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Pushing Limits – February 29, 2008

"Environmental Pollutants and Disability"Pushing limits host Adrienne Lauby discusses the environmental causes of disability. A proposed coal power plant in the four corners area and an aerial spray program in the bay area threaten to increase disability over large populations.Eddie Ytuarte interviews Diné CARE activist Lori Goodman and Nan Wishner of Albany’s Integrated Pest Management … Continued


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Pushing Limits – February 1, 2008

Relationships and Disability.Pushing Limits explores relationships and people with disabilities with host Eddie Ytuarte and guests Bill and Vickie Bruckner.  They talk on many levels about the issues of sexuality and the understanding of one’s own disability and the disability of her or his partner.  The Bruckners offer clarity about the many facets of relationships … Continued


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Pushing Limits – January 18, 2008

Some homeless people with disabilities are finding homes, even in today’s crowded, high-rent housing market.  On Friday, Jan. 18 at 2:30 pm on KPFA, host Adrienne Lauby interviews Butch Cooley and Paul Hamilton of the Leg Up Project in Grand Junction, Colorado.These two formerly homeless men housed twenty-eight people in three months.  Cooley and Hamilton … Continued


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Pushing Limits – December 21, 2007

After a disabling motorcycle accident, Dan McMullan lived on the streets for eight years and founded the "Disabled People Outside Project."  Now, with a house, wife and two kids, he’s still an aggressive advocate for East Bay’s homeless people.  Eddie Ytuarte and Adrienne Lauby talk with him about the need, the myths and the solutions. … Continued


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Pushing Limits – December 7, 2007

Eddie Ytuarte and Leah Gardner will present a program of music by artists with disabilities ranging from Itzhak Perlman to Django Reinhardt and Paul Robeson. Contemporary music and culture would not be the same without the contributions of disabled artists and the varied musical expressions they present because of the nature of their disability. Pushing … Continued


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Pushing Limits – November 30, 2007

Rants, Stories and Lies. From the desolation caused by the unnecessary death of a child to the building of a successful broadcast career, disability writers, thinkers and activists address a wide range of topics. Audio essays by Trisha  Webb, Marty Omoto, Robert Thomas, Barbara Ruth, Doyle Saylor, Leah Gardner, Ana Aeriois, and John Healy. Hosted … Continued


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Pushing Limits – November 16, 2007

Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Paula Molnar recently asked the Rohnert Park City Council to petition Congress to impeach Bush and Cheney. Molnar joined the army with high ideals and high hopes. After two ruptured disks and two surgeries, back pain keeps her in bed most evenings and, thirteen years after her retirement, she still needs … Continued


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Education Today – September 21, 2007

Once Robert Torres ran down the street as the monsters in his mind tried to kill him.  Now he lives without psych drugs, holds down a job and has a productive life.  He speaks freely to host Adrienne Lauby about his nightmare journey through the adolescent mental system, multiple diagnosis’ and therapists who didn’t care.  … Continued