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 hosts Leah Gardner and Safi wa Nairobi will interview Watts Village Theatre Company President and co-founder Lynn Manning. Lynn Manning is the award winning playwright, poet actor, former Para Olympian, World Champion of Blind Judo and technical consultant for television’s Blind Justice. Lynn Manning will discuss his new play "Up From the Downs" … Continued
AB 654 is a controversial bill currently making its way through the California State Assembly. If it passes it will pave the way for the legalization of physician-assisted suicide. Two long-time disability rights advocates, Pam Fadem and Paul Longmore shared their viewpoints on the political and social implications of this bill recently at a community … Continued
Armenia:The 20th Century’s First Genocide Araxie Barsmain, a survivor, shares her story with Students from the University of Colorado about the20th century’s first genocide. In 1915 the Armenian people were targeted by the Turks for extermination, who proceeded to kill thousands and forced the rest to flee their homeland in Turkey.
Tonight at 6:30 pm, KPFA’S Pushing Limits Collective, in collaboration with the KPFA Labor Collective, share interviews by Pushing Limits host Safi wa Nairobi, with injured workers Rachel Williams, Dina Padilla, Larry Nign and Christine Pietz (writer and producer of "Almost Broken," the recently released documentary exposing insurance corruption).
Sunday April 3, 2005 pushing limits will broadcast a continuation of its reporting on people with disabilities in the African Diaspora. Pushing Limits will commemorate the eleventh anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda. Hosts Leroy Moore and Gerald Sanders will talk to a Rwanda reporter, activists Mr. Bido Zyandwi and his mother plus air clips … Continued
An original audio condensation of acclaimed African-American C.J. Jones’ one- man show, "What Are You . . . Deaf?" Called "a great storyteller" by the L.A. Weekly, Jones paints colorful, riveting pictures of his life, growing up in a tough St. Louis neighborhood with his deaf Golden Gloves Champion father. It’s the insightful, comedic worldview … Continued
Tonight Pushing Limits looks at the proposed Social Security privatization and why it would be devastating for people with disabilities and others. Tune in to learn what it all means, and what we can do to fight for our rights and against the destruction of the Social Security system which is vital to the survival … Continued
A discussion about disability and how it is portrayed in films. Among the films considered, the show will review and discuss the pertinent disability rights issues highlighted in the movie Million Dollar Baby, a movie nominated for multiple academy awards while simultaneously infuriating the disability community.
