Join the Closed Loop Campaign by participating in the Sewing Rebellion’s Quechquemitl Geschichte Kleidungsstück (little chest garment) production @ Trade Fare Social. Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro CA, Opening Jan 21, 3-5 pm and Closing on March 25 (112 Anniversary of the Triangle Shirt Waist Fire), 2023.

Materials, hand crank Sewing Machines, felting tools will be provided.

to release @ SLO Museum Art on Dec. 2, 2022

Pins & Needles is an informational broadsheet produced as needed by the Institute 4 Labor Generosity Workers & Uniforms.  The ILGWU is currently embedded in the Fashion Fiber and Materials program at Cal State University Los Angeles.  The ILGWU is the working archive, experimental factory and big ship era research lab supporting the curiosity of Frau Fiber, former East German textile worker turned super hero who reflects on the history of textile, apparel and transportation labor rights, and supports the efforts of contemporary workers, who continue to labor at “race to the bottom wages”   

The first Pins and Needles ILGWU newspaper was first created for Frau Fiber’s Mission in America at the Huntington Beach Art Center in June 2019.  The second volume was created during the pandemic and distributed at the ILGWU in downtown Long Beach Ca. These newspapers with text and image included articles about Fast Fashion supply chain, coronavirus capitalism, current events surrounding the textile and apparel industry, biography about  Frau Fiber, Sewing Rebellion patterns, soup recipes, and more. 

Pins and Needles Vol. 3 includes Frau Fiber’s current interests in the global supply chain through the big ship era, “Your Loom is a Weapon” comic strip, coffee and cake with Frau Fiber, and the bio of a contemporary garment worker. 

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For Life: The Repository of the Institute 4 Labor Generosity Workers & Uniforms
Curated by Carole Frances Lung Frau Fiber’s archivist and biographer

The Institute 4 Labor Generosity Workers & Uniforms (ILGWU) south of the 710 is located at 322 Elm Ave, Long Beach CA; the ILGWU north of the 710 is the embedded into the Fashion Fiber and Materials option of the Art Department at Cal State University Los Angeles. These two locations encompass the working archive, resource library and experimental production facility of, Frau Fiber, textile super hero who investigates the labor behind the label of the fast fashion supply chain; facilitating actions and environments which reflect on the history of textile, apparel production and transportation labor rights, and supporting the efforts of contemporary workers, who continue to labor at race to the bottom wages.  For Life at the Wignall Museum houses ephemera and objects gleaned by Frau Fiber from her childhood during the former times and currently in these times as a textile super hero.

Ms. Lung, Frau Fiber’s archivist and biographer will be in residence Wednesday’s 10 am to 2 pm) throughout the exhibition, while in residence Ms. Lung will photograph, record, describe and transcribe Frau Fiber’s narratives about the objects. Once the objects have been cataloged the public is invited to browse and enjoy this unique collection of textile and apparel history.

For Life is supported by

FASHION-CONSCIOUS
Curated by Roman Stollenwerk

January 13 – March 14, 2020
Reception for the artists on January 14 from 6-8pm

Chaffey College and the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art are pleased to present Fashion-Conscious.  The artists and artworks included in Fashion-Conscious engage with issues and concerns surrounding our understanding of fashion.  The exhibition considers the social, economic, and formal framework of fashion, including issues of labor, gender, race, power, luxury, branding, materials, and processes.

Fashion-Conscious will include work by Christy Roberts Berkowitz, Libby Black, Pilar Gallego, Bean Gilsdorf, Anthony Lepore, Manny Llanura, Dr. Fahamu Pecou, Rational Dress Society, and in the Project Space: The Institute 4 Labor Generosity Workers & Uniforms.

Admission is free.

Museum Public Hours

Monday-Thursday: 10am-4pm

Saturday: noon-4pm

Park in the Omnitrans Parking Lot (R5) and travel west along the promenade, just beyond the Theatre. Parking permits can be purchased from machines located in the lots. Parking is $4 for all day or $1 for one hour.

PUBLIC PROGRAMMING

Chaffey College and the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art are pleased to present a series of free public programs in conjunction with our exhibition Fashion-Conscious, on view January 13 – March 14, 2020. All programs will take place at the Wignall Museum, Rancho Campus unless otherwise noted. Events are free and open to the public, but space may be limited. Please call 909/652-6492 with any questions or visit us online at www.chaffey.edu/wignall for more information.

New Demands?  ILGWU at ILGWU
Guest Lecture: Lisa Vinebaum
January 15 from 1230-150pm
Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Project Space

Lisa Vinebaumis a leading scholar of fiber and textiles mobilized for community building and grassroots struggles for social, economic, and racial justice. Her guest lecture will discuss struggles to improve working conditions for garment workers by the Institute 4 Labor Generosity Workers & Uniforms  (ILGWU) and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), historically one of the largest labor unions in the country.

MOTIFS MIGRATIONS AND MISAPPROPRIATIONS

ILGWU LAUNCHES campaign to make transparent fast fashions appropriation of silhouettes and cultural motifs. The motifs travel the globe, while the people of these countries like Syrian refugees are not welcome to cross borders as they attempt to flee violence.

YOU can support this campaign by attending one of these events, or host an event in your community.

• The Textile Museum in Washington DC, Thursday Sept. 27, https://museum.gwu.edu/frau-fiber

• North Dakota State University Memorial Union Gallery, https://www.ndsu.edu/mu/gallery/what_is_new/

• Punket ø, Moss Norway  https://punkto.no/exhibitions_f15/dont-feed-the-monster/?lang=en

  

• WCCW Saturday Oct 6, 11 – 2 pm https://womenscenterforcreativework.com/

Sewing Rebellion

This fall the Sewing Rebellion provides instruction for Knocking off and adapting a Syrian child’s coat (from the collection of the Textile Museum in Washington DC). The knock off will be made using t-shirts (a natural resource representing consumer culture of late western capitalism).

Find tech pack and instructional video here:
https://sewingrebellion.wordpress.com/kleidungstruck-des-volkes/

All people, no matter their place of birth, have the right to work free from fear.  The American Enterprise Institute warns that reducing immigration to the United States over the coming decade will starve the economy of workers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics states, immigrants both documented and undocumented made up 16.9 percent of the U.S. workforce in 2016. On average, immigrant workers are younger than native-born workers, and they have a higher labor force participation rate. The US government collects billions of tax dollars annually on unclaimed social security numbers.  These are just a few statistics, which lead to The ILGWU supporting policies to create pathways to permanent residency for all workers who have labored in the US workforce for at least one year.

For assistance NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER
3450 Wilshire Blvd. #108 – 62
Los Angeles, CA 90010
(213) 639-3900 | (213) 639-3911 fax reply@nilc.org

ILGWU

1^st Saturday Tailor Made, 12-5 pm (SATURDAY MAY 4 ILGWU CLOSED TO DUE EVENT IN TIJUANA)

2^nd Saturday Soup, Solidarity and Song 5-8 pm

4^th Saturday Mend America, 12-5 pm

July / Aug Shutdown for facilities service

In support of this campaign Sewing Rebellions will host No Barrier Back Pack and White Collar Shirt Apron production.

wage theft and the shrinking size of pockets in women’s apparel! January – April 2019

ILGWU is kicking off 2019 with a campaign to stop WAGE THEFT! Los Angeles county is the wage theft capital of the country, low-wage workers lose about 26 million dollars in violations every week! Workers wages are shrinking faster than women’s fashion pockets!

Are you a victim of wage theft?
Do you work a piece rate or off the books?
Are you forced to clock out early and keep working? Do you have had tips stolen? OR
Are you denied time for breaks?
JOIN THE ILGWU IN POCKETING A SPACE FOR RESISTANCE AND CHANGE.

ILGWU MONTHLY ACTIONS

1st Saturday, 12-5 pm
TAILOR MADE bring your pocket less clothing; spin the Wheel of Wages and Frau Fiber will add or expand a pocket at Fast Fashion prices.

2nd Saturday 6-9 pm,
SOUP, SOLIDARITY AND SONGS Join Frau Fiber in a cup of soup, community and labor songs.  THE IGLWU IS IN SOLIDARITY WITH LOS ANGELES UNIFIED TEACHERS AND FEDERAL WORKERS ON FURLOUGH

4th Saturday 12-5,
MEND AMERICA 

and SEWING REBELLION ACTIONS WITH PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS
IN LOS ANGELES FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO FILE A GREVIENCE CONTACT Labor Commissioner’s Office 300 Oceangate, Suite 302 Long Beach, CA 90802 (562) 590-5048 LaborComm.WCA.LBO@dir.ca.gov