Pushing Limits – February 20, 2015
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Feb 20, 2015•4 min
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Pushing Limits – February 13, 2015
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Feb 13, 20150
Pushing Limits – February 6, 2015
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Feb 06, 20150
Pushing Limits – January 30, 2015
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Jan 30, 20150
Police Violence and Disability – January 16, 2015 at 2:30pm
The post Police Violence and Disability – January 16, 2015 at 2:30pm appeared first on KPFA.
Jan 16, 2015•4 min
Artists with Disabilities and Voice Augmentation Tools
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Dec 05, 2014•4 min
The ADA Legacy Bus Visits Hayward
Photographer Tom Olin and the ADA Legacy Bus comes to Hayward, California. Interviews with Alameda County Supervisor Richard Valle, David Korth, Damary Bustos, Dorene Giacopini, Sheri Burns and others. Hosted by Sheela Gunn-Cushman The post The ADA Legacy Bus Visits Hayward appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 21, 2014•4 min
Seniors and Disability Action
Interview with Jessica Lehman, executive director of Seniors and Disability Action in San Francisco, about the intersection of the disability community and the senior communitie. Hosted by Eddie Ytuarte. The post Seniors and Disability Action appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 07, 2014•4 min
Day of the Homeless Dead
We talk to Larry Hall, a homeless advocate in Santa Rosa, about “The Day of the Homeless Dead,” a procession honoring the many who have died unsheltered and alone in Sonoma County. Hosted by Adrienne Lauby The post Day of the Homeless Dead appeared first on KPFA.
Oct 31, 2014•4 min
Spoken Word by Writers, Musicians and Radio Artists with Disabilities
Guests include Jean Stewart, Lateef Mcleod, Beatriz Herrera, Leah Gardner, Leroy F. Moore Jr, and Avotcja. Fund drive Special. The post Spoken Word by Writers, Musicians and Radio Artists with Disabilities appeared first on KPFA.
Oct 03, 2014•9 min
Donna Dibianco, disabled radio activist – September 5, 2014
An Activist Life with Terminal Cancer Dubbed the radio goddess, Donna Dibianco travels the county helping small radio stations become powerful. She offers Adrienne Lauby and our listeners advice on how to live with deep purpose while setting health limits. Ms Dibianco lives with metastasized stage 3 cervical cancer and 2/3rds of her lung capacity. She spoke to Pushing Limits from Ames, Iowa during the 2014 Grassroots Radio Conference. http://www.grc2014.net/ The post Donna Dibianco, disabled rad...
Sep 05, 2014•4 min
Eugenics and preventing disability – August 29, 2014
We want to cure cancer, end war, and clean up the environment. But, what do we lose if we end the disabilities caused by these things? Our guest is Dr. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, a professor in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Emory University who works in the field of Critical Disability Studies. Let’s end war and, in the process, stop creating veterans with PTSD and brain injuries. Let’s clean up the environment and end the epidemic of chemical sensitivity. Let’s cure cancer, heart dis...
Aug 29, 2014•4 min
Sins Invalid, The Movie
Fund Drive Special the performance group Sins Invalid, make “an unshamed claim to beauty in the face of invisibility.” Co-founder and filmmaker, Patty Berne, brings their new movie, “Sins Invalid.” The post Sins Invalid, The Movie appeared first on KPFA.
Aug 01, 2014•9 min
Race and Disability – July 18, 2014
Black and brown people have always been present in the disability movement and some have played pivotal roles. Yet our conversation about race is often pretty unsophisticated. We’re a long way from truly supporting all our community members and, like in the rest of the U.S., people of color with disabilities are frequently the last to be included. At the same time, movements for racial equality and disability rights overlap and inform each other. Disability Justice activists Patty Berne and Late...
Jul 18, 2014•4 min
Tour the Ed Roberts Campus – June 20, 2014
Curious about the Ed Roberts Campus? Ever stepped inside and felt a bit intimidated? We know how you feel. . . This week, Pushing Limit’s Shelley Berman, reveals the secrets of this edifice that touts itself as a national and international model building, one which is dedicated to disability rights and universal access. Listen in on Friday, June 20 at 2:30 pm on KPFA 94.1 fm or at KPFA.org. Shelley will adventure through the hallway maze as she talks to the California Telephone Access Program, B...
Jun 20, 2014•4 min
Public Transit and Disability – June 6, 2014
Whether you ride the rails or roll on the wheels, getting where you need to go takes constant effort. Today we focus on transportation problems for people with disabilities. The issues are universal but the devilish details reside in the bay area of California. If you gotta go, you gotta go, but where’s the restroom? Is it open, accessible? And the latest problem, are the BART cars of the future a giant leap backward for people with disabilities? We talk to Peter Mendoza, community organizer at ...
Jun 06, 2014•4 min
Latino Musicians with Disabilities
A program of disabled Latino musicians and musicians from the Americans. Is that really a blind Puerto Rican blues artist performing a song using the Tuva throat singing technique? And what well know artist–progressive activist began his eventual path as a performer because he joined the military because of the difficulties his disability while in high school? Also a bit about Paul Lopez, Jerry Garcia, and naturally Jose Feliciano. Eddie Ytuarte and Josh Elwood co host. The post Latino Musicians...
