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.
Pushing Limits airs the first of a two part series on the mental health care system. Co hosts Leah Gardner and Eddie Ytuarte interview David Oaks, director of Mind Freedom, a national organization dedicated to ending psychiatric abuse and to promoting humane alternatives in mental health care. Mr. Oaks talks about Mind Freedom’s legal battle … Continued
Face Disabilities A Rebroadcast of a show from Jan 4, 2004. Pushing limits host Doyle Saylor speaks with David Roche and Bill Choisser about their lives with two very different face disabilities. Doyle Saylor explores the commonalities and differences between "face blindness" and facial disfigurement.
Eddie Ytuarte and Adrienne Lauby interview East Bay writer, Anne Finger about her newly released book titled Elegy for a Disease, a Personal and Cultural History of Polio published by St. Martin Press, Oct. 31, 2006. Finger shares her memories of growing up as a polio survivor in the 1980’s. Mixed with these memories is … Continued
A Winter Smorgasbord: Pushing Limits closes out 2006 with a potpourri of items about the disability world. The show includes "The Lighter Side of Depression," a skit by the Pushing Limits Players, an essay on colitis by Shelley Berman, the reading of a poem by Leah Gardner, Doyle Saylor gives an update on Iraq war … Continued
Friday Dec. 15 2006 at 2:30PM pushing limits will feature Wildsang, the Delta/Piedmont blues duo of Hilary Kay and Kate Freeman. Hosted by Ruthanne Shipner with Adrienne Lauby interviewing Kay and Freeman who discuss being musicians living with disability. These two women speak frankly and courageously of growing up with a bi-polar mother, taking care … Continued
The November 7, 2006 mid term election. Hosts Ruthanne Shpiner and Doyle Saylor will interview Donna Spring, a woman with a disability who prevailed against stiff competition and big money in her re election to the Berkeley City Council. Pushing Limits will also interview Patti Nash who is blind, on her experiences voting in this … Continued
What do emigration, employment, family relations, attendant services, abuse, exploitation, identity theft, the Independent Living Movement and the Americans with Disabilities Act have in common? Find out from our guest Ravi Malhotra, Labour Law Professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
Pushing Limits will interview Eddie Ytuarte, a disabled man running as the Peace and Freedom Party candidate for the 16th Assembly District seat in California. The show will also report on the success of the students and faculty at Galladet University in Washington, DC (the sole United States university dedicated to deaf and hearing impaired … Continued
Doyle Saylor and Adrienne Lauby will interview Suzanne Levine on the subject of use of language in reporting on disability. Ms. Levine is an expert in public education surrounding disability and word use. Friday’s show "Words of Respect" illustrates the disability rights movements demand that journalists and other writers give serious consideration to the words … Continued
Pushing Limits features dwarf filmmaker Steven Delano; Vice-President of Public Relations for the Little People of America (LPA), Gary Arnold; educator and filmmaker Jan Krawitz; and dwarf musician Rob Williams. We discuss social, political, cultural and economic conditions and their impact on people of short stature, particularly in entertainment. That’s Dwarfism: The Big Impact, produced … Continued
