The fiction of a common left opposition

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The opposition parties in autumn: yellow, long letters to the base and counterwind of social initiatives and environmental links

In recent weeks, the media attention in political Berlin was the designated government parties Union and FDP. Any exercise of one of its top politicians has been knocked down again and again and of Westerwells tie color or Merkel’s facial expression was closed to the state of coalition. With the conclusion of the coalition negotiations, the opposition parties were also able to jerk more in the center of attention.

But even in the last few weeks had already become clear that the idea of a common left opposition against black-yellow is a fiction. SPD, Grune and Left are still looking for their role in opposition. But the three parties have already set their different accents in recent weeks. In doing so, there are especially among the green party-internal varying ideas about federal operations.

This became clear in the run-up to the congress of the past Saturday in Berlin. Particularly young green national politicians have the conclusion of the first black-green-yellow coalition in Saarland (see Jamaica sinks in the green sump) understood as a signal to make the green endpost to the party of the center, which can coalize with Union, FDP and SPD. With this they sat down from the old grunen around Jurgen Trittin, Claudia Roth and Christian Strobele, who still give a bundnis with the Social Democrats first priority. It’s not just the weak of the SPD that will shrink the appendant of this option. Because the grunes have been a member of the center, which has coalized with the FDP with both the SPD, the Union and in the traffic light constellation in Bremen and Brandenburg.

Therefore, it must be surprised that the first Jamaica coalition was still providing for those intra-party controversies. Finally, almost 20 years ago the Grune top politician Jutta Ditfurth warned before a "green FDP". At that time there was already the electricity of the Okoliberranes, which set a bundis from Grunen, FDP and Union. 20 years ago, the Okolibertranes were seen as a grunous spot airflow. But surprising is that in 2009, after the greats to answer as a government party Hartz IV and a war with a war, a Jamaik ambition is still interpreted by a part of the party as a violation of the green soul.

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The SPD has not recovered from the shock of power loss. This showed the letter, which the artificial party chairman Sigmar Gabriel, who has been the nickname "Siggi-Pop" has been written to Partebasis since his function as a pop-up contractor of the SPD; Gabriel gives himself as basic understanding:

I can understand the frustration and Arger in our SPD well, because – please believe me – me and all the others here in Berlin is synonymous. And not because we have to have our ministries or jobs space, but because our SPD is in a catastrophic state.

He also realizes that the Agenda 2010 and the pension with 67 in the party are to be rejected. But as a mistake Gabriel does not want to call this policy. Thus, even under his agide, the SPD continued to lose a contour.

This also bumped the former Hessian SPD chairman Andrea Ypsilanti, which does not want to race for the party board at the SPD party congress in November and poses leading party friends to stick to their item.

In the FAZ the jerking of Ypslianti, which was appointed as a past future of the SPD and Fubnote of the party history, was commented with unhealthy joy. The fact that isolated demand for rehabilitation of the politician took little obedience, with which the SPD had won a choice and that was only one year to sudden to the Left Party with its unraved ratio, ties for the manovrieriness of the old steamer SPD.

Also in Thuringen, the SPD practices a further. The party chairman Christoph Matschie ignores the displeasure of the Parteibasis over his covenant with the CDU and the Left Party still gives a grace period. This can count on the next choice for voices from further dissatisfied social democrats. More difficult, on the other hand, it will be pleased to have the Left Party in Brandenburg.

What to do with the election promise?

In a government coalition with the SPD it will hardly be possible to continue your cuddly course with the environmental links. Before the government is in office, it is already bombed with emails of an environmental court, which the left poses to be bent against the SPD at the lignite building. The exploration of CO2 stores in Ostbrandenburg rejected by the Left Party also will not be stopped.

In addition, the "Left Reform Government" has agreed on a massive job reduction in the public service, which is funded with the miserable budget situation. In some press items, it strolled that only in a coalition with the Left Party the social tranquility can be ensured in such a serious job reduction. The Left Party soon was allowed to get counterward from social initiatives and environmental links to traces. As a result, the question was also the question of the purpose of a government participation on the agenda. The front histories are confusing.

While the former SPD chairman Lafontaine is rather attributed to the critics of a government participation, although he wanted to become a ministerial prospective in Saarland, the power of emancipatory left, which comes from the undogmatic left, an unrinted ratio is said to regret.

Staged extremism debate

The left within the Left Party currently relies rough hopes for the state elections in NRW. The local association of the left has provided with its election program inner and outside the party for criticism. Immediately by Union and FDP, the extremism reproach was made because in the program the nationalization of the final industry is required. This program is still a few years ago to the repertoire of SPD and trade unions.

The legalization of Hashish and the reduction of the prison sentences in NRW inhabited for years to the program of the Grunen. The excitement about the NRW program shows once more how quickly an extremism debate can be initiated. The spaghat between the government and the more or less decided opponents was allowed to become permanent ie for the Left Party.

More and more Frenchmen mobilize against the omniprators of advertising and defend their right to the "Freedom of the view"

By role model of Canadian adbusters, grupps and clubs are forming to take the fight of David against Goliath via the Internet. Naomi Klein’s book "No logo!" was only published in France in early May and has launched a public discussion that has been taking place on numerous internet forums (hacktivists in Logoland). The French anti-advertising onrode and framed posters, processes against the "Optical pollution" and understands the media attention with sensational actions with sensational actions. Ex-advertiser and now-the-minded bestsellor Frederic Beigbeder (danger in the suit – and with tie) is passed on by talk show to talkshow to the "Ensupance of humanity through advertising" to put the pillory.

Every day, a resident of the industrialized countries with 2500 advertising messages is confronted. Leaders are the United States whose burgers have to digest at least 1 million advertising contacts per year. With the sheer immobilization possibilities via TV, radio, print media, internet, posters and the ubiquitous brand logos you had to inhabit a lonely island to escape the suck promises of the advertising converter.

18 million advertising interconnections were brought by the French media under Volk in 2000. In all the lure voices, however, it becomes more and more difficult to bring his message to the man / woman: according to a market study, 85% of advertising messages never reach their target group, or. Do not create the attention of the targeted consumers. From the remaining 15% 5% are subject to the so-called "Boomerang effect", Which means that the awkward effect is wrong in your opposite. Only a total of 10% achieve their target audience. After 24 hours, it is only 5%, which receive the advertising message and also keep. The top priority for a successful campaign is therefore consistent in the penetrance: only with the steady repetition you can reach its goal, explores a Coca-Cola manager.

Creative against the advertising aggression

Ironically, former advertising is the one that is one of the "Casseurs de Pub" (Advertising starters have formed. Like the Canadian Adbusters, they organize shopping-free days, call for a week without television and ask the visitors to their Internet site to home without trademarks.

"Our coarse parents wore religious insignia, our generation political and our children wear brands", Write the antiwerbe activist Paul Aries on the antipub.net. If you do not contribute to a brand, you can count on social exclusion, is called it. Primary goal of the brand’s strategists are children before 3. Year of life, because in this old logo is particularly good and the foundation stone can be placed on brand loyalty.

"Most children may be before the 6. or 8. Life of life do not distinguish between advertising and program content. This ability usually develops only from the 10. age", explains the Swedish Minister of Culture Marita Uluskog. Under the EU chairman of Sweden, therefore, the legal inspection of the advertising, which is primarily addressed primarily at children, will still be encouraged.

Despite extensive medical attention and acting support Frederic Beigbeders – the day without Purchasing last November, the bestselling author focused on the activists from Parisian shopping paradises to prevent the previously heated consumers from it, "For your families to buy disk gifts" – could not mobilize the day without a purchase or week without television insanely many French.

censorship?

Last but not least, that may be because the two TV spots that the French adbusters had planned as a call, despite purchasing the advertising placements were not sent. The French control documents for advertising activations BVP (Bureau de Verification de la Publicite) had rejected the spots with the argument that their content "not of general interest" were. The law had not provided access to clubs and non-profit organizations on advertising interconnections.

The Casseurs de Pub has now called the Media Control Hard CSA (Conseil Superieur de l ‘Audiovisuel) to place the paradoxical situation that currently in France has profit-oriented companies such as Benetton’s alleged non-profit embassies to sell their sweaters, but Recognized NGOs like Amnesty International have to accept that spots are rejected by the BVP to put an end. This statutory LUCKE MUSSE will be closed to advance a bar of the BVP’s arbitrarial behavior.

In October 1999, the BVP had rejected an amnesty international campaign against violations of human rights in the United States. Argument: This campaign dangerous the good cooperation between the states. All this is probably easy to explain with the fact that that "Buro for checking advertising", The BVP, coarse part of professional from the advertising industry is occupied.

"You do not get any problems today when you give politicians publicly. However, if you attach yourself to the multinational corporations, so tremble all," says Raul Anvelaut of the "Casseurs de Pub" in an interview with the prestigious monthly newspaper Le Monde Diplomatique, which your may ie the "Advertising" (La Pieuvre Publicitaire) has dedicated.

The watchdogs defend themselves against sexist advertising

With very similar problems like the "Advertising starter" has the feminist group Les Chiennes de Garde, to German "The watchdogs", to fight. FRANZOSIC FEMINists have been running for years against sexism in advertising. Sometimes even success: So Z.B. A supermarket chain – after heavy protests of feminists – signpacks back on which a half-naked, sitting woman with spread legs were seen. Below it was read: " If you have almost nothing, discover that we have a lot in us!". With "she" were manner meant.

However, the BVP had not obeyed this advertising campaign. "The advertising machine has a variety of eyes", Writes the Prasidential of the Chiennes de Garde, Isabelle Alonso. "It is not taught the image of women who have women of women, but have the manner of us. Although a coarse part of the advertisements turn to the so-called housewife." However, the fight against the degrading representation of women in advertising, but the watchdogs often appear like a fight against Windmuhlen: The self-imposed statutes of the BVP are so vagulating that it is difficult, or. It is impossible to achieve the banned of a sexist advertising campaign at the Contramburo.

For a logo-free landscape

Factive support in the fight against "The colionalization of our consciousness by advertising" comes from the side of the environmental protection. The association Paysages de France (Landscapes of France) not only complains of the fact that advertising propagates an ideology of unrestricted economic growth, which destroys our planet. But also that both urban and rural landscapes were abused as advertising flakes and survived the freedom of the look. The members of the association gather almost every weekend from illegally attached poster flakes to force the local politicians to respond.

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Also on advertising posters it has "Resistance to advertising aggression" (Resistance à l’Agression Publicitaire). On the brightest day, framed and destroy the activists unpleasant posters. On your internetite, which you together with the "Casseurs de Pub" operate, give tips on how to avoid advertising on the internet. And call for future advertising referenders to reflect the mailing programs – as they themselves – consistently to the sender.

During some of the advertising laborers, as a media effective, and, for example, made until last February in 15 McDonalds branches for restlessness – the members of a group called "Agitatory apprentices for a network of global resistance" (Apprentis Agitateurs Pour Un Reseau de Resistance Global) had as engravings of the "World capitalism" Demonstrated – demonstrated, others are based on their internetites, such as Z.B. www.E-Connerie.com, advertising campaigns to framed and persified. However, those who engage in the brand logos of the multis must expect difficulties.

Graphic community is a unnecessary luxury!

The amusement of the restructuring measures of the Gervais-Danone group rounded JeboyCottedanone.Net, which called the consumers of the Boycott of the DanoneProducts, was now taken from the Belfare Reseau Voltaire from the net. The milk giant did not taste the alienation and persiflierung of his brand logos at all and moved to court.

At the 14th. Mai has a French judge that the right to free community expenses in relation to the policy of the Danoegroup is sufficiently present at a verbal level. However, the right to graphic freedom is an unnecessary luxury! The judge prohibited the Reseau Voltaire to designate the Gervais Danoegroup by graphical representations. As a result, the Reseau Voltaire decided to trigger the boycott site, as their right to freely clit freely and a comprehensive presentation of the Danone group is no longer possible. It was objectioned to this frosting and has since reached the formation of a Parliamentary Inquiry Committee, which should devote itself to the preservation of fundamental freedoms on the Internet.

