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.
Friday March 31, 2006 at 2:30 PM pushing limits will air a program on disability in Iraq. Doyle Saylor and Leah Gardner will co-host the show with guests Sadick Alsidir and Salam Hassan from the Joint Iraqi Development & Unity Foundation. They will discuss a wheel chair project they have developed and how disability is … Continued
Pushing Limits, in celebration of international women’s history month, will interview Corbett Joan O’Toole. O’Toole is a longtime, internationally influential disability rights activist as well as a writer and filmmaker. O’Toole will share her perspective on the history of disabled women in the feminist movement as well as her views on where women fit in … Continued
Pushing Limits’ hosts Adrienne Lauby and Leroy Moore will cover "The Media Looks at Disability". They interview Mitch Jeserich who went from KPFA’s newsroom training to interviewing Colin Powell in a few short years and Charles A. Riley who tried to compete with Oprah with "WE," a lifestyle magazine for and about people with disabilities. … Continued
This program looks at our African heritage and the peoples struggle for freedom and equality in South Africa. Biko Agozino Various parcipants in African burial ground in NYC.
Pushing Limits hosts Leroy Moore and Gerald Sanders will cover the fate of disabled musicians in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The show will highlight three blind blues musicians: Henry Butler, Snooks Eaglin and Bryan Lee by playing their music, reading latest news on their whereabouts, tour dates and how the Hurricane … Continued
Pushing Limits will present an original drama with a holiday theme. Our play, "What Cha Gonna Do?" takes radio listeners to a disabled poetry group, visits a pagan crip firepit and features the inner worlds of the Pushing Limits Players. The show includes music by D.J. Kno, Mary Chapin Carpenter and the Disabled In Action … Continued
