[Fts-research] Update

Nicole Corporate Watch nicole at corporatewatch.org
Tue Jul 30 16:19:01 CEST 2019 

Hey,

Awesome thanks so much! I am just back to work today after teaching two
courses(!). I am hoping to work on the Yara piece all day tomorrow and
will integrate what you have written there.

Massive thanks,

Nicole



On 09/07/2019 16:17, Annie wrote:
> Hey Nicole and everyone on this list,
>
> I wrote something for the agroecology and food sovereignty section.
> Feel free to send it back with corrections or if you feel something is
> missing...
>
> Cheers,
> Annie
>
> On 2019-07-04 23:11, Annie wrote:
>> 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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