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Frederic Beigbeders literary persiflage of the advertising industry "39.90" is probably a prime example of successful publishing marketing. No wonder, Beigbeder himself is ex-employee of advertising sizes "YoungRubicam" and the marketing strategies certainly still powerful. "Indeed," explain the Casseurs de Pub – all self advertisement -, "You can only beat them with your own weapons. Because media attention is unassailable and the preservation is only with sensational, advertising actions."

The coarse danger for the current antiweric discourse sees Francois Brune in his article in the Monde Diplomatique in that one on both sides of the same "Tag language" serve. The communication style typical for the advertising industry of shortening and instrumentalization of socio-political topics, muse from the critics with more thoughtful.

But the entanglements between the two advertising busts continue to go: Finally, most media are financed to the large part of advertising revenue and thus depended on the hundreddown of their advertiser.

Protest from the end of the country in Janschalde on 26. June. Image: Circle of friends Video clips / CC0

The energy and climate weekend: from ice-leisure Alps and protests against the coal exit law and RWE

After recording temperatures in Siberia, Grandfish forest band is also widening again this year in Siberia. Different media report that on Sunday a flat of 1.4 million hectares burned. In the summer of 2019, after estimates by Greenpeace, a good ten times so rough flat burned. But still it is unclear how the brand will continue to spread. They are only excited on a small part of the flat, as this is not economically worthwhile. In uninhabited areas, the flames are therefore surprised.

Heat waves, dryness and burning in Arctic widths seem to develop more and more to the new normality in climate change, with the well-known consequence that by forest and moorbranges as well as dutenermafrost even more greenhouse gases are released, which in turn accelerate it.

Meltwater charmed glacier columns in the lower area of the big aletsch in summer 2019. Image: Fau / Christian Sommer

Dramatically, the consequences of climate heat have been shown in the Alps for years. According to a new study by the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg, the European mountains will probably lose almost all poached flats until the end of the century.

Between the years 2000 and 2014, the Alpeglecker shrunk by 22 cubic kilometers, which are 17 percent of their total mass. The Swiss Alps were particularly affected. Although the glacier loss in many places of the Alps has been observed locally for quite some time, the new study based on radar and satellite quantities, but allows a new overall picture for the Alps. The newly obtained data offer a basis for more detailed modeling of the art glacier drainage.

If the water supply from the glacier melt decreases in the future, the far-reaching consequences for the entire region. So Rhone and Po are fed to around a Funftel from the meltwater of the glaciers in summer. The power generation of hydropower was also influenced.

Money gifts and occupied excavators

On Friday, the Bundestag is advised via the coal exit law as well as coal regions on the Structural Structure Act. About the design of the coal exit law, which remains substantially unnecessary, we have already reported at this point (Berlin’s farewell to climate protection).

Bis Spad 2038 all coal power plants in Germany are to be switched off. For the decommissioning of the lignite, 4.35 billion euros deciding on the power plant operators. There are several checks of the shut-off plan, whereby the exit could be preferred by three years. The coalition of these days has still negotiated over the reductions on the shutdown of the coal-fired power plants, with the result that the state is still a lot on which. Thus, the operators should now be decided on the year 2027 for decommissioning. Reason for the conversion of hard coal to gas were more than doubled for the start time.

The high of the intended compensations for power plant operators remains difficult to understand, as it shows today that power generation in coal-fired power plants, primarily in old lignite power plants, is unpretentably, what we have reported several times at this point.

So the climate alliance is criticized that the public contracts with the power plant operators "Too little climate protection for too much money" brought. "The realitat is overhighing more and more the agreed coal outward. Currently renewable and gas power plants produce considerably gunstiger. Many coal-fired power plants have been working economically for a long time and should be better off", explains Stefanie Langkamp from the climate alliance

The current coordination process was accompanied on the coal outlet of excavator occupations in Lausitz and in the open pit of Garzweiler by activists of the end of the landing and use carbon stop. Fridays for Future protested in Garzweiler and before the Federal Ministry of Economics in Berlin.

