Friday, September 22, 2006

Nursing a grievance (New York Daily News)

With babes at their bosoms, some 300 women staged a "nurse-in" at Toys "R" Us yesterday to protest the treatment of a Brooklyn mom who says she was hassled for breast-feeding at the Times Square store.
Carrying signs that read "We Shall Not Be Moved," some chanted "Apologize! Apologize!" - but very quietly, so as not to upset their nursing infants.

"The store apologized to me, but I want them to publicly acknowledge they were wrong," said Chelsi Meyerson, 29, as she burped her 7-month-old son Mason. "I want better education for their employees."



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