Nearly a year and a half after Emily Gillette was removed from a Delta/Freedom Airlines flight for refusing to cover up while breastfeeding, the Vermont Human Rights Commission will hear the case. According to the Burlington Free Press, the Commission will review the findings of its investigator, who found reasonable grounds that Freedom discriminated against Gillette. The hearing is set to take place on Thursday, March 27, 2008, and it is closed to the public. While Gillette said she is not required to attend, she traveled to Vermont anyway.
I feel really grateful, still, for the way the state’s set up. …read more

The nurse-in at Burlington International Airport went off without a hitch yesterday. The Burlington Free Press reports today that 30 mothers and fathers and dozens of their children congregated in front of the Delta check-in counter to protest the incident in which a mother was kicked off a plane for breastfeeding without covering up. Participants expressed their shock and horror that the mother was humiliated that way. They praised Burlington International Airport after the nurse-in for allowing and accommodating the peaceful demonstration.

As I write this, women are gathering at Burlington International Airport by Delta’s check-in counter for a nurse-in at 10 a.m. EST, according to a follow-up article in today’s Burlington Free Press. Organizer Sharon Panitch wanted to stage this peaceful demonstration in response to the incident I mentioned earlier in which a mother was kicked off a plane for nursing her toddler and refusing to cover up.