On 24. April 2013 the builiding of Rana Plaza textile factory collapsed and buried 1135 people under it. This day marked it as the fourth largest industrial disaster in history: it can not go on like this!

Not only textile workers, unions and NGOs call for a change, more and more consuments become active too. Risk your live in unstable buildings for a wage that is not even enough to make a living? This is what textile production looked like in germany 100 years ago. Now through colonisation we have exported these conditions to the global south. For a clean image the big fashion labels count on eco cotton and "made in europe" as alibi. But not many people here know that the working conditions in eastern europe are some time even worse than in asia.

 flächendeckend noch schlechter sind als in Asien wissen hier nur wenige.

We have to radically change the way we handle fashion!
In our wardrobes, in the factories and stores, on the street and in the system.
As a global movement!

Join us!

On the annual day of the collapse of the Rana Plaza textile factory in Bangladesh we comemorate the victims and the injured.
Together with millions of people worldwide we claim it's time for a FASHION REVOLUTION!
We call for: secure builidngs, transparent supply chains, decent working conditions and higher wages - now.

- sew protest banners

- our sewing-cargo-bike will be there

- clothes swap - anticapitalist shopping

- Photosession, ask a brand "who made my clothes?"

- exhibition "Seamstress - the strong women from south-east-asia" (FEMNET, german)

14 - 16 Uhr

This talk is based on the comic Interlining: hand-sewn stories (Barcelona, 2010-2015) which will be part of the Collective Book Exhibition. This comic relates “autobiographical” stories of women textile workers, representing a collective knowledge about the technology of fabric and sewing. It questions gender representations through clothing, and above all it sets out the body of the woman worker as a desiring body which is organic and in a continuous process of transformation and self-representation. Thus, from a feminist and decolonial perspective, the comic reflects on the social class origin of craft and industrial workers in order to criticise current practices of textile art whose focus on “the author” endorses gentrification.

During this talk we want to undress the social image of the woman textile worker as an invisible “piece” in a huge capitalist and postindustrial apparatus. Using graphic tools and self-publishing strategies, Jessica Espinoza intends to visibilise the daily resistances of women workers, their political activisms and their desiring bodies.

Language: Spanish with German and/or English translation

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Jessica Espinoza_Dibruja Sewing Tattoo

4:30 - 6pm

The feminist sewing collective reSew from Kiev talks about their artistic-collectivist work at the intersection of craft, solidarity economy and textile production.

ReSew sewing cooperative is a feminist collective that elaborates and practices alternative production, using such instruments as consensus, group dynamic and nonviolent communication. Cooperative is trying to introduce upcycling in the production of textiles and clothing and develop new types of economic schemes based on decent and labor-proportional income distribution.

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7 pm

Six years hace past since the Rana Plaza textile factory collapsed. What has changed in the textile industrie since then?

Fabienne Winkler from Kampagane für Saubere Kleiderung and ENS Sachsen presents the recent research concerning the human rights situation in the fashion industry, with a focus on eastern europe.

Afterwards we will discuss: Who exactly has to do what to change the situation? What can we do to enforce this change?

Link Lohn zum Leben Campaign Website (german)

from 1pm

Crossstitch, satin stitch, french knot stitch, wtf*?

We use the knowledge every good houswife should have to turn it against its paternalistic bourgrois intention and use it to fight against patriarchy.

Bring your cheekiest motives - it's time to emboirder!