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 examines the developmental disability of Autism. Hosted by Doyle Saylor, the show explores Autism from both the perspectives of a person with Autism and the perspective of his family. Doyle Saylor presents a story written and read by Meg Tuttle about life with her autistic child, Chas. Doyle Saylor also interviews Jim Divine … Continued
Mental Health System Part 2 Pushing Limits completes a two-part series on emotional health and mental illness. Pushing Limits presents testimonials from the community, and we want to speak with you. What are your experiences with the mental health system. Positive, negative or somewhere in between? Also, join us for an update on the Ziprexa … Continued
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
