KPFA - Pushing Limits

When conference producer Leroy F Moore Jr announced the first-ever meeting of disabled and queer hip hop artists, reactions ranged from puzzlement to hate mail. But, artists like B-Sick, Tru Blu [Nyla}, Juba Kalamka, Great Scott, D.J. Quad and Miss Money showed up for this ground-breaking event. The frank discussion in these excerpts from an afternoon panel gives a flavor of this historic meeting of the musical minds. Host: Adrienne Lauby. For more info: http://www.myspace.com/cripmoore

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People Living with Developmental Disabilities discuss Sex and Relationships is the topic for the May 29 program. Featured will be an interview with sex educators Mark Bazza and Angela Agostino, married couple Fred Waitt and Barbara Moise and learn about the time Bruce Amen married himself.

To learn more about Angela Agostino and Mark Bazza's work: We Care A Lot

Check out People First of California , a self-organized group of developmentally disabled people. PEOPLE FIRST BELIEVES:

If you get out of our way and we have the opportunity to gather power and knowledge over OUR own lives we will become strong and successful.

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Pushing Limits will feature an interview with Will Leiner, attorney for Disability Rights California about a recent settlement enhancing the living opportunities for people living in state institutions. In addition, musicians with various disabilities will have their music sampled.   Leah Gardner and Eddie Ytuarte host.
 
Disability Rights California:
www.disabilityrightsca.org
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IHRK287rQA
Judy Collins, Since You’ve Asked 2-36
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIUZkG6FmTQ&feature=PlayList&p=4425551FE2A26CB7&index=3
Barry Gibb, Fields of Gold
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLSSAZ7wsM0
Carly Simon, Blackbird, 2-36
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HB_ZuaceQQ
Teddy Pendergrass, It’s Time for Love
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY53Rk-6-3I
Tamia, Me
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt_VoRZQRZc
Alabama, Roll On 18-wheeler

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Pushing Limits speaks with Megan Kirshbaum, founder and executive director of Through the Looking Glass.  TLG, located in Berkeley,  is a ground breaking program dedicated to serving families with disabilities.  It was founded 30 years ago by Megan and Hal Kirshbaum in Berkeley during the formative years of the disability movement.   The discussion will include the kinds of attitudes we have and legal sanctions about parents with disabilities.
Eddie Ytuarte and Leah Gardner co-host.
 
Link to Through the Looking Glass website:   www.lookingglass.org

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Meet Margherita Gudenzi, a woman with RSI who, with help from a local non-profit, parents a young and active child. Meet Gary Karp, a wheelchair user who feared for his hard-won independence when he contracted RSI.  And, meet Andrea Hill who doesn’t let the pain of
fibromyalgia keep her from caring for 4 children while finishing a college degree. They talk to
hosts, John Healy and Adrienne Lauby, about what they’ve learned to improve and what they’ve learned to accept.

RSI Support Groups

East Bay RSI Support Group
Next meeting April 14, 7 pm with Ann Koh, an acupuncturist
New Location:
1471 Addison St
(510) 466-5814
http://www.minicute.com/support6.asp

San Francisco RSI Support Group
The first Monday of the month.
April 6, 7 pm  (next Monday night) Dr. Jeffrey R. Ralph, the director of the Neuropathy Center at the UCSF Medical Center.
 (415) 550-1420
http://sf-rsi.unsealed.net/

Program Resources:

The Center for Accessible Technology

Access to computers for people with disabilities. www.cforat.org
(510) 841-3224 –Voice
(510) 841-7956 – FAX
[email protected]

Gary Karp, author-speaker
www.lifeonwheels.org
[email protected]

Through the Looking Glass
Serving families with disabilities.
http://lookingglass.org/
1-800-644-2666 (Voice)
1-800-804-1616 (TTY)
(510) 848-1112 local
(510) 848-4445 FAX

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Dangerous Impact: Hybrid Cars and "Chautauqua."  Son Kim, a blind man struck by a hybrid car in a crosswalk near his home last week, joins us live with his partner Mary Beltran.  And, Jeff Thom, president of the California Council of the Blind (CCB), explains the murderous danger poised by silent hybrid car technology and what the CCB is doing about it.  Then, Mab Maher reads her story “Chautauqua” about the loss of culture and art in another depression (the 1930s) and its effect on a disabled Mom.  Eddie Ytuarte and Leah Gardner host.

PROGRAM RESOURCES
California Council of the Blind:
www.ccbnet.org , (916) 441-2100
Toll-Free in CA: (800) 221-6359
[email protected]

"Chautauqua" is from Mab Maher's book of short stories, SHEDDING GRACE
Available through [email protected]
or through Pushing Limits (510) 848-6767 ex 636

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…taking a trip with Shelley Berman and Eddie Ytuarte out to the Coast, to Bodega Bay, to visit
Robert DeVee a painter who lives with Parkinson’s disease. www.renbrown.com
Shelley also produced an audio essay for you about her grandfather and Parkinson’s.
 
There is a Parkinson Disease support group near you.
Call The National Parkinson Foundation at www.parkinson.org
For alternative medicine suggestions,
www.parkinsons.org/parkinsons-alternative-medicine.html

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“Disability According to DREDF.”  Founded in 1979, as large numbers of people with disabilities
demanded mainstream access and independence rather than institutions and family ghettos. The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund has become a major player in the modern disability rights movement.  Through carefully chosen legal actions, strategic work on policy issues and ongoing education, DREDF works to build a more just world.

How does DREDF prioritize its resources?  Is the prevention of disability due to war part of disability work?  How functional is the Americans with Disability Act, after repeated attacks by the right and business community?  Listen in for a stimulating look at the disability movement today as DREDF Executive Director Susan Henderson talks with hosts Leah Gardner and Adrienne Lauby.

http://www.dredf.org/

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“None of us is the same as before,” they say, yet… And therein lies the story. Charles A.
Spears, Roger Uratani, Frank Ting, Jean Mizuiri, Paolo Crescini, Linda Golfos, and Phyllis Deets
recount brain bleeds, surgeries and on-going recuperation. All are members of a support group for survivors of aneurysm and arteriovenous malformations (AVM), facilitated by Nancy Quinnine, RN at the University of California in San Francisco. 

Host John Healy, who survived a couple of brain surgeries of his own, brings us this program.

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