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November 30, 2010
Laura Hershey

November 19, 2010
What the Heck is Going On at KPFA? Three members of the Pushing Limits collective give their answers. Also, Mary Radcliff of the SF BayView speaks on Women's Magazine.

November 19
Rants, Stories and Lies #3 Includes Bruce Allison, Randall Wright, Hurley Merical, & Starvel Junious.

November 12, 2010
Biking While Blind Interview with Bobby McMullen, a high energy mountain bike competitor who is blind.

October 29, 2010
Beyond the Individualized Educational Program. Cynthia Molina and Christine Zimmerman, advocate moms talk about what it really takes to educate children with disabilities.

October 15, 2010
Breaking the Ice People with Developmental Disabilities. Josh Elwood, radio guy, Gregory Jordan, dancer, and more.

September 17, 2010
Community Voices Candidates for governor on disability issues. People in substance abuse programs protest the CA budget. Is your driving dangerous to people with disabilities? Why PG&E's Smart Meters are a disability issue.

September 3, 2010
Turning the Ship of State. Sunora Taylor and Mary Lou Breslin discuss policy and protest in the Disability Rights movement in light of the California budget morass.

August 20, 2010
Musicians with a Disability A sampling of musicians who found success as they lived with significant disabilities. From pop star Michael Bolton with profound deafness in one ear to the one-arm drummer withthe hard rock band, Def Leppard...

August 6, 2010
20 Years of the ADA Marilyn Golden, policy analyst for Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREADF), discusses the merits and history of the American's with Disabilities Act.

July 16, 1020
MorningStar Vancil & the Year of Honoring Lesbians with Disabilities Vancil is a butch activist dyke who lives with multiple disabilities. She is of Phillipino and indigenous heritage. The interview is from the Fabled Asp collection.

July 2, 1020
At the Arnieville Tent City people with disabilities and seniors engage in a living protest against proposed cuts in California's human services. With Marg Hall, Jana Overbo and Scott Graves.

June 4, 1020
When Home Is (or could be) an Institution
Director Elissa Moon of the film, Far From Home, about S.F.'s Laguna Honda public nursing home and interviews from ArnieVille, Berkeley's Tent City protest of the Governor's proposed budget cuts.

May 7, 1020
The Battle for ASL - AB 2072
The Deafhood Forum was nothing if not stimulating. Challenge your ear-to-mind connection. With Butch Zein, Tanja Bierschneider, Philip Smith, Jim Brune, Rory Ostrink, Conrad Baer, David Eberwein and others. Transcript

April 9, 1020
Among Ourselves
Geri's Job Interview, from the original play, Blind Man's Bluff.

Stephanie Sugars talks about an on-line community of 200-350 people who live with a rare genetic disease, Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome

April 16, 1020
Blind Man's Bluff
An original play based on excerpts from the memoir of the same name by Geri Taekens. Starring Kris Yates and Mary Ann (Tidwell) Broussard. Produced by the Pushing Limits Collective

April 2, 1020
Intersexuality
Hida Viloria and Curtis Hinkle from Organisation Intersex International talk about Olympic runner, Caster Semenya, and bring some light to this little known, but often talked about, human variation.

March 12, 1020
Play Ball!
One-handed big league pitcher Jim Abbott (1989-1999) and Oakland A's players & managers from the Oakland A's 2010 spring training camp join us to talk disability and baseball.

February 5, 1020
Haiti's Disaster & Oakland's Disaster Plan
We talk to Portlight Strategies, a grassroots group providing supplies and support for disabled Haitians and Karla Gilbride from DRA whose settlement with the City of Oakland brings people with disabilities firmly into Oakland's planning for disasters.

January 29, 1020
For Better or Worse:
The National Health Care Bill
Will people with disabilities, seniors and low-income
folks benefit if the health care bill is passed? We talk to Bob Kafka, national organizer with ADAPT. And, an essay by Shelley Berman.

January 15, 2010
Sticks and Stones
Marsha Saxton, the editor of a new book, Sticks and Stones, talks about abuse and violence within the disability community.

January 1, 2010
It's The Attitude
A humorous discussion with Carolyn Epple, who lives with bladder cancer and a neurological condition.

December 18, 2009
The Reckoned
and the Reckoning
A look back at 2009, plus explosive interview with George Louie, plaintiff in Contra Costa pedestrian access lawsuit.

