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February 15, 2019 Homeless Activist Lawyer, ‘Shaman Woman’
[caption id="attachment_307149" align="alignleft" width="425"] Shaman Woman Photo by Kathleen Finigan[/caption]
Shaman Woman is an activist. Shaman Woman is a person living with diabetes. Shaman Woman is a homeless person. And, Shaman Woman is a lawyer.

Although she herself has no home, this remarkable woman practices civil rights law and defends homeless people in Santa Rosa, California. From driving the streets yelling, "¡Viva la revolución!" to taking statements in the local parks, Shaman Woman organizes, agitates and takes it to the court.

She talks to Adrienne Lauby, her comrade in the local grassroots group, Homeless Action! [1], about her childhood in the apricot cutting barns, her years in the movement and her human failings. Listen as she talks about the role of the movement in both healing and social change.
[1] http://homelessaction.net/
1 hr 40 min
February 15, 2019 Homeless Activist Lawyer, ‘Shaman Woman’
Shaman Woman is an activist. Shaman Woman is a person living with diabetes. Shaman Woman is a homeless person. And, Shaman Woman is a lawyer.

Although she herself has no home, this remarkable woman practices civil rights law and defends homeless people in Santa Rosa, California. From driving the streets yelling, “¡Viva la revolución!” to taking statements in the local parks, Shaman Woman organizes, agitates and takes it to the court.

She talks to Adrienne Lauby, her comrade in the local grassroots group, Homeless Action!, about her childhood in the apricot cutting barns, her years in the movement and her human failings. Listen as she talks about the role of the movement in both healing and social change.
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30 min
February 01, 2019 Braille and Talking Book Library
“Half my life’s in books’ written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.” Aerosmith: Dream On
Are you a bookworm, but you can’t read two-dimensional ink-drawn pictographs on parchment (print)? Can’t hold a physical book and/or turn its pages? Need large print, Braille or audio? Pushing Limits has an answer for you!
The Braille and Talking Book Library (BTBL) [1] is a state-run free program for people with print disabilities. It’s part of a nation-wide network of such programs across the country. Michael Marlin, BTBL’s director, joins us this week to explore the latest services and technologies for folks who can’t read “regular” print. Sheela Gunn-Cushman host/producer.
Get ready to get lost in a good book!
Sheela's Resource List
https://nlsbard.loc.gov/mainpage [2]
www.bookshare.org [3]
https://openlibrary.org/ [4]
www.voicedream.com/reader/ [5]
(Not free, but VERY useful!
https://learningally.org/ [6]
Haven’t used in a LONG time.
www.gutenberg.org/ [7]
Haven’t used, but thought useful.
www.nbp.org/ [8]
www.aph.org/ [9]
Useful resources.
Each have books, manuals and tutorials
as well as other goodies.
commercial sites with cool audio goodies
www.audible.com/ [10]
www.bigfinish.com/ [11]
www.graphicaudio.net [12]
[1] http://www.library.ca.gov/btbl/
[2] https://nlsbard.loc.gov/mainpage
[3] http://www.bookshare.org
[4] https://openlibrary.org/
[5] http://www.voicedream.com/reader/
[6] https://learningally.org/
[7] http://www.gutenberg.org/
[8] http://www.nbp.org/
[9] http://www.aph.org/
[10] http://www.audible.com/
[11] http://www.bigfinish.com/
[12] http://www.graphicaudio.net
1 hr 40 min
February 01, 2019 Braille and Talking Book Library
“Half my life’s in books’ written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.” Aerosmith: Dream On
Are you a bookworm, but you can’t read two-dimensional ink-drawn pictographs on parchment (print)? Can’t hold a physical book and/or turn its pages? Need large print, Braille or audio? Pushing Limits has an answer for you!
The Braille and Talking Book Library (BTBL) is a state-run free program for people with print disabilities. It’s part of a nation-wide network of such programs across the country. Michael Marlin, BTBL’s director, joins us this week to explore the latest services and technologies for folks who can’t read “regular” print. Sheela Gunn-Cushman host/producer.
Get ready to get lost in a good book!
Sheela’s Resource List
https://nlsbard.loc.gov/mainpage
www.bookshare.org
https://openlibrary.org/
www.voicedream.com/reader/
(Not free, but VERY useful!
https://learningally.org/
Haven’t used in a LONG time.
www.gutenberg.org/
Haven’t used, but thought useful.
www.nbp.org/
www.aph.org/
Useful resources.
Each have books, manuals and tutorials
as well as other goodies.
commercial sites with cool audio goodies
www.audible.com/
www.bigfinish.com/
www.graphicaudio.net
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30 min
December 28, 2018 Pushing Limits – December 28, 2018
A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public.
1 hr 40 min
December 21, 2018 Pushing Limits – December 21, 2018
A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public.
1 hr 40 min
December 21, 2018 Pushing Limits – December 21, 2018
What has happened legislatively and in advocacy for people who are blind or have visual impairments in 2018? What might be to come in 2019?
We ask an expert.
After graduating from Stanford, Jeff Thom worked as an attorney for the California Legislature for 30 years. He is the immediate past president of the California Council of the Blind and he has had his finger on the pulse of federal and California legislation for decades.
Sheela Gunn-Cushman hosts.

