The virtual "nurse in" is scheduled for this saturday.
Facebook members can indicate that they are going to participate at the 
M.I.L.C. Mothers International Lactation Campaign event page http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=39521488436
Karleen Gribble
Australia

http://www.tampabay.com/features/parenting/article946531.ece

Breastfeeding protest goes virtual against Facebook picture restrictions 
By Sharon Kennedy Wynne, Times Staff Writer 
Posted: Dec 22, 2008 04:28 PM 


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The popular social networking site Facebook has already created a virtual world of friends and acquaintances who "gather" and update each other daily, if not hourly, of their mindset and whereabouts. Now it is becoming a gathering place for protesters, too, revealing how the online world is rapidly becoming a virtual town square.

For about a year now, breastfeeding proponents have been signing a petition on Facebook called "Hey Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene," to protest the number of nursing photos deleted from the site. Some 61,000 people have signed up since it started in 2007.

Now they're whipping out a new weapon: a virtual nurse-in.

Just like the nursing mothers who lined the sidewalks outside Applebee's restaurants in 2007 when a waitress asked a nursing mother to cover up, breastmilk advocates (called "lactivists" in some circles) are calling for troops online to make a stand on Saturday . Pro-lacto Facebook members are asked to change their profile picture for one day to an image of a nursing mom or animal. They also plan to change their status lines - those pithy statements that reflect a member's state of mind - that day to "Hey Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!"

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