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backs to the working class, they even tended to protect bosses and
no trade unions had supported the Kazova resistance. Following
him our artist friend Feyyaz Yaman came forward. Feyyaz Yaman
is someone the Kazova workers know well. Feyyaz Yaman made
the production for the resistance his own, and helped decorate
the store with his own hands and showed that he was part of the

resistance. In his speech he said that the workers and people as a
whole together with artists were shown by the Kazova resistance
how to get out of the abyss and that the artists were together with
the workers on Kazova. Describing his work for the centre of
sweaters and culture, he said it was now a resistance centre. After
Feyyaz, resisting workers expounded their thoughts. The EGS
workers, the Punto Deri workers, GOLDAS workers, all in turn

told how they supported the resistance. After that the Kazova
workers made another fashion show. This time it was not sweaters
made in the factory but new sweater designs that they exhibited.
They described the new designs as part of the resistance. For ex-
ample, there was one design with a Molotov cocktail, another
showed a gas mask. Or else the designs for DirenKazova displayed
slogans. Also after the Marmara and Van earthquakes children in
educational programmes made drawings, and some of these were
turned into designs on sweaters. These sweaters bore the name of
the children who made the designs when these sweaters featured

in fashion shows.

The newly prepared sweaters were presented by artists and in-
tellectuals like Ece Temelkuran, Tuba Unsal and Metin Ustundag
(Met – Ust). After the fashion show Otekiler Music Collective
played its songs. After them Bandista and finally Grup Yorum
played resistance songs. The opening programme started at half

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