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.

Solidarity,

Modotti