<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, protest]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, protest]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/protest http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/protest <![CDATA[Morning video: Convenient iPod music is now protest-worthy]]> With all the hoopla in the tech world over trivia like censorship or the turning of political dissidents over to oppressive foreign governments, it's good to know that this weekend, brave protesters picketed the San Francisco Apple store for that most basic of human rights — the right to play all kinds of music on the iPod. Blogging filmmakers Kent and Jen publish video from the Digital Rights Management protest.








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Sure, sure, seethe at their self-righteousness. But come on, what matters more day-to-day: a couple of executed Chinese bloggers, or putting your kick-ass pop mix onto your friend's iPod?

Anti-DRM Protest in San Francisco [Ebb and Flow blog]

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<![CDATA[Three lactivists show up for nurse-in outside Six Apart HQ]]> Breastfeeding baby - ValleywagOnly three militant breastfeeding mothers showed up to forcibly nurse their babies in front of the San Fran headquarters of Six Apart, according to a member of the blogging company. The mammary mommies are mad at 6A property LiveJournal for blocking their user icons — 100x100 images of babies breastfeeding, with aereolas showing.

Yes, the pictures would be fine if nipples weren't showing. Yes, this is all rather silly. No, that didn't stop Breastfeedingisnormal.org from issuing a press release and going through with the nurse-in. So, says the 6A tipster, company members bought them lunch.

Meanwhile, the lactivists plan a "Step apart from Six Apart on 6/6/6" day, which will probably get lost tomorrow in the shuffle of the goth community's "Draw pentagrams on our wrists, post pics on LJ, and bitch about our controlling parents on 6/6/6" day. But the urgent tone — someone, somewhere, apparently called anti-breastfeeding discrimination equal to racism — is earning backlash.

Nurse-In [Breastfeedingisnormal.org]
Photo: Banned breastfeeding icons [ProMoM]

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