KPFA - Pushing Limits

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January 16, 2005 Pushing Limits – January 16, 2005
Leroy Moore Jr. and
Leah Gardner host a celebration and meditation on Martin Luther
King Jr. Tom Ross, a Berkeley disabled activist and Pushing Limits
collaborator will share poems commemorating King’s life, and we’ll hear words from King himself.
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January 09, 2005 Pushing Limits – January 9, 2005
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January 02, 2005 2004 Disability Review
Some of the highlights or lowlights of 2004 for the disability community. The war in Iraq was an ongoing story for us but so were issues of the federal and state budget, housing, and the various ways people with disabilities face discrimination. Hosts Eddie Ytuarte, Doyle Saylor, and Jan Santos.
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December 26, 2004 KPFA Special Broadcast – December 26, 2004

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December 19, 2004 Noemi Sohn, poet
PEN Oakland Award Winner, author of Intertwined, Noemi Sohn, a Filipina-American feminist with cerebral palsy.
PEN Oakland is a literary organization whose purpose is to promote works of excellence by writers of all cultural and racial backgrounds and to educate both the public and the media as to the nature of multi-cultural work. Noemi Sohn reads her poem
Seven. Interviews with her parents and others.
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December 05, 2004 Pushing Limits – December 5, 2004
Tonight Pushing Limits hosts a call in show. We want to hear from you! What’s on your mind?
Do you want to tell us you love electronic voting machines, that
John Kerry was the greatest thing for people with disabilities,
that disability is something too serious to make jokes about,
or that Pushing Limits needs to lighten up and not take things so
seriously? You can talk about these topics or a million others
when disability radio Pushing Limits does a show featuring call ins,
Sunday, December 5 from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m.
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November 21, 2004 Pushing Limits – November 21, 2004
Post Election Depression
There are 55 million stories about this election. Pushing Limits looks at
the epidemic of election depression and finds a hornets nest that chases
our interviewer around and around how this election could happen. Tune in
November 21st for the buzz as Pushing Limits records broken hearts mending
from despair.
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November 07, 2004 Pushing Limits – November 7, 2004
The November general elections are done…over. So
what do the results mean for the disability community?
Members of Pushing Limits collective will give their
impressions about what happened this past Tuesday
when the show airs on Sunday, November 7 from
6:30 to 7:00 p.m. Come and listen and see if you
agree with the opinions of co-hosts Eddie Ytuarte,
Leah Gardner, and Doyle Saylor.
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October 31, 2004 Pushing Limits – October 31, 2004
Voice Activated Phone Systems
The increasing prevalence of voice activated phone systems and the problems posed for users who have disabilities that affect their speech. Pushing limits will demonstrate four common voice activated systems plus conduct an interview with California Telephone Access Program’s outreach director Frances Franco.
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October 03, 2004 Pushing Limits – October 3, 2004
A discussion on the use of law suits by the disability community to secure its rights. Disability activists have taken legal action to make
the Restaurant chain Taco Bell accessible to people with physical
disabilities. But at the same time, there is a national boycott
of Taco Bell because of its labor policies. So why do we want
to make Taco Bell accessible when some of us don’t want people
to buy there in the first place. Tim Fox, a nationally known disability
rights attorney and attorney in the Taco Bell legal action, will
be interviewed on Pushing Limits this October 3 at 6:30 p.m.
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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!