KPFA - Pushing Limits

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KPFA - Pushing Limits episodes

December 09, 2005 Pushing Limits – December 9, 2005 at 2:30pm
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December 02, 2005 Pushing Limits – December 2, 2005
Pushing Limits will present a program on the use of the law in disability rights work. Disability activists Hollyn D’Lil and Richard Skaff will speak on current developments in the Americans with Disability Act (ADA). Co-producers Eddie Ytuarte and Doyle Saylor will also discuss whether there are limitations to how litigation is currently being used.
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November 25, 2005 Pushing Limits – November 25, 2005 at 2:30pm
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November 18, 2005 Pushing Limits – November 18, 2005
Pushing Limits will address post polio syndrome. Host Eddie Ytuarte will address living with post polio syndrome, about memories, cautions, and realities of the disease which has largely been eliminated in the U.S. Eddie will speak with Phyllis Hartke, polio survivor and past president of the Bay Area Post-Polio Network and Grace Lin, polio survivor who is a visual artist,
painter and sculptor. Even though the disease has largely been erradicated,
Eddie Ytuarte says "Nonetheless, a lot of us folks are still around so you might want to give a listen"…..
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November 04, 2005 Pushing Limits – November 4, 2005
Pushing Limits will cover the California Special Election. The show will discuss the various ballot propositions and the impact the outcome will have on the disability community. Ruthanne Shpiner and Tom Ross will interview Paul Johnson, systems change advocate and client assistance program coordinator for Berkeley’s Center for Independent Living and Marilla Arguelles, president of the home care workers’ union, SEIU Local 616.
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October 07, 2005 Pushing Limits – October 7, 2005
Pushing Limits presents the third show
of a series on disability and visual arts. Hosts Doyle Saylor, Safi wa
Nairobi and Nora Ryerson speak with nationally recognized artists,
Casper Banjo, Bill Bruckner, Kathleen Flannigan and Chuck Close. These
artists discuss how their art is shaped by the disability experience.
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September 30, 2005 Pushing Limits – September 30, 2005
Pushing Limits will present the second of a
four part series on disability and visual arts. Host
Nora Ryerson will narrate a collage of interviews with artists, staff and
administrators from Creativity Explored, Creative Growth and the National
Institute for Art and Disability, art centers which serve primarily the
developmentally disabled. Produced by Safi wa Nairobi with the assistance of
Nora Ryerson and Doyle Saylor.
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September 16, 2005 Pushing Limits – September 16, 2005
Pushing Limits will kick off a series of
four programs about disability visual arts. On Sept. 16, 2005, hosts
Eddie Ytuarte and Doyle Saylor will speak with two directors of bay area art
centers which primarily serve people with developmental disabilities.
Listeners will hear from visual artist, Chuck Close who has a facial
disability. Later shows in the series will 1) take a closer look at the art
centers 2) be a show about visual artists with disabilities, and 3) be a
program about low vision visual artists.
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September 04, 2005 Pushing Limits – September 4, 2005
Pushing Limit’s producer Leroy F. Moore, Jr. will
explore the question of whether there is a network of
African American Disabled artists with two
accomplished East Coast Musicians, Rob Da Noize Temple
and Robin "Bird" Williams. The guests’ work span
hip-hop, rhythm and blues, jazz, reggae, soul and hard
rock. Tune in to hear about how disability
consciousness has affected their careers, mentoring
and lives.
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August 21, 2005 Pushing Limits – August 21, 2005
Pushing Limits will air "Portraits of
Johannah", stories of a lesbian with a mental disability, who has survived
child abuse, gay bashing and anti-disabled discrimination, had many
interesting adventures, and does all this with humor, wit and grace.
Pushing Limits Shelley Berman with
correspondent Thyme Siegel interview Johannah Lee to air these stories on
Pushing Limits. Johannah’s stories reflect society’s lack of support and
discrimination experienced by many marginalized people who are poor, gay and
living with disabilities.
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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!