Taiwan’s Unsung Hero: A Tribute to Linda Arrigo

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July 18, 2011March 1, 2019 Trista di Genova 4 Comments 2-28 incident, aboriginal culture in Taiwan, aboriginal naming rights, Amnesty International, chen shui-bian, DPP, Formosa Kaohsiung incident, human rights, Kaohsiung, KMT, Lee teng-hui, Lin family murders, Linda Gail Arrigo 艾琳達 Ài Líndá, Lynn Miles, martial law in Taiwan, Political Beats, political dissidents, pro-Taiwan independence movement, Shih Ming-te 施明德, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan history, Tien Chao-min, US military in Taiwan, White Terror

One of the most underappreciated intellectuals around, for decades Linda Gail Arrigo has stuck to her guns and stood up for human rights in Taiwan. She should be thanked for always being a truth-teller, and providing authorities with at times a much-needed cattleprod to their conscience [Note:Other publications have declined

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'Woodstock' takes Taipei… 40 years on

October 18, 2009 Phillip Charlier 1 Comment Ang Lee, Dan Bloom, Don Shapiro, Don Silver, Janis Joplin, Jerome Keating, Jimi Hendrix, Lynn Miles, martial law in Taiwan, Pink Floyd, Ