<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Dear All</div><div><br></div><div>Forwarding the announcement of an event launching the global de-privatisation database which is happening today (26th February) at 2 PM UTC. Request you to please share it within your country circles and networks. </div><div><br></div><div>A number of PHM country circles have been trying to undertake similar mapping and contribute to the database. One of the latest additions in the database <a href="https://publicfutures.org/#/case/1488" target="_blank">has been contributed by JSA Chhattisgarh</a>. The details for accessing the full database are in the email below. I'm sure many of our comrades would find it useful and interesting. </div><div><br></div><div>We hope to continue to collaborate with TNI and others in documenting more such cases of deprivatisation and remunicipalisation.</div><div><br></div><div></div><div>with regards</div><div><br></div><div>Sulakshana</div><div><br>
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    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Dear friends,</span></p>
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    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">I am pleased
        to share with you about the online event to launch the global
        de-privatisation database on Friday 26th. It is co-hosted by
        the University of Glasgow, TNI and PSI. </span></p>
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    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">MAPPING
        REMUNICIPALISATION: GLOBAL REPORT AND DATABASE LAUNCH </span></p>
    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">register from
        here: </span><a href="https://www.tni.org/en/webinar/remunicipalisation-global-report-and-database-launch" style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;color:rgb(74,110,224)" target="_blank"><u style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">https://www.tni.org/en/webinar/remunicipalisation-global-report-and-database-launch</span></u></a></p>
    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Friday 26th
        February,  at 3PM (Brussels, Madrid CET time) <br>
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    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">With</span></p>
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      <li style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;list-style-type:disc"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">John McDonnell (Labour MP and
          former UK Shadow Chancellor)</span></li>
      <li style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;list-style-type:disc"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Daria Cibrario (Public Services
          International)</span></li>
      <li style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;list-style-type:disc"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Andrew Cumbers (author of
          Reclaiming Public Ownership: Making Space for Economic
          Democracy and University of Glasgow researcher)</span></li>
      <li style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;list-style-type:disc"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Laura Stegemann (University of
          Glasgow)</span></li>
      <li style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;list-style-type:disc"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Chaired by Bethia Pearson and
          Franziska Paul (Research Associate, ERC Global
          Remunicipalisation project)</span></li>
    </ul>
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    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">The global
        database of de-privatisation is growing. We count 1456 cases
        today. </span><a style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;color:#4a6ee0" href="https://publicfutures.org" target="_blank"><u style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">https://publicfutures.org</span></u></a></p>
    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">If you want to
        see newly added cases, you can sort 'Most recently added cases
        first'. I enclose some of the new cases at the end for your
        inspiration. For instance, The city of Merona Buenos Aires
        province remunicipalised waste collection, tax collection and
        parking, and has created two ‘Agroecological Agrarian Parks’
        under new female Mayor Mariel Fernández's leadership. The 2nd
        big wave of water remunicipalisation is happening largely as a
        result of green and social alliances victories in the last local
        election. </span></p>
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    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Anyone can
        contribute to add new cases from your city and region. If you
        don't have time to write a case, inform us (by e-mail or via
        website) so that we can look into it. Your information is key
        for global collective knowledge building! </span></p>
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    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent">Taking this
        opportunity, let me add a few more updates. </span><br></p>
    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">The Portuguese
        edition of the full book was made and a </span><a style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;color:#4a6ee0" href="https://www.tni.org/en/node/25439" target="_blank"><u style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">pdf file</span></u></a><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> is available now. The Korean
        edition of the full book will follow (Wol-San/KPTU’s
        initiative). </span></p>
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    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">The Future is
        public executive summary report was translated into </span><a style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;color:#4a6ee0" href="https://www.tni.org/en/futureispublic?content_language=ja" target="_blank"><u style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Japanese</span></u></a><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">, </span><a style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;color:#4a6ee0" href="https://www.tni.org/en/futureispublic?content_language=nl" target="_blank"><u style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Dutch</span></u></a><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> (FNV, De 99 Amsterdam initiative),
        to add to ES, FR and Arabic. Turkish (FNV initiative), Catalan
        (Mirimam/ISF), Armenian (EPSU initiative) are upcoming. Thank
        you so much, friends. </span></p>
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    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Warm
        greetings, </span></p>
    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Satoko
        Kishimoto, TNI</span></p>
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    </p>
    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br>
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    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Some of the
        new cases for your inspiration...</span></p>
    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Water, Lyon,
        France </span><a style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;color:#4a6ee0"><u style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">https://publicfutures.org/#/case/1482/</span></u></a></p>
    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">In December
        2020, the metropolitan council of Lyon voted to reclaim public
        ownership of the water management for the greater Lyon area.
        With this decision, the council aims to establish public
        management of water as a common good, ensuring more protection
        of the already scarce resource. </span></p>
    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br>
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    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Water,
        Bordeaux, France </span><a style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;color:#4a6ee0" href="https://publicfutures.org/#/case/1486/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;color:#4a6ee0">https://publicfutures.org/#/case/1486/</span></a></p>
    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">On December
        18th, 2020, the metropolitan council of Bordeaux voted to
        reclaim public ownership of the supply of drinking water in the
        metropole. The take-over will take place on January 1st in 2023,
        when the contract of the private company Suez, which currently
        manages the drinking water supply under a public service
        delegation, expires.</span></p>
    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br>
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    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Hospital in
        Chhattisgarh, India. </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://publicfutures.org/#/case/1488" target="_blank">https://publicfutures.org/#/case/1488</a></span></p>
    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">In 2017, the
        government of Chhattisgarh decided not to renew its contract
        with the private hospital operator Fortis to return the
        management of the Advanced Cardiac Institute in Raipur to public
        hands. </span></p>
    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br>
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    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Public
        lighting services, Villavicencio, Colombia. </span><a style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;color:#4a6ee0"><u style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">https://publicfutures.org/#/case/1516/</span></u></a></p>
    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">In February
        2021, the mayor of Villavicencio officially presented the new
        publicly-owned technology and service company Alborada, which
        takes over the public lighting services in the city after 22
        years of private operations. </span></p>
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    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Food
        production/agriculture in Moreno, Buenos Aires Province,
        Argentina. <a href="https://publicfutures.org/#/case/1510/" target="_blank">https://publicfutures.org/#/case/1510/</a></span></p>
    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">On September
        10, 2020, an Ordinance sent by Fernández was passed by the local
        Council, which established the creation of ‘Agroecological
        Agrarian Parks’ (Parques Agrarios Agroecológicos). </span></p>
    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br>
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    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Federal
        prison, Winton, North Carolina (NC), USA </span><a style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;color:#4a6ee0"><u style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">https://publicfutures.org/#/case/1511/</span></u></a></p>
    <p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">On March 31st,
        2021, the Rivers Correctional Institution (RCI) in North
        Carolina will close its doors as the contract between private
        prison operator GEO and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is
        set to expire.</span></p>
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