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post #1 of 33
8/11/04 at 1:40pm
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direct action gets the goods!!!
(apologies if this has already been posted)

successful nurse-in at starbucks
post #2 of 33
8/11/04 at 2:40pm
that's great. I wrote to them yesterday. It would be super if they would become a truly bfing friendly company and sticker all their stores with the "breastfeeding welcome here sticker"

but I dream.
post #3 of 33
8/11/04 at 2:46pm
Yay for those mamas!!!

Anyone else find it bizarre that the news story was in "oddly enough"... :
post #4 of 33
8/11/04 at 2:51pm
Unfortunately, it's not enough. I was just coming here to post a link to www.nurseatstarbucks.org, where you can write a letter encouraging ... heh heh ... Starbucks to enact a breastfeeding-friendly national policy.

Quote:
This Campaign is Asking Starbucks

1) To make a clear national policy that mothers have a right to breastfeed in their stores without being asked to move, hide, cover up, or leave.

2) To train all employees that breastfeeding is different from other behaviors that customers might complain about (such as loud music, offensive language, etc.), and that employees are never to ask a breastfeeding mother to move, hide, cover up, or leave. Instead employees can advise the complaining customer to avert their eyes or move to a different part of the store.

3) To make the public aware of this policy.
Happy letter writing!
post #5 of 33
8/11/04 at 2:53pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by AllyRae
Anyone else find it bizarre that the news story was in "oddly enough"
Yeah, we're just zany, wacky fringe freaks ... :
post #6 of 33
8/11/04 at 4:25pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by melamama
It would be super if they would become a truly bfing friendly company and sticker all their stores with the "breastfeeding welcome here sticker"

It's a shame that there would even be a need for stickers like those.

In an ideal world, it would just be a given that breastfeeding is welcome EVERYWHERE considering it's the way nature intended for babies to be fed.

But like you, I dream.
post #7 of 33
8/11/04 at 9:29pm
I was just coming to post about this :LOL

to all them bf mama's!!
post #8 of 33
8/12/04 at 2:45am
FWIW, my husband is a manager at a Caribou Coffee in NOVA. When we found out about this he went right to his district manager to inquire about Caribou's policy and made sure that all his employees are open and supportive of nursing mothers. Take that, StarSucks.
post #9 of 33
8/12/04 at 9:30am
I was going to post this to Glad it was posted already

Did you see the comic http://www.angelfire.com/comics/hathor/index.html

Of course I just love Hathor & can't get enough of these comics
post #10 of 33
8/12/04 at 9:40am
OMG, KRS! That was hilarious!

I've actually been arguing about this on a mainstream board I go to. They're all like, "What's the big deal," or, "BF is fine if it's discrete, but I don't want to get an eyeful of some breast!"


Bec
post #11 of 33
8/12/04 at 11:08am
Good for her!

This is what I don't get though. If a state has a law protecting a mother's right to breastfeed in public (don't get me started on we need a law for that) then why does a company that has a store in that state need a policy? Shouldn't that be a given that they follow the laws of the state so it should be an automatic policy?
post #12 of 33
8/12/04 at 11:53am
Nurse-in discussed on CNN this morning

There is a full written transcript of the discussion on-line at:
http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0408/11/acd.01.html
(it starts at about the middle of the show).
The guest was Lorig Charkoudian, a Maryland mom who was asked to leave Starbucks, and who organized the nurse-in. The other guest was a syndicated columnist (who gave the counterpoint). Lorig did a wonderful job in presenting the issue, I thought.

> CNN television network just did a show on public
> breastfeeding and there is a poll on their website about whether it
> makes you uncomfortable or not. You can vote at:
> http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/


Janice
post #13 of 33
8/12/04 at 12:08pm
Don't you love how people can say something along the lines of "it's not shame, but why can't you do this so I don't even have to know you are?"

Lorig "sounded" very articulate there, the other one (and this may be my bias talking) "sounded" rather immature to me. OH Heavens, he has to be aware that babies eat, are eating. Cut me a break!
post #14 of 33
8/12/04 at 12:36pm
Agreed, Lorig sounded calm and intelligent, while Armstrongsounded like he was getting more and more flustered (like people often do when their position is coming from sheer ignorance and intolerance). I still don't understand what his main complaint is, other than, "I don't like it."
post #15 of 33
8/12/04 at 5:47pm
Hi there,

Just trying to get Sears Canada to do the same!
post #16 of 33
8/12/04 at 7:02pm
Well, I hate the language in the story about "allowing" women to breastfeed in Starbucks (or anywhere, for that matter). No one "allows" me to nurse my child - I just do it. And for the record, I'm a Seattleite and I've nursed my daughter in more Starbucks stores than I can count. I've never been asked to cover up or move or leave. Of course, I'm very mean-looking, so that might have prevented some requests!
post #17 of 33
8/13/04 at 5:03am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lady Madonna
Well, I hate the language in the story about "allowing" women to breastfeed in Starbucks (or anywhere, for that matter).
I do too!! And I always groan when they cite the fact that 20 states have legislation allowing breastfeeding in public, because I KNOW that when people read that, they're going to think that breastfeeding in public is ILLEGAL in the other 30 states!
post #18 of 33
8/13/04 at 9:44am
Breastfeeding shouldn't even have legalize............that is so ridiculous. It is the birthright of all children. ANd has been going on since the begining of time. I tell women it is their right & don't even think about the law.
post #19 of 33
8/13/04 at 4:21pm
Not all states have laws in fact less than half do and moms who are discriminated against in these backwards states have no legal recourse. Case in point the Wal-Mart class action suit which just went to walmart on appeal in ohio. Moms here are just SOL. and they still talk about it as a class 4 misdemeanor and ticketable offense around these parts. This is the reality.

I'm glad shes pushing them further the large corporations in this country need to be held accountable and we need them to start promoting breastfeeding. Imagine how wonderful it might be if every corner starbucks and walmart had little breastfeeding welcome here stickers on the windows.
post #20 of 33
8/13/04 at 5:08pm
I nurse at my local Starbucks' all the time and have never had a problem.

Ahimsa
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