The Break the Chains Conference will be held at the University of Oregon (Eugene, OR) from August 8 - 10. Conference organizers have now created two web boards to facilitate information-sharing around housing and transportation issues.

Please use these boards if:

• You would like a place to stay in Eugene while attending the conference.

• You live in Eugene and have space in your house to offer to conference attendees.

• You need a ride to Eugene, or have space in your vehicle for others traveling to this event.

Break the Chains Housing Message Board

Exchange information about housing needs and available housing for the conference:

http://pub152.ezboard.com/fbtcrideboardfrm8

Break the Chains Ride Share Message Board

Exchange information about transportation to and from the conference:

http://pub152.ezboard.com/fbtcrideboardfrm7

Info about cheap accommodations in the Eugene area will be available in our conference program and will also soon be available on the conference website (see below for website address).

Conference Vision:

“We are organizing this conference to educate people about the bleak reality of the prison crisis, to mobilize people from the anti-repression, prisoner-support, anti-authoritarian, and anti-capitalist movements, to humbly host like-minded activists from other regions in what we hope is to be an extremely powerful and productive convergence, to learn from survivors of the prison system and gain from them invaluable lessons about the nature of the beast we are up against, and to begin the difficult task of developing a cohesive, organized, diverse, and effective movement against state repression and the politics of mass imprisonment. As the ruling elite intensifies its repression more and more broadly, such a movement becomes necessary now more than ever before.”

For more information about the conference, including our full mission statement and a list of speakers / participants, see:

http://www.breakthechains.net/btcconference/index.html