KPFA - Pushing Limits

When an old friend went to the hospital and suddenly found his moderate disability had become both severe and life threatening, Jim Van Buskirk wanted to help.  Although he lived over a thousand miles away, Van Buskirk found a useful role in posting daily updates on a Caring Bridge site.  It was certainly emotional but becoming somewhat routine until… Jim found himself lying in a hospital bed too.

Jim Van Buskirk tells this unfolding story.

We also talk about Buskirk’s work with the Final Exit Network, a group of volunteers who educate qualified individuals in practical, peaceful ways to end their lives. They offer a compassionate bedside presence and defend people’s right to choose their own death.

Produced and hosted by Adrienne Lauby and Shelley Berman.

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Host Mark Romoser worked with Marilyn to stop physician-assisted suicide in both Hawai’i and California. Guest Mary Lou Breslin worked with her at the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) in Berkeley for many years.

Marilyn was one of the foremost experts on accessible transportation. Also, our own Eddie Ytuarte will share some of his personal reminiscences of Marilyn.

Join us as we look back on Marilyn’s life in disability rights activism and beyond.

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A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public. The show alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks Friday 2:30pm.

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A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public. The show alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks Friday 2:30pm.

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Today, we talk about depression

Meganwind Eoyang, former street fighter and non-violent communication trainer, joins Shelley Berman to discuss prisons of the mind and prisons of concrete and stone.

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If you live in the US and are having suicidal thoughts, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255 (800-273-TALK) for free and confidential support. It’s open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For crisis support in Spanish, call 888-628-9454.

TrevorLifeline, a suicide prevention counseling service for the LGBTQ community, can be reached at 866-488-7386.

Crisis Text Line, is an international service that provides a live, trained crisis counselor via a simple text for help. The first few responses will be automated until they get a counselor on the line — which typically takes less than five minutes.

This program was produced and hosted by Shelley Berman with assistance from Adrienne Lauby, Rod Akil and Doyle Saylor.

Meganwind Eoyang is a Collaborative Trainer with the Safer Communities Project of Bay Area Non-Violent Communications.  She grew up involved in street fighting on Chicago’s South Side, studied and taught martial arts and went on to learn full force fighting. Though these activities brought a sense of physical safety, they offered no way of connecting with others. For her, Nonviolent Communication delivered effective ways to connect, and a new way of looking at the world.

She is delighted to share NVC principles and tools to spread empowerment and choice. Ms Eoyang offers training in Nonviolent Communication (since 2002) for the public, colleges and organizations; individual NVC coaching and couples support sessions; mediation; and as a founding member of the Safer Communities Project, which she managed for 14 years. She teaches weekly NVC classes for people incarcerated in San Quentin State Prison, in county jails, and for returning citizens and their families

You can reach her at [email protected]

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