Jeff has served in a variety of blindness-related capacities on the national, state, and local level. He is currently vice-chair of the Sacramento Regional Transit District Mobility Advisory Council and a member of the board of directors of Disability Rights California. He is a father, grandfather and has hosted 14 foreign exchange students. He’s also a bookworm and sports fan.
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30 min
December 07, 2018 Pushing Limits – December 07, 2018
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 post Pushing Limits – December 07, 2018 appeared first on KPFA.
30 min
November 30, 2018 Envisioning a S.F. Disability Cultural Center
Sometimes it seems as though every community in the world has a community and cultural center here in the Bay Area.
But what about the disability community?
The Paul K. Longmore Institute [1] at San Francisco State [2] is helping the City of San Francisco create such a center [3] just for us. The executive director of the Longmore Institute, Catherine Kudlick, joins us to discuss the possibilities for this center [4] and the needs it could serve.
What do you want to see in a Cultural Center? Take this survey [5]. It will be open until December 15, 2018. It takes approximately 12 minutes to complete.
[caption id="attachment_301619" align="alignright" width="282"] Catherine Kudlick, Executive Director of the Paul K. Longmore Center, S.F. State University[/caption]
Hosted by Mark Romoser and Sheela Gunn-Cushman.
[1] https://longmoreinstitute.sfsu.edu/
[2] http://www.sfsu.edu/
[3] https://longmoreinstitute.sfsu.edu/make-wish-longmore-institute
[4] https://longmoreinstitute.sfsu.edu/make-wish-longmore-institute
[5] https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SFDisabilityCenter?fbclid=IwAR2JthApg3UjwkeY-LmbV1rrpDnei3I7RbReH_aMLE-eochdt7q3H5bKzqk
1 hr 20 min
November 30, 2018 Envisioning a S.F. Disability Cultural Center
Sometimes it seems as though every community in the world has a community and cultural center here in the Bay Area.
But what about the disability community?
The Paul K. Longmore Institute at San Francisco State is helping the City of San Francisco create such a center just for us. The executive director of the Longmore Institute, Catherine Kudlick, joins us to discuss the possibilities for this center and the needs it could serve.
What do you want to see in a Cultural Center? Take this survey. It will be open until December 15, 2018. It takes approximately 12 minutes to complete.
Hosted by Mark Romoser and Sheela Gunn-Cushman.
The post Envisioning a S.F. Disability Cultural Center appeared first on KPFA.
24 min

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A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing insight into the grassroots disability movement to the general public. By and About People with Disabilities!