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 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.
Some of the highlights or lowlights of 2004 for the disability community. The war in Iraq was an ongoing story for us but so were issues of the federal and state budget, housing, and the various ways people with disabilities face discrimination. Hosts Eddie Ytuarte, Doyle Saylor, and Jan Santos.
PEN Oakland Award Winner, author of Intertwined, Noemi Sohn, a Filipina-American feminist with cerebral palsy. PEN Oakland is a literary organization whose purpose is to promote works of excellence by writers of all cultural and racial backgrounds and to educate both the public and the media as to the nature of multi-cultural work. Noemi Sohn … Continued
