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.
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.
Pushing Limits will discuss the issue of whether able bodied people or people with disabilities should be staffing and directing independent living centers and agencies that serve the disability community. Is the question of import to the community or does it simply not matter? Pushing limits will interview Patrick Connelly, a long time disability activist. … Continued
Pushing Limits looks at love relationships in the disabled community. We will touch on universal commonalities and individual differences in relationships for disabled and non-disabled people. Folks in our community will share some of their thoughts and feelings on this topic vital to all of us.
Leroy Moore Jr. and Leah Gardner host a celebration and meditation on Martin Luther King Jr. Tom Ross, a Berkeley disabled activist and Pushing Limits collaborator will share poems commemorating King’s life, and we’ll hear words from King himself.
