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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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Pushing Limits – December 25, 2020

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2020/12/25

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 Odd weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – December 25, 2020 appeared first on KPFA.

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COVID Death Toll In Nursing Homes – Pushing Limits –...

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2020/12/11

Lydia Nunez Less than 1% of U.S. residents live in nursing homes*, yet between 30-40% percent of all COVID-19 deaths have occurred in these institutions. One hundred thousand people have died due to the coronavirus in various types of nursing homes. These shocking numbers are raising big questions. And the biggest question is, will these deaths galvanize big changes in the care of disabled and older people? For decades, our guest, disability activist Lydia Nunez, has sounded the alarm about

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Disability in Nazi Germany – Pushing Limits –...

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2020/12/04

Kenny Fries, circa 2017. Photo by Michael R. Dekker. Disability writer and teacher Kenny Fries discusses the plight of German people with disabilities during the Nazi era. At least 200,000 people with a wide range of disabilities were murdered in an attempt to cleanse “Third Reich” society. At the same time, disabled German war veterans were feted with honors by the Nazi regime. It was arguably the worst modern tragedy to occur to the disabled community. “Unlike the Holocaust, there are no

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Christopher Bowers: Heart-Liver Transplant – Pushing...

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2020/11/20

Christopher Bowers Facing a transplant of both heart and liver, Christopher Bowers and his wife talk to us about massive anxiety, heart-felt gratitude and sustaining love. In his 45 years, Christopher has squeezed every beat of life outta his congenitally-fragile heart. He’s living with congestive heart failure and a liver compromised by the many treatments. Now, if the planets align, he will soon undergo a double organ transplant. Christopher Bowers is a musician and father of a two-year-old son

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Stuttering with Bailey Levis – Pushing Limits –...

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2020/11/06

A drawing by an anonymous 9 year old boy shows how he happily walks about, whistling and talking normally, until he trips over a “stuttering wire” and falls helpless to the ground. From Elisabeth Sederholm, Ph.D. SLP Ume University. An essay here has this and other examples of children’s drawings about stuttering. Stuttering is caused by differences in the brain and there’s no cure for it. What there is is significant stigma and judgment from others. Yet. . . All the same. . . Bailey Levis says

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Voting While Disabled ~ Pushing Limits – October 23,...

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2020/10/23

Photo by Rochelle Hartman W-E-L-C-O-M-E! TO THE WIDE WORLD OF VOTING!!! Without doubt, this is THE strangest election in recent history…perhaps in all of this country’s history. In addition to the usual bonds, props, “Yes” means “No”, “No” means “Yes”, bickering candidates and plethora of conflicting messaging that are the features of a normal election, ALONG COMES COVID-19, and EVERYTHING changes. So how does one vote in the most critical election EVER while not breathing ANYONE else’s air? What if

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Pushing Limits – October 9, 2020

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2020/10/09

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 Odd weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – October 9, 2020 appeared first on KPFA.

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No Pandemic Evictions – Pushing Limits – September...

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2020/09/25

Christina Collins During a pandemic, if you are a renter and can’t pay your rent, you don’t go directly to eviction. But, the current tangle of federal, state and local eviction moratoriums does not give most poor and disabled people the sense of housing security we need. Click here for local help! Christina Collins, a prominent eviction attorney, comes to KPFA to lay out the landscape these largely temporary measures. She will detail the strengths and weaknesses of the moratoriums and tell us how

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Jenn Peoples: Living in Recovery, Mental Illness,...

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2020/09/11

Jenn Peoples’ childhood was frightening and traumatic. As a result she’s faced terrifying demons of self-destructive behavior. Now she’s far along in recovery, not from her mental illness, but from the self-destructive behaviors that followed. Today, she is a dual diagnosis counselor at a peer support recovery center in downtown Santa Rosa, California. The concept of centers run by and for people with chronic mental disabilities came out of the psychiatric survivors and mental health consumers

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Warren Cushman’s Vision – Pushing Limits – August...

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2020/08/28

Lisa and Warren Cushman Blind from birth, Warren Cushman was a passionate advocate for blindness, cross-disability, and environmental issues for over 15 years. But, in 2007, something happened that changed him deeply and set him on a new path which he names as mental illness.Now, 13 years later, Warren is at long last talking publicly about what happened.He’s chosen our airwaves to, not only recount this life-changing event, but to talk about how his family and the blind community has reacted to

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Free Gerald Reed, Free Them All – Pushing Limits –...

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2020/08/14

The pandemic is spreading quickly among people in prisons and other locked institutions. That means many people with disabilities are massed together directly in the path of Covid-19. Armanda Shackleford and Sarah Wild join Eddie Ytuarte to discuss their effort to #FreeThemAll in Chicago and beyond. Many incarcerated Chicago Police Department torture survivors sit behind bars as the virus rages, and one of them is a disabled man named Gerald Reed. We’ll learn more about Gerald Reed and the work of

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“Audio Description with Ray Samuelson” Pushing Limits...

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2020/07/31

Roy Samuelson “Blind people watch TV. Blind people watch movies.” But, how DO they DO that?!! How does one make “A picture worth a thousand words” show up for people watching with their ears? Welcome to the “Blind Alley” version of “Pushing Limits”. What turns a movie into a radio drama? Roy Samuelson, for one. Roy is an audio description narrator and, in this program, he shares behind-the-scenes knowledge. He’ll explain what makes narration effective, non-intrusive and exciting. Then, he explains

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Covid 19: Black Disabled Activists Speak Out, ...

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2020/07/17

Event poster with art by Jacob Lawrence, “Harlem Hospital’s Free Clinic Is Crowded with Patients Every Morning and Evening” This week on Pushing Limits, black disability justice activist Leroy F. Moore Jr. makes a stunning indictment of the black community’s treatment of its disabled members. His speech was part of a webinar called “Disability Justice and COVID-19” that also included Elandria Williams, Lateef Mcleod and Dorian Taylor. We bring you excerpts from these black disability leaders who sit

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ADA for the Future, Pushing Limits – July 03, 2020

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2020/07/03

Justine Dart, known as the godfather of the ADA, is on the right with his signature hat. Seventeen days from this broadcast The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) turns thirty. This Federal civil rights legislation, one of the few favors Republicans have granted people with disabilities, has cleared the way for us to win our independence…but there’s STILL a VERY long way to go. It is fitting, then, that on the 4th of July weekend we’ll discuss “The ADA for Future Generations” a virtual event

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Call-In: BLM Protests and Disability, Pushing...

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2020/06/19

Poor People’s Campaign March To The Capitol 2018. Photo by Stephen Melkisethian* According to the Ruderman Foundation a third to a half of all people killed by police are disabled. In a period of continued action by the Black Lives Matter movement against police violence and brutality, we turn to you, our listeners with disabilities. Are you participating? Supporting? Staying home but calling government officials? Helping activists communicate? Fielding questions from your white friends? Do the

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Stacey Milbern Park Pushing Limits – June 5, 2020

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2020/06/05

Stacey Milbern. A screen shoot from a 2018 video produced by DREDF, The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund,https://vimeo.com/214431031. “You know, I want to leave a legacy of disabled people knowing that we are powerful and beautiful because of who we are, not despite it,” Stacey Milbern Park The whole world is mourning the recent murder of George Floyd. The disability community is no exception. We were already grieving the loss of Stacey Milbern Park, a transformative activist who died

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Organizing In A Time of Social Distancing – Pushing...

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2020/05/22

When activists and advocates are up against a shelter-in-place order, when everything we usually do is completely impossible, who you gonna call? That’s right! Disability Justice! Call ‘em now at 1-800-CRIP-POC-CRIP! Why them, you ask. Because over the past couple of decades activists with disabilities, in particular activists of color, have blazed a path of flexibility and mutual support to build a truly intersectional movement. They’ve worked within harsh personal and societal limitations.

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Nursing Home Residents Face Covid-19

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2020/05/08

Mike Dark of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform COVID-19 is everywhere these days and no place has been hit harder than nursing homes. Estimates are that up to one-third of all COVID deaths have been in nursing homes. But nobody knows for sure, because the federal government and many states aren’t collecting this statistic. And, about one-quarter of people in those nursing homes are under age 65 and have disabilities. What is it about nursing homes that makes them so dangerous? What

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Disability History: The Mad Movement with Michael...

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2020/04/24

Mad Pride March, Koln, Germany, 2017photo by © Superbass / CC-BY-SA-4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons) Today’s organizing in the Mad Community has a long and turbulent back story. Historian Michael Rembis joins us again, this time to relay the remarkable work of mad activists in the 20th Century. The 20th century was a time of change and increased visibility for people living with emotional and mental disabilities. We’ll trace remarkable gains — and highlight continued inequities. Michael

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