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“The secret is not to take care of the butterflies but rather from the garden so that they come to you. After all, you will find not the one you were looking for, but the one who was looking for you!

The 2^nd World Bicycle Forum Assembly, congregated on February 24^th 2013, after days of discussions and debates on the changing of cities for the use of bicycles and on the motto Cycling for Change, reaffirms that:

We are in favor of cities thought out for people, where leisure and green spaces are valued and not

reduced. We are in favor of the extension of public spaces, be them for leisure or pedestrian circulation, for it is in them that city life takes place.

We are in favor of urban mobility, of intelligent and efficient transit solutions. We believe that traffic issues are solved by the investing and valuing of quality public transportation, of pedestrians and of bicycles, which should have the preference over private automobiles from the planning of streets to the making of laws.

We are in favor of more human cities, where people – be them children, adults, elderly or people with disabilities – need not be afraid of the streets, but rather can be part of them,

feeling valued, respected and cared for.

We are in favor of trees, from the ones inherited from decades ago and part of our history and daily life, embellishing the city, providing us with shade and oxygen, providing for milder temperatures and reducing the atmospheric and sound pollution caused by automobiles, to the new sprouts that will serve our future generations.

We are in favor of progress, but we believe that remodeling works aimed at automobile circulation are not it, for they are opposed to the idea of cities for the people; we want to follow the example of the world’s most progressive cities, which have realized that the automobile is not a solution for urban mobility and that their circulation should be reduced and discouraged.

We are in favor of communities staying in their place of origin. We believe the removal of communities to the outskirts of cities to be an attack on human rights and an inversion of values, where the profit of some corporations is held above the fundamental rights of human beings and the flow of automobiles is worth more that community life.

We are in favor of direct, participative democracy, of dialogue and of thorough openness.

Bearing in mind that cities are built by and are the reflection of the actions and habits of people living in them, we would like to invite everyone to cycle for change.

2^nd World Bicycle Forum Assembly

Porto Alegre, February 24^th 2013

We have already received application for several amazing workshops for the 2nd World Bicycle Forum, and yet we have decided to extend the deadline so that more people can submit their

proposals. Applications are open until February 15.

New proposals for Workshops can be submitted to oficinasfmb@gmail.com. They will be included in the event's official schedule, taking place from February 21. to the 24. 2013

, at Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana, in Porto Alegre (RS).

To participate, it's necessary to submit an email stating the name of the host of each workshop, a brief description of the activities, necessary material to be used during the workshop and contact information no later than February 15.  2013.

Just as it was in the first edition of WBF in 2012, the workshops are free of charge and the hosts are expected to be volunteers.

Bring your workshop and help us make the WBF happen!

The second edition of the World Bicycle Forum will host a collaborative art show of posters and flyers related to it's moto: “Cycle for change”. Use your creativity and express the positive changes of bicycles on your life or community. Get

inspired by personal or friends' stories, look around in your street, remember what you'

ve heard from other cities and let your imagination flow.

It's free to participate. Submissions should be sent until February 12th via email: voluntariosfmb@gmail.com in PDF format, A3 size (297 mm height X 420 mm width), with 300 dpi resolution and isoCoated v2 profile applied.

The selection of works will be made by a volunteer curatorship that will select 30 posters to be exposed during the WBF, from Feb. 21st to 24th at Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana (Porto Alegre/RS). The WBF organization will take care of the printing costs.

Join the exhibition, show your art and make the World Bicycle Forum happens.

As well as in the first edition of the event in 2012, the 2^nd World Bicycle Forum – taking place from the 21st to the 24th of February 2013, at Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana, in buy metronidazole