WeCycle is a bicycle co-op and community organization focused on creating a regenerative paradigm for constituents within a three mile radius of the Atlanta University Center. Our goal is prepare research on the health, the economic, and the environmental impact of cycling as a recreational outlet or an alternate means of transportation. We plan on promoting bike culture through all avenues of art including: the visual arts, fashion, music and design. We will be highlighting all the facets of this new progressive, inspirational, and progressive community in the most creative ways possible. There will be no dull moments. We base our ethics in light of Kwanzaa principles:
Umoja = Unity: To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race
Kujichagulia = Self-Determination: To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves
Ujima = Collective Work and Responsibility: To build and maintain our community together and make our brother's and sister's problems our problems and to solve them together
Ujamaa = Cooperative Economics To build and maintain our stores , shops and other businesses and to profit from them together
Nia = Purpose: To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness. Kuumba = Creativity: To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial that we inherited it. Imani = To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
