The Ribbon International

The Ribbon International is a United Nations Non-Governmental Organization. “The Ribbon” was conceived in 1982, by Justine Merritt a retired school teacher from Denver, Colorado; as a peaceful non-violent demonstration against nuclear war for the 40th anniversary of the bombing of  Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on the 3rd and 4th of August 1985, in Washington, D.C. “The Ribbon” was comprised of 27,000 individual panels (36” x 18), from around the world that were tied together, creating 15 miles of panels. Art work on the panels depicted the theme “what I cannot bear to think of as lost forever in nuclear war.”

“The Ribbon” evolved into “The Ribbon International” in 1991, a United Nations Non-Governmental Organization (UNGO) 

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