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You seem pretty reliable on attending events like COMASTEP or the TOUR DE FAT, but when Cal State University Northridge offers you a table and a tent at their sustainability festival about TRANSPORTATION, you are a total NO-SHOW. Apparently you guys signed up for it in the first place. There seems to be a disturbing pattern forming.
If you really have a question for the Valley Bikery volunteers why don't you call us or email us. You have all of our phone numbers and email addresses. If you have issues with how the Valley Bikery is run, you might have tried communicating directly instead of in a passive agressive way such as posting on forums or the many other examples I don't need to bring up but which I know you know.
If you, not your alter ego TV man, can not own up to your opinions and actions online and in person and insist on playing games and splitting your persona to avoid taking responsibility, then this is really not a constructive discussion. What is your goal - to talk badly about the Valley Bikery so that it fails? You already publicy denounced your "sponsorship" of the bikery about a month ago, sponsorship which we never asked for and which many of us didn't want anyway. What are you trying to do? I personally don't care to have discussions with people who must hide behind anonymity - If you won't reveal your identity but continue to criticize us publicy I will address you directly by your real name.
If you really want to know about the CSUN situation: We were planning on attending but a couple days before we were told that we needed to give proof of our $1 million liability insurance and our auto insurance which we don't have and have never needed for all the other clinics we've done at CSUN. Long story short, we tried to figure out other ways of making it work, stuff came up, we didn't end up being able to go. We are a small volunteer-run organization doing as much as we can but we cant do everything. That is the reality. You shouldn't make assumptions and bad-mouth an organization when you don't know what's going on and refuse to communicate directly.
It seems like his issue is not with the organization, it's strictly with you.
If he could have talked to you in person and have some effect on your actions he would have done so. He isn't the type to do this unless he was pushed into a corner.
Communication goes both ways.This isn't passive aggressiveness this is an attempt to have transparency.
ha no offense but you clearly do not know half of what is going on. You do not know how many times we have tried to meet with him and communicate.
He has my number. He can call me anytime. If the issue is strictly with me, why does he have issues with every volunteer? If the issue is strictly with me why don't I have communication problems with any of the other volunteers? If the issue is strictly with me why did he have "Tivu" address his issue to Valley Bikery online where we may or may not see it? This is what I mean by passive aggressive. I don't care to get into this online and I don't care to talk to him through one of his friends and I don't care to keep talking about him as an anonymous person. He can grow up and give me a call or set up a time to meet in person. If I have to post another response on this thread again and he still hasn't called me I'm done calling him Tivu.
Ayla responding to a comment by mechazawa
10.22.10 - 11:02 am
Whenever we stick our necks out and my genuine efforts to do positive things it is inevitable that we will receive criticism.
It's frustrating, because we rarely expect opposition from the very people who share our same basic goals.
But that is just how it is.
We just have to keep pushing on.
And focus our efforts on doing.
I applaud your addressing these issues here for the Ridazz community, but more importantly, for continuing to push ahead, regardless.
No offense to Tivu ... I know you do good things ... and honest criticism is valuable, none of us are perfect, but in the end of the day, we need to find people we can work together with and DO or go off on our own and DO.
I'm with you dude, I still haven't switched over to digital, and I refuse to buy a flat screen TV (no lie). I didn't like the way things were heading either, cause how the hell am I gonna fit one of those thin ass plasma TVs on my head?
Everything changed once analog disappeared. It was like Junior Mafia after Biggie passed. I feel lost too. I dont want to be Lil Kim, and I dont think you do either, so let's stop all this and go buy ourselves a VCR and rent Do the Right Thing on VHS. And fuck it, we'll get a VCR without auto-tracking playa.
Emancipatory journalism will not cease until the VALLEY is properly represented by people who actually care how the VALLEY is represented. This is no game to some of us. There are real consequences to action or in this case inaction.
paul makes us proud because his d/dd ratio is off the charts.
what is d/dd?
do / doo doo (aka shit talking).
I high "do" count in ones equation indicates an ability to get shit done and add value to coveted "doo doo points" the degree to which ones shit talking is valued.
Many other qualifiers applly as well but this is the basic formula.
Enough of the doo doo
I do need to go ride my bike to chinatown.
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