Youth Movements

Interview: Kawtorpai Church

Patrick Huang
He is a fresh-faced young man with curly hair. If I had not known that he was a pastor, I would have thought he was a highly energetic office worker who works in a high-rise in the central business district of Bangkok. He is, in fact, pastor Prachan Noimung, a man of the Karen ethnic group from Maehongsorn Province who now serves as head of the Kawtorpai. This can be translated as the Move Forward Church...
April 2024EnglishSocial MovementsYouth Movements4 min read

Hongkongers Demonstrate Article 23 Passage in Taipei

Brian Hioe
Hongkongers rallied outside of the Ximen MRT station in Taipei today in response to the passage of Article 23. The passage of Article 23 of the Hong Kong Basic Law serves to criminalize sedition, but does so under such wide-ranging and unspecified terms that it is thought this will serve as a means of further criminalizing political freedoms in Hong Kong. The demonstration against Article 23 of the Hong Kong Basic Law today takes place as part of a global day of action...
EnglishFeaturedMarch 2024Self-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements5 min read

Tenth Anniversary of Sunflower Movement Commemorated Yesterday with Demonstration by Legislature

Brian Hioe
The tenth anniversary of the outbreak of the Sunflower Movement was commemorated yesterday with a demonstration in front of the Legislative Yuan in Taipei. Several hundred, possibly around 1,000, attended. The primary organizer of the event was the Economic Democracy Union, one of the key groups involved in the movement, which reconstituted itself in the movement’s aftermath...
EnglishFeaturedMarch 2024Self-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements5 min read