Nurses from across the country report shortages of protective personal equipment and supplies. Government agencies and employers have responded by lowering protection guidelines — which endangers everyone's health and safety.

Nurse George Poe Williams watched colleagues die as Ebola decimated the Liberian health workforce. Now, he has a message for governments around the world facing the #CoronaVirus: #SafeWorkersSaveLive. Join PSI's Campaign now at peopleoverprofi.it

Nurse George Poe Williams watched colleagues die as Ebola killed over 8% of the Liberian health workforce. Now, he has a message for governments around the world facing the #CoronaVirus: #SafeWorkersSaveLives

Cities are reacting to the costs of contracted-out public services by remunicipalizing the services. An interview with the policy officer for local and regional government issues for Public Services International, Daria Cibrario. Duration: 14'35"

People Over Profit - POP, is a global online library and campaign platform to support campaigns against privatisation. While primarily conceived as a tool to halt privatisation, it can also be used as a resource base and a campaign platform for remunicipalisation groups and alliances to bring privatised services back in-house.

Welcome to the Atlas of Utopias - a unique collection of community-led transformations to ensure access to water, energy, food and housing. As we face climate breakdown, access to basic rights like water, food, energy and housing are becoming increasingly strained. Cities and collectives around the world are experimenting with new ways to practice democracy and secure access to basic rights. An initiative by Transformative Cities, the atlas features 33 stories of transformative change from 24 countries. About the Transformative Cities initiative: https://transformativecities.org/

The American Federation of Teacher have produced a report on two major privateers: Core Civic and GEO Group. These corporations reap billions each year by jailing minority populations and exploiting the school-to-prison pipeline. Many AFT-linked pension funds have already divested from companies such as these.

At a conference about the UN's Sustainable Development Goals unions called for an end to the privatization of water services and green energy solutions. A report featuring the General Secretary of Public Services International, Rosa Pavanelli.

Public Service Association of NSW President Kylie McKelvie talks about why the privatization of disability services is “the cruelest cut of all.”

Don Marshall presents elements of his paper “Crisis Narratives, Debt and Development Adjustment: Contemplating Caribbean Small Island States Futures.” Don, Director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at University of the West Indies: Cave Hill, questions the hegemony of mainstream economic indicators shepherded by the “neoliberal calculus of austerity adjustments.” He explores the effects on the Caribbean and its economic governance of international financial institutions and credit rating agencies, in the context of global financialization. Considering the implications for the dual Caribbean crises of debt and climate change, Don illustrates the need for meaningful policy space to enable governments to implement their agendas for equitable development.

On the sidelines of the 2018 ECOSOC FFD Forum, Eric LeCompte (Jubilee USA) and Rev. Osbert James (Jubilee Caribbean) discuss international developments on debt restructuring and call for a moratorium on debt to protect developing economies from natural disasters!

CSOs as equal partners in monitoring public finance started from 2016 with the aim to improve accountability and transparency of the public finance in targeted countries and strengthen Civil Society Organisations’ (CSOs) role and voice in monitoring the institutions’ performance in that area. Key project activities are research and monitoring, advocacy, capacity building and transfer of knowledge/practices and networking in the field of the 4 specific topics: • public debt, • public-private partnerships, • tax equity and • infrastructure projects. More about the project and our work can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/BalkanMonitoringPublicFinance/