UO Survival Center

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Welcome to the U of O Environmental
& Social Justice Resource Center

About the Survival Center

Founded in the early 1970s after the Kent State shootings, the Survival Center is an umbrella organization geared towards the education of the campus community around issues of social justice and environmentalism.

It is an organization open to the concerns of students and works to empower its members to help their voices be heard.  The Survival Center space itself is designed to put valuable resource material at the fingertips, and foster a welcoming feeling for all those interested in the program.

"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies uponthe gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus,and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."
-Mario Savio of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement in 1964, talking about the corporate university
The Survival Center is located at:
University of Oregon
Suite 1, Erb Memorial Union
Eugene, OR 97403
tel: (541)-346-4356
survival@uoregon.edu