As a response to Delta Airlines for kicking a nursing mother off a plane for refusing to cover up: http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pb...mplate=printart http://www.mothering.com/sections/news_bul...y-gillette.html http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/moms-...S00010000000001 ...nursing mothers and other lactivists across the nation will be meeting up at 10am on Tuesday November 21st in front of Delta ticket counters (or any counters owned by Delta's parent company Mesa-Air Group, including US Air and United) for the first National Nurse In!!!!!!!! http://www.mothering.com/discussions/forumdisplay.php?f=25 http://promom.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4789 SPREAD THE WORD~ GATHER THE MOTHERS~ BRING EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS~ AND FEED THOSE BABIES FREELY!

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two breasts I really don't think that anything has ever made me angrier than people who think that breastfeeding in public and images of nursing mothers and babies are "disgusting", "offensive", even "pornographic". THESE PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS. Straight up. This is not one of those issues where "oh some people just feel this way about it and others feel this way." BREASTFEEDNG IS THE HEALTHIEST WAY TO NOURISH A CHILD AND IS THE MOST NATURAL THING IN THE WORLD. Do we find it disgusting or offensive when our fellow human beings breathe in public? No. Okay, but what about pornographic? Is the breast a sexual object? Only because it has been turned into such by our highly de-natured, highly sexually schizophrenic culture. Take all the National Geo photos that you secretly lingered over as a child (feeling guilty for doing so, most likely). Note the absence of any moral outrage in the communities and tribes within which these bare-chested women live/d. To people whose lives are more immersed in nature (which, on our planet at least, has existed for 4.5 billion years) than culture (which, in the case of America, has existed for about 200 years but is changing so rapidly and constantly that there is no way to measure or define it) the breast is not a sexual object. Let me qualify that statement. It is not a sexual object in the sense that it is here in the States at this point in time. In these tribal, nature-based societies the breast is a part of the whole sacred spectrum of sexuality. The breast and the yoni are sexual because they nourish and birth new life, not because Playboy et al. says they are. Only in a society where something as sacred, mysterious, and powerful as the body of a woman has become taboo would people even dream of writing a letter to the editor of a magazine that publishes pictures of nursing moms and babies or chastize a stranger for breastfeeding in public. More breastfeeding diatribes to come, I'm sure...

Now showing at the raddest website on the net... www.birthecology.com click on "Journal" the article is called "Mama's Body is Baby's Earth" by Amber Magnolia Hill