The Anti-Media Monopoly Movement
The Anti-Media Monopoly Movement opposed the buying up of Taiwanese media companies by companies with substantial investments in China, leading to restrictions on press freedoms
Many of the direct antecedents of the Sunflower Movement trace back to controversial political events or social movements that broke out in years prior to 2014
The Anti-Media Monopoly Movement opposed the buying up of Taiwanese media companies by companies with substantial investments in China, leading to restrictions on press freedoms
The Hung Chung-Hsiu Incident led to some of the largest demonstrations in Taiwan in the years before the Sunflower Movement
Protests in Dapu, Miaoli took place with youth activists demonstrating against the government evicting residents of rural Miaoli from their homes because of the valuable real estate they lived on
Taiwan’s anti-nuclear movement has a long history dating back to the authoritarian period, and so it is no surprise that the anti-nuclear movement would also be significant within the Sunflower Movement
The Sunflower Movement was importantly preceded by the Wild Stawberry Movement, the monthlong occupation of the Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial in 2008
The ECFA was in many ways a predecessor agreement to the CSSTA
The Losheng Sanatorium Struggle was the struggle to prevent the eviction of residents of the Losheng Sanatorium, a hospital for lepers dating from the Japanese colonial period originally built in 1929
With youth activists coming to the aid of former military veterans facing eviction from their homes, this was another case of youth activists coming to the aid of those victimized in the course of Taiwanese history
The demand by youth activists working to preserve the Wenmeng Pavilion was a struggle not only to preserve a slice of Taiwanese history but to take a stronger stand for the rights of sex workers in Taiwan
The Shida Underground Incident was an incident in which the live house Underground was closed because of complaints from local residents because of noise