The New Wave of Opposition Movements
This film is a montage of the best footage Green Team collected from major social movements, including environmental, political, human rights, indigenous, student, farmer and labour movements,...
Breaking News of 29th March
On 29 March 1988, legislator JU Gau-jeng took several buses of protesters to visit the residential area of old National Assembly delegates in Neihu. The police blocked all roads near the area and...
Why Aren’t You Angry (Wild Lily Movement)
As social activism grew in the 1980s, student groups began to form. Prior to the presidential election in March 1990, seven hundred National Assembly delegates passed a resolution to extend their...
R.O.C. Government, Return Our Land!
Since the seventeenth century, Taiwan’s indigenous peoples have endured waves of colonisation until they were finally left with almost no land of their own. The 1984 formation of the Association for...
Far Eastern Textile Workers' Strike
On 14 May 1989, the Far Eastern Textile Industrial Union passed a resolution in favour of strike action. However, the Hsinchu County government and police authorities actively helped the employers in...
To Die for Taiwan (Cheng Nan-jung's Funeral Procession and Chan I-hua's Self-Immolation)
In order to advocate Taiwan’s independence and to defend the freedom of speech, CHENG Nan-jung chose to express his disappointment towards the ruling authorities by self-immolation. Thousands joined...
Labour's Battle Song (Laid-off Shinkong Textile Workers' Protest)
Following the expansion of urban development, land prices in Taipei’s Shilin District soared exponentially. The Shinkong Textile plant in Shilin became the first to close down. Soon, its laid-off...
No Congressional Re-Election, No Hope for Taiwan
Since the relocation of the KMT regime to Taiwan in 1949, the existing 1,300 KMT officials who fled China continued to hold office in Taiwan. Only 180 new seats were created. Taiwan’s ‘Non Re-elected...
To Win, You Must Fight (Miaoli Bus Drivers' Protest)
On 1 July 1988, the government announced a nationwide increase for intercity bus fares to fully implement the Labour Standards Act. In protest of their employer, who tried to pocket the extra profit...
Fighting the Fifth Naphtha Cracker Plant
This film was produced for a briefing to the Ministry of Economic Affairs by the people of Houjin opposing China Petroleum Company’s fifth naphtha cracker plant. It brings together scenes of...