Social Media Toolkit
Thank you for your commitment to join people around the globe August 4-9, 2023 in folding and sharing paper cranes or a digital graphic in support of a safer, better future—free of nuclear weapons.
To expand the chorus of voices that activate globally, we need your help to recruit your network before August 4. With the resources in this toolkit, please encourage colleagues, family, and friends to join us.
Below you will find a grassroots email blast and social media text and graphics.
As we get closer to campaign kick-off, an updated toolkit will be available, featuring resources, graphics, and content suggestions for use around the anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Useful Links:
Official Campaign Website cranesforourfuture.org
How to fold a paper crane cranesForOurFuture.org/Fold
Downloadable Zoom background to help promote the campaign. Learn how to change your background in Zoom.
Download #CranesForOurFuture logos
Download all graphics in the social toolkit
Share the Campaign Videos
Show your network what #CranesForOurFuture is about. Download the videos to post natively to your social media or use the links below to share the videos posted on YouTube.
Social Media Graphics
Simply download and copy and paste the graphics below into your post on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or any other platform you prefer, to inspire your followers to join and fold a paper crane on August 4-9.
Social Media Copy
If you need inspiration for what to share along with the graphics, please use the suggested copy below. For all posts, please use the hashtag #CranesForOurFuture and link back to the website where possible.
To mark the anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, I’ll be sharing a paper crane with the hope these are the last time nuclear weapons are used.
Join me: CranesForOurFuture.org
#CranesForOurFuture
Oppenheimer ushered in a world living under the threat of nuclear weapons. Join people around the world committed to ending it.
#CranesForOurFuture CranesForOurFuture.org
🌎 What future do I want? 🌏 One where people and the planet are thriving free from the threat of nuclear weapons.
Join me in folding and sharing paper cranes with people around the world August 4-9. #CranesForOurFuture CranesForOurFuture.org
Crafting a safer future starts with us.
Fold a paper crane August 4-9 to send a message that a world free of nuclear weapons is possible. #CranesForOurFuture CranesForOurFuture.org
🚨Nuclear threats with the war in Ukraine. A new arms race.🚨
We can’t let that be our future. Fold a crane with others who believe it’s possible. #CranesForOurFuture CranesForOurFuture.org
Show your support for a world without nuclear weapons.
Join me and others in folding and sharing a paper crane August 4-9. #CranesForOurFuture CranesForOurFuture.org
Send an Email
We’ve included a sample email blast that you can send directly to your personal or organizational email list in the lead up to the campaign to share more details about #CranesForOurFuture and encourage participation.
Alternate Subject lines:
Honor victims of nuclear weapons
Fold a paper crane with me and people around the world August 4-9
Subject: #CranesForOurFuture: Join a Global Activation Aug. 4-9
Dear ______,
President Biden and other G7 leaders met in Hiroshima and reaffirmed a commitment to a world without nuclear weapons. We have an opportunity to show our leaders that we want to see words matched with action.
Between August 4 and 9, during the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, will you fold and share a crane on social media with the hashtag #CranesForOurFuture?
Join in calling for us to move closer to, not further from, a world without nuclear weapons.
Every year activists, artists, diplomats, and members of Congress join together in August to demand that our leaders forge a path toward a better future–without nuclear weapons–for our loved ones and for future generations. Millions around the world witnessed what’s possible when we work together. This year, with your help, we plan on making sure millions more know they’re not alone in believing we can do better.
Why paper cranes? The origami crane is a symbol of peace around the world thanks to Sadako Sasaki, a child who survived the Hiroshima atomic bombing but lost her life a decade later due to cancer from radiation exposure. She folded more than a thousand paper cranes in the hopes that her wish to live would be granted.
Together we can honor Sadako and all those who have died or suffered from the production, testing, and use of nuclear weapons. The power to craft a better future is in our hands.
Thanks,
[Your name here]