Restrictions on Transnational Gay Marriages Lifted, Following Four Years of Advocacy

Brian Hioe

Control Yuan Calls for Reform of Migrant Worker System for Agricultural Sector

Brian Hioe

Action Urged by National Human Rights Commission on Stateless Status of Undocumented Children

Brian Hioe

Will Restrictions Be Placed on the Basic Political Freedoms of Hongkongers in Taiwan?

Brian Hioe

Books.com.tw Labor Dispute Raises Concerns About Rights of the Illiterate and Contract Workers

Brian Hioe

EVA Ground Workers Strike Over Low Year-End Bonuses, Despite Record Profits

Brian Hioe

Social Movements

Demonstrations Against Cigu Solar Farms in November Follows Familiar Lines

Brian Hioe
Two hundred demonstrated against solar farms in Cigu in front of the Presidential Office in early November. This continues several years of protest by Cigu residents against solar farms. According to demonstrators from the Alliance to Save the Lands of Cigu and other groups, protests against the solar farms have quadrupled in the past four years...
December 2022EnglishEnvironmentalSocial Movements5 min read

Regulations Requiring Migrant Workers to Have Employers’ Permission to Purchase Electric Bikes Criticized

Brian Hioe
Migrant worker advocates have reacted with anger against new regulations rolled out by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications requiring blue-collar migrant workers to have the consent of their employer in order to purchase electric bicycles. The new regulations began to be implemented on November 30th, with the form that employers need to fill out for their employees to purchase electric bicycles released on November 18th...
December 2022EnglishLaborRaceSocial Movements5 min read

Breakthrough News Program on Protests in China Proves Self-Contradictory

Brian Hioe
It was only a matter of time until tankies–leftist apologists for authoritarian regimes such as China or Russia–weighed in on the current protests in China. The most recent example of this in Anglophone discourse may be Tricontinental Institute researcher and Dongsheng News collective Tings Chak’s appearance yesterday on Breakthrough News’ “The Socialist Program.” The program was hosted by Brian Becker, founder of the ANSWER Coalition and one of the founders of the PSL...
December 2022EnglishLaborSelf-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements11 min read

Fallism and Chiang Kai-Shek Statue Removal in Taiwan as a Means of Mobilization

Lwazi Bululu
Midterm elections are around the corner and there has been a plethora of ballot box issues to choose from that will prove decisive in key races: from Indigenous issues, incumbents’ COVID response, alleged corruption, and so on. But one issue that is not going to feature at all will be that of transformative justice and the unresolved issue of the biggest symbol of authoritarianism: the bronze statue of Chiang Kai-Shek at the Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial. Which begs the question of the purpose of political iconoclasm, or image breaking, as a form of performative democracy...
2022 ElectionsEnglishNovember 2022PoliticsSelf-DeterminationSocial MovementsTheory and History8 min read

The Death of Tuan Tuan and The Puppeteering of a Giant Panda

Yuan-Chih Lung
Tuan Tuan, a giant panda at the Taipei Zoo, underwent euthanasia on November 19th after numerous epileptic seizures. Since the news broke that Tuan Tuan was sick with a brain tumor in September, his condition deteriorated, and experts from China also came to Taiwan for this reason. Chao Shian-Shao, the Taipei Zoo’s spokesperson, indicated that the zoo is committed to retaining Tuan Tuan’s living cells, such as sperm cells, somatic cells, and stem cells...
EnglishEnvironmentalNovember 2022Social Movements13 min read