Sunday, November 19, 2006

National event planned over treatment of breast-feeding passenger (Boston Globe)

BURLINGTON, Vt. --A national "nurse-in" will be held Tuesday to protest the treatment of a passenger who was kicked off a plane for refusing to cover her baby while breast-feeding.

A similar protest, in which mothers sat on the floor near the Delta Airlines counter, breast-fed their babies and held signs, took place at the Burlington International Airport last week.

Chelsea Clark, 31, of Fairfax said she is using Web message boards to organize a national protest at Delta counters across the country.

What happened to Emily Gillette, of Santa Fe, N.M., has prompted an "out-swell of outrage," Clark said.



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