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UNION! UNION! WE NOW HAVE A UNION, THE HOME SEWERS AND NEEDLE WORKERS UNION HSNWU
Sun, January 25, 2009 - 1:58 PM
I have now formed a UNION,
already have ten members and it IS GROWING,
the HOME SEWERS & NEEDLE WORKERS UNION -- HSNWU
webpage: homesewersneedleworkersunion-hsnwu.blogspot.com
When the Needle Is More Powerful than the Pen and Sword though Sometimes You Need Both!
HOME SEWERS & NEEDLE WORKERS UNION HSNWU Because we aren't '"only'" sewers and needle workers, or small independent businesses or mommies making money at hobbies, WE ARE WORKERS! WORKING IN SOLIDARITY WITH HOME SEWERS AND NEEDLE WORKERS, INDIVIDUALS AND SEWING/NEEDLE COOPS, BOTH HERE IN AMERICA AND INTERNATIONAL FOR OUR RIGHTS AS WORKERS! TAKING OUR PRODUCTION BACK FROM THE HANDS OF CORPORATIONS AND KEEPING IT THAT WAY!
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The Orphans Work Bill [which may be law, still looking into] also is a corporate-Corporatist type of Russification measure to strip artists and other workers of any ownership of their intellectual property, forcing them to register any design, picture, poem, sewing pattern, etc., to Several Corporations that will list on their databases [far more expensive and red tape than the use to be copyright laws] that literally strips away any ownership/rights to anything you make, write, etc.,
and makes it hard to prosecute big corporations or those with more power to take what you, the little guy has made and they can therefore sell, manufacture your ideas in a sweatshop/slave camps and there is little if anything you can do,
unless you have Bank and i do mean Bank. Just another attack to turn us all into mass slaves for the rich, powerful and despotic.
These laws especially impact low income women here at home and worldwide and men too who the only means they have of income is making small things and selling them, maybe due to disabilities or due to being caretakers, etc. Also to build empowerment,
in many societies where illiteracy is forced for theocratic reasons, women are left with absolutely no power to support themselves and are ripe for
sexual exploitation, corporate exploitation, political exploitation [children too], militarization, you name it, if they can't earn their bread they are forced to lie down like dogs for whoever feeds them,
therefore to combat this many women worldwide in the poorest regions formed their own sewing /needlework coops to Combat the forces out there that take advantage of their status. Laws like the CPSIA not only strip them from selling/forming coops with us,
they send a very powerful message, from husband to submission/slave status to the STATE.
or to the CORPORATION,
we, women sewers and needle workers in America are not going to quietly stand by and be silenced NOR will be just be passive and just accept being forced into homelessness with our children OR be forced to work in sweatshops or worse,
we are Fighting back. Not just because many of us yes, are poor and low income [some even homeless, the homeless women's sewing coops],
but because WE ARE WORKERS.
If you know of any women who are going to lose what source of income they have due to this law and others, let them know that there is NOW a Union that is By small home sewers, needle workers including coops,
and For us.
We are a Union that Fights for Women Centered Economy that Empowers Women, not Subjugates them too. We are not a a political or theocratic-political Vanguard manipulating and steering us only to throw us back to the shit pile as they Always do [history shows time and time again, why they allow women's commissions only to exile/purge and kill them off later or forcing them into brothels or as baby machines for expansionism, etc., with their continued devaluing women's UNPAID LABOR and their perpetuating of male entitlement to our bodies,
our labor, our services.
Now we have an Independent voice for women who work AND who are devalued because of that work. Those days Sisters,
are going to change...our voices WILL BE HEARD. And We Will be a Force to be reckoned with.
Solidarity,
Modotti
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Re: new UNION formed, the Home Sewers & Needle Worker's Union, HSNWU
Sun, January 25, 2009 - 2:12 PMIn case you are not aware, this UNION was formed also in fighting the CPSIA bill which is literally going to FORCE thousands of women workers,
many who have no choice BUT to work in the home [and no they are NOT all white, rich, middle class and privileged] because they have children with Special needs who need more attentive one on one care [not orphanages like Romania had or Hungary had with the lovely Eugenics and children rotting to death naked after forced pregnancies],
many who have elderly parents or husbands who cannot work full time due to injury, so forth, and many who decided NOT to be a part of the Corporatist Fascist cog machine stripping the environment of resources and polluting our children and therefore decided to go Handmade rather than Machine/Sweatshop made.
Not only is this Draconian [pro-corporate] law going to hurt and drive more into poverty it is Also targeting the libraries because Any item a child may use has to be tested by Third Party and very expensive for lead for Every single component in an item, including books so as of Feb 10 libraries will be banning children because they simply cannot afford the testing,
same with book publishers. Gee, sounds like forced illiteracy for me, wouldn't the Taliban be impressed.
Illiteracy, forced illiteracy and forced economic dependence, especially of women is one of the main reasons for why women worldwide are so easily exploited, trafficked into horrid sex slavery, labor slavery, violence against women, starvation, etc., women are many times forced to sew for corporate interests or for governments who come in and say they'll offer a way out,
only to find they are working piece meal, a Mockery of their native and cultural ARTS and they are ARTS, paying them starvation wages while these women/children are STILL living under very low sub human status.
This UNION was formed to address/confront and Revolt against these abuses as well. Not just for women in America, for sewers and independent textile workers here but worldwide.
We will Also be addressing AS autonomous women the issue of Unpaid Labor, which does tie into the entire global stratifications [and poltiical] to not only Devalue women's labor/services and women themselves as human beings, but is the core
to the feminization of poverty. Just as it is in agriculture...
Equality between what sex and what other sex?
“Between what nation and what other nation?
//“Between what class and what other class?//
“Freedom from what yoke, or from the yoke of what class? Freedom for what class?”
Whoever speaks of politics, of democracy, of liberty, of equality, of socialism, and does not at the same time //ask// these questions, does not put them in the foreground, does not fight against concealing, hushing up and glossing over these questions, is one of the worst enemies of the toilers, is a wolf in sheep's clothing, is a bitter opponent of the workers and peasants, is a servant of the landlords, tsars, capitalists.
The proletariat cannot achieve complete freedom, unless it achieves complete freedom for women.
V.I. Lenin
February 21, 1920
Fighting for the Rights/Human Rights of Women, for Women, with No compromise or selling out our rights as not just human beings but as Workers.
Solidarity,
Modotti
Home Sewers & Needle Workers Union HSNWU
