My trip report was published originally on the Finnish Ecomodernist page (in Finnish).

The last Stand Up event of the year took place right after the UN climate meetings ended, in a country where a huge amount of emissions-free energy is scheduled to be taken offline prematurely in 2022.

Among the organisers were the environmental organization FOTA4Climate, German Nuklearia, and the German-speaking division of Mothers for Nuclear, a power-group of women who had participated in a string of demonstrations on site at each of the six nuclear power plants threatened with closure.

The month before, Britta Augustin from Mothers for Nuclear had joined the crowds at a climate strike in Berlin, organized by Fridays for Future, and experienced a violent attack. A man pulled her to the ground and ripped her sign in a striking demonstration of the prejudice shown toward nuclear power in Germany, where a “nuclear exit” next year is going to cause one billion tons of excess carbon emissions, laid out in a report published by the German Ökomoderne. This is the reason why it is critical for climate action that we Stand Up for Nuclear in Germany.

Having followed my fellow Mothers’ efforts at a distance in Switzerland, I was thrilled to finally have the chance to join them. On the eve of the demonstration, I packed my signs and materials and headed to a night train to sleep my way to Berlin.