Tag Archives: Eddie Ytuarte

Reproductive Rights & Disability, Part 2

Posted on November 18, 2022 by Adrienne

Pushing Limits – November 18, 2022, PST 2:30 pm  at KPFA Emily DiMatteo Are there things about the connection between reproductive rights and the disability community that the reproductive rights movement has not yet latched on to? We interview Emily … Continue reading →

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Vote For Your Life

Posted on October 21, 2022 by Adrienne

Listen:  October 21, 2:30-3 pm PDT,  KPFA Nick Feldman arrested in a 2009 protest with a sign “Feel the Power of the Disability Vote.”. Photo by Steve Rhodes, courtesy of Disability Rights California and UDWA Weather’s getting colder.  November’s drawing … Continue reading →

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Ted Jackson – E.D. of Berkeley Independent Living Center

Posted on June 17, 2022 by Adrienne

Listen (29 min) Ted Jackson Disability Activists in Berkeley made history in 1972 when they opened the first Independent Living Center in the country.  All U.S. states and territories now have multiple Independent Living Centers. Numerous people have served as … Continue reading →

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Micah Peace – White Disabled Activists Combat Racism

Posted on April 8, 2022 by Adrienne

April 8, 2:30-3 pm PDT on KPFA radio White disabled activists combating racism against the non-white disabled community is the topic of this edition of Pushing Limits radio program.  Producer/host Eddie Ytuarte will interview Micah Peace, a co-coordinator of Disability … Continue reading →

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Beyond Disability Etiquette w/ Laura Millar & Bobbi Pompey

Posted on April 23, 2021 by Adrienne

Able-bodied people tend to freeze up when someone with an unfamiliar disability shows up in their environment.  They suddenly turn away, speak foolishly, or bumble too aggressively in our direction.  The result is awkward – and sometime dangerous. Questions arise:  … Continue reading →

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Call In ~ Call Out

Posted on January 16, 2021 by Adrienne

Listen (29 min) Today we integrate some of the events of our nation into our disability routines.  We’re nine days from an attempted coup at the Capital Building in D.C. as the pandemic rages and vaccine hope arises.  Three callers … Continue reading →

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KARAYZY Past~Hopeful Future 2020-2021

Posted on January 1, 2021 by Adrienne

Friday, January 1, 2021, 2:30 pm PST on KPFA Radio KARAYZY Past~Hopeful Future~Disability in 2020~DEEP breath~Before the PLUNGE~Disability in 2021~Pushing Limits~Not quite business as usual We are honored and thankful to spend part of New Years Day with YOU! Go … Continue reading →

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Disability in Nazi Germany

Posted on December 4, 2020 by Adrienne

Friday, Dec.4, 2020, 2:30 pm PST on KPFA radio Disability writer and teacher Kenny Fries discusses the plight of German people with disabilities during the Nazi era.  At least 200,000 people with a wide range of disabilities were murdered in … Continue reading →

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No Pandemic Evictions

Posted on September 25, 2020 by Adrienne

What are the rules tenants need to know during this pandemic? What are tenants doing around the county to organize and save their housing? Learn the answers on this program. Continue reading →

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Free Gerald Reed, Free Them All

Posted on August 14, 2020 by Adrienne

Friday, Aug. 14, 2:30 pm PST KPFA radio The pandemic is spreading quickly among people in prisons and other locked institutions. That means many people with disabilities are massed together directly in the path of Covid-19. Armanda Shackleford and Sarah … Continue reading →

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