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<DIV>Without leaders or members and set goals, CM is not really an advocacy
group at all. It is a party on wheels. </DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>The closest we have come to advocacy is the occasional flyer, sign affixed
to bike, or route planning for a specific purpose.</DIV>
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<DIV>(for the record, I wish too that CM was 'nicer'.)</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=ThoM3@aol.com href="mailto:ThoM3@aol.com">ThoM3@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=list@bostoncriticalmass.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 08, 2008 9:59
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [*BCM*] Bostoncriticalmass
Digest, Vol 43, Issue 3</DIV>
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<DIV>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?</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 1/8/2008 8:57:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, <A
href="mailto:jontramos@yahoo.com">jontramos@yahoo.com</A> writes:</DIV>
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<P>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. </P></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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