Social Media Toolkit
Between August 6 and 9, advocates, storytellers, artists, and partners from around the world are coming together to mark 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Please join us as we honor the past with action to create a safer future and work to ensure that history never repeats itself.
You can participate in our social media campaign by sharing any of the sample copy and graphics below, or by sharing your own personalized message about why you are folding a paper crane this year. We hope you’ll encourage your community to bring their creativity, too, and join the chorus of voices participating in the campaign.
Social Media Copy
To explain why you’re sharing a crane this year, use the copy below to share along with your picture, graphic, or video. Please use the hashtag #CranesForOurFuture or link back to the website where possible.
80 years ago, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed and hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed. The world has never been the same.
Today, we fold cranes to honor remember those lost and fight for a safer futurethe past with action by creating a safer future.
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Our future is on the ballot. I’m sharing a paper crane as a symbol of hope that we elect leaders who support humanity’s creative, not destructive, potential.
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Diplomacy over destruction. Books not bombs. I’m sharing a paper crane to carry forward Sadako Sasaki’s legacy with a message of peace, hope, and resilience.
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This August, I’m joining others to share #CranesForOurFuture and raise awareness of the growing nuclear arms race. We must stop it for the future of our people and our planet.
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I’m folding a crane to honor Sadako Sasaki and all the children impacted by conflicts they didn’t create. Every child deserves to live free of the threat of nuclear weapons.
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We’re one mistake, accident, or deliberate act away from nuclear catastrophe. It doesn’t have to be this way. I’m folding this crane to call on our leaders to pull us back from the brink and end the dangerous arms race.
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Original Artwork
Participating can be as simple as sharing a photo of #CranesForOurFuture original artwork. A new art commission for 2025 is expected at the end of July, but consider using art created by Kyiv-based, Ukrainian paper artist and illustrator Mariia Lapitan-Yashchenko.
When sharing, please credit artist Mariia Lapitan-Yashchenko (or tag her @wooow.paperart on Instagram and Mariia Lapitan-Yashchenko on Facebook).
Social Media Graphics
Simply download the graphics below to post on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or any other platform to share your vision for a future free of nuclear weapons and inspire your friends, family and followers to participate.
Additional Resources
Use the links below to find additional content to share on social media, a draft grassroots email to send to your contacts, and more.
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.
GIFs
Print Your Message
Use this printable sign and take a selfie to share what a world without nuclear weapons means to you.
Coloring Pages
Can’t fold a crane? Print and color one in to share on social media!
Send an Email
Share why you’re participating in #CranesForOurFuture and encourage your personal or organizational networks to join in.
Alternate Subject lines:
Our future is on the ballot
Send a message about future you want August 6-9
Subject: Join us August 6-9 for #CranesForOurFuture
Dear ______,
We’re facing the biggest risk of nuclear conflict since the Cold War, but for most people, nuclear weapons feel like an invisible threat, lurking unseen in the background of our everyday lives. But with a new nuclear arms race underway, we’re only one mistake or miscalculation away from a catastrophic disaster.
It doesn’t need to be that way. We have an opportunity to show our leaders that we demand a better future for our families and communities, a safer future where nuclear weapons have no place.
Between August 6 and 9, the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, will you join others across the globe to send a message about why you’re folding a crane, with the hashtag #CranesForOurFuture?
To learn how, go to: https://www.cranesforourfuture.org. The power of our voices can show our leaders that we demand a more peaceful future–not another arms race.
Each year, #CranesForOurFuture brings together powerful voices from around the world–from world leaders like UN Secretary of General António Guterres to members of the U.S. Congress like Sen. Chris Van Hollen to artists and entertainment industry leaders like Julianne Moore, Yoko Ono, and Michael Douglas. It’s a movement that reminds us of hopeful possibilities and demands that our leaders forge a path to a brighter, safer future now.
With your help this year, we can make it clear that support for a world without nuclear weapons is the consensus and that change is possible.
Paper cranes are a symbol of peace around the world, thanks to the legacy of Sadako Sasaki. After she was diagnosed with radiation-induced leukemia a decade after the bombing in Hiroshima, she folded 1,000 paper cranes in the hopes that her wish to live would be granted. While Sadako did not survive, her legacy of paper cranes did, inspiring her classmates, and then the world, with a message of peace, hope, and resilience.
By folding cranes as a symbol of peace and hope, we can share a powerful vision: the hope and promise of a more peaceful world free from the threat of nuclear war.
Thanks,
[Your name here]