Social Media Toolkit
Thank you for joining people around the world in sharing paper cranes Friday, August 4-Wednesday, August 9. Together, we can create a powerful public display of support for a future free of nuclear weapons
To help ensure the campaign’s success, we encourage you to invite your community to join the chorus of voices participating in the campaign. Please feel free to adapt and use any of the resources available in this toolkit.
Useful Links:
Official campaign website: https://www.CranesForOurFuture.org
Instructions on how to fold a paper crane: https://www.CranesForOurFuture.org/Fold
Campaign hashtag: #CranesForOurFuture
Download #CranesForOurFuture logos
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Scroll or use the links below to find graphics to post, copy inspiration, and a grassroots email.
Crane Paper Art
Participating can be as simple as sharing a photo of this #CranesForOurFuture original art, created by Kyiv-based, Ukrainian paper artist and illustrator Eugenia Zoloto.
Please tag the artist wherever possible (Tw/X: @EugeniaZoloto; Insta: @Eugenia_Zoloto). Learn more about Eugenia and her story here.
Social Media Copy
Use the copy below to share on social media along with your folded crane, graphic, or video. For all posts, please use the hashtag #CranesForOurFuture and link to CranesForOurFuture.org when possible.
I’m joining people across the world in sharing paper cranes to honor the victims of the August atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Let’s build a future that is free of the threat of nuclear weapons.
CranesForOurFuture.org #CranesForOurFuture
#Oppenheimer started the era of nuclear threat. We can end it! I share this paper crane because a world without nuclear weapons is in our hands.
CranesForOurFuture.org #CranesForOurFuture
This year, President Biden and world leaders met on the hallowed ground of Hiroshima to commit to nuclear disarmament. Now, on the anniversary of the atomic bombing, we can show them that we want their words followed by action!
CranesForOurFuture.org #CranesForOurFuture
I’m sharing this crane to honor Sadako Sasaki and every victim of nuclear weapons production, testing and use. She deserved to live a life without the harm of nuclear weapons, and so does every child. ☮️
CranesForOurFuture.org #CranesForOurFuture
🌎Every August, people around the world fold paper cranes to honor the anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. By taking action together, we demonstrate that the demand for a world free of nuclear weapons is only growing.
CranesForOurFuture.org #CranesForOurFuture
In a future without nuclear weapons we will use our resources and technologies to create better lives, not deadlier threats. Let’s be better ancestors. Let’s lead on reversing the arms race.
CranesForOurFuture.org #CranesForOurFuture
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.
Printouts
Use this printable sign to share what a world without nuclear weapons means to you.
Print and color in your own crane to share on social media.
Shareable Social Graphics
Simply download and copy and paste the graphics below into your post on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or any other platform you prefer to share your vision for a future free of nuclear weapons and inspire your friends and family to participate. You can download all graphics here.
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Graphics
GIFs
Manga Art Mural
Gigi Murakami, an illustrator whose work blends Japanese manga art and vintage American comic aesthetics, created an original mural for the #CranesForOurFuture campaign that will be displayed on walls throughout NYC and Washington, D.C.
Share her art and help show that the power to change our future is in our hands. Downloadable assets include a five-part option to make sharing on social media easy.
Where possible, please credit and tag. TW/X: @gigimurakami; Insta: @gigi_murakami
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 by August 9
Subject: #CranesForOurFuture: Join a Global Activation This Weekend
Dear ______,
Earlier this year, President Biden and other world leaders met in Hiroshima and reaffirmed their commitment to a world without nuclear weapons. We have an opportunity to show our leaders that we want to see those 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?
To learn how, go to CranesForOurFuture.org.
Together, we can move closer to, not further from, a world without nuclear weapons.
Every year, activists, artists, diplomats, and politicians from around the world 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 have already witnessed what’s possible when we work together. This year, with your help, we can make sure millions more know they’re not alone in believing that we can have a safer, better world.
Why paper cranes? The origami peace 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 hope 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]