August 12, 2004
This is my brand of revolutionary motherhood
by Liza Sabater
Yahoo! News - Breastfeeding Moms Hold 'Nurse-In' at Starbucks
Bravas!
'Nurse-In' at Starbucks
Wed Aug 11,10:58 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!SEATTLE (Reuters) - More than two dozen mothers staged a breastfeeding "nurse-in" at a Starbucks Corp. store in Maryland over the weekend in an effort to get the world's largest coffee shop chain to adopt a policy allowing breastfeeding in all its U.S. stores.
Lorig Charkoudian, who organized the event, said on Tuesday that she began her quest a month ago when she was nursing her 15-month-old daughter at the store in Silver Spring, Maryland, and was asked by a Starbucks employee to cover up with a blanket or breastfeed in the bathroom.
She protested and, after eventually reaching the regional vice president, got Seattle-based Starbucks to recognize a Maryland law that allows mothers to breastfeed their children in public.
Starbucks spokeswoman Audrey Lincoff said in a statement that the coffee chain "quickly apologized for her negative experience" and reminded employees at its Maryland stores to comply with the law.
Charkoudian argues that Starbucks should have gone a step further and allow breastfeeding at all its 5,882 coffee shops in the United States.
"While Starbucks does not have a formal policy regarding mothers breastfeeding babies within our stores, we welcome nursing mothers to our stores,' Lincoff said in a prepared statement, "Starbucks complies with all applicable state and local laws regarding breastfeeding."
About 20 states have laws protecting the rights of mothers to breastfeed in public.
Posted by Liza Sabater in Activism, Feminism, Motherhood, Sidelinks
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Say it loud, say it proud!
After several email correspondences with the organizer of the "Nurse-Ins at Starbuck's Campaign", Lorig Charkoudian, it has been discovered that the Nurse At Starbuck's is a scam to gain publicity and research. Charkoudian is using the group's website and email to underhandly gain research by not telling people who email her that the correspondence will be, according to Charkoudian, used as "fascinating fodder for a planned book about cultural intolerance of traditional parenting and misogynistic and self-hating (in the case of women who can't come to grips with the basic true function of their breast)attitudes." Charkoudian has also been using the real names of people who correspond with her on television shows and in interviews without notification or protection of the individuals' identities.
If you agree that these tactics are an outrage, PLEASE DO NOT SUPPORT THIS ORGANIZATION!!!!
If you have corresponded with Charkoudian (good or bad correspondence), PLEASE CONTACT A LAWYER IMMEDIATELY TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS!!!
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Comment by: Kate at October 20, 2004 08:07 PM