Four Decades of Strife and Resistance: A Deep Dive Into What’s Happening in West Papua

Girard Mariano Lopez

Interview: Kawtorpai Church

Patrick Huang

Electricity Price Hikes Likely to Lead to Political Contestation

Brian Hioe

Civil Society Groups Mark Anniversary of Fukushima Disaster Earlier This Month

Brian Hioe

Freeway and High-Speed Rail Proposal by the KMT Stokes Controversy

Brian Hioe

Die-in Held in Liberty Plaza in Taipei for Palestine and Gaza

Brian Hioe

Social Movements

Tsai Administration Carries Out Politically-Motivated Use Of Capital Punishment

Brian Hioe
Make no mistake: The execution of a 39-year-old man in Kaohsiung last Friday is a political killing. In all probability, the Tsai administration went ahead with the execution as a way to score political points for the DPP in the lead-up to 2018 local elections and in order to counter criticisms that it has been lax on violent crime...
EnglishSeptember 2018Social MovementsYouth Movements6 min read

Reflexive Defense Of Avital Ronell By Left Academics Points To Similar Phenomenon In Taiwan

Brian Hioe
Controversy has broken out in western academia after feminist academic Avital Ronell was accused of sexual harassment, particularly after highly reflexive defenses of Ronell from fellow high-profile academics on the political Left in the form of an open letter, including Judith Butler and Slavoj Zizek. This bears a sharp parallel to incidents which have happened in leftist Taiwanese academia in the past two years and this may be worth reflecting on...
August 2018EnglishSelf-DeterminationSocial Movements7 min read

August Key Month For Referendum Campaigns

Brian Hioe
August would be a key period for several referendum pushes in Taiwan at present. Both the Formosa Alliance’s push to achieve a referendum on Taiwan participating in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics under the name “Taiwan” instead of “Chinese Taipei” and an alliance of anti-gay groups hoping to hold a referendum against gay marriage and sexual education they see as encouraging homosexuality aim to reach 280,000 signatures by the end of the month...
August 2018EnglishSelf-DeterminationSocial Movements7 min read

NGO團體對台塑嚴正抗議河靜鋼鐵廠污染事件後續處置

Brian Hioe
上週三（6/20），數十人集結於台塑股東會，抗議於二〇一六年四月開始的魚群死亡潮。在台塑河靜鋼鐵公司的鋼鐵工廠完工時，魚群便開始大量死亡。魚群的死亡數量相當可觀，數百萬隻魚的屍體在越南兩百公里沿海被沖上岸。而魚群死亡也讓大量漁村陷入憂愁，甚至傳出食物中毒的報導。...
EnvironmentalJuly 2018Social Movements中文陳黃金菊1 min read