[*BCM*] Courteous Mass

[danny.piccirillo at gmail.com]

We should absolutely inconvenience them. We should not endanger
ourselves and use the wrong side of the road, or the sidewalks.

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 00:02, Aaron D. Ball <aarondball at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 23:51, Rebecca Albrecht <ralbrecht at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
>> Having tried to do a Courteous Mass in the middle of the month I think
>> it would work better to do it on the traditional day of the last Friday
>> of the month ie. this Friday.
>
> Rebecca,
>
> I say this as someone who likes Courteous Mass enough to have ridden
> in the rainy one, and someone who will happily participate in the next
> one whenever it may be:
>
> I ride in Critical Mass because too many drivers think cyclists should
> be afraid of them, and because the intentional and the reckless
> violence they commit has hurt friends and family and made my mother
> and my fiancee afraid to ride on the streets.
>
> Critical Mass is a direct-action protest.  Watering it down to the
> point that no one is inconvenienced is not going to fly.  Trying to
> turn Critical Mass into Courteous Mass or to hold them at the same
> time will harm your goals more than it helps.
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