Word: protestants
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...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 of breast-feeding, her group's Dec. 27 "nurse-in," and why her toddler daughter is still nursing...
...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...
...from the only organization steering clear of Areola City. "Could I place an ad related to breast-feeding that showed a woman breast-feeding a child but exposed her full breast in TIME or on your website?" asks spokesman Barry Schnitt. "During the course of this protest, I've called many media organizations and asked them this question. Not a single one has said...
...comers who preregister, and an evening of tearing up agendas, smashing clocks and otherwise attacking symbols of time. Another appeal to restless New Year's Eve souls in 2006 brought more than 1,000 to Nantes. Last year Fonacon attracted more than 10,000 people with its party-cum-protest in Paris. This year Marie-Gabriel jokingly boasts that he expects "between five and 50,000 people, give or take a few," but then confides that Fonacon's rendezvous point on the Vendéen island le Noirmoutier - chosen because it's a good place to attempt to halt...
...expect around a thousand or so of the most hard-core enthusiasts," he says. "But we're claiming this is the only spot from France where the Statue of Liberty is visible at low tide - meaning all eyes in Barack Obama's America will be turned on our protest to deny the New Year. Yes we can!" (See pictures of the world reacting to Obama...