[*BCM*] Bostoncriticalmass Digest, Vol 43, Issue 3

[Wolfe, Anne]

If it is just a party on wheels, why care what kind of press it gets?
Or what people think of it?  

 

I think Thom's point was that it is perceived as an advocacy group.  For
what, no one is quite sure, least of all CM for the points you just
stated.  But it is perceived as one.  

 

Ho hum, back to work for the Automobile Association, which encourages us
to bike to work. Seems like a contradiction until you see all the bike
route guides we publish.........

 

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From: bostoncriticalmass-bounces at bostoncriticalmass.org
[mailto:bostoncriticalmass-bounces at bostoncriticalmass.org] On Behalf Of
Lee Peters
Sent: 08 January 2008 15:14
To: Boston Critical Mass
Subject: Re: [*BCM*] Bostoncriticalmass Digest, Vol 43, Issue 3

 

Without leaders or members and set goals, CM is not really an advocacy
group at all.  It is a party on wheels.  

 

Please do not think it is an advocacy group without (you yourself)
shaping it that way.  No one has really taken CM beyond anything but a
party - and all I have heard are people under the illusion that it is
advocacy and complained when it didn't live up to that standard.  I
don't want to spoil your involvement, but CM would need substantial
initiative to change.

 

The closest we have come to advocacy is the occasional flyer, sign
affixed to bike, or route planning for a specific purpose.

 

(for the record, I wish too that CM was 'nicer'.)

 

 

 

	----- Original Message ----- 

	From: ThoM3 at aol.com 

	To: list at bostoncriticalmass.org 

	Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 9:59 AM

	Subject: Re: [*BCM*] Bostoncriticalmass Digest, Vol 43, Issue 3

	 

	That was the point I was trying to make earlier and more subtly;
is this "stunt" in the realm of bicycle advocacy and if not, does it
diminish CM's perceived role in such?

	 

	 

	In a message dated 1/8/2008 8:57:30 AM Eastern Standard Time,
jontramos at yahoo.com writes:

		Regardless of how wide the corridor, how slow you were
going, or how f-ing magical YOU may have thought it was; I'm sure there
were irritated people who felt too intimidated to stand up to 20-30
rouge cyclists pedaling down their college corridor.  I know I would be.
It is very disrespectful to bike through an institution's private
interior and CM has no business being there.  Stick to the PUBLIC roads.


	 

	 

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