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August 20, 2009

PARTICIPATE IN THE
HEALTH CARE DEBATE

The Actors Fund just launched Artists United for Health Care www.artistsunitedforhealthcare.org, a national artists’ health care reform website, in partnership with LINC and the Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI).

At Artists United for Health Care self-employed artists and individuals interested in the national debate around health care can:

• Link to current news about the rapidly developing health care reform debate.
• Identify existing local and national grass-roots organizations working for change.
• Send letters to Congress and Senate representatives, and to editors of the press.
• Find contacts for organizing and attending events and seminars.
  

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ARE YOU AN ARTIST?
HAVE YOU TAKEN THE
ARTISTS AND THE RECESSION SURVEY?

LINC wants to make sure the conditions artists are facing in the current economic climate are being heard and addressed. You can help by taking the survey yourself and making sure every artist you know does the same. Click here to take this brief survey.

Reaching as many artists as possible improves the quality of this important research, and better equips everyone who advocates for artists and the arts. Use our simple widget to post a linked image promoting the survey on your website, newsletters, and blogs. Click here to access the widget for your web page.

LINC developed this survey with Helicon Collaborative as a way for artists to share their current experience. Having hard data will alllow all of us who believe that arts and culture are important achieve the changes in policy, funding, and information dissemination necessary to improve the working lives of artists nationwide.