Re yarn and 3rd world:
Very interesting connections/thoughts.
"President Trump has announced that his administration will implement new rules to partially defund the Planned Parenthood abortion business while his administration continues fighting a Planned Parenthood lawsuit designed to stop them."
"Last week, a federal appeals court ruled President Donald Trump can partially defund planned Parenthood while the abortion business’ lawsuit against his administration’s new rules moves forward. The rules prohibit entities from receiving Title X funding if they run an abortion business at the same facility as their Title X-funded family planning organization. Planned Parenthood refuses to separate the two, thus it would lose federal funding."
More at link
Found it. Self identified political activist, Ellie Boylan, is one of the owners of the Red Hen Restaurant and the House Mountain Yarn shop. But all this bunch is in deep.
Mountain Yarn:
https://www.yelp.com/biz/house-mountain-yarn-lexington - strange how all those previous yelps disappeared and as of today there are only 8 and those are positive.
https://www.housemountainyarnco.com/about-us :
Ellie Boylan - “Protest signs with knitted embellishments that have been spotted both in Lexington and Washington, DC. Ellie Boylan has been knitting since 2003, and learned to crochet from her Mexican grandmother when she was a child. Accomplished at both, she shares her knowledge, teaching children and adults. Ellie rarely knits for herself as her projects are frequently for charity or yarn bombs. In addition to being a partner in HMYC, Ellie works part time at W&L as an IT Fluency Coordinator. She and husband Scott have lived in Lexington since 1999 and are proud adoptive parents to a daughter”
Susan Friski - “She and her husband, Mike, would talk about retiring and finding a place to relocate and just maybe become a small business owner. Well, that dream has come true and she didn’t even have to relocate! Susan is a retired teacher and administrator for the public school system here in Rockbridge County. In addition to her professional duties, she taught countless children to knit”
Red Hen:
https://twitter.com/ellieboylan - co-owner with Wilkinson
https://twitter.com/esswilk?lang=en
https://jonathanturley.org/2018/06/26/huckabee-wilkinson-led-group-out-of-red-hen-to-protest-sanders-eating-across-the-street/comment-page-2/ - “after Sarah and her husband left and the family relocated to a restaurant across the street, the owner of the Red Hen then organized an effort to go and scream at them from the sidewalk at the other restaurant... it wasn’t just what happened in the Little Red Hen restaurant, it’s what happened ongoing by the owner of that restaurant.”
https://twitter.com/ravelry/status/1142766608680660992 - “We are banning support of Donald Trump and his administration on Ravelry. We cannot provide a space that is inclusive of all and also allow support for open white supremacy.” This is Wilkinson’s husband’s twitter. Interestingly he uses yarn as his picture.