Youth Movements

Criticisms of Obasan Alliance After Gaza March Show Partisan Divisions in Taiwanese Politics

Brian Hioe
After a march marking the one-year anniversary of the start of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza earlier this month, the Obasan Alliance has come under criticism from pro-independence groups over the third party being perceived as standing with pro-unification groups. This has included allegations that the China Unification Promotion Party (CUPP), which is associated with the Bamboo Union organized crime group, was in attendance at the march. This is not true, in that the CUPP was not present...
EnglishOctober 2024PoliticsSelf-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements4 min read

Taipei Holds March to Commemorate One Year of Genocide in Gaza

Brian Hioe
A march took place today in Taipei to mark the one-year anniversary of Israel’s genocide of Palestine in Gaza. The march today took place after a vigil last week on October 6th, focusing on the lives and stories of martyred Palestinians, as well as a flash mob outside of the Israeli Economic and Cultural Office on October 7th...
EnglishOctober 2024PoliticsSelf-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements6 min read

Taipei Holds Vigil, Rally Commemorating One Year of Genocide in Gaza

Girard Mariano Lopez
Local and international community members across Taipei gathered on Sunday at Liberty Square in Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall to commemorate the 42,000 Palestinian lives that have been murdered by Israeli offensives in the past year, as well as the hundreds recently killed in recent Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon. On the morning of October 7th, organizers from the Taiwan Alliance for a Free Palestine also held a flash mob outside of the Israeli Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei in the World Trade Center...
EnglishOctober 2024Self-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements5 min read

KMT Calls for Allowing Investment by Political Parties, Government in Media

Brian Hioe
A proposal by the KMT to allow the government, political parties, and the military to indirectly invest in up to 10% of broadcast media proves an unusual proposal. This proves particularly ironic at a time when the KMT has frequently attacked successive DPP presidential administrations over the claim that the DPP clamps down on media through the regulatory body of the National Communications Commission...
EnglishOctober 2024PoliticsSelf-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements5 min read

Taking Hong Kong Seeds to the World

Kris Cheng
For most of this century and the final years of the last one, too, I lived in the same area in Hong Kong. For over half of that time, home was a 2-bed flat in the Tuen Mun district of the New Territories, where I first shared a bunk bed with my brother and later had my own bed and working desk after he moved out. It was a five-minute walk from the beach, where people were often angling or feeding stray cats. It was right next to the transport terminus that I used for my daily commute, often running to chase the 962X bus to Central, over on Hong Kong Island, because I was almost late for work...
EnglishSelf-DeterminationSeptember 2024Social MovementsYouth Movements18 min read