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 will revisit New Orleans on the one year anniversary of the levy breaking catastrophe, resulting floods and general emergency. Did the impact of poor disaster preparedness fall disproportionately on those with disabilities? Hosts Leroy Moore and Doyle Saylor will interview Lisa Moore whose family was in New Orleans during the hurricane and Craig … Continued
Disaster preparedness for people with disabilities. As the nation nears the one year anniversary of Katrina, hosts Leah Gardner and Amber DiPietra want to know what steps people with disabilities have taken to be safe in the event of a large-scale emergency. Do they feel that local and state officials are doing enough to ensure … Continued
Pushing Limits hosts Doyle Saylor and Gene Sharee return to Mill Valley to speak with Seniors For Peace. Seniors for Peace is a group working out of Mill Valley to promote and advocate their anti war position and activities. Gene interviews long time senior for peace member, Frieda Engle.
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Pushing Limits will address psychiatric disabilities, mental distress and disability rights. Hosts Doyle Saylor and Ruthanne Shpiner will interview prominent disability studies scholar and advocate Dr. Lennard Davis to hear his conclusions from years of study and research in addition to extensive involvement with the disability community.
Pushing Limits ends our three part Crip-Hip-Hop series featuring playwright Eisa Davis, the Deaf Hip-Hop group Helix, and deaf dancer/actor, Fred Beam. They discuss Hip-Hop Anansi, the first Hip-Hop play for children, and Deaf Hip-Hop culture. Music is from "The H," the new CD from Helix, the Hip-Hop Anansi soundtrack by DJ Eurok, and the … Continued
Fathering is as diverse as the world within which we live. And fathering with a disability? Well, tune in as Pushing Limits presents a tribute to fathers with disabilities. Music by Lee Williams and Luther Vandross. Hosted by Gene Sharee; produced by Safi wa Nairobi and Leroy F. Moore.
CRIP-HIP-HOP! Pushing Limits visits with DJ Quad founder and producer of the Hip-Hop Group, "5th Battalion" from Los Angeles. DJ Quad, a Latino quadriplegic, talks about the ongoing immigration debate, police harassment, mentoring other disabled hip-hop artists, his debut CD, "Bringing the Heat", and AfroLatino race relations in Hip-Hop. (Check out DJ Quad at www.5thbattalion.com) … Continued
CRIP-HIP-HOP! Pushing Limits’ three part series on disabled Hip-Hop artists. Pushing Limits celebrates May Day and Cinco de Mayo with DJ Quad from a Hip-Hop group, 5th Battalion, of Los Angeles. 5th Battalion founder and producer, DJ Quad, a Latino quadriplegic, talks about the ongoing immigration debate, police harassment, mentoring other disabled hip-hop artists, his … Continued
