Nations Day (October 24) or other peace related days. In Japan, the city of Hiroshima includes Ribbons and prayers for peace in their annual commemoration of the nuclear bombing. In Israel, Interns for Peace works with Israeli and Palestinian youth to stage Ribbon events, joining them together at the Gaza Strip. In New Zealand, people joined Ribbons around the United States and Russian Embassies in Wellington. From 2002 to 2012, the Ribbon committee in New York City annually joined Ribbons, starting at the United Nations Headquarters and travelling to the World Trade Center. After the September 11 attacks, Merritt called the Ribbon the "Ribbon of Tangible Hope". She wanted to create a Ribbon long enough to stretch from the United Nations to the World Trade Center Memorial site and to a Muslim shrine. The Ribbon Committee worked with New York City Council on Nuclear Weapons Abolition Day, held April 28, 2004. Over the years, Church Women United has wrapped the Ribbon around numerous sites. The group held a peace litany joining "the Ribbon of Tangible Hope" in the state capital building in Oklahoma City on the fifteenth anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. Gallery References Sources Further reading (Includes an entry on Ribbon panels from the collection owned by the Falbyggdens Embroidery Museum) The Casebook: NGO Models of Conflict Resolution. Editors Working Group on Conflict Resolution of the NGO/DPI Executive Committee for The Executive Committee of Non-Governmental Organizations Associated With the United Nations Department of Public Information. 1993. Videos The Ribbon. (1985, 20 minutes, color) Produced by WAND; gives a brief history of how the Ribbon was started in CA and shows preliminary events leading up to the Ribbon around the Pentagon. The Ribbon In South Africa. (1986, 45 minutes, color) Documentary video on how black and white mothers used the Ribbon project, creating panels and having Ribbon events in front of government buildings to protest their sons going to war and killing each other in South Africa. Ed. by Harriet Gavshon, produced by Co-operation for Development International, Ltd. (CDI). External links The Ribbon International Political activism Collaborative projects Anti–nuclear weapons movement Organizations established by the United Nations