Breastfeeding mums to rally outside Satellite Cafe in Newtown, Sydney Earlier this year hundreds of breastfeeding mums protested outside Seven Network after Sunrise presenter David Koch said women needed to be 'classy' when they breastfed their babies in public. BREASTFEEDING Sydney mothers will gather for a nurse-in protest outside Satellite Cafe in Newtown today. The protest comes following an incident in which the manager asked that mum Regan Matthews stop breastfeeding in the cafe on Saturday afternoon. I was shocked by this request, I was just peacefully breastfeeding my baby. When I asserted my legal right to breastfeed anywhere, anytime, the manager became very rude. She told me that breastfeeding is 'disgusting" and 'it's offensive to humanity,"" Ms Matthews said. I was made to feel very uncomfortable, simply because I was tending to the needs of my child. Nurse-in organiser Victoria Brookman, from the group Lactivists Australia, said that so far around eighty people have pledged to come out and support the peaceful protest, which will be taking place on Tuesday at lunchtime. Mothers in Australia are saying 'enough is enough. We are tired of being told that we should be ashamed of our bodies and their natural functions. We demand respect as women and as human beings. This is 2013, not 1950," Ms Brookman said. It is illegal to tell a mother to stop or to cover up while she is breastfeeding her child. This is enshrined in Federal Sex Discrimination Legislation. Satellite Cafe has since offered an unreserved public apology to Ms Matthews and other mothers on their Facebook page, but the protest will continue. In an earlier post, which has since been deleted from the Cafe's Facebook page, the Cafe owner blamed the incident on the mainstream media, saying, "I am disappointed mainstream media has not made constant efforts to educate businesses and employees on this." This issue goes beyond Satellite cafe. We are protesting to make sure that businesses and individuals around the country get the message loud and clear: mothers have a legal right to breastfeed our children wherever we are legally entitled to be. The harassment of breastfeeding mums is illegal, plain and simple," said Ms Brookman.