Activism

Last week, I posted an entry by Shannon, mom of Marie who is dealing with a Mitochondrial disease called Leigh’s. You can read that entry here.

There was a request for information about what charities are involved with helping this type of disease, Shannon recommends UMDF.

There was also a request for updates on Marie and her family which Shannon says you can find here.

Blessings to Shannon – you are a beautiful woman and mother – and to your family. I wish the best possible for your littlest girl.

Sixteen year old Alexandria Helena Hixenbaugh has been missing for just about one week now from her home in Escondido, California. I know this isn’t the subject of this website, but I’ve been hearing of this story on local e-mail lists and I want to help in any way I can. If you live in the San Diego area, click here for more information and information on how you can help. There is a flier you can download and many copy shops will donate copies (sometimes they put their logo on it in exchange for free copies) and if you can post some in your neighborhood, that would be great. There are also some gatherings taking place in the next couple days to work together to find her. Thanks to anyone who can help or pass the information along!

I thought since I have a MySpace site for this website and since many moms find SOAM through MySpace and since this is a women’s issue, I would take part inthis activism.

I heard about this just now, popped in to MySpace to check in and I see this message! LOL I’m just forwarding this on. I’ve already signed the petition.

Bonnie

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A Virtual Nurse-In* has been started in response to Myspace.com deleting countless pictures and graphics of a breastfeeding child/mother. Yet, the ads on Myspace.com’s very own home page normally contain scantilly clad women and finding young children in barely there clothing is no hard task. We are asking that the Myspace staff recognize the fallacy of this policy. If every state allows a woman to breastfeed in public without a law being broken*, then why does Myspace.com have an issue with it?

If you want to participate, please make your main myspace picture one of you nursing (or whoever). If you dont have one, or are uncomfortable putting up pictures of your children, there are many “icon” type pictures out there.

Here is the petition you can sign to tell Myspace that breastfeeding pictures are not obscene. Please sign and pass it to others.

To: Myspace.com

This petition is in response to Myspace users having pictures of a nursing child deleted. Our goal in signing this petition is to open the eyes of not only the men and women who run Myspace.com, but also to the public that there is NOTHING offensive or indescent about a mother and child nursing. Breastfeeding is a natural thing and is something that no woman should be made to feel embarrassed about. It is legal in EVERY state to breastfeed in public where any woman and child have the right to be. It is sad that even in this day and age that a woman is expected to retreat to a bathroom or her vehicle to feed her child because it “offends” someone. Myspace has been deleting countless pictures and graphics of a breastfeeding child/mother, yet the ads on their very own home page normally contain scantilly clad women. Not only that, but finding young children in barely there clothing is no hard task. We are asking that the Myspace staff recognize the rights of its users to post their pictures of breastfeeding proudly. If every state allows a woman to breastfeed in public without a law being broken, then why does Myspace have an issue with it?

Click Here to Sign!

*Not sure if that bit is 100% true.