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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

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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.

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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

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Guests include Jean Stewart, Lateef Mcleod, Beatriz Herrera, Leah Gardner, Leroy F. Moore Jr, and Avotcja.  Fund drive Special.

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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/

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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 disease, diabetes and
other diseases so people will not suffer their pain and limitation.

But, wait. Consider that, historically, people with disabilities have
been horribly abused and murdered to meet a eugenics goal of eliminating
disability. When we assume prevention is positive, are we close to
preaching a form of cultural genocide? Will we eliminate the many
future intellectual and cultural contributions by people with various
disabilities if we eliminate their disability? Do people with disabilities contribute something important, something that comes out of their experience of living with disabilities?

Dr. Garland-Thomson navigates the philosophical, cultural and social landscape as Eddie Ytuarte
asks, “Isn’t preventing disabilities a good idea. . . sometimes?”

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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.”

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