"THIS IS NOT A GOOD IDEA. Nurse-ins are protests - they create bad press
publicity - and portray breastfeeding mothers as zealots to be avoided."

With all due respect, I do not agree.  Exercise of the right to protest
is a political choice activists have been making for centuries.  It got
women the vote.  I think taking the above quoted view in fact buys into
the view that breastfeeding in public *is* an extreme and unconventional
activity.

Now if I were to go into the dining room of a restaurant that insists
that nursing be done in the bathroom, dropped my drawers, and took a pee
(thus illustrating that if eating where people pee is good enough for my
baby, it is good enough for everyone) than perhaps I might be a
"zealot," though I would be more prone to call it good old fashioned
civil disobedience.

Jake, waiting for an East Coast Nurse-In
--
Jake Marcus: freelance writer and editor; lawyer; homeschooling
work-at-home mom to Luca (7/94), Nicholas (5/97), & Aidan (3/00).
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