sunflower movement

100,000 Demonstrate in Taipei Against Pan-Blue Camp’s Power Grab

Over 100,000 demonstrated in Taipei today against the legal amendments that the KMT and TPP are intent on railroading through the Taiwanese legislature. The demonstration started at 9 AM and ended around midnight when the legislative session ended. The protest was clearly one of the largest demonstrations in Taiwan since the 2014 Sunflower Movement, particularly seeing as most protests of this size in the years since then have been daytime protests that were planned ahead of time, and took place during the daytime on weekends...

30,000 in the Streets of Taipei: Today’s Protest Outside the Legislature in Photos

As today's demonstration against the KMT and TPP's efforts to expand prosecutorial powers continues, we present a series of photos by Em Gunter of the protests. As of late afternoon, the protest has now reached 30,000 individuals, the same size as the demonstration on Tuesday. The protests are expanded as night falls, particularly as tonight is Friday night, compared to how Tuesday was a weekday...

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...

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...

Tenth Anniversary of Sunflower Movement Commemorated Yesterday with Demonstration by Legislature

The tenth anniversary of the outbreak of the Sunflower Movement was commemorated yesterday with a demonstration in front of the Legislative Yuan in Taipei. Several hundred, possibly around 1,000, attended. The primary organizer of the event was the Economic Democracy Union, one of the key groups involved in the movement, which reconstituted itself in the movement’s aftermath...