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Protest Facebook! :: Action against breast-phobia, in Palo Alto and on Net | |
Date | Saturday December 27 |
Time | 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM |
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Location Details | |
on the Internet, internationally ; and outside Facebook HQ, 156 University Avenue, Palo Alto, northern California, U$A .............. |
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Event Type | Protest |
Organizer/Author | TERA |
Dec. 27, Sat. :
defend breast-feeding from Facebook's mammaphobia From: "TERA Co-ordinator" [ in Canada] To: nakity-owner [at] yahoogroups.com, topfreeithaca [at] yahoogroups.com, "USA Topfreedom" , et alii...... .............. Action planned this weekend against Facebook ---- The free Internet utility Facebook, with its tens of millions of users, still removes from its pages photographs of women breastfeeding, despite complaints about that practice, beginning well over a year ago. This Saturday, December 27, two [ freedom-seeking]events will occur: 1) A protest feed-in by breastfeeding mothers outside the Facebook headquarters: 156 University Avenue, Palo Alto, California, [U$A]. Time: 11 AM to 2 PM [ Pacific Standard Time]. ............................... 2) A virtual protest: Women and men on Facebook are asked to do two things: post as their profile picture a photo of a woman breastfeeding a child (it may also be a work of art, or a non-human mammal); and change their status line to "Hey, Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!" These changes should be in place for the 24-hour period of December 27 [ like from midnite to midnite; or from 0001 AM to 1259 PM; or longer.]. ---- Facebook claims that breastfeeding photos are "obscene," "pornographic," or "sexually explicit" if they show "an entire breast." That's Facebook being dishonest, for they mean "a nipple." But women's nipples, breastfeeding or not, are not obscene in California law; and in no [ U.S.] state are they obscene in photographs. In most places, of course, they're not "obscene" [at all], even apart from breastfeeding; whatever legal restrictions are placed against them don't use that word or the other terms with which Facebook demeans and stigmatizes women. Facebook also claims that images of breasts harm children. TERA urges all on Facebook to participate in this protest, and any breastfeeders near Palo Alto to go there in person as well. Thank you! -- TERA -- Topfree Equal Rights Association http://www.tera.ca http://www.topfree.ca -- Dr. Paul Rapoport Co-ordinator Topfree Equal Rights Association PO Box 81128 FGPO Ancaster ON L9G 4X1 Canada ......................... (+1) 905 304 4836 http://www.tera.ca http://www.topfree.ca .................. [forwarded and endorsed by Senior Unlimited Nudes (SUN) of San Francisco:] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SaveFreedom http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nakity/ SUN, POB 426937, SF, CA 94142-6937 Aphroditic freedom 'til death! .................................................. ................. [.....] Cc: ... info [at] gotopless.org, redactie [at] nfn.nl, naturally [at] internaturally.com, sfbarea [at] yahoogroups.com, nakity [at] yahoogroups.com, savefreedom [at] yahoogroups.com, george [at] fkkfreebodyculture.com, [ et alii...] ................
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