Joint press statement of the Action Alliance in Berlin under the umbrella of the Federal Assembly GFS to the design of the election program of Alliance 90 / the Greens. The Party Chairman of the Greens is committed in the design of the program for the protection of non-smokers, which is currently governed by the Berlin non-smokers Protection Act. However, calls for an absolute smoking ban as in Bavaria, a small part of ban fanatics from within their own ranks. The Executive Committee of the Berlin Greens apparently rejects a tightening of the existing non-smokers Protection Act. This is presented to the 2nd February 2011 draft of choice programme which, where it means literally (on page 21 in line 583) from his: we for a consistent non-smoker protection, as provided in the Berlin non smoking Protection Act, enter. “The initiative Berlin enjoy welcomes these clear distancing of the Berlin Greens led by the goals of their party colleagues in Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saarland, in the Federal Executive and in his own ranks, in contrast, a objections” Call for ban on smoking in restaurants. “Latter belongs next to the Berlin Bundestag Group Chairman Volker Raboy also health spokeswoman Heidi Kosche (MdA), which on a discussion event in the City Hall of Kreuzberg on February 10, 2011, before their activist group the before cited wording in the draft of the manifesto to the mere editorial oversight” played down.

Announced amendments to the national delegate Conference (LDK), to clarify that the Berlin want to ban smoking in all rooms in the hospitality industry, in health care facilities and under the open sky, E.g. in playgrounds and clinic sites, green after the election of House of representatives. Not only smoking, but all pleasure – and freedom-loving Berlin not to patronize wanting to get away, be must watch carefully with regard to their choice in September whether the land Board of the Greens at the country delegates Conference can prevail on the 5th/6th March against his ban fanatics or buckles. Contact: Initiative for Enjoy Berlin e.V. Rixdorf e.V. of East German Association of pipe-smoker smoking tobacco College Berlin Federal of empowered citizens LV Brandenburg Federal Managing Director Detlef Petereit Bundesversammlung GFS

On May 1, Demonstartionen are expected by workers in the Iran. The economic situation of the workers could well lead to a strong mobilization. Despite the ban. No, the protests in the Iran are not finished. What is interpreted by many commentators as a waning of the protests, is a brutal suppression of all available power of institutions, weapons and money.

The protests on the road have no chance as a collection of significant crowds, who last summer were Iran’s cities visible in Tehran and others, to occur. This Zersplitterungs strategy of the regime has risen on the anniversary of the revolution. Since the autumn of last year, there are also the so-called “Cyber-army”, which consists of 18,000 Bassij and specializes in modern media. The repertoire includes monitoring of mobile phones, eavesdropping on calls abroad, websites block to identify bloggers critical of the regime, spread viruses in the network, critical pages hack, spreading ideological propaganda, disinformation campaigns start and more “honorable” activities relating to Internet and telephony. Many of the high clergy in Qom are critical of the regime and to speak openly about the separation of Church and State. Integrated in the regime clerics such as Ayatollah Dschannati and Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, Mesbah Yazdi, however, regularly rail against the opponents of the regime and call for tougher action against any protests. You put it on a mood of fear in the country. The extensive application of the death penalty in addition located, especially if many of the defendants with protests and riots in context.

Despite the superiority of the regime with their penetration of key institutions, access to weapons and funds, people dare again and again on the road. At the turn of the year, there were fires and hundreds of thousands of people who have practiced the tradition of fire jumping despite ban by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the whole country. Videos circulating on the Internet show such events seek to resolve as security forces. The recent protests are worn mainly by students, women, trade unionists and human rights defenders, allocated to the bourgeois middle class. All eyes are now on May 1, the international labor day. On this day, demonstrations are expected of workers are keinsfalls approved by the regime. Bassij are in the large companies to forward instructed all plans for demonstrations. In Germany, a solidarity action for Iranian journalists held on May 1. With the workers on the side of the citizens the opposition movement pays out more opportunities in a Ruck in the country. The restrictions seem like a huge concrete slab, which is to hold it together in the Iran. In fact, the concrete has strong cracks. Any public protest, which will penetrate to the surface, will enlarge the cracks. In the Central of Western think tanks will be forged on alliances for the time after the break-up of the concrete slab. It would be a shame for the people in the Iran again from outside a system is cheered at him, him can take on its own to create a system that respects human rights and the political process involved all social forces. Helmut N. fork