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Pushing Limits 2:30 PM PACIFIC TIME: 1ST, 3RD, AND 5TH FRIDAYS A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public. Pushing Limits advances the voices of people who live with disabilities. It is produced by a collective of media makers and activists who themselves live with disability.

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07.08.16 – 2:30PM

Pushing Limits – July 8, 2016

PUSHING LIMITS

A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public.

UPCOMING EPISODE

05.06.16 – 2:30PM

Parinda Wanitwat: Living with Food Addiction

PUSHING LIMITS

Parinda Wanitwat

We all know what someone who lives with an eating disorder looks like:  Young, white and skinny!  Right?  But. . . hold on just a minute. In actuality, research says that black girls between 11-14 may have a higher rate of eating disorder behavior than their white counterparts, especially when it comes to binge eating. … Continued


02.05.16 – 2:30PM

State Standards Smack Down

PUSHING LIMITS

Advocate Delores Tejada.

Sometimes, we take accessible buildings for granted; but they aren’t always accessible for people living with disabilities and our rights aren’t always granted.  Every now and then we have to make some noise, show up and be counted, prepare for a smack down… So it was at the California Building Standards Commission last week.  Couldn’t …Continued


01.29.16 – 2:30PM

Madelaine Kelly: Living with Attention Deficit Hyper Activity

PUSHING LIMITS

Madelaine Kelly.  "I put on the cat ears and then forget I have them on but other people look at me and smile.  So, I am surrounded by smiles all day long."

Labeled a difficult child and unable to connect with other human beings, Madelaine Kelly made a cry-for-help suicide attempt before she was twelve.  Today she has a loving family, a successful business and a globe-trotting life style.    Shelley Berman and Adrienne Lauby talk with Madelaine Kelly. Here’s a preview: I started to run when … Continued

Player | KPFA Women Singers with Disabilities – Pushing Limits Eddie Ytuarte

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Who is Mary Lambert and what does she have in common with Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon,
Rosemary Clooney, Karen Carpenter, and Renata Tabaldi?
Well, these are examples of popular women singers and or composers
who experienced major disabilities in their lives; disabilities which posed barriers
to their art, or spurred or directed their musical careers–or even led to a premature death.
Pushing Limits, the creative voice of disability radio, again will sample some
of the musicians with disabilities who have shared
in contributing to our  broad and varied cultural landscape.
Friday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. on Friday afternoon.  KPFA is heard at
94.1 of the fm band.  Past shows are archived at www.kpfa.org.

Al Aqsa..pray,eat and love

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Al Aqsa…pray, eat and love!

Amid the contradiction that we live in, is the rising issue of what is happening in and to al Aqsa in Ramadan.

I love Jerusalem in Ramadan. It gives a flavor to the city that is denounced all year long. I can continue my fascination of the city during this month forever. It brings out the charm and the real mystifying essence of the city. However, there are things that one cannot simply ignore.

I have to say that I am just getting sicker and sicker each day of “us”. It is no longer the occupation only, or the PA only. It is no way a universal conspiracy against us. There is something wrong in us.

Last week when the masses of people decided to use the EGED transport services that was provided for free to the dwellers of the West Bank to the Jerusalem…

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Syria is the World

Hummus For Thought

The following was initially published on Raseef22. The Arabic translation is out under the title “يحتاج اليسار إلى إعادة التفكير عميقاً، ليس بسوريا فحسب، بل بنفسه أيضاً” and the original (below) will come out next week.


“But then came Syria, and my hypocrisy and the fragility of those ideals became exposed,” wrote Palestinian activist Budour Hassan in her latest brilliant piece entitled “how the Syrian Revolution has transformed me”. For those familiar with the situation in Syria, and in particular with the Left’s reaction to the uprising, Hassan’s open apology is a truly powerful one. The Syrian revolution exposed a lot of inconvenient facts about much of the Western and Arab Left.

There is a lot to unpack here and a single article would not do it justice. Here, I wish to address a certain aspect of the Syrian crisis, namely what ‘we’ can do to address it…

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Strengthened by Sorrow #poetry #art

stand

penned in moon dust

sulk

sadness reign

she clung to covers

tear soaked rain

daily same

dark clouds pushed all hope away

sun always went down

*

long for love

little girls have fears

never clear

thunder claps

no where to hide from sorrow

storm so near

*

unbroken

words never spoken

standing tall

don’t look back

bright is tomorrow’s token

hope is queen

Today’s prompt at Poet’s United – “Resilience”

Photo: “The Sulker” Jacques Villon 1900

Painting from Paul Mellon collection – National Gallery

Jacques Villon  aka Gaston Émile Duchamp (born July 31, 1875 died June 9, 1963) was a French painter and printmaker who was involved in the Cubist movement; later he worked in realistic and abstract styles.

Villon was the brother of artists Suzanne Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, and Marcel Duchamp. In 1894 he went to Paris to study law, but, once there, he became more interested in art, and he…

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Midsummer Vigil

Bealtaine Cottage, Ireland

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The wall is silence, the grass is sleep,
Tall trees of peace their vigil keep,
And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled
Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.
~Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

DSC00869And as the seasons come and go, here’s something you might like to know.

There are fairies everywhere: under bushes, in the air, playing games just like you play, singing through their busy day.

So listen, touch, and look around — in the air and on the ground.

And if you watch all nature’s things, you might just see a fairy’s wing.

~Author Unknown 

I often walk the gardens in the early morning, taking my tea or coffee with me…and always my camera.

DSC00874It is often in the early morn or at dusk that I find myself in a strange little corner of the gardens, which stretch to three acres and I attempt to capture…

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Egyptian Aak 2016-Week 24 ( June 13-19)

Can Egypt ride this fine line between fundamentalist suppression and a non-sectarian state for long? Don’t know but Nervana keeps us informed.

Nervana

Top Headlines

  • An Egyptian court sentenced ousted Islamist president Morsi to life in prison in an espionage trial
  • Egypt has recovered both black boxes from the crashed Egypt air jet
  • Prosecution appeals release order for Egyptian rights campaigner Mina Thabet
  • Giulio Regeni’s parents ask European Parliament to take severe measures against Egypt
  • Egypt’s central bank raises interest rates to the highest level in at least a decade

 

Main Headlines

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Birth Control via App Finds Footing Under Political Radar – The New York Times

The development has potential to be more than just a convenience for women already on birth control. Public health experts hope it will encourage more to start, or restart, using contraception and help reduce the country’s stubbornly high rate of unintended pregnancies, as well as the rate of abortions. And as apps and websites, rather than legislative proposals or taxpayer-funded programs, the new services have so far sprung up beneath the political radar and grown through word of mouth, with little of the furor that has come to be expected in issues involving reproductive health. At least six digital ventures, by private companies and nonprofits, including Planned Parenthood, now provide prescriptions written by clinicians after women answer questions about their health online or by video. All prescribe birth control pills, and some prescribe patches, rings and morning-after pills. Some ship contraceptives directly to women’s doors. Some accept insurance, including Medicaid for women with low incomes; some charge modest fees. Some send prescriptions to local pharmacies, where women can present their insurance information when picking up the contraceptives.

Source: Birth Control via App Finds Footing Under Political Radar – The New York Times

Photo: Red-Tailed Hawk Likes Chilling On This Brooklyn Balcony: Gothamist

As for our Brooklyn resident and his new friend, Suárez marveled, “I don’t know if it’s a sign of something, was some sort of a moment of divine intervention, or just some random-ass Brooklyn occurrence; but I’m a changed man. Love nature still owning it in NYC!”

Source: Photo: Red-Tailed Hawk Likes Chilling On This Brooklyn Balcony: Gothamist

The Palestinian leadership. A continuous embarrassment

It may be little to help marginalized people feel better about themselves despite bad leadership but years and years of poor leadership is a common experience among peoples who are under control of an external or dictatorial power. That kind of power breeds corruption and bribery, as well leadership and methods that mirrors and occupying power.

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Each time one thinks, things cannot get worse. It only gets worse. This cannot be a coincidence. It cannot be a simple act of fate. It cannot just be mere bad luck. There is a problem in our reality. Our reality as a people that insists on producing such leadership.

I have to admit once again ,that my state of disappointment is a state of embarrassment as well. A state of confusion and trying to redefine our own state of reality.

I grew up believing that freedom is what I need to make me alive. That living under occupation can never entitle a life with freedom. Without freedom the core of life will always be missing. I strongly believe in the just cause of Palestine. It is almost impossible for anyone who is not Palestinian to understand the meaning of this essence of missing life. Unless one experiences real oppression…

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