Cannabis legalization advocate Zoe Lee recently filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk, the owner of X, formerly known as Twitter. This was on the grounds of Musk’s advocating for the benefits of using cannabis...
The story of Southern Riot begins shortly before the migrant worker rally in front of the Taiwanese labor ministry in Taipei on January 16, 2022. Support groups helped to organize this rally for demands such as the right of Southeast Asian migrants in Taiwan to freely change their employer...
Recent labor actions in Taiwan touch on a number of issues, ranging from layoffs to gender equality. The Taoyuan Flight Attendants’ Union demonstrated at the start of August in front of the Control Yuan, calling for an end to gendered uniform policy for female flight attendants. In particular, female flight attendants in Taiwan are required to wear pencil skirts, stockings, and high heels on the job, while pants and gender-neutral uniforms are not allowed...
A recent expose in the New York Times on tech multimillionaire Roy Singham, who funds various tankie media outlets, organizations, and institutions such as the Tricontinental Institute, Code Pink, and the People’s Forum in New York City, has led to a petition on the Tricontinental Institute and Code Pink’s websites lashing out against the “new McCarthyism.” This petition was signed by anyone from David Harvey to Radhika Desai, Chris Hedges, and luminaries of the Brooklyn left such as Doug Henwood and The Nation president Bhaskar Sunkara...
Taiwan is home to draconian libel and slander laws, which those with the resources to afford can use liberally and which have in the past been utilized against journalists, contributing to the lowest confidence in the press in a democratic country. As the #MeToo movement in Taiwan plays out, many well-known figures with high social status that have been accused choose to sue their accusers publicly and demand substantial compensation in an attempt to suppress controversy through litigation...
Two months after the wave of #MeToo cases that began in late May, amendments were proposed and passed during the month of July to Taiwan’s “Three Gender Equality Laws”: more specifically, amendments to the Gender Equity Education Act were passed on July 28th, and amendments to the Act of Gender Equality in Employment and the Sexual Harassment Prevention Act were passed on July 31st...
Despite the implementation of the Gender Equality in Employment Act for 21 years, there has been a failure to effectively prevent and address workplace sexual harassment in accordance with the law...
The Lizen High School in Taichung has come under fire for punishing public displays of affection among students. Consequently, the school has been criticized by groups such as the Taiwan Youth Association for Democracy on the basis of authoritarian values, such as existed during Taiwan’s authoritarian period...
It surprised few when the Taiwanese government turned down a petition requesting a four-day workweek, with three-day weekends. The Taiwanese government is obligated to formally respond to petitions that reach a certain number of signatures on the National Development Council’s Public Policy Online Participation Platform...
New Bloom’s Brian Hioe spoke with Sharon Lavigne, Diane Wilson, Nancy Bui, and Father Peter Nguyen Van Hung on Lavigne, Wilson, and Bui’s trip to Taiwan late last month to attend a Formosa Plastics’ shareholders meeting.
This was to bring up criticism of Formosa Plastics’ environmental and climate justice wrongdoings internationally, whether in Louisiana, Texas, or Vietnam, as part of the Monitor Formosa Alliance....
