Autumn Struggle, one of Taiwan’s longest-running labor protests, demonstrated late last month on November 10th. As in past years, participants were mainly left-wing labor organizations. Around two hundred participated in the rally...
Demonstrators gathered on Jinan Road, in front of the Legislative Yuan, to demonstrate the KMT and TPP’s efforts to freeze the Constitutional Court today. The rally started at 6:30 PM...
“Do legislators have the right to paralyze the Constitutional Court?” the former Constitutional Court justice Huang Hong-Sia asked the protestors at Peace Memorial Park on 17th October. To her rhetorical question, her audience chanted “No!”...
The Ministry of Labor has come under fire for a workplace suicide. The suicide took place in the Xinzhuang Joint Office Tower in New Taipei, where the Executive Yuan has some facilities...
A demonstration was held today on Jinan Road in front of the Legislative Yuan against the pan-Blue camp’s efforts to freeze the Constitutional Court. According to organizers, by shortly before 8 PM, over 1,000 were in attendance...
Yesterday evening on Transgender Day of Remembrance, critically acclaimed Taiwanese fiction writer Li Kotomi reluctantly issued a public statement disclosing her transgender status after years of being outed, harassed, and doxxed online by anti-gender accounts in Taiwan. Shortly after, Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association issued a statement in support of Li. In addition to her personal TDOR statement, Li also co-organized a “Statement by Authors in Japan Opposing LGBTQ+ Discrimination,” which was signed by 51 novelists in Japan and was released earlier in the day. Li’s public response to her outing comes in the wake of yet another surge in anti-gender discourse online and draws attention to the increasingly transnational character of anti-gender mobilizations in Taiwan...
After many months of waiting, the sentencing of the “Hong Kong 47” was announced yesterday. As was not surprising, a number of lengthy sentences were announced. This was the first mass sentencing under the Hong Kong National Security Law, which was passed in 2020, as the largest national security trial held to date in Hong Kong...
Several hundred laywers, along with two thousand supporters protested over the weekend in Taipei against a legislative proposal by KMT legislator Weng Hsiao-ling. In the wake of the protest, further demonstrations are planned by the Judicial Reform Foundation and a number of civil society groups...
A pedestrian bridge in Taipei has become the site of protests, after local residents have sought to push back against plans by the Taipei city government to demolish the bridge. The bridge is located near Daan Park, in the vicinity of National Taiwan Normal University...