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Category Archives: Adrienne Lauby
Homelessness and Disability Rights
Listen 29 min 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibilty, Activism, Adrienne Lauby, Americans with Disabilities Act, analysis & commentary, Community, Housing, Mental Disability, Sheela Gunn Cushman
Tagged Homeless encampments, housing, Julie Combs, Kalia Mussetter, Living Bridges, Mental disability, Poverty, Santa Rosa City Council
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“Lab Girl” with Hope Jahren
Listen (59 min) Hope Jahren, author of the best selling memoir, Lab Girl, joins us for an hour of discussion about mental illness, plants, and the life of a woman scientist. Shelley Berman, Josh Elwood, Sheela Gunn-Cushman, Adrienne Lauby and … Continue reading
Posted in Adrienne Lauby, Mark Romoser, Mental Disability, Poetry & Prose, Portraits, Science, Sheela Gunn Cushman, Shelley Berman
Tagged Hope Jahren, Lab Girl
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Universal Minimum Income & Disability
Friday, Jan. 19, 2:30 pm PST, on KPFA radio 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Adrienne Lauby, Community, Eddie Ytuarte, Josh Elwood, Mark Romoser, Politics, Sheela Gunn Cushman, Shelley Berman, Story Telling - Disability
Tagged Elon Musk, Universal Minimum Income
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Disability: The Best and Worst of 2017
Listen (29 min.) 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Adrienne Lauby, Community, Eddie Ytuarte, Jacob Lesner-Buxton, Josh Elwood, Mark Romoser, Sheela Gunn Cushman
Tagged A.C. Transit, ADAPT, Adrienne Lauby, disability caused by war, Ecuador, Eddie Ytuarte, Electronic Visit Verification, Health Care Reform, housing crisis, Jacob Lesner-Buxton, Josh Elwood, Lenin Moreno, Mark Romoser, Sheela Gunn Cushman, tax reform
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Renters Assemble & “Telling My Story”
Listen (29 min) Tenants gathered at a Statewide Renters Assembly in Alameda over the September 23-24 weekend. Ava and Fernando Nadal were there, gearing up to lead an attack on the landlord demon law, Costa Hawkins* with ACCE Sacramento. This, … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Adrienne Lauby, Community, IHSS, Politics, Sheela Gunn Cushman, Story Telling - Disability
Tagged ACCE, Air BnB, Ava Nadal, Axis Dance, CURES Act, Fernando Nadal, IHSS, Tenants Together
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Taking a Stand: Helga Spizman & Anita Cameron
Friday, September 22, 2-3 pm PST, KPFA radio Police march down the boulevard chanting “Whose Street? Our Street,” and Oklahoma City police gun down Magdiel Sanchez, a developmentally disabled deaf man, despite neighbors who yell, “He can’t hear you.” All … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Adrienne Lauby, Arts, Community, Deaf, Developmental Disability, Disability Justice, Josh Elwood, Mark Romoser, Mental Disability, Police Violence, Politics, Protest, Race, Sheela Gunn Cushman, Shelley Berman, Story Telling - Disability
Tagged ADAPT, Anita Cameron, Cassidy-Graham, disability activists, Helga Spizman, Holocaust Survivor, Magdiel Sanchez, Musings of an Angry Black Woman, Pussy hats
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Cripping “The Glass Menagerie” – Phoebe Fico
Listen (29 min) Phoebe Fico, a disabled woman, is currently playing one of the classic disability theatrical roles, that of Laura in Tennessee Williams, “The Glass Menagerie.” The production by Cal Shakes utilizes a multi-racial cast to portray the conflicts … Continue reading
Posted in Adrienne Lauby, Mental Disability, Poetry & Prose
Tagged Cal Shakes, lobotomy, Phoebe Fico, The Glass Menagerie
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Homelessness is Local – Sonoma County, California
Listen (28 min) The Myth is that homeless people are older white men with addiction problems. The Reality is that nearly half of homeless people (in one local community – 41%) live with a disability. The Myth is that homeless … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Adrienne Lauby, Community, Housing, Politics, Protest, Story Telling - Disability
Tagged 2017 Homeless Point In Time Count, John Creager, Julie Combs, Myths of homelessness, Santa Rosa California, Sonoma County California
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Ethan Explains Type 1 Diabetes
Listen (28 min) Six year old Ethan Borochoff is interested in many things and most of them are NOT Type 1 Diabetes. Yet, like most kids with severe disabilities, he knows way more than the average bear about the disease … Continue reading
Posted in Adrienne Lauby, Individual disease and identity groups, Portraits, Sheela Gunn Cushman, Shelley Berman, Story Telling - Disability, Youth
Tagged Ethan Borochoff, Greater Bay Area Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Oakland A's, Root Beer Float Day, Sam Fuld, Type 1 Diabetes
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“Bottom Dollars” How 250K U.S. People with Disabilities Work for $2 an Hour
Listen 59 min 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 … Continue reading →