[*BCM*] Critical Mass Boston Globe feature story

[thom3 at aol.com]

Actually I love CM, but have seen loads of stupidity in my years that could easily serve to give CM a bad name.... If the reporter saw one of these "kinds" of events he would have a field day. 







-----Original Message-----
From: Jym Dyer <jym at econet.org>
To: Boston CM <list at bostoncriticalmass.org>
Sent: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:29 pm
Subject: Re: [*BCM*] Critical Mass Boston Globe feature story



=v= Critical Mass originated in San Francisco in 1992, and the
folks who incubated it had the clever idea of only talking to
reporters who showed up at the ride.  Of course nobody leads
or controls the ride, and the (hostile) press in San Francisco
eventually got around to collecting and printing anecdotes from
random wingnuts to make the ride look bad, but I think the idea
still has merit.

> The only thing I've found in my archives is a story published
> in the Globe about Critical Mass L.A. and one in the NYTimes
> about the N.Y.C. Critical Mass.

=v= You should be able to find a number of _NYTimes_ stories,
the best written by Jim Dwyer (no relation to me).  One big
caveat there, though:  The crackdown there is actually about
the 2004 Republican National Convention, not about Critical Mass
_per_se_.  They arrested a bunch of people at CM on the last
Friday of August 2004, which was *before* the RNC (but in their
eyes, too close to it), and afterwards they had to pretend it
wasn't politically-motivated and were arresting CM riders for
years afterwards.

=v= There was a lot of drama around that and some fascinating
stuff going through the legal system as well, but it's basically
anomalous and has little to do with the Boston CM.
    <_Jym_>

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