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The term "Sunflower Student Movement" referred to protestors' use of sunflowers as a symbol of hope as the flower is heliotropic. [20] The movement's name in Chinese is (Chinese: 太陽花; pinyin: taì yáng hua), a calque of the English word "sunflower", rather than the native term, (Chinese: 向日葵; pinyin: xiàng rì kuí) [21] This term was popularized after a florist contributed 1000 ...
The film explores the Sunflower Student Movement and other social and political movements in Taiwan. It focuses on the stories of Chen Wei-ting , a leader of the student movement, and Cai Boyi, a Chinese student studying in Taiwan. The director also serves as the narrator and appears on camera as one of the documented individuals.
Researchers pointed out that compared to the Sunflower movement, fewer university students participated in Bluebird because the outcome in 2014 would have affected employment opportunities in Taiwan, whereas the 2024 conflict between the different parties was largely politically driven. [28] [29]
The student movement — the first to call for divestiture — began in 1965. Over the years, students across the United States called for schools to end investments in corporations tied to apartheid.
Sunflower Student Movement; T. Tangwai movement; W. ... Wild Strawberries Movement This page was last edited on 12 September 2021, at 00:11 (UTC). ...
Sunflower Student Movement leader Lin Fei-fan actively joined the first day of the Indigenous Ketagalan Boulevard protest. Later, on 28 February 2017, on Peace Memorial Day, which commemorates the February 28 Incident, Lin Fei-fan again joined the protest, marching towards 228 Peace Memorial Park and afterwards published a later translated essay in which he claims "to stand with Taiwan’s ...
The party was started by Freddy Lim, lead vocalist of Taiwanese heavy metal band Chthonic, [9] veteran activist Michael Lin, human rights lawyers Lin Feng-cheng , Chiu Hsien-chih, and other prominent figures of the Sunflower Student Movement.
Formosa!" to supporters of the Sunflower Student Movement. [14] At 3:00 pm on March 30, the students who continued to occupy the Legislative Yuan gathered and prepared for the chorus of "Island's Sunrise." As the song was in Taiwanese Hokkien, the hosts repeatedly read the lyrics to help the students remember the pronunciation. [15]