33 medical students and young doctors, 750 km, 11 days - these were the basic facts of the IPPNW Biking Against Nuclear Weapons Tour, or BAN Tour in short. The activists, which came from all corners of the world, covered three countries: Germany, France and Switzerland and brought the issue of nuclar abolition to the people in towns and villages on the way. There were meetings with parliamentarians, mayors and media people as well as large public events such as flashmobs or Target installations. In order to read more about the BAN Tour, please click HERE.

On the 21st/22nd of August, the tour made a stop in Karlsruhe. The residential city of the counts of Baden was constructed in the 18th century with the striking palace in the middle and the streets eminating from it like rays of sunlight. Its name literalls means "Karl's rest", as count Karl of Baden intended for it to be his capital city. It has remained a residential city, but for other reasons. Nowadays, it houses the German Federal Constitutional Court and the German Federal Court of Justice and dubs itself the Germany City of Justice; it has even turned one of its marketplaces into the "Square of Fundamental Rights". It is in Karlsruhe that many important decisions have been made which have shaped and influenced the modern German state and it is here that people can turn if they feel that their rights have been infringed upon. Karlsruhe is also the founding city of the German Green Party, which has played an important role in recent political history and has become the second biggest party in the city council with more than 20% of the total vote. 

On the 22nd of August, we held a Target installation and a flashmob right in front of the pyramid on the main market square of Karlsruhe.