KPFA - Pushing Limits

New pushing limits member, John Healy interviews David Roche about his new book The Church of 80% Sincerity. David Roche is a facially disfigured writer and entertainer. Pushing Limits plays excerpts from Roche’s reading from his book at a live appearance in Berkeley in February. John Healy also interviews a mystery guest with a disability.

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Hosts Adrienne Lauby and Shelley Berman interview Berkeley Singer-songwriter Irina Rifkin who lives with myofascial thoracic outlet syndrome.   This is a re broadcast from July 21, 2006.  

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"Environmental Pollutants and Disability"
Pushing limits host Adrienne Lauby discusses the environmental causes of disability. A proposed coal power plant in the four corners area and an aerial spray program in the bay area threaten to increase disability over large populations.
Eddie Ytuarte interviews Diné CARE activist Lori Goodman and Nan Wishner of Albany’s Integrated Pest Management Task Force .

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Relationships and Disability.
Pushing Limits explores relationships and people with disabilities with host Eddie Ytuarte and guests Bill and Vickie Bruckner.  
They talk on many levels about the issues of sexuality and the understanding of one’s own disability and the disability of her or his partner.  The Bruckners offer clarity about the many facets of relationships for people with disabilities.
Bruckner Consultants LLC successfully advises governments, businesses, health care agencies and schools, creating model policies for effective communication, disability access, full participation, and long term care.
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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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Some homeless people with disabilities are finding homes, even in today’s crowded, high-rent housing market.  On Friday, Jan. 18 at 2:30 pm on KPFA, host Adrienne Lauby interviews Butch Cooley and Paul Hamilton of the Leg Up Project in Grand Junction, Colorado.
These two formerly homeless men housed twenty-eight people in three months.  Cooley and Hamilton speak honestly of relating to landlords and drug and alcohol addictions, as well as the pleasure of four walls and a lock on the door.

We also talk to Robert Long and Debbie Robinson of Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (B.O.S.S.), two long-time local homeless advocates. They develop relationships with landlords and currently guarantee homes to anyone with a standard fixed income. Part 3 of the "Homelessness and Disability Series."

Pushing Limits airs on the first, third, and fifth Friday of each month at 2:30 p.m. on KPFA 94.1 fm or KRCF 88.1 fm. Contact us at: (510) 848-6767 ext. 636 or [email protected], or kpfa.org/pushinglimits/

Pushing Limits is produced collectively and open to new members.
Call or e-mail us for the time and date of the next meeting.

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Part two in a series on people with disabilities and homelessness. Featured will be interview with Jennifer Friedenbach from the Coalition on Harmlessness in San Francisco.

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After a disabling motorcycle accident, Dan McMullan lived on the streets for eight years and founded the "Disabled People Outside Project."  Now, with a house, wife and two kids, he’s still an aggressive advocate for East Bay’s homeless people.  Eddie Ytuarte and Adrienne Lauby talk with him about the need, the myths and the solutions. They’ll also look at local issues like the Public Commons Initiative and two hundred thousand dollars recently cut from food programs to fund a recovery program with links to the criminal justice system.

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Eddie Ytuarte and Leah Gardner will present a program of music by artists with disabilities ranging from Itzhak Perlman to Django Reinhardt and Paul Robeson.

Contemporary music and culture would not be the same without the contributions of disabled artists and the varied musical expressions they present because of the nature of their disability.

Pushing Limits will offer just a sampling of this broad area of music by disabled musicians–plus listeners are invited to call in and tell us of what musicians they like, or don’t like.

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Rants, Stories and Lies. From the desolation caused by the unnecessary death of a child to the building of a successful broadcast career, disability writers, thinkers and activists address a wide range of topics. Audio essays by Trisha  Webb, Marty Omoto, Robert Thomas, Barbara Ruth, Doyle Saylor, Leah Gardner, Ana Aeriois, and John Healy. Hosted by Adrienne Lauby with audio mix by Helen Walsh.

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Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Paula Molnar recently asked the Rohnert Park City Council to petition Congress to impeach Bush and Cheney.

Molnar joined the army with high ideals and high hopes. After two ruptured disks and two surgeries, back pain keeps her in bed most evenings and, thirteen years after her retirement, she still needs treatment for PTSD. She breaks her silence for the first time to talk to Adrienne Lauby about the successes and disappointments of her twenty-two year military career. Also, a report from the demonstration demanding that money earmarked for the Laguna Honda Nursing Home go to more independent services living in San Francisco.

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