A Supreme Court case involving eight Sunflower Movement activists involved in the attempted occupation of the Executive Yuan on the night of March 23rd, 2014 resulted in the case being sent back to the High Court, with a call for more lenient sentences...
The decision of the Taipei District Court to award 1.1 million NTD in compensation to 14 participants in the attempted occupation of the Executive Yuan on March 24th, 2014, during the 2014 Sunflower Movement, has been challenged by the Taipei City Police. The Taipei City Police has announced that it intends to appeal the ruling, which was announced last Wednesday...
Five years after the 2014 Sunflower Movement, triumphalist narratives about the legacy of the movement may require some qualifiers. The results of nine-in-one elections last November, for one, showed that the KMT remains a viable political party in Taiwan...
A public outcry has emerged after student activists disrupted a talk on Tuesday by former premier Jiang Yi-huah, calling for Jiang to be held responsible for the actions of the “324” attempted storming of the Executive Yuan during the 2014 Sunflower Movement...
A press conference to raise legal funds for four Sunflower Movement demonstrators facing charges related to the encirclement and blockade of Zhongzheng First Police Precinct by demonstrators on April 11th, 2014 was held on Wednesday...
With Sunflower Movement activists found not guilty today of all charges related to the occupation of the Legislative Yuan three years ago, another part of the unresolved legacy of the Sunflower Movement has been taken care of. But it remains that the sentencing for other legal cases involving incidents during the Sunflower Movement have not yet been heard. And, of course, the trial verdict raises the fact that many of the demands of the Sunflower Movement still have not been met...
The possibility of conflict breaking out between Taiwanese youth activists and the DPP seems quite likely in the near future, with discussion of an oversight bill for cross-strait trade deals scheduled for late next week. But although the passage of such a bill was one of the significant demands of the Sunflower Movement, the DPP has stalled and even reversed course multiple times on the issue....
Prometheus Unbound: When Formosa Reclaims the World would primarily be an argument for a Left Taiwanese nationalism that advocates for independence, as distinctively colored by the Sunflower Movement...
Looking back on the Sunflower Movement two years later, what can we say? Can we say that the present sea-change we see in Taiwanese politics began with the Sunflower Movement two years ago?...
Did identity politics simply disappear in 2016 elections? Not so. But we do see a change in Taiwan's political landscape as reflected in the lack of overt forms of identity politics in elections...
