Crane DriveWe had initially planned to have origami booths at the Davis Cherry Blossom Festival where festival-goers could learn origami and make paper cranes, which they could donate to Tsuru for Solidarity's goal of making 125,000 cranes to bring to their protest in Washington D.C. in support of immigrant rights. The making of 1,000 cranes symbolizes the fulfillment of a wish, good fortune, or wishes for peace. In this case, 125,000 is representative of the number of Japanese Americans that were incarcerated due to their race following Executive Order 9066 in 1942, and they are being collected to be displayed in protests against the injustices against immigrant communities today, including civil detention and family separation policies.
If you still want to be part of this effort, you can make paper cranes at home - any square paper will do - and we will collect them and string them up at the rescheduled festival. Displaying all our cranes when we are able to meet for the festival again will be a beautiful display of our community's resilience. We intend to contribute these cranes to Tsuru for Solidarity's national protest in Washington D.C., although it is also being rescheduled due to COVID-19. Based on the timelines, we may also use them to support similar work for social justice locally.
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Make a Origami Tsuru (Paper Crane)
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Step by step instructions to make an origami tsuru or paper crane. You can make cranes at home and bring them to the Davis Cherry Blossom Festival, when it is rescheduled, to be strung up and displayed with everyone else’s.
1,000 paper cranes symbolize the fulfillment of a wish or good fortune. This year, our festival was supporting Tsuru for Solidarity (TFS) in their advocacy and protest work to stop inhumane treatment of immigrants, including civil detention and family separation. While our festival and TFS’s national protest had to be rescheduled due to COVID19, we will still collect the cranes everyone has made at our next festival and display them to show our community’s resilience. So, if you feel like participating, feel free to make some tsuru while you wait at home and wish for our world’s safe passage through this time of crisis. Please stay safe and healthy, and we look forward to celebrating with you when it is safe again. Additional Resources: Tsuru for Solidarity How to make and string paper cranes - https://tsuruforsolidarity.org/tsuru-resources/ |