#57: BRAZIL'S LULA APPOINTS HIS DEFENSE LAWYER TO THE SUPREME COURT
Pride parade chanted slogan promising bullet for TERFs + Germany issues 580 charges for climate change radicals + Japan clamps down on fake asylum claimants + MORE!
BRAZIL’S LULA APPOINTS HIS DEFENSE LAWYER AS SUPREME COURT JUDGE
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced his intention to nominate his former defense lawyer, Cristiano Zanin, as a judge at the Supreme Federal Court, the highest judicial authority in Brazil.
Critics of the move accuse the president of politicizing the country’s highest court by appointing his close personal friends.
The court has multiple and crucial functions, such as acting as a constitutional court, an electoral court and a supervisor of judicial investigations.
Cristiano Zanin, 47, has been Lula's lawyer since 2013 and was instrumental in securing his release from prison in November 2019, after he was sentenced to nine years and six months for money laundering and corruption.
Opponents claim that Zanin and his allies, are engaged in "lawfare" against Lula's opponents like former president Jair Bolsonaro.
RADICAL PRIDE PARADE PROMISES “BULLET” FOR OPPONENTS OF GENDER IDEOLOGY
On Saturday, June 10, 2023, France’s far-left held a “Radical Pride” parade in Strasbourg, France which included protests threatening TERFs with “bullets.”
Posters of the event include violent slogands intended to target opponents of gender ideology.
“One TERF, one bullet, social justice!” a poster of the event states.
“Holidays for trans, suffering for cis.”
The organizers of the Radical Pride are various local unions and associations that support LGBTQIA+ rights and radical politics including the Strasbourg Student Union Federation.
Among the demands made by the group include full coverage of transition costs, the access to assisted reproductive technology for all, as well as social and economic justice issues such as higher wages and the repeal of laws that target minorities.
GERMANY ISSUED 580 CHARGES FOR CLIMATE RADICALS
Radical activists belonging to the climate group Last Generation have been charged with 580 offenses by the German authorities.
The group has been using unconventional methods of protest, such as gluing themselves to the streets, to draw attention to the climate crisis.
The Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said that 740 people were involved in these offenses, mostly related to coercion and property damage.
She also said that the activists were not above the law and that their actions did not help the climate.
"It does not help climate protection at all,” said Faeser.
JAPAN APPROVES DEPORTATION LAW FOR FAILED ASYLUM SEEKERS
The Japanese Parliament has approved a new immigration and refugee law that will allow the government to deport people who have been denied refugee status more than twice.
The government claims that the law will protect genuine refugees and prevent abuse of the system by people who are not fleeing danger or persecution.
“Many people abuse the application system to avoid deportation, even if they are not fleeing danger or persecution,” said Justice Minister Ken Saito.
However, the law has faced strong opposition from human rights groups, lawyers and some opposition parties, who argue that it will put asylum seekers at risk of being sent back to their countries of origin where they may face violence or discrimination.
According to official statistics, Japan accepted only 202 refugees out of about 12,500 applicants in 2022, and granted humanitarian status to another 1,760 people.
It also welcomed more than 2,400 people who escaped from Ukraine after the Russian invasion in 2022. The new law will also grant quasi-refugee status to people from conflict-affected regions, allowing them to stay in Japan temporarily under the supervision of their supporters.
LESSON BOOK FORCED GENDER IDEOLOGY AFFIRMATIONS
A social studies workbook in Ireland for 12 and 13-year olds has sparked controversy among parents and educators who claim that it promotes gender ideology and harms children's well-being.
he workbook, titled “Health and Wellbeing SPHE 1”, contains exercises that require students to accept that gender identity is different from sex and that sex is "assigned at birth".
It also asks students to advise other teenagers who express gender confusion or dissatisfaction with their bodies.
“The tweets below have been posted to a Twitter support group for teenagers,” reads the workbook.
“In groups, imagine that you run the support groups Twitter page and reply to the tweets.”
One of the comments features a fictional character complaining about her “stupid breasts.”