Learn about fD Distress Services Each year, hundreds of activists are violently assaulted for pursuing their ideas of social change: as community leaders they lose their jobs, face arbitrary imprisonment, and are sometimes killed for speaking truth to power. Through its international network of art spaces, human rights organizations, and concerned individuals, fD seeks to find solutions for activists and culture workers--artists, journalists, writers, musicians--in situations of distress. Click here to read more: http://bit.ly/6HPM5X

fD partners Santa Fe Art Institute and Casa das Caldeiras to bring a community organizing, street art duo from Sao Paulo to work with youth in Santa Fe Jonatas Rodrigues dos Santos and Everaldo da Silva Costa spent six weeks with Hopewell community members to create a funky new look for El Centro Comunitario, a community center on the corner of Hopewell and Espinacitas streets. Jonatas and Everaldo have been in Santa Fe for six weeks, working in the community as part of the Santa Fe Art Institute's Education and Outreach Programs and through the freeDimensional Artist-in-Community Program. http://bit.ly/5HwTTb

Intern with fD! Announcing two spring internships with fD: Social Networking & Technology, and Distress Services. For the summer we're also seeking a Development and Events Intern. Get academic credit, work online from anywhere, and set your own schedule. For more information on these opportunities and how to apply, click here: http://bit.ly/75FQVu

NEW: Share your work with an international audience Our newsletter goes out to over 6000 subscribers every month, and our new fD Member Spotlight will highlight photo albums, blog posts, groups, and other member contributions on our website. Click here to tell us about something you've posted that should get seen, and we'll consider it for future fD Member Spotlights! http://bit.ly/5OktXF

fD partners with IETM to spotlight case of censored actor in Malaysia http://bit.ly/5C4z12

New Tactics in Human Rights posts summaries of 2009 online dialogues including fD's Art Spaces Hosting Activism http://bit.ly/7KJI6j

fD staff member conducts research in Uganda with EASSI art space, Maisha Film Lab http://bit.ly/87B9wJ

fD friend, Issa Nyaphaga, promotes his new organization working for social change in Cameroon http://bit.ly/6D1zAf

Damascus art space, AllArtNow seeks entries for 2nd New Media Art Festival http://bit.ly/4Apoe6

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