Mar 21, 2014•4 min
Women Musicians with Disabilities
IAyumi Hamasake, Donna Williams, Evelyn Glennie, Liyana with Prudence Mabhena, Mandy Harvey and The Great Britain Paraorchestra. Donna Williams is autistic and darn proud of it. Artistic ability exudes from her pores. We play her song, “All Be Happy; A Gothic Autism Story.” Donna’s ground-breaking books, Nobody, Nowhere and Somebody Somewhere were among the first attempts by autistic people to put words to their own experience. She’s also an accomplished artist and teacher. Three-time Grammy Awa...
Mar 07, 2014•4 min
Integrating a New Disability
Brooke was doing well, living with her multiple personality disorder. It had been a long road, but she was comfortable and able to spend more hours at work than ever before. Then she had a stroke. Theodore “Teddy” Berman was in middle school when his life-long aversion to cookies and cake became excruciating stomach aches and his body stopped growing. Luckily, he ran into someone living with celiac disease and discovered the cause of his pain. They tell their recovery stories to Adrienne Lauby. ...
Jan 17, 2014•4 min
Disability and the Bible
Pushing Limits present a discussion on relationship of the bible and Cristianity. How does the bibleportray disability. Are we cursed, evil, or perhaps something special about us attributedour disability. Scholar Amos Yong and Lillibeth Navarro, director of an independent living centerin Los Angeles give us their views on how disability fits in to the Christian bible and thought. Hostedby Eddie Ytuarte and Adrienne Lauby. The post Disability and the Bible appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 20, 2013•4 min
Disability Prom Royalty
Pushing Limits presents the first ever Disability Prom Day celebration. Listen to who got nominated for disability royalty. The post Disability Prom Royalty appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 06, 2013•4 min
Pushing Limits – November 29, 2013 at 2:30pm
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Nov 29, 2013•4 min
U.S. Disability History Special
A two-hour special on the theme of disability history in the United States. Included are an interview with historian Kim Nielsen, the voice of Helen Keller. the history of blind activism in the U.S. and a feature on a group of students with disabilities who go to the schools and teach history from their own disability perspective. Plus short historical recollections of the remarkable things we have done. Produced by Eddie Ytuarte, Adrienne Lauby and Sheela Gunn Cushman. The post U.S. Disability ...
Nov 23, 2013•18 min
Poison or Fire Protection?
Pushing Limits welcomes opponants of the proposed tree cutting in the East Bay Hills in Northern California, Jean Stewart and Marg Hall. Their principle concern is the effect of the planned use of herbicides on people with disabilities and able-bodied people alike. The post Poison or Fire Protection? appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 15, 2013•4 min
Sub-Standard Wage in So-Called Sheltered Workshops
Four hundred thousand people with disabilities in the USA work for substandard wages, some of them for as little as 3¢ an hour. We discuss these “sheltered workshops,” segregated workplaces for workers with various disabilities. In the back rooms of Goodwill people with disabilities sort the hangers, hang the clothes and generally change your bags of cast offs into something that can be resold but Goodwill is a notorious sub-standard wage employer. Our guest, Mr. Anil Lewis, the director of advo...
Nov 01, 2013•4 min
Musicians with Disabilities – Alex Lubet (2)
Pushing Limits welcomes Alex Lubet for a second time to talk about musicians with disabilities and how these artists shape music as they adapt to their impairments. Lubet is a professor at the University of Minnesota and is the author of “Music, Disability, and Society.” Lubet will talk about his idea about “adaptive music” and will discuss several contemporary musicians with disabilities. Hosted by Eddie Ytuarte The post Musicians with Disabilities – Alex Lubet (2) appeared first on KPFA.
Oct 18, 2013•4 min
The Empowered Fefes (Films)
Three award-winning films made by young disabled women in Chicago. FeFe is a word for female, and these women live up their names by telling folks how it is when it comes to being a young African-American woman, with disabilities growing up in the, Windy City. Funny truthful and poignant, these films ooze with disability pride and empowerment. Speaking of empowerment, how about feeling empowered to strap a Pushing Limits bumper sticker to your weal chair, cane, Segway or hot red convertible. Wel...
Oct 04, 2013•9 min
Pushing Limits – September 20, 2013 at 2:30pm
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Sep 20, 2013•4 min
Electronic Sensitivity
Imagine getting an internet connection in your house and five hours later getting a massive headache. Or, letting PG &E install a smart meter in the morning and getting the sniffles in the middle of the afternoon. You go for a walk and begin to feel better, but when you pass a Starbucks or return home, your symptoms start again. After a few days of feeling bad, you tell your doctor that electronics seem to be making you sick. The doc looks at you puzzled or orders a psychiatric evaluation. B...
Sep 06, 2013•4 min
Kiilu Nyasha, Black Panther on Disability
You can’t do 40 plus years of activism and not be changed for the better, especially if you become a revolutionary on wheels. Kiilu Nyasha, a 74-year-old Black Panther human and civil rights fighter whose exploits are well known to many KPFA listeners. Ms Nyasha has struggled against homelessness, elitism, capitalism, sexism and racism as well as fighting for prisoners’ rights. It’s the last day of Black August and we’ve got Kiilu!Hear the story of when and how Kiilu did it…. and continues to do...
Aug 30, 2013•4 min
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