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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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17:59

Musicians and Hearing Loss with Kathy Peck of H.E.A.R.

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2018/07/20

Kathy Peck of H.E.A.R. You remember when the Bay Area was filled with the sounds of punk rock? So does our guest Kathy Peck. She played bass for the San Francisco all-woman band The Contractions. Surprise! All those loud shows led to hearing loss. How did she deal with that? How does music, laughter and DIY sound? She talks about it all with Josh Elwood and Mark Romoser. It’s Hip To Hear Survival Guide (download) For over 30 years, Kathy Peck has been at the forefront of cutting edge music,

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Hearing Loss with Punk Rocker, Kathy Peck

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2018/07/20

Kathy Peck of H.E.A.R. You remember when the Bay Area was filled with the sounds of punk rock? So does our guest Kathy Peck. She played bass for the San Francisco all-woman band The Contractions. Surprise! All those loud shows led to hearing loss. How did she deal with that? How does music, laughter and DIY sound? She talks about it all with Josh Elwood and Mark Romoser. It’s Hip To Hear Survival Guide (download) For over 30 years, Kathy Peck has been at the forefront of cutting edge music,

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8:59

Independence 2018

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2018/07/06

Santa Rosa, CA protest of Trump administration border policies 6-30-18. Photo by Jessica Wood. Shelley Berman hosts a different view of Independence Day through the heart-felt viewpoint of Disabled Native American Activist, Mercedes Trippo. Other disabled folks chime in on the question, “From what would you like to be Independent?” Shelley’s sarcastic, biting repartee pushes the limits of acceptability and reminds us that ALL children are under fire under the current Fascist Regime of “Divide and

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8:59

Disability Thinking with Andrew Pulrang

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2018/06/29

Andrew Pulrang In these days of Trumpism and the virtual political domination by the political right, we turn to public intellectual, Andrew Pulrang, for a perspective on disability life, ideas, identity, culture and politics. Eddie Ytuarte hosts. Andrew Pulrang is a disability blogger, online activist, and former disability organization administrator. His blog is Disability Thinking and he is one of the three co-partners of #CripTheVote with Gregg Beratan and Alice Wong. The post Disability

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8:59

Blindness! Sexuality! Radio! with Laura Miller

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2018/06/15

Laura Miller with Queer Friends Sixty-one percent of blind adults or those with low vision say it was hard to participate in sex education. And when people lose their sight later in life many wonder if that is the end of their sexuality. Like many of us with disabilities, they don’t know how to approach sexuality within the limitations of their particular body. Laura Miller is the Sexual Health Services Coordinator at the San Francisco Lighthouse for the Blind. She’s a legally-blind researcher,

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8:59

Disability in Film with Movie Critic Kristen Lopez ~...

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2018/06/01

Kristen Lopez Movie goers are often subjected to portrayals of people with disabilities that reinforce the many stereotypes and stigmas. But film critic Kristen Lopez says some films are bucking this trend and sees hope on the horizon. Hosts Alysa Chadow and Eddie Ytuarte trade stories of their favorite plots and portrayals with Ms Lopez. Kristen Lopez is a freelance pop culture essayist and critic based in Sacramento whose work has appeared at Film School Rejects, Remezcla and Paste. She also runs

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17:59

“Bottom Dollars.” How 250K Disabled People Work for...

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2018/05/18

Disabled Worker in mainstream job, New Zealand, photo courtesy of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Flicker The U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 created the right to a minimum wage, with one huge exception — people with disabilities. We interview producer-director Jordan Melograna and play clips from “Bottom Dollars,” his documentary on sheltered workshops and the sub-minimum wage. How is it that nearly 250,000 people are currently and legally paid, on average, less than $2 an

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8:59

Youth and Disability with Jamie Caron

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2018/05/04

Jamie Caron In the wake of the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida, youth activists have taken center stage as never before. Disability activists made history with last summer’s ADAPT protests of proposed Medi-Care cuts in Washington, Colorado and elsewhere. So, what’s going on today at the intersection of youth and disability? Jamie Caron of DANY, Hayward-based Disability Action Network for Youth, joins hosts Mark Romoser and Sheela Gunn-Cushman to talk about what issues are picking

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8:59

IHSS Electronic Visit Verification: All We Know – and...

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2018/04/20

Graphic courtesy of CASATunr/VimeoE Electronic visit verification is a component of the 21st century CURES Act of 2016. It was a sneaky little poison pill added to the act and no one likes it…Except those who believe workers and recipients are ALL fraudulent pirates who MUST BE STOPPED! It will affect all in-home care programs including California’s In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS). And, if states do not implement it, they’ll lose critical funding for Medicaid (that’s Medi-Cal in

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16:59

Homelessness and Disability

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2018/04/06

Santa Rosa Council Woman Julie Combs On April 5, 2018 a Federal judge in San Francisco heard arguments against evicting the 125+ people of a Sebastopol Road homeless camp in Santa Rosa. The camp residents asked the judge to issue a temporary restraining order against the eviction, claiming the County of Sonoma, whose land they reside upon, is violating their 4th, 8th & 14th amendment rights, as well as the Americans with Disabilities Act. At the time of this program, the judge’s final decision was

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17:16

Fake Disability News

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2018/03/30

Do you remember where you were when the Bowling Green Massacre happened? You don’t? It was all over the news last year! But of course you don’t remember, because it never happened. It was fake news. As we approach April Fool’s Day, we learn that even the news must be treated with suspicion in these troubling times. Join Adrienne Lauby and Mark Romoser as we discuss fake news and how it affects your ability to stay informed. Call in and join the discussion. What Fake News has hindered disability

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16:21

Disability Goes To the Movies

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2018/03/16

Kristen Lopez Is disability as portrayed in American popular cinema slowly transforming itself? Are filmmakers getting away from the good old days when a person with a disability was often viewed as a friendly, intellectually-challenged creature to be cuddled and protected because us disabled folk could not fend for ourselves or offer gifts to society? Are popular films breaking away from the usual Hollywood mushy, exploitative treatment of disability in films like the 1957, “An Affair to

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33:54

“Lab Girl” with Hope Jahren

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2018/03/02

Hope Jahren Hope Jahren, author of the best selling memoir, Lab Girl, joins us for an hour of discussion about mental illness, trees, and the life of a woman scientist. Shelley Berman, Josh Elwood, Sheela Gunn-Cushman, Adrienne Lauby and Mark Romoser talk to Ms Jahren, read from her book and entreat listeners to become members of KPFA. Lab Girl is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren’s stories: about her childhood

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16:20

Different Places: Different Experiences

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2018/02/16

The difference in the disability experience throughout the U.S.A Food, politics and slang. In the U.S.A. it seems like these things very greatly between regions. Could the way people perceive those with disabilities also very greatly between areas? Join us on Pushing Limits as we explore some of the variations in attitudes that people with disabilities face throughout the USA. Helping us explore this topic will be Karin Willison. Ms. Willison is the creator of https://www.freewheelintravel.org, a

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16:27

s.e. smith on Disability

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2018/02/02

s.e. smith photo by Jim Burakoff Writer, agitator, and commentator s.e. smith* joins us for the half hour. Based in Northern California, s.e. smith has a journalistic focus on social issues, particularly gender, prison reform, disability rights, environmental justice, queerness, class, and the intersections thereof, with a special interest in rural subjects. s.e. smith has been published in The Guardian, Bitch Magazine, Aljazeera America, AlterNet, Yes! Magazine, Jezebel, Salon, the Sundance

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16:17

Pushing Limits – January 26, 2018

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2018/01/26

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 post Pushing Limits – January 26, 2018 appeared first on KPFA.

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17:48

Minimum Basic Income and Disability

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2018/01/19

Maybe the way to end poverty is to give poor people money. The idea of a universal basic income in the U.S. isn’t new. Progressives pushed the concept in the 1960s and 70s, and several other countries have tried local experiments. But, tech industry leaders like Tesla’s Elon Musk have recently taken up the idea and that’s making a buzz. Many of us in the disability community already live on the basic income called Social Security and SSI. Today, Mark Romoser, Josh Elwood, Sheela Gunn-Cushman,

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8:58

Pushing Limits – January 5, 2018

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2018/01/05

A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public. Pushing Limits advances the voices of people who live with disabilities. It is produced by a collective of media makers and activists who themselves live with disability. The post Pushing Limits – January 5, 2018 appeared first on KPFA.

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8:58

Disability: The Best and Worst of 2017

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2017/12/29

Art by Kunyo, a Korean artist inspired by the United Nations Development Programme’s work in Kazakhstan Jacob Lesner-Buxton joins our crew for 30 minutes of analysis and reflection on the events of 2017 for people with disabilities. Some topics: 1. U.S. involved wars cause death and disability in Afghanistan, Mexico, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere 2. Electronic Visit Verification to be required in California IHSS homes 3. Trump – Defeat of Health Care Deform; success of Tax Deform. This summer’s

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8:58

Recovery and Disability

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2017/12/01

Laurie offers you a starfish holiday tree Laurie joins us to talk about how living with diabetes, the Epstein-Barr virus, fibromyalgia and other physical problems has been improved by her long-time participation in 12-step anonymous recovery programs. “I used to say: Food Was Just My Butter’s Delivery Service,” Laurie says talking to Shelley about her acceptance of herself as a food addict and her slow recovery of her self-worth through the 12 steps. “We’re looking at trying to find ourselves

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