Dancing With Cripples

Airs December 5, 2:30 pm
KPFA 91.4 fm or www.kpfa.org

The complex history of the word cripple

How to include people with verbal, cognitive,

developmental, emotional and other discounted disabilities

The story of a disabled woman powering a diesel truck through the Australian desert

Excerpts from a steamy love story called Cripple Poetics.

Wha Hoo!

Performance artists and poets join us in the studio!

Neil Marcus

Petra Kuppers

Amber DiPietra

Audio describer, Lakshmi Fjord

Produced by Adrienne Lauby

Seashore

by Amber DiPietra

Set to music and sung by Mindy Dillard

A seashore inside her, she is

drifting

in the shallows of a short

nap's trip

inland

and when

you put your arm leg hand near

enough to mine all my

cheek cells will come wading, swinging

lanterns and singing, out to

meet you

Upcoming Somatics/Expression Disability Culture Workshops

with Neil and Petra

Two Sunday, December 20 & 27, 2009, 3-5 pm

Subterranean Arthouse,

2179 Bancroft Way, Berkeley,

www.subterraneanarthouse.org.

Suggested donation: $15, no one turned away for lack of funds.

Next Performance
March 19th at 8pm.

Subterranean Arthouse,

2179 Bancroft Way, Berkeley,

www.subterraneanarthouse.org

Get In The Game

Listen 28 min.

Who says a one-armed man can't pitch a no-hitter or
shoot for the net in a Division I college basketball game?

photo by Neil Marcus

Who says a deaf man can't wield the bat
in a major league baseball game?

And who says disabled kids
don't make good athletes?

A discussion of possibility,
triumph -- and kids.

Guests:
Commentator Gary Gray, who covers disabled athletes at BlackAthlete.com and on his internet radio program, Gray Leopard Cove.
U.S. Adaptive Ski Team

Doug Pringle, President of the Far West chapter of Disabled Sports USA

Hosted by Eddie Ytuarte and Leah Gardner.

Resources:
Bay Area Outreach and Recreation Program (BORP)
www.borp.org
Activities for youth include wheelchair basketball, power soccer, track and field and hand cycling.
For adults, they have the same sports plus goalball.
BORP's outings and adventures program offers hiking, skiing and other outdoor expeditions.

Tandems Across the Bay is composed of a number of volunteers with tandem bicycles. They offer excursions on weekends and some holidays. These trips often start in San Francisco in the Fisherman's Wharf area. For more info, e-mail tandemsacrossthebay@gmail.com.

The Bay Area Association of Disabled Sailors (BAADS)
They meet every Sunday at noon from Pier 40 in Sf.
www.baads.org

Disability Rights California

Disability Rights California Logo

Listen (28 min)

Do non-profits operate
under too narrow
a charge?

Are they just plain
too conservative?

Catherine Blakemore

Eddie Ytuarte and Leah Gardner puts these questions to Catherine Blakemore, the executive director of one of the highest funded disability non-profits focused on California issues, Disability Rights California (DRC) -- It's also one of the most successful.

Sins Invalid

Take a good look
in the mirror.

Do you feel pride
in what you see?

Pushing Limits
ogles --
Beauty in the Face of Invisibility.

Listen, 28 min.

Nomy Lamm
photo by Richard Downing

Leah Gardner interviews Patricia Berne and Nomy Lamm from the groundbreaking organization, Sins Invalid.

This troupe of artists and performers use storytelling, music and dance to demonstrate
that disabled bodies are beautiful. Artistic director Patricia Berne and performer Nomy Lamm will discuss their work with Sins Invalid as well as what it takes to break down the barriers of shame and fear to create beauty

Best Websites For IHSS Appeals and Information

IHSS Coalition
www.ihsscoalition.org
Consumers, Providers and Advocates
Working Together to Protect and Improve
California's Home Care

Disability Rights California
www.disabilityrightsca.org
California's Advocacy and Protection System

A website of in-depth information

They will send copies to people without web access.

1-800-776-5746

United Domestic Workers of America

www.udwa.org

Serving Homecare Providers

across California

Bi-Lingual, English and Spanish.

(619) 641-1190
(800) 621-5016

Oakland Rally 10-19-09
in support of lawsuit challenging IHSS cuts

County Welfare Directors
Association of California
To promote a human services system that encourages self-sufficiency of families and communities, and protects vulnerable children and adults from abuse and neglect.
Sacramento, CA
916-443-1749
916-443-3202 FAX

IHSS Appeals and Daily Help

(Picture: University of Alaska at Anchorage, Disability Support Services

Appeal Assistance

1. Training and Orientation for IHSS Appeal Assistance Volunteer Corps. Westside Center for Independent Living Los Angeles, IHSS appeal mechanics and our Volunteer Corps process, quality control, confidentiality, and record keeping. Call Janet (323) 294-4565 weaver1245@aol.com

2. Recorded message about appealing the cuts, in English and Spanish: 1-877-601-4477 receive additional information on what to do.

3. In San Francisco: CRIL (415) 703-0286

Help with Daily Living

1. Tuesday Lunch Group
Every Tuesday, U.C. Berkeley, Bear's Lair 12-1 pm
can be fed, no money required.
With a day's notice, Serene Vannoy will do lunch
Monday through Thursday with anyone who needs it.
Disabled Students' Program office on Upper Sproul.
(510) 643-6473
(510) 642-6376 TTY


2. Ongoing Discussion and Coordination
of Community-Based Help in the East Bay.
Send a blank email to
DisMeals_EB-subscribe@yahoogroups.com


3. Free Assisted Lunch
"a while back I had checked with St. Vincent de Paul's on San Pablo Avenue in the East Bay. If people with disabilities go there for their free lunch, they will provide a person to help feed you if that is necessary."

Service Cuts -- Will You Stand With Us?

Listen. 29 min
Original air date: Friday, Oct 16, 2:30 pm

KPFA, 94.1 fm

Critical cuts and unannounced home visits have begun for people with disabilities who rely on California’s In Home Support Services (IHSS).

Pushing Limits talks to Bobby Bogan. Executive Director of Seniors Organizing Seniors.

graphic by Soujaboy

Bogan sees both fear and courage as the State of California implements massive cuts.

On November 1st, 130 thousand people will be reduced or axed from the IHSS program. Over 450 thousand people face unannounced home visits and routine fingerprinting. Seniors, people living with AIDS and the developmentally disabled community face similar and overlapping slashes to programs they depend on.

Bobby Bogan’s San Franciso organization based in the South of Market area, Seniors Organizing Seniors, deals with the effect of these cuts first hand.

He joins Pushing Limits producers, Eddie Ytuarte, Adrienne Lauby and Nick Feldman.

Tune in to hear:

--stories of resistance,

--stories of community self-help, and

--advice about appealing individual cuts.