[Fts-research] Update

Annie annie at aseed.net
Thu Jul 4 23:11:23 CEST 2019 

Hey Nicole!

Thanks for this, looks good! I had a quick scan through, will read it 
properly in the next few days. I can continue to work on the yellow bits 
that need filling in, especially the last section on agroecology and 
food sovereignty. My time is also extremely limited at the moment, so 
let's see what get's done!

Nice that Corporate Watch is willing to pay someone!

Will you be making it to the actual camp / action in September?

Enjoy your time in Ireland and the teaching! Sounds great :)

Cheers,
Annie
On 2019-07-04 18:54, Nicole Corporate Watch wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Sorry for the delay. I work part time so everything is always tight!
> So I didn't get as far as I'd hoped this week. I only really had today
> to work on this because some admin tasks took up more of my time.
>  Please find a draft attached. The 'yellow' bits are things to
> complete. I am going away for a week now to Ireland and then actually
> teaching a company investigation course followed by teaching a
> permaculture course!!
> 
> So my time over the next three weeks is sadly very limited :( I think
> the remaining sections are the parts that there is already the most
> existing information on, so perhaps others can start to complete these
> sections? I can also come back to them at the end of July if not too
> late.
> 
> The cool news is that Corporate Watch are happy to pay a graphic
> designer we work with to knock it into a report/zine as I won't have
> time.
> 
> I will still have internet access so will try to stay on top of my
> emails at least! Anything really urgent maybe email my personal email
> - nicole at emptycagesdesign.org
> 
> Thanks so much,
> 
> Nicole
> 
> On 27/06/2019 13:59, Elizabeth Knight wrote:
> 
>> Hey hey!
>> 
>> I love the idea of translating the lexicon, and also of sending it
>> through the free the soil list. Could be nice for us to send it
>> through
>> the FFA list as well. If no one is opposed I think it could be nice
>> to
>> publish on the ASEED webpage with a link to Free the Soil and the
>> email
>> for joining the bus from the Netherlands. Is that okay?
>> 
>> Cheers! Liz
>> 
>> On 6/26/2019 5:35 PM, flip wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Cool to get those contributions from Nicole and Belen and/or Pascoe!
>> 
>> Op 26-06-19 om 16:20 schreef Annie:
>> 
>> p.s.
>> I just uploaded loads of articles in all the different sections of
>> the
>> research folder on the FTS cloud, so maybe you can find some useful
>> information there!
>> 
>> In the FtS research folder there is as well an updated version of
>> the
>> Lexicon. Please have a look and add terms and discriptions if you
>> want.
>> 
>> The plan is to have this info available in the languages that are
>> most
>> relevant for the campaign. At the moment this seem to be English,
>> German, Dutch and Danish. So if people feel like translating bits
>> this
>> would be very helpful. If we do some outreach in those different
>> countries it is important that we use the right terms.
>> 
>> 
> https://oc-freethesoil.immerda.ch/index.php/apps/files/?dir=/FTS%20-%20research&fileid=314
>> 
>> Personally I think that it would be good to send an email about this
>> lexicon and the yara company file to the general FtS list. Those
>> documents are also meant to educate ourselves. And we don't have to
>> wait
>> until the files are completly ready, probably they will always stay
>> work
>> in progress.
>> 
>> Any objections against sending an update to the general email list?
>> 
>> greetings, Flip
>> 
>> On 2019-06-26 16:04, Annie wrote:
>> 
>> Hey!
>> 
>> Ok nice.
>> 
>> Yes there is some information on the ASEED website, some on the FTS
>> cloud in the Alternatives folder. But then also I have some stuff on
>> my computer here, maybe I can upload that onto the cloud, or I can
>> try
>> to write something and send it over in line with your subheadings.
>> Although sounds like you also have some interesting sources to tap
>> into.
>> 
>> Definitely up for giving feedback and contributions once your
>> skeleton
>> is up and running.
>> 
>> Thanks Nicole!
>> 
>> Annie
>> 
>> On 2019-06-26 15:49, Nicole Corporate Watch wrote:
