The legislature voted down the Executive Yuan’s motion to reconsider the controversial legislative powers this afternoon. This took place after two days of arguments between the pan-Blue and pan-Green camps in the legislature...
The KMT has sought to attack the DPP on ostensible concerns about the tracking of protestors after comments by DPP legislator Wang Yi-chuan. Wang’s comments, which were rather vague about their specifics, were interpreted as suggesting that data could be gathered from protesters outside of the Legislative Yuan during the Bluebird Movement protests based on their age and gender...
The “Bluebird Movement” evidenced many characteristics of an occupation-style movement, even if it was not truly one. After all, though the name “Bluebird” took its name from how the main street on which the protests took place, “Qingdao East Road”, is visually similar to “bluebird” in Chinese, the protest took the form of day-long demonstrations starting when the contested legislative powers were discussed in the legislature...
The "Bluebird Movement" protests have made their mark on Taiwan, even if this was not successful in preventing the third reading of the legislative changes pushed for by the KMT and TPP.
At present, we are putting a call out to readers to contribute their photo and video documentation of the demonstration through this Google form, in the interests of archiving the protest. Here are some of the contributions to date. Thank you again to all who have contributed so far...
The protests against the KMT and TPP’s efforts at expanding legislative powers did not result in preventing the bill’s third reading yesterday. This occurs despite the fact that over the course of two weeks, the demonstrations went from around 300 individuals to over 100,000 in the short course of a week....
Controversial legal changes pushed for by the KMT and TPP passed their third reading today. As such, it is a question what happens next, with protests against the new bills having exploded from 300 demonstrating outside of the legislature on May 17th, to 30,000 on May 21st, and the current peak of over 100,000 on May 24th. Today's demonstration has drawn 30,000 to date, with it unclear what happens next...
Demonstrations to date against the pan-Blue camp's power grab have now been termed the "Bluebird Movement." At present, we are putting a call out to readers to contribute their photo and video documentation of the demonstration through this Google form, in the interests of archiving the protest. Here are some of the contributions to date. Thank you again to all who have contributed so far. See you on the streets tomorrow!...
The KMT’s planned legislative changes continue to be contentious, with demonstrations last Friday reaching 100,000 individuals. Why is the KMT so intent on pushing these changes through at present?...
Demonstrations yesterday against the KMT and TPP's efforts to expand prosecutorial powers reached over 100,000 participants. As part of our continued documentation of the protests, we present a series of photos by Em Gunter of the protest. The next round of demonstrations is scheduled for Tuesday...