"End" Does the planned coal exit law call a coal extension law. Ronja because, spokeswoman of the federalist end explanes: "Durren, forest charts and 38 degrees in Siberia make it clear: every further day coal stream is a climate crime. The Federal Government wants to ensure that this crime continues for 18 more years with its coal extension law." For the 1. July has announced the end of the country to block the party headquarters of the SPD in Berlin.

Criticism of RWE: Missing for climate protection and human rights

The Annual General Meeting of the Action Parts was protested on Friday before the RWE headquarters in Essen. The Annual General Meeting itself was virtually this year in the face of the Covid 19 pandemic. The protests were also directed against the plan of the Federal Government, the Group for the coal exit at 2.7 billion euros to declare as well as against the existence of the Tagaus Garzweiler until 2038, the further Dorfer falls victim to the victim.

Antje Grothus from the initiative Buirer for Buir criticized that RWE should also coincide with the structural change in the region: "Instead of providing the civil society and environmental and nature conservation associations in structural change, the future agency Rheinische Revier overlooks the coal group represented in the observation Council and the Mining Union Igbce, with the project and funds to decide. According to which criteria these takes place is completely intransparent. It hurts the climate, the future-proof structural change and our democracy that neither the NRW state government nor the municipalities of RWE emancipate."

The umbrella organization of critical actions submitted three counter-connectors to the Annual General Meeting. The first directed against the payment of a dividend of 80 cents. Instead, the balance sheet profit in 2019 should be used to set up various funds for approximately climate damage, social and ecological consequences of the mining of the imported hard coal and damage through the lignite building in Germany.

The two other applications, on the other hand, set up to relieve the Management Board and the Supervisory Board. It is called: "The Management Board of RWE AG is not sufficient to implement his responsibility to implement more effective measures for climate protection and comply with human rights due diligence."

RWE is far from becoming climate-neutral, as Executive Board Rolf Martin Schmitz was the destination for the year 2040. "If RWE has been implementing its own climate goals, it still ran to an emblem beyond 9.5 degrees Celsius", write the critical actions, D.H. If the 30 largest DAX companies were all so economic as RWE. RWE reserved the right to take legal action against the coal outlet of the Netherlands.

Further criticisms are the continuing of the tape building Hambach and Garzweiler and the disregard of UN specifications on human rights due diligence. The hard coal for the power plows of RWE comes to coarse parts from Russia and from Colombia, where "operated with fatal ecological damage and under disregard of human rights tape" became.

Against the relief of the Supervisory Board speaks from the point of view of critical actions that it had failed, "Guided business management and to ensure that they perceive their responsibility for nuclear phase-out". This refers to the further operation of the uranium enrichment plant of Urenco in Gronau. RWE is Shareholders of Urenco.

AKW Fessenheim shut down

When expanding renewable energies, it still does not look good in Germany. As the specialist information service IWR reports, wind power in the youngest tendering of the Federal Network Agency remains almost half the half. The bids for 2. June amounted to 467.59 MW at an advertised amount of 825.53 megawatts. It looked very different from the bids for photovoltaic systems. Here were 96.36 MW, the total amount of bids amounted to 447.23 MW.

Finally, a positive message: in the night of 29. On the 30. June the second reactor of the nuclear power plant Fessenheim in Alsace has been switched off, which the power plant is now operating after 42 years. However, risks continue to exist until the fuel elements are abducted and can be removed from the system. That will take until 2023.

Nevertheless, the population in nearby Freiburg and Basel has been safer since today safer. For a long time, the French government had tossed the shutdown of the ancient reactors in Fessenheim to the commissioning of the new Flamanville nuclear power plant, which, when it should take place at all, further narrowed. In February, the decommissioning of Fessenheim was definitely decided. Thus, in France, however, there are still 56 atomic reactors on the net, many of them highly advanced. In 2018, Emmanuel Macron announced that by 2035, the proportion of nuclear power plants to the power generation of today 70 percent should be reduced to 50 percent and 14 reactors were turned off.

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