KPFA - Pushing Limits

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June 01, 2007 Pushing Limits – June 1, 2007
Superfest
Pushing Limits host Doyle Saylor interviews Peni Hall. Peni Hall is the president of Culture Disability Talent, the group that produces Superfest. Superfest is the longest running international disability film festival in the world. Superfest takes place yearly in Berkeley, and is two days of top notch international disability films. Doyle Saylor speaks with Peni Hall about the various films that will air this year at the film festival and what goes into producing the project yearly.
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May 04, 2007 Pushing Limits – May 4, 2007
Corbett O’Toole interview

Friday May 4, 2007, in celebration of the 30 year anniversary of the section 504 demonstrations Pushing Limits hosts Adrienne Lauby and Leah Gardner interview local legend, Corbett Joan O’Toole. O’Toole is a writer and filmmaker with 30 years of stories from a life of disability activism. She talks about international issues, disabled women in the feminist movement, disabled women in a male dominated disability movement, people of color and poor people in the disability movement, as well as parenting as a person with a disability. This program originally aired on Pushing Limits on March 17, 2006.
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April 20, 2007 Pushing Limits – April 20, 2007
Tanyalee Davis

What are you staring at? Pushing Limits hosts Leah Gardner and Amber Dipietra interview comedian Tanyalee Davis. Ms. Davis is a three foot, six inch comedian who has appeared at clubs and universities worldwide. Ms. Davis shares her no holds barred, irreverent thoughts and views. Pushing Limits will air CD clips of her performances as well.
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April 06, 2007 Pushing Limits – April 6, 2007
Housing

Friday April 6, 2007 at 2:30 PM Pushing Limits discusses
housing issues for people with disabilities. Hosts Eddie Ytuarte and Leah
Gardner interview attorney Laura Lane. Laura Lane is director of Housing
Practice at the East Bay Community Law Center.
People with disabilities who are tenants encounter multiple problems with
their housing. Ms. Lane addresses major issues in tenant-landlord relations
– rent control, evictions, just cause, security deposits, accessibility and
discrimination laws. Listeners are encouraged to call in at 510 848-4425
with any legal questions they have about rental housing.
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March 30, 2007 Pushing Limits – March 30, 2007
Epilepsy

Pushing Limits addresses the invisible disability of epilepsy. Host Doyle Saylor interviews Michelle Frank. Ms. Frank has lived with epilepsy since birth. She speaks about the realities of living with epilepsy and the challenges it poses to her as a person living with the disease but also how epilepsy impacts her life as a wife and mother of three. Ms. Frank explains the different forms of epilepsy. She discusses the reality of life with the disease and dispels many of the stereotypical misconceptions. Ms. Frank discusses the way epilepsy does and does not limit her life choices and activities and how it has impacted her marriage and the raising of her three children.
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March 16, 2007 Pushing Limits – March 16, 2007
Pushing Limits examines the developmental disability of Autism. Hosted by Doyle Saylor, the show explores Autism from both the perspectives of a person with Autism and the perspective of his family. Doyle Saylor presents a story written and read by Meg Tuttle about life with her autistic child, Chas. Doyle Saylor also interviews Jim Divine who is a high functioning person with Autism plus who has a child with Aspergers syndrome. Jim Divine talks about services in California for developmentally disabled and how the media presents and misrepresents the disability.
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March 02, 2007 Pushing Limits – March 2, 2007
Mental Health System Part 2

Pushing Limits completes a two-part series on emotional health and mental illness. Pushing Limits presents testimonials from the community, and we want to speak with you. What are your experiences with the mental health system. Positive, negative or somewhere in between? Also, join us for an update on the Ziprexa lawsuit discussed in our last show as well as a recap of the most current disability news. We want to talk to you. Please call us at 510 848-4425 Friday afternoon March 2, 2007 at 2:30 PM.
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February 16, 2007 Pushing Limits – February 16, 2007
Pushing Limits airs the first of a two part series on the mental health care system. Co hosts Leah Gardner and Eddie Ytuarte interview David Oaks, director of Mind Freedom, a national organization dedicated to ending psychiatric abuse and to promoting humane alternatives in mental health care. Mr. Oaks talks about Mind Freedom’s legal battle against drug manufacturer Eli Lilly’s efforts to block the dissemination of documents about its drug Zyprexa..
Other topics to be discussed will be the globalization of the mental health system, race and gender issues, and beneficial options present in current mental health care.
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January 19, 2007 Pushing Limits – January 19, 2007
Face Disabilities

A Rebroadcast of a show from Jan 4, 2004. Pushing limits host Doyle Saylor speaks with David Roche and Bill Choisser about their lives with two very different face disabilities. Doyle Saylor explores the commonalities and differences between "face blindness" and facial disfigurement.
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January 05, 2007 Pushing Limits – January 5, 2007
Eddie
Ytuarte and Adrienne Lauby interview East Bay writer, Anne Finger about her
newly released book titled Elegy for a Disease, a Personal and Cultural
History of Polio published by St. Martin Press, Oct. 31, 2006. Finger
shares her memories of growing up as a polio survivor in the 1980’s. Mixed
with these memories is a cultural history of how polio affected the
consciousness of the American public until it was largely defeated in the
U.S. by immunization.
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