Positive, negative or somewhere in between? Also, join us for an update on the Ziprexa lawsuit discussed in our last show as well as a recap of the most current disability news. We want to talk to you. Please call us at 510 848-4425 Friday afte...
Mar 02, 2007•4 min
Pushing Limits airs the first of a two part series on the mental health care system. Co hosts Leah Gardner and Eddie Ytuarte interview David Oaks, director of Mind Freedom, a national organization dedicated to ending psychiatric abuse and to promoting humane alternatives in mental health care. Mr. Oaks talks about Mind Freedom’s legal battle against drug manufacturer Eli Lilly’s efforts to block the dissemination of documents about its drug Zyprexa.. Other topics to be discussed will be the glob...
Feb 16, 2007•4 min
Face Disabilities A Rebroadcast of a show from Jan 4, 2004. Pushing limits host Doyle Saylor speaks with David Roche and Bill Choisser about their lives with two very different face disabilities. Doyle Saylor explores the commonalities and differences between "face blindness" and facial disfigurement. The post Pushing Limits – January 19, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.
Jan 19, 2007•4 min
Eddie Ytuarte and Adrienne Lauby interview East Bay writer, Anne Finger about her newly released book titled Elegy for a Disease, a Personal and Cultural History of Polio published by St. Martin Press, Oct. 31, 2006. Finger shares her memories of growing up as a polio survivor in the 1980’s. Mixed with these memories is a cultural history of how polio affected the consciousness of the American public until it was largely defeated in the U.S. by immunization. The post Pushing Limits – January 5, ...
Jan 05, 2007•4 min
A Winter Smorgasbord: Pushing Limits closes out 2006 with a potpourri of items about the disability world. The show includes "The Lighter Side of Depression," a skit by the Pushing Limits Players, an essay on colitis by Shelley Berman, the reading of a poem by Leah Gardner, Doyle Saylor gives an update on Iraq war casualties plus a music performance by disabled Jazz stylist, Weslia Whitfield. The post Pushing Limits – December 29, 2006 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 29, 2006•4 min
Friday Dec. 15 2006 at 2:30PM pushing limits will feature Wildsang, the Delta/Piedmont blues duo of Hilary Kay and Kate Freeman. Hosted by Ruthanne Shipner with Adrienne Lauby interviewing Kay and Freeman who discuss being musicians living with disability. These two women speak frankly and courageously of growing up with a bi-polar mother, taking care of an aging relative and living with chronic disease. The web page for pushing limits is: http://kpfa.org/pushinglimits/ Contact Pushing Limits at...
Dec 15, 2006•4 min
The November 7, 2006 mid term election. Hosts Ruthanne Shpiner and Doyle Saylor will interview Donna Spring, a woman with a disability who prevailed against stiff competition and big money in her re election to the Berkeley City Council. Pushing Limits will also interview Patti Nash who is blind, on her experiences voting in this and other elections. The post Pushing Limits – December 1, 2006 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 01, 2006•4 min
What do emigration, employment, family relations, attendant services, abuse, exploitation, identity theft, the Independent Living Movement and the Americans with Disabilities Act have in common? Find out from our guest Ravi Malhotra, Labour Law Professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada. The post Pushing Limits – November 17, 2006 appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 17, 2006•4 min
Pushing Limits will interview Eddie Ytuarte, a disabled man running as the Peace and Freedom Party candidate for the 16th Assembly District seat in California. The show will also report on the success of the students and faculty at Galladet University in Washington, DC (the sole United States university dedicated to deaf and hearing impaired students) in getting an approved incoming president to decline her appointment and withdraw. Hosted by Adrienne Lauby with help from Leah Gardner and Free S...
Nov 03, 2006•4 min
Doyle Saylor and Adrienne Lauby will interview Suzanne Levine on the subject of use of language in reporting on disability. Ms. Levine is an expert in public education surrounding disability and word use. Friday’s show "Words of Respect" illustrates the disability rights movements demand that journalists and other writers give serious consideration to the words they use about people with disabilities. The show will also feature a poem by Neil Marcus titled "Language" on this very issue. The post...
Oct 20, 2006•4 min
Pushing Limits features dwarf filmmaker Steven Delano; Vice-President of Public Relations for the Little People of America (LPA), Gary Arnold; educator and filmmaker Jan Krawitz; and dwarf musician Rob Williams. We discuss social, political, cultural and economic conditions and their impact on people of short stature, particularly in entertainment. That’s Dwarfism: The Big Impact, produced by Safi wa Nairobi, Leroy Moore and Gene Sharee. The post Pushing Limits – September 29, 2006 appeared firs...
Sep 29, 2006•4 min
Pushing Limits hosts Leroy Moore and Safi wa Nairobi interview the mother and close friend of a disabled candidate for Mayor of Washington who was murdered earlier this year. Green Party Candidate Chris Crowder was disabled by street violence in 1991 and was active in many movements around city. Host Leroy Moore speaks with Crowder’s mother and Crowder’s close friend, Asantewaa Nikrumah-Ture about the circumstances of his murder and the legacy he left behind. The post Pushing Limits – September ...
Sep 15, 2006•4 min
Pushing Limits will revisit New Orleans on the one year anniversary of the levy breaking catastrophe, resulting floods and general emergency. Did the impact of poor disaster preparedness fall disproportionately on those with disabilities? Hosts Leroy Moore and Doyle Saylor will interview Lisa Moore whose family was in New Orleans during the hurricane and Craig Eichelman from the American Association for Retired Persons (AARP) about evacuation legislation. The post Pushing Limits – September 1, 2...
Sep 01, 2006•4 min
Disaster preparedness for people with disabilities. As the nation nears the one year anniversary of Katrina, hosts Leah Gardner and Amber DiPietra want to know what steps people with disabilities have taken to be safe in the event of a large-scale emergency. Do they feel that local and state officials are doing enough to ensure adaptive evacuation strategies, accessible shelters, and relevant training for agencies serving the disabled? Call in and update us on your personal experience with prior...
Aug 18, 2006•4 min
Pushing Limits hosts Doyle Saylor and Gene Sharee return to Mill Valley to speak with Seniors For Peace. Seniors for Peace is a group working out of Mill Valley to promote and advocate their anti war position and activities. Gene interviews long time senior for peace member, Frieda Engle. The post Pushing Limits – August 4, 2006 appeared first on KPFA.
Aug 04, 2006•4 min
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Jul 21, 2006•4 min
Pushing Limits will address psychiatric disabilities, mental distress and disability rights. Hosts Doyle Saylor and Ruthanne Shpiner will interview prominent disability studies scholar and advocate Dr. Lennard Davis to hear his conclusions from years of study and research in addition to extensive involvement with the disability community. The post Pushing Limits – July 7, 2006 appeared first on KPFA.
Jul 07, 2006•4 min
Pushing Limits ends our three part Crip-Hip-Hop series featuring playwright Eisa Davis, the Deaf Hip-Hop group Helix, and deaf dancer/actor, Fred Beam. They discuss Hip-Hop Anansi, the first Hip-Hop play for children, and Deaf Hip-Hop culture. Music is from "The H," the new CD from Helix, the Hip-Hop Anansi soundtrack by DJ Eurok, and the Video "Anansi." Produced by Safi wa Nairobi and Leroy F. Moore. The post Pushing Limits – June 30, 2006 appeared first on KPFA.
Jun 30, 2006•4 min
Fathering is as diverse as the world within which we live. And fathering with a disability? Well, tune in as Pushing Limits presents a tribute to fathers with disabilities. Music by Lee Williams and Luther Vandross. Hosted by Gene Sharee; produced by Safi wa Nairobi and Leroy F. Moore. The post Pushing Limits – June 16, 2006 appeared first on KPFA.
Jun 16, 2006•4 min
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Jun 09, 2006•4 min
CRIP-HIP-HOP! Pushing Limits visits with DJ Quad founder and producer of the Hip-Hop Group, "5th Battalion" from Los Angeles. 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. (Check out DJ Quad at www.5thbattalion.com) Produced by Safi wa Nairobi and Leroy F. Moore, Jr.. Part 2 of a 3-part series. Part 3, coming this summer, will fea...
Jun 02, 2006•4 min
