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KPFA - Pushing Limits

A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing insight into the grassroots disability movement to the general public.

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CA Budget – Disability Advocacy & Results – Pushing...

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2023/06/23

Ligia Andrade Zúñiga A week from today, Governor Newsom is expected to sign the 2023-2024 California state budget. In this program, we look at the deals that were struck and their impact on people with disabilities. Then we widen our camera to talk about our yearly budget advocacy and how our community can become more powerful in this and other policy arenas. Eric Harris, the director of Public Policy at Disability Rights California, breaks down how the state has chosen to invest its money for the

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Pushing Limits – June 16, 2023

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2023/06/16

A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public. The show alternates weekly and airs on even weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – June 16, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

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Open Heart Surgery – Pushing Limits – June 9, 2023

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2023/06/09

Alex and Ellen Rush Alex Rush, 81 years old, recently went under the knife and had his chest pried over. Doctors call this open heart surgery. Hearts are complicated and, when hearts are exposed to the Goddess and everybody, much can happen. One might be shaken to the core. One’s life partner might be turned upside down. Yes, when everything is given over to fate, and mortality stares us in the face – what was buried may surface and what is on the surface may not be all there is to see. Join us as

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Blindness in the Early USSR – Pushing Limits – June...

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2023/06/02

Early disability activism did not only arise in the United States or in the countries of the United Kingdom. The Soviet Union, shortly after the 1918 revolution, also witnessed a nascent disability movement. That movement differs significantly from disability advancements in other countries and in later decades. In this edition of Pushing Limits, Maria Galamarini surveys the development of blind activism in the Soviet Union. Unlike the United States, did the Soviet apparatus use disability

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Pushing Limits – May 26, 2023

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2023/05/26

A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public. The show alternates weekly and airs on even weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – May 26, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

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Pushing Limits – May 19, 2023

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2023/05/19

A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public. The show alternates weekly and airs on even weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – May 19, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

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Pushing Limits – May 12, 2023

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2023/05/12

A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public. The show alternates weekly and airs on even weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – May 12, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

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Two Writers; Three Books – Pushing Limits – May 5, 2023

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2023/05/05

Interviews with two authors with disabilities who have written books from their lived expertise. Stephanie Heit is the author of Psych Murders, a poetic memoir of her encounters with the psychiatric medical system. Dr. Sami Schalk, professor of gender studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discusses her book, Bodyminds Imagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction, which relates disability, Blackness and speculative (science) fiction, and Black Disability

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Disability Summertime – Pushing Limits – April 28, 2023

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2023/04/28

We jump into summer by talking with people who are making seasonal activities accessible to those with disabilities. Rachael A Zubal-Ruggieri has a passion for comic books and helped start the “Cripping the Comic Con” at Syracuse University. This bi-annual symposium featured topics relating to disability and pop culture. Then we hear about the California Youth Leadership Forum for students with disabilities. Now in its 31st year, the forum teaches high school students about disability history,

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Pushing Limits – April 21, 2023

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2023/04/21

A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public. The show alternates weekly and airs on even weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – April 21, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

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Pushing Limits – April 14, 2023

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2023/04/14

A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public. The show alternates weekly and airs on even weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – April 14, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

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Judy Heumann – Pushing Limits – April 7, 2023

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2023/04/07

Judy Huemann On the 46th anniversary of the Section 504 sit-ins in San Francisco, we take a look back at the longest occupation of a federal building in U.S. history, the role the late Judy Heumann played in it, and the subsequent disability rights movement. Ed Roberts, Judy Huemann, Joan Leon at the beginning of WID Producer and Host, Mark Romoser, is joined by Joan Leon, who has worked with the Berkeley Center for Independent Living (CIL) and its offshoot the World Institute on

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Katie Sellergren & Tara Ayres – Pushing Limits –...

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2023/03/31

Katie Sellergren We talk to Katie Sellergren, a fellow at Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability. Named for the late author, professor, and disability rights advocate, Paul Longmore, the Institute hosts lectures and events, including Superfast, the largest disability film festival in the world. Tara Ayres. Photo by Corbett O’Toole We also talk with Tara Ayres. an activist with a disability who helps to organize the Oakland women’s march. She talks about her experiences

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Solidarity ~ Pushing Limits, March 24, 2023

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2023/03/24

Building Solidarity Between the Disabled and the Left: The Good, The Bad, and The Inaccessible We talk with two advocates about their experience working in progressive movements where disability is not the primary focus. Maya Chupkov has worked as an organizer on issues such as affordable housing and promoting democracy. In the past, she has experienced challenges in getting other organizers to understand her stuttering disability. Maya Chupkov is the producer and host of the podcast “Proud

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Pushing Limits March 17, 2023

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2023/03/17

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Pushing Limits March 10, 2023

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2023/03/10

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Pushing Limits March 3, 2023

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2023/03/03

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Pushing Limits Feb 24, 2023

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2023/02/24

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Mental Disability Surveillance: The Virtual Asylum –...

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2023/02/17

Sarah Roth This week, a national CDC study found that nearly 3 in 5 (57%) of teen girls felt persistently sad or hopeless in 2021 — double that of boys. This is a nearly 60% increase and the highest level in the past decade. For the young people, their families, and friends, it was just a reminder of something they already knew. We have a national mental health crisis in the U.S. and there is a stunning lack of resources to help. In addition, in the North Bay of California, deaths involving

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Pushing Limits Feb 10, 2023

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2023/02/10

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