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<TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><FONT face=helvetica size=2>Food & Water Watch's <br>
Jon Keesecker tells the story of a community's heroic effort in Akron, Oho to save their public water from privatization<br>
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<div align=left><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT color=#000000>Dear Juli,</FONT></FONT></FONT></div>
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<div align=left><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2>Would you sell your public water utility to the highest bidder?</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div align=left><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2>Communities across the country are considering deals like this, and Food & Water Watch - <A href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UIYQtLWqiW7PagXbXX9jgqCtqLefCYSM" target=_blank>with your help</A> - is there to fight back.</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2><br>
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<div align=left><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><FONT face=helvetica size=2>Earlier this year, we learned the mayor of Akron, OH, in a bid to raise money for the city, cooked up a scheme to sell the public water utility for $200 million. Meanwhile, he sold to the public the notion that the proceeds would fund a scholarship to send Akron students to college for free. <br>
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<div align=left><FONT face=helvetica size=2><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">Besides the fact that the students would have to stay in Akron for decades after graduation or be forced to pay back to the fund, the scheme was a loser for Akron entirely. The sale and resulting privatization of the public water would mean higher water costs for Akron residents, job losses, worse service, less transparency, and other problems.</SPAN></FONT></div>
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<div align=left><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2>Recognizing the plight Akron was in, Food & Water Watch lent our expertise to local activists on what we call a "site fight." We provided speakers, published editorials and gave strategic advice and guidance. </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: medium"><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2><br>
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<div align=left><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2><B><FONT face=helvetica size=2>In addition, Food & Water Watch supported local efforts to place an initiative on the ballot to require that all such privatization proposals be subject to a public vote. </FONT></B></FONT></FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div align=left><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2><B><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><FONT face=helvetica size=2>But this fight in Akron is just one of many that Food & Water Watch is taking on. With your year-end, tax-deductible donation today, you can help us continue this fight against water privatization.</FONT></SPAN></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></div>
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<div align=left><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2>On election day, Akron won its battle to safeguard its water. The city acknowledges Food & Water Watch for giving its effort credibility in the community and helping to educate voters about the harms of water privatization.</FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div align=left><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2>We are engaged in "site fights" like this every day. More and more, people and communities are asking us to <B>help win their battles against water privatization.</B> A goal (among many!) in 2009 is to <B>make it easier for the public to find us </B>when they see their own "site fight" coming. We need to be able to provide staff, materials, and online assistance, and we need to get out the word about the work we do. </FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div align=left><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2>Akron needed our help and now we need yours. Please <A href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=uzH8Z9pVdsb%2Bi7ihoQ%2FtUjKsxvdGy1EA" target=_blank>make a year-end, tax-deductible donation</A> to Food & Water Watch. Juli, I hope that we can count on you to make clean water and safe food a priority for yourself, your family and your community.<br>
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<FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT face=helvetica size=2></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT>
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Jon Keesecker</FONT><FONT face=helvetica size=2><FONT color=#000000><br>
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