KPFA - Pushing Limits

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August 15, 2008 Pushing Limits – August 15, 2008
"Limits and Barriers."

What happens when you face an unwelcome surprise? When a physical or mental barrior has no easy solution? For those of us who live with disability, barriers seem to show up on a daily basis. Join hosts Leah Gardner and Ruthanne Shpiner as pushing limits takes your calls with tales of obstructions, solutions and the attitudes that get us to the end of the day.
Trade stories with us. Whether you literally slammed into a brick wall or were slightly limited by someone’s bad attitude, your experience and hard-earned wisdom is welcome.
previously-aired shows can be accessed at:
www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?show=12
The web page for Pushing Limits is:
www.kpfa.org/pushinglimits/
Podcast and Live Streaming available at
www.kpfa.org
Contact us at:
(510) 848-6767 ext. 636 or
[email protected]
Pushing Limits is produced collectively
and open to new members. Call
(510) 848-6767 ext 636 or
e-mail [email protected]
for time and date of the next meeting.
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August 01, 2008 Pushing Limits – August 1, 2008
Autism rights/ Aspies for Freedom
Pushing Limits delves into the Autism rights movement. Pushing Limits producer Doyle Saylor, Hosts Eddie Y’tuarte and John Healy interview Earth Monkey (Melody Kohut), a vocal member of the Aspies for Freedom or AFF, a grassroots autism rights movement. www.aspiesforfreedom.com
Autism has been in the forefront of local news lately stemming from charges of discrimination when employees with Autism and other developmental disabilities were fired from a Berkeley McDonalds allegedly for no cause. John Healy and Eddie Y’tuarte talk about what AFF means by neuro – diversity. They also explore other new disability rights concepts in the context of social prejudice against people with Autism.
Archives of this program and other previously-aired shows can be accessed at:
www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?show=12
The web page for Pushing Limits is:
www.kpfa.org/pushinglimits/
Podcast and Live Streaming available at
www.kpfa.org
Contact us at:
(510) 848-6767 ext. 636 or
[email protected]
Pushing Limits is produced collectively
and open to new members. Call
(510) 848-6767 ext 636 or
e-mail [email protected]
for time and date of the next meeting.
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July 18, 2008 Pushing Limits – July 18, 2008
Mutliple Chemical Sensitvity
Host Jackie Barshak addresses Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) with guests Dr. Grace Zinn and Cindy Norwitz.
In this difficult time of forest fires and increased air pollution,Pushing Limits presents a rebroadcast of our program on the pathology and politics of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). MCS causes chronic abnormalities in multiple organs within the body, usually leaving them highly sensitive to the common chemicals we eat, inhale and touch every day Pushing Limits producers John Healy and Doyle Saylor introduce host Jackie Barshak. Jackie Barshak speaks with guests Dr. Grace Ziem, who treats people with MCS – www.chemicalinjury.net, Albert Donnay, cofounder of MCS Resource and Referral www.mcsrr.org, Cindi Norwitz who lives with MCS and is the founder of an online support group for people living with MCS and Dr. Ann McCampbell, founder of the New Mexico MCS Task Force Jackie Barshak is an art historian living with MCS. This show originally aired on August 17, 2007.
Archives of this program and other previously-aired shows can be accessed at:
www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?show=12
The web page for Pushing Limits is:
www.kpfa.org/pushinglimits/
Podcast and Live Streaming available at www.kpfa.org
Contact us at:
(510) 848-6767 ext. 636 or [email protected]
Pushing Limits is produced collectively and open to new members.
Call (510) 848-6767 ext 636 or e-mail [email protected] for time and and date of the next meeting.
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July 04, 2008 Pushing Limits – July 4, 2008 at 2:30pm
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June 20, 2008 Pushing Limits – June 20, 2008 at 2:30pm
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June 06, 2008 Disability and Film 2008
Superfest, the world’s longest running disability film festival, runs this month in Berkeley, California. We interview Alice Elliot, director of the Best of Festival winner, “Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy” director, and discuss disability issues in film. With information from Liane Yasumoto, the executive producer of Culture!Disability!Talent! the organization which produces Superfest.
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May 30, 2008 Pushing Limits – May 30, 2008
Not Just Another Year: California’s Budget Cuts
Overcome by California budget ennui? Many Californians don’t have that option or that emotional fatigue: A kid who thinks the third grade will be the ‘best year ever!’ A accident survivor hanging on to a life outside of a nursing home. And hundreds of thousands of others.
On Friday, May 30, at 2:30 pm, Pushing Limits hosts, Leah Gardner and Eddie Ytuarte, talk to Marty Omoto about the current state budget crisis. Omoto, of the California Disability Community Action Network (CDCAN), sends 40,000 people regular e-mail reports and coordinates telephone town halls where Sacramento big wigs are grilled by hundreds of people with disabilities and local advocates.
It looks like a long hot Sacramento summer. Listen, be prepared, stay active!
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May 02, 2008 Pushing Limits – May 2, 2008
Police Killings of People with Disabilities Casper Banjo, Jeremiah Chas, Heather Billings: A few of the many people with disabilities shot by their local police around the bay area. On Friday, May 2 at 2:30 pm on KPFA 94.1 fm, we investigate police violence and the particular vulnerability of people with mental disabilities and men of color.
As a tribute to renowned artist and printmaker, Casper Banjo. (His own voice). Activists provide the whys and the what-to-dos of police violence and we visit a strategic forum in Santa Rosa. Also, a commentary by Eddie Ytuarte.
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April 18, 2008 Pushing Limits – April 18, 2008
Rufus – Then and Now
Stories of life with a mental disability – then and now. Adrienne Lauby speaks with Nora Ryerson.
The program includes excerpts of the story “Rufus” from the book “Sex in the Ancient Word” by Alice Ryerson Hayes with original cello music by Claribel Cone. We speak of the stigma of mental disabilities and the treatment of those with this disability from a personal point of view. “Rufus” is a poignant family story from the mid-1900s. It both contrasts with and echoes the stories of individuals currently utilizing the Center for Creative Growth in Berkeley.
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April 04, 2008 Pushing Limits – April 4, 2008
Hosts John Healy and Leah Gardner interview Anthony Tussler of aboutdisability.com. We hear surprising stories and songs of artists who are not generally recognized as disabled performers. The show features cloaked and hidden disability Identities in Rock & Roll. Tussler shares his knowledge and some of his music library.
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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!