Youth Movements

A Look at Tuesday’s Demonstration Outside the Legislature in Photos

Ahead of tomorrow's protest outside of the legislature against the KMT and TPP's efforts to expand prosecutorial powers, which is expected to be a large-scale demonstration, we present photos and documentation from the demonstration of 30,000 against the KMT and TPP on Tuesday. We are putting a call out to readers to contribute their photo and video documentation of the upcoming demonstration, in the interests of archiving the protest. ...

In Spontaneous Protest, Hundreds Demonstrate Outside of Legislative Yuan Against KMT Actions

A spontaneous protest took place outside of the Legislative Yuan tonight, drawing hundreds of young people. Overnight spontaneous demonstrations on the scale of today’s protest have been rarely seen in the ten years since the 2014 Sunflower Movement, with such protests mostly fading after the Tsai administration took office...

Interview: Kawtorpai Church

He is a fresh-faced young man with curly hair. If I had not known that he was a pastor, I would have thought he was a highly energetic office worker who works in a high-rise in the central business district of Bangkok. He is, in fact, pastor Prachan Noimung, a man of the Karen ethnic group from Maehongsorn Province who now serves as head of the Kawtorpai. This can be translated as the Move Forward Church...

Hongkongers Demonstrate Article 23 Passage in Taipei

Hongkongers rallied outside of the Ximen MRT station in Taipei today in response to the passage of Article 23. The passage of Article 23 of the Hong Kong Basic Law serves to criminalize sedition, but does so under such wide-ranging and unspecified terms that it is thought this will serve as a means of further criminalizing political freedoms in Hong Kong. The demonstration against Article 23 of the Hong Kong Basic Law today takes place as part of a global day of action...