Think Out Loud

SCOTUS Ruling On Special Education | Right 2 Dream Too | Japanese Internment & Resistance

By Sage Van Wing (OPB), Dave Blanchard (OPB) and Julie Sabatier (OPB)

March 24, 2017 9:55 p.m.

A sign welcomes visitors to the Right 2 Dream, Too homeless camp in Portland, Oregon. — A sign welcomes visitors to the Right 2 Dream, Too homeless camp in Portland, Oregon.
Allison Frost / OPB

Lawyer Diane Wiscarson has devoted her career to advocating for students with disabilities. We'll get her take on what a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling means for special education law in Oregon and across the country.

The Portland homeless camp Right 2 Dream Too has a final deadline to leave their downtown location in less than two weeks. Street Roots executive director Israel Bayer and Right 2 Dream Too boardmember Sarah Carlston join us to talk about what comes next.

George Nakata was a U.S. citizen who was sent to an internment camp as a young boy during World War II. He joins us, along with Linda Tamura, professor emeritus of education at Willamette University, to share the stories of Oregonians who fought against social and legal discrimination during the war years. They will both be speaking at a Kennedy School History Pub event Monday night at 7 p.m.