KPFA - Pushing Limits

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December 29, 2006 Pushing Limits – December 29, 2006
A Winter Smorgasbord: Pushing Limits closes out 2006 with a potpourri of items about the disability world. The show includes "The Lighter Side of Depression," a skit by the Pushing Limits Players, an essay on colitis by Shelley Berman, the reading of a poem by Leah Gardner, Doyle Saylor gives an update on Iraq war casualties plus a music performance by disabled Jazz stylist, Weslia Whitfield.
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December 15, 2006 Pushing Limits – December 15, 2006
Friday Dec. 15 2006 at 2:30PM pushing limits will feature Wildsang, the Delta/Piedmont blues duo of Hilary Kay and Kate Freeman. Hosted by Ruthanne Shipner with Adrienne Lauby interviewing Kay and Freeman who discuss being
musicians living with disability. These two women speak frankly and courageously of growing up with a bi-polar mother, taking care of an aging relative and living with chronic disease.
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December 01, 2006 Pushing Limits – December 1, 2006
The November 7, 2006 mid term election. Hosts Ruthanne Shpiner and Doyle Saylor will interview Donna Spring, a woman with a disability who prevailed against stiff competition and big money in her re election to the Berkeley City Council. Pushing Limits will also interview Patti Nash who is blind, on her experiences voting in this and other elections.
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November 17, 2006 Pushing Limits – November 17, 2006
What do emigration, employment, family relations, attendant services, abuse, exploitation, identity theft, the Independent Living Movement and the Americans with Disabilities Act have in common? Find out from our guest Ravi Malhotra, Labour Law Professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
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November 03, 2006 Pushing Limits – November 3, 2006
Pushing Limits will interview Eddie Ytuarte, a disabled man running as the Peace and Freedom Party candidate for the 16th Assembly District seat in California.
The show will also report on the success of the students and faculty at Galladet University in Washington, DC (the sole United States university dedicated to deaf and hearing impaired students) in getting an approved
incoming president to decline her appointment and withdraw.
Hosted by Adrienne Lauby with help from Leah Gardner and Free Speech Radio News reports by Nan McCurdy.
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October 20, 2006 Pushing Limits – October 20, 2006
Doyle Saylor and Adrienne Lauby will interview Suzanne Levine on the subject of use of
language in reporting on disability. Ms. Levine is an expert in public
education surrounding disability and word use. Friday’s show "Words of
Respect" illustrates the disability rights movements demand that journalists
and other writers give serious consideration to the words they use about
people with disabilities. The show will also feature a poem by Neil Marcus
titled "Language" on this very issue.
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September 29, 2006 Pushing Limits – September 29, 2006
Pushing Limits features dwarf filmmaker Steven Delano; Vice-President of
Public Relations for the Little People of America (LPA), Gary Arnold;
educator and filmmaker Jan Krawitz; and dwarf musician Rob Williams. We
discuss social, political, cultural and economic conditions and their impact
on people of short stature, particularly in entertainment. That’s
Dwarfism: The Big Impact, produced by Safi wa Nairobi, Leroy Moore and Gene
Sharee.
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September 15, 2006 Pushing Limits – September 15, 2006
Pushing Limits hosts Leroy Moore and Safi wa Nairobi
interview the mother and close friend of a disabled candidate for Mayor of
Washington who was murdered earlier this year. Green Party Candidate Chris
Crowder was disabled by street violence in 1991 and was active in many
movements around city. Host Leroy Moore speaks with Crowder’s mother and
Crowder’s close friend, Asantewaa Nikrumah-Ture about the circumstances of
his murder and the legacy he left behind.
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September 01, 2006 Pushing Limits – September 1, 2006
Pushing Limits will revisit New Orleans on the one year anniversary of the levy breaking catastrophe, resulting floods
and general emergency. Did the impact of poor disaster preparedness fall disproportionately on those with disabilities? Hosts Leroy Moore and Doyle Saylor will interview Lisa Moore whose family was in New Orleans during the hurricane and Craig Eichelman from the American Association for Retired Persons (AARP) about evacuation legislation.
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August 18, 2006 Pushing Limits – August 18, 2006
Disaster preparedness for people with disabilities. As the nation nears the one year anniversary of Katrina, hosts Leah Gardner and Amber DiPietra want to know what steps people with disabilities have taken to be safe in the event of a large-scale emergency. Do they feel that local and state officials are doing enough to ensure adaptive evacuation strategies, accessible shelters, and relevant training for agencies serving the disabled? Call in and update us on your personal experience with prior disasters and let us know of resources and planning in your area. We want to hear from you!
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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!