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.
A two-hour special on the theme of disability history in the United States. Included are an interview with historian Kim Nielsen, the voice of Helen Keller. the history of blind activism in the U.S. and a feature on a group of students with disabilities who go to the schools and teach history from their own … Continued
Pushing Limits welcomes opponants of the proposed tree cutting in the East Bay Hills in Northern California, Jean Stewart and Marg Hall. Their principle concern is the effect of the planned use of herbicides on people with disabilities and able-bodied people alike.
Four hundred thousand people with disabilities in the USA work for substandard wages, some of them for as little as 3¢ an hour. We discuss these “sheltered workshops,” segregated workplaces for workers with various disabilities. In the back rooms of Goodwill people with disabilities sort the hangers, hang the clothes and generally change your bags … Continued
Pushing Limits welcomes Alex Lubet for a second time to talk about musicians with disabilities and how these artists shape music as they adapt to their impairments. Lubet is a professor at the University of Minnesota and is the author of “Music, Disability, and Society.” Lubet will talk about his idea about “adaptive music” and … Continued
Three award-winning films made by young disabled women in Chicago. FeFe is a word for female, and these women live up their names by telling folks how it is when it comes to being a young African-American woman, with disabilities growing up in the, Windy City. Funny truthful and poignant, these films ooze with disability … Continued
Imagine getting an internet connection in your house and five hours later getting a massive headache. Or, letting PG &E install a smart meter in the morning and getting the sniffles in the middle of the afternoon. You go for a walk and begin to feel better, but when you pass a Starbucks or return … Continued
You can’t do 40 plus years of activism and not be changed for the better, especially if you become a revolutionary on wheels. Kiilu Nyasha, a 74-year-old Black Panther human and civil rights fighter whose exploits are well known to many KPFA listeners. Ms Nyasha has struggled against homelessness, elitism, capitalism, sexism and racism as … Continued
Music scholar Alex Lubet is the author of “Music, Disability, and Society” (2011). Topics include Lubet’s concept of “social confluence,” jazz musicians with disabilities, and a symphonic orchestra made up of blind women based Cairo, Egypt. Hosted and produced by Eddie Ytuarte
Who only wishes for you to succeed? Who only wants to fulfill your every need? Who will be there through thick or thin? Your mother? Think again. It’s those guide dogs and service dogs, People. When you’re down they lift you up When you’re lost they know the way (or aren’t too macho to ask … Continued