December 4, 2009
Dancing with Disability
Radical inclusion, a diesel truck & the complex history of the word cripple. Poets and performance artists Neil Marcus, Amber DiPietra & Petra Kuppers with music by Mandy Dillard. Produced by Adrienne Lauby.

November 20, 2009
Get In The Game
Athletics, world class professionals, recreation and kids with sports commentator Gary Gray and Doug Pringle, President of the far west chapter of Disabled Sports USA. Hosted by Leah Gardner & Eddie Ytuarte.

November 6, 2009
Disability Rights California
Catherine Blakemore, Executive Director of one of the best funded disability non-profits focused on California issues, Disability Rights California (DRC), talks about legislative cuts and the disability movement. Hosted by Eddie Ytuarte and Leah Gardner.

October 29, 2009
Sins Invalid
Patricia Berne and Nomy Lamm talk about a groundbreaking theatrical organization which focuses on sex and disability, Sins Invalid. Leah Gardner hosts.

October 16, 2009
Service Cuts -
Will You Stand With Us?
Bobby Bogan, Executive Director of Seniors Organizing Seniors, talks about fear and courage in the face of major California budget cuts to health and disability services. With reports of resistance, advice about appeals and descriptions of self-help efforts.

September 4, 2009
Wildfires, Earthquakes, and Hurricanes, oh my...
Are people with disabilities ready for a disaster? We talk to Ana-Marie Jones and Tracy Baker of CARD about how to prepare -- and Karla Gilbride about a couple of cities who are not ready.

August 21, 2009
Settling for Defeat?
Has a private attorney (with the cooperation of just three people with disabilities) gone too far in concocting an unusual class action settlement agreement affecting fourteen cities in Contra Costa?
See also: Sept 23 update

August 7, 2009
Smoke and Vaporizers --
Medical Marijuana and Disability
The fascinating intersection between disability and medical marijuana.

July 31, 2009
After the Devastation
Evan LeVang and John B. Kelly talk about what California's people with disabilities can do to stop the slide toward death and nursing homes. Now that the 2009 California budget has passed. . .

July 3, 2009
Inter-Dependence Day
As the nation heads into the fourth of July weekend, Pushing Limits interviews people pushing for independence for people with disabilities. Blane Beckwith, local representative of ADAPT, is in the studio. Patricia Waters and Concetta DeLuca tell personal stories of passionate lives in these difficult times.

June 19, 2009
Vision Loss Resource Center
Jessie Lorenz and Amber DiPrieta from the San Francisco Lighthouse for the Blind discuss the coalition building in the face of state budget cuts, accessibility to the internet, and their new call-in advice service.

June 5, 2009
Krip Hop Meets Homo Hop
When organizer Leroy F. Moore, Jr. announced the first-ever joint conference of disabled and queer hip hop musicians
last April at UC Berkeley, he got some knee jerk reactions...
(Excerpts from a panel discussion with Juba Kalamka, Tru Bloo, B-Sick, Miss Money, & Great Scott)

May 29, 2009
People with Developmental Disabilities on Sex and Relationship
Interview with Mark Bazza and Angela Agostino, educators in sex and relationship issues. Fred Waitt and Barbara Moise discuss their marriage. Matthew Rosati refuses to share a picture of his girlfriend. And, the day Bruce Amen married himself.

May 1, 2009
Legal Settlement & Musicians with Disabilities
Will Leiner, atty, Disability Rights Calif. Legal settlement for people with disabilities who live in state institutions. Music from musicians who live with disabilities.

April 17, 2009
Megan Kirshbaum of “Through the Looking Glass”
Interview with Megan Kirshbaum, founder and executive director of a unique program serving families with disabilities.

April 3, 2009
Adapting To It: Repetitive Stress Injury and Other Painful Life Occurrences.
People who live with RSI, Andrea Hill, Gary Karp and Margherita Gudenzi join us

March 20, 2009
(no archive available)
Dangerous Impact: Hybrid Cars and "Chautauqua."
Son Kim, a blind man struck by a hybrid car with his partner Mary Beltron. Frank Welte, of California Council of the Blind.
And, Mab Maher's story “Chautauqua.”

March 6, 2009
“Let the Bosses Take the Losses”
The rubble of the California budget.
Guest, Marty Omoto.
A report from of one of the many budget demonstrations,

February 20, 2009
Creating a Life with Parkinsons: Interview with Robert DeVee
Interview with Robert DeVee, a painter who lives with Parkinson’s disease. Plus an audio essay about a grandfather with Parkinson’s.

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