Miss the U.S. Social Forum in San Jose? Hear interviews with some of the disability activists who came… And, get a feel for what it was like to mill around with 500 passionate workers for justice.
Pushing Limits
2:30 PM Pacific Time: Fridays
A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing insight into the grassroots disability movement to the general public.
As low income renters continue to receive rent increases of $200-500. a month, people with disabilities and others on fixed incomes live in fear of becoming homeless. Raising the rent, as they skirt or ignore laws meant to protect tenants, is the corporate landlord way. But, some of them are getting organized. In California, the … Continued
Sheela’s Housing Saga
Sixteen months! That’s right… It took our producer Sheela Gunn-Cushman one year and four months to find an affordable place to live in the high-rent east bay of Northern California. Her story is a mythic saga of slogging through swamps, fording rushing streams and (here and there) stumbling across a golden ring. It’s a story … Continued
Disability Community Speaking
The phone lines are open for anyone from the disability community. (510) 848-4425 You’ve probably seen inspirational porn, those pictures of someone with a disability matched with an encouraging slogan? Remember the facebook photo of a kid with Down Syndrome running a race and the words, “Before you quit, try.” How does it feel to … Continued
Fixed: The Science/ Fiction of Human Enhancement
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From bionic limbs and neural implants to prenatal screening, researchers around the world are hard at work developing a myriad of technologies to fix or enhance the human body. Fixed: The Science/ Fiction of Human Enhancement takes a close look at the drive to be “better than human” and the radical technological innovations that may … Continued
Disability Organizations Demand Singer’s Resignation
Grassroots disability organizations are demanding the resignation of Peter Singer after he advocated the killing of disabled infants for economic reasons on a radio talk show. Singer is an important figure in the Animal Liberation Front and a tenured bio-ethics professor at Princeton, Eddie Ytuarte talks to Steven Drake of Not Dead Yet about … Continued
Naomi Ortiz talks with Adrienne Lauby about how caring for others affects people with disabilities. What kinds of questions arise as we offer help? What trade offs do we make? Then, we visit the East Bay Center for the Blind in Berkeley to talk to those who enjoy, staff and manage this innovative grassroots community … Continued
Caring: Naomi Ortiz & East Bay Center for the Blind
Those of us who live with a disability are often typecast as burdens. Because we’re limited in some ways, the ways we give to others and participate in community work often go unnoticed. Naomi Ortiz talks with Adrienne Lauby about how caring for others affects people with disabilities. What kinds of questions arise as we … Continued
Pushing Limits – April 10, 2015
Disability Radio
It’s A Fools Game
This April Fools Friday, nothing’s off limits on Pushing Limits. Sheela Gunn-Cushman hosts. Shelley Berman puts Robin Williams and Eliahu Ha Navee in the same paragraph. And Josh Elwood hands nuggets of wisdom to some politicians who particularly need them.