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.
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
Pushing Limits will present a program on the use of the law in disability rights work. Disability activists Hollyn D’Lil and Richard Skaff will speak on current developments in the Americans with Disability Act (ADA). Co-producers Eddie Ytuarte and Doyle Saylor will also discuss whether there are limitations to how litigation is currently being used.
Pushing Limits will address post polio syndrome. Host Eddie Ytuarte will address living with post polio syndrome, about memories, cautions, and realities of the disease which has largely been eliminated in the U.S. Eddie will speak with Phyllis Hartke, polio survivor and past president of the Bay Area Post-Polio Network and Grace Lin, polio survivor … Continued
Pushing Limits will cover the California Special Election. The show will discuss the various ballot propositions and the impact the outcome will have on the disability community. Ruthanne Shpiner and Tom Ross will interview Paul Johnson, systems change advocate and client assistance program coordinator for Berkeley’s Center for Independent Living and Marilla Arguelles, president of … Continued
Pushing Limits presents the third show of a series on disability and visual arts. Hosts Doyle Saylor, Safi wa Nairobi and Nora Ryerson speak with nationally recognized artists, Casper Banjo, Bill Bruckner, Kathleen Flannigan and Chuck Close. These artists discuss how their art is shaped by the disability experience.
