A Tea Party For Peace?

NEW YORK — May 4, 2010. Thousands of Japanese peace activists came to New York to participate in talks about nuclear disarmament that were held at the United Nations. On Saturday, May 2, 15,000 people, most of them coming from Japan, marched from Times Square to the UN in support of nuclear disarmament.

On Tuesday, May 4, a very special event took place at the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Manhattan. The activist women from CodePink in Osaka, Japan met with the Granny Peace Brigade, the Ragging Grannies, and CodePink NYC for an evening of sharing stories, lessons on how to make origami paper peace cranes called "orizuru"