April 15,1970 - San Francisco: A small group of feminists infiltrated the annual CBS shareholder meeting to challenge the corporation’s sexist programming and limited opportunities for women. 
In a nearby part of San Francisco, protestors demonstrated outside the local CBS affiliate. They picketed, chanted and put on a guerrilla theater skit. Under a large homemade banner identifying the group as Women Opposed to Media Bullshit (W.O.M.B.), the protesters acted out the condescending way the media portrayed women and the sexist ways products were pitched.
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