>> 
>> Hey!
>> 
>> Yes I am using the research already undertaken in the company
>> profiling document :) I am happy to do a lot of the work but it
>> would
>> be great to have feedback and contributions once the 'skeleton' is
>> ready.
>> 
>> That would be great to have your existing info on alternatives! Is
>> that on the ASEED website? I also have a lot of existing agroecology
>> resources I can use for this too.
>> 
>> Thanks for the feedback about the structure, I will integrate that
>> now!
>> 
>> That's great about the lobbying stuff already being covered.
>> 
>> Big thanks,
>> 
>> Nicole
>> 
>> On 26/06/2019 13:50, Annie wrote:
>> 
>> Hey Nicole,
>> 
>> Thanks for all this, it is looking great with lots of really
>> important points to cover. Do you want to divide the work /
>> subsections up slightly between the people on this list? It looks
>> like a lot of things to be covered by you, although maybe there are
>> more people planning to work on it at Corporate Watch? Also some of
>> the information you can just take from the company file you can find
>> on the cloud as some of the points are covered in that document. And
>> also with the alternatives, we have information within ASEED that we
>> could share with you so that you don't have to do the same work
>> twice!
>> 
>> My main point about the order of the subsections is that I would
>> move the "Controversy" section to the bottom or before the
>> alternatives. Of course it is important to know what kind of
>> controversies Yara has been involved in and also shows how
>> despicable these multinational corporations can be, but I think we
>> need to have the main focus on Yara and it's affect on climate
>> change, threat to food security, greenwashing etc which you cover
>> after the point about "Controversy". It feels like the point of the
>> Free the Soil campaign is to highlight Yara in relation to its
>> impact on climate change throught the production of synthetic
>> nitrogen fertilizer and and the fact that no one knows this, so this
>> should continue to be our focus. However, I do like your idea to
>> make a map of all these controversies to show visually where Yara is
>> and where people could potentially do local decentralised actions.
>> 
>> The other thing is now we have had contact with Belen and Pascoe
>> from Corporate Europe Observatory and they will most probably write
>> something on EU lobbying so it would be good not to overlap.
>> 
>> Ok, let me know what you think to those comments. And thank you a
>> lot for the work you have done so far!
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Annie
>> 
>> On 2019-06-26 13:14, Nicole Corporate Watch wrote:
>> Hey!
>> 
>> Apologies, my research with this Gold Mining campaign has taken
>> longer
>> than expected.
>> 
>> I have started to do some Yara research. So far, mapping the
>> controversies and making a directory that can accompany the article
>> with all the locations on one page in case of decentralised actions.
>> I
>> also did some shareholder research. I need to copy what I am doing
>> on
>> crabgrass into the cloud, I keep forgetting!
>> 
>> I have attached an overview of the article I am planning to write.
>> It
>> will obviously be significantly larger than one blog post, so we are
>> 
>> hoping to format it into a pdf/report that can be downloaded also.
>> 
>> Can people take a look and give me feedback of what is missing? Is
>> it
>> what you were hoping for?
>> 
>> Massive thanks,
>> 
>> Nicole
>> 
>> On 14/06/2019 08:07, Annie wrote:
>> 
>> Hey Research team!
>> 
>> How is everyone?
>> 
>> Is anyone going to make it to the meeting this weekend? I cannot as
>> I have to work on the farm and no one can cover for me this
>> weekend!!
>> 
>> I just sent an email to the fts list with a link to the company file
>> 
>> about Yara that I uploaded onto the FTS cloud. This is a piece of
>> work from Flip, Katie, Jula and I who are based in the Netherlands.
>> It needs more work but at least I wanted to show that something has
>> been happening on the research side of things.
>> 
>> Hope it goes well this weekend and hope to see you all soon if not
>> in September!
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Annie
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