KPFA - Pushing Limits

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November 15, 2013 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.
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November 01, 2013 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 advocacy and policy for the National Federation of the Blind, is an expert on these sheltered workshops. The National Federation of the Blind has a
campaign to repeal Section 14 C of the fair labor standards act of 1938, because it is Section 14 C which allows employers to legally pay these sub-minimum wages.
Eddie Ytuarte and Adrienne Lauby host.
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October 18, 2013 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
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October 04, 2013 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.
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September 20, 2013 Pushing Limits – September 20, 2013 at 2:30pm
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September 06, 2013 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.
Being sensitive to electronics is not a psychiatric disability. It is a common phenomenon experienced by 3% – 6% of people internationally. Today, we talk to Susan Molloy and Steen Hviid about Electronic Sensitivity. Susan and Steen live in the high desert of Arizona among a community of persons from all over the world who experience electronic sensitivity. Listen as they talk about their lives and the challenges they face as they resist the ever-increasing grid.
Plus, Cheryl Marie Wade was a powerful artist with a disability, a woman who lived off the grid of convention. We offer a brief memorial.
This program is hosted by Adrienne Lauby and produced by Jacob Lesner-Buxton.
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August 30, 2013 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 it.
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August 16, 2013 Musicians with Disabilities – Alex Lubet (1)
Music scholar Alex Lubet is the author of “Music, Disability, and Society” (2011). Topics include Lubet’s concept of “social confluence,” jazz musicians with disabilities, and a symphonic orchestra made up of blind women based Cairo, Egypt. Hosted and produced by Eddie Ytuarte
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July 19, 2013 Guide Dogs
Who only wishes for you to succeed?
Who only wants to fulfill your every need?
Who will be there through thick or thin?
Your mother? Think again.
It’s those guide dogs and service dogs, People.
When you’re down they lift you up
When you’re lost they know the way
(or aren’t too macho to ask for help!)
They’re your eyes, your ears, your nose
Harness off. . . Anything goes.
It’s those guide dogs and service dogs, People.
Leah Gardner and her new guide dog Vander talk about the trials and delights of building trust. Johanna Ruefli and her service dog Lily talk about public reactions and private joys. And, you!
Shelley Berman co-hosts.
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July 05, 2013 Transit Strike: Bay Area California
Workers from the bay area rapid transit (BART) system went on strike this week causing massive disruptions and major media attention. Strangely, news reports have had no discussion of how, and to what extent, the strike is affecting people with disabilities and seniors.
Today we begin to rectify that problem by opening our phones.
At what point have transit officials dropped the ball for people with disabilities around this strike? Have the unions done anything to protect and serve us during this time? How is the
inter-community support? Are friends and family helping with rides? Did disabled folks feel annoyed by the strike because BART employees make so more money than most have from SS/SSI? Or, are strike sacrifices worth it for decent salaries and benefits for these workers?
With music chosen by Eddie Ytuarte and updated information about the strike from Sheela Gunn-Cushman. Adrienne Lauby is also in the studio to take calls.
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