CALL FOR NURSE-IN AT DELTA TICKET COUNTERS NATIONWIDE!!!

Breastfeeding Rally To Take Place At Airports Nationwide

Nursing mothers and their supporters will be gathering on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 at 10 AM, local time, at Delta airport counters across the country.

Emily Gillette was flying with her husband and 22 month-old daughter, on October 13, 2006 out of Burlington, Vermont on a Delta/Freedom Air flight when a flight attendant asked her to cover up with a blanket. Ms. Gillette declined and informed the flight attendant of her legal right to nurse her daughter. The flight attendant then told Ms. Gillette that Ms. Gillette was offending her and subsequently a gate agent removed the family from the flight. Ms. Gillette and her family complied. They were rescheduled on a different flight the following day.

Ms. Gillette has filed a complaint with the Vermont Human Rights Commission regarding the incident. A woman’s right to breastfeed wherever she is legally allowed to be is protected in Vermont under the Public Accommodations Act.
Although Delta has issued a public apology, the Gillette family has still not received any personal apology.

The goals of this action are:

Insist that Delta/Freedom both apologize to the Gillette family and
offer written proof that policy and training procedures have been changed.
Call for all airlines to revisit their breastfeeding and transport of pumped breastmilk policies to support traveling families.
Call for immediate passage of pending Federal legislation that offers civil rights protection for breastfeeding women in the workplace; and new legislation to protect, on the Federal level, a nursing mother and child’s right to do so whenever and wherever they are legally allowed to be.
Introduce a new breastfeeding accessibility icon and call on American businesses to adopt and use it. Participants will be wearing the logo on t-shirts, stickers and buttons.

The issue of breastfeeding goes far beyond just a woman’s right to nurse; it also encompasses a basic human right for children, the right to eat and to receive comfort and nurturing at the breast.

The Nurse-Ins have been coordinated completely by volunteers.

for information about the nurse in locally (in the SF bay area), please contact Phoenix at: unicorn.of.doom [at] gmail.com or join the yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lactivism/