I've been looking around for a detailed account of how the flight attendant was disciplined but so far haven't found specifics! Wonder why....
I did learn that there were some high-jinks at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport nurse-in (the protest apparently was shut down by police who charged indecency and said the women needed a permit to protest). The breastfeeding supporters promptly scheduled another nurse-in! Round 2!
See the information below from momsrising.org and mothering magazine that has updates on the situation.
Scroll toward the bottom and you can read about how the airlines have missed a deadline to respond to Vermont Human Rights Commission. The airlines now have until Dec. 14 to respond to complaints filed by the mom. AND SHE STILL HAS NOT RECEIVED AN APOLOGY FROM THE AIRLINES!!
http://www.momsrising.org/node/430#comment-1155
http://www.mothering.com/sections/ne...-gillette.html
On November 21, Dallas- and Fort Worth-area moms and their children held a nurse-in at the DFW airport, one of 39 nurse-ins held across the country. They were turned away by airport police, based on the complaint that they were "baring their breasts." The women were told that they would need a permit to hold the nurse-in, and were asked to leave. When they later requested a permit from airport officials for this Friday's nurse-in, they were informed that a permit is not required for a peaceful gathering inside the airport. The mothers are gathering Friday, again at the DFW Airport, for another nurse-in to protest Delta's actions against Emily Gillette and her family (read the full story below) and to demand rights for breastfeeding mothers and children.
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National Airport Nurse-in a Huge Success
Last week, nearly 800 participants at 39 airports across the United States proclaimed a call to action on the breastfeeding rights of children and mothers.
On October 13th, 2006, Emily Gillette and her family were ejected before takeoff from a Freedom air flight, because the flight attendant was offended by Mrs. Gillette, who was breastfeeding her child and refused to cover her baby's head with an airline blanket.
Following a slow and insufficient response from Mesa/Freedom Airlines, a commuter affiliate of Delta Airlines, women across the country vowed to shed light on the continuing contradictions between public policies that strongly encourage breastfeeding and current attitudes that deny breastfeeding mothers and children a welcome place in the public sphere.
Although the American Association of Pediatrics and World Health Organization both recommend a year and/or more of nursing for young children, and despite a recent National Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign in the U.S., too many women face obstacles to breastfeeding due to a patchwork of little known state laws and poor business employee training policies.
Awaiting action by the Vermont Human Rights Commission regarding the Freedom Airlines incident, the grassroots lactivist movement continues to demand action in the following areas:
Delta and Mesa/Freedom must apologize personally to the Gillette family and offer written proof that policy and training procedures have been changed.
The airline industry should revisit their breastfeeding policies and employee-training methods, and remove obstacles to the transportation of pumped breast milk on aircrafts.
Passage of pending legislation that offers civil rights protection for breastfeeding women in the workplace. American workers trained to respect breastfeeding at work will begin to affect the cultural shift that must happen if we are to move beyond the ambivalence in some segments of society today.
Adoption of the new open domain breastfeeding accessibility icon to support families and affirm the basic human right of children to eat and receive comfort at the breast when and where they must.
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TSA Petitioned to Support Breastfeeding Mothers
In addition to upholding the right to breastfeed in public nursing moms are also addressing another very important issue that affects their nursing rights and needs— the current Transportation Security Administration rule that women can only carry on unlimited amounts of breastmilk if they are accompanied by a child. Lactivists and their supporters are calling for a policy that supports mothers who fly with or without their breastfed children so that they would be allowed to carry pumped breast milk in the cabin of airplanes in any amount whether traveling with or without their children. An online petition is underway, urging TSA to amend the current guidelines.
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Airlines Fail to Meet Deadline
Attorneys representing Gillette announced today that Delta and Freedom Airlines have failed to meet the deadline to respond to the complaints filed against them. In keeping with the avoidance tactics exhibited since the October 13th incident, both airlines have asked the Vermont Human Rights Commission for an extension to today's deadline to file an answer to Emily Gillette's complaint charging the airlines with violating her civil right to breastfeed her daughter. The Vermont Human Rights Commission has given the airlines until December 14th to respond. "We are not surprised by this action, but are very disappointed that the airlines continue to avoid taking responsibility for the flight attendant's actions or offering to engage in a meaningful resolution to this matter," stated Ms. Gillette's attorney Elizabeth Boepple.
"Emily is frustrated and discouraged that even after the intense media attention over the last two weeks, her family is no closer to receiving a personal apology than it was on the day she and her family were ordered off the Delta flight for no reason other than a flight attendant's discomfort at Ms. Gillette breastfeeding her daughter."
After the airlines respond, the Vermont Human Rights Commission, through its staff, will work with the airlines and the Gillettes to reach a satisfactory settlement. If no settlement is reached, then the Human Rights Commission may file a civil suit seeking, among other remedies, civil fines, punitive and compensatory damages. At any time, the Gillettes may also decide to bring a civil action.
) I would love to here about your experiences at this or ANY OTHER nurse-in!
There is a news clip in this thread. 
