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Kelli Roman, a 23-year-old mother of two from Fallbrook, CA, doesn't think she should have to hide the fact that she breast-feeds her daughter - not from her friends, her family or even the people she interacts with on Facebook. Facebook disagrees. The social-networking site takes down some breast-feeding photos if they show an exposed nipple or areola, which it considers obscene material. Roman and several other women have banded together to protest this policy, forming a Facebook group that has grown to tens of thousands of members. TIME talked to Roman about the virtues...
...this all start? It was last summer. My daughter was three months old and I was a member of a couple of different breast-feeding groups on Facebook and one of my friends from there had her profile picture of her breast-feeding her baby removed. She was also banned. After that, I decided to put a picture up of me nursing my daughter and it was taken down...
...picture of you and your daughter in protest? Yeah. Initially, it was to say, "Hey Facebook, don't classify breast-feeding pictures as obscene." So many people joined, it kind of just became a network for women to find help and ask questions. I think that's a great result. Since then, it's really grown. We've gained like 60,000 members just in the last few weeks...
...police have mostly taken defensive tactics. But the protests, which harken back to the anti-globalization mix of violence and civil disobedience of Seattle in 1999 and Genoa in 2001, don't appear to be ending any time soon. Protesters say the use of online social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace have helped organize street demonstrations, as well as the more high-profile stunts, like the hanging of the two giant pink banners from the Acropolis calling on other Europeans to take part in the protests. So far, outside of Greece, other anti-globalization demonstrations in sympathy with...
...While Schwartz and Biggers held a 122 -person lead in Facebook group membership, Flores and McLeod won crucial endorsements from student groups like the Dems and the Harvard Republican Club. The Dems have now endorsed the winning candidate for the sixth consecutive year...