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.
Pushing Limits – December 2, 2005
Pushing Limits will present a program on the use of the law in disability rights work. Disability activists Hollyn D’Lil and Richard Skaff will speak on current developments in the Americans with Disability Act (ADA). Co-producers Eddie Ytuarte and Doyle Saylor will also discuss whether there are limitations to how litigation is currently being used.
Pushing Limits – November 18, 2005
Pushing Limits will address post polio syndrome. Host Eddie Ytuarte will address living with post polio syndrome, about memories, cautions, and realities of the disease which has largely been eliminated in the U.S. Eddie will speak with Phyllis Hartke, polio survivor and past president of the Bay Area Post-Polio Network and Grace Lin, polio survivor … Continued
Pushing Limits – November 4, 2005
Pushing Limits will cover the California Special Election. The show will discuss the various ballot propositions and the impact the outcome will have on the disability community. Ruthanne Shpiner and Tom Ross will interview Paul Johnson, systems change advocate and client assistance program coordinator for Berkeley’s Center for Independent Living and Marilla Arguelles, president of … Continued
Pushing Limits – October 7, 2005
Pushing Limits presents the third show of a series on disability and visual arts. Hosts Doyle Saylor, Safi wa Nairobi and Nora Ryerson speak with nationally recognized artists, Casper Banjo, Bill Bruckner, Kathleen Flannigan and Chuck Close. These artists discuss how their art is shaped by the disability experience.
Pushing Limits – September 30, 2005
Pushing Limits will present the second of a four part series on disability and visual arts. Host Nora Ryerson will narrate a collage of interviews with artists, staff and administrators from Creativity Explored, Creative Growth and the National Institute for Art and Disability, art centers which serve primarily the developmentally disabled. Produced by Safi wa … Continued
Pushing Limits – September 16, 2005
Pushing Limits will kick off a series of four programs about disability visual arts. On Sept. 16, 2005, hosts Eddie Ytuarte and Doyle Saylor will speak with two directors of bay area art centers which primarily serve people with developmental disabilities. Listeners will hear from visual artist, Chuck Close who has a facial disability. Later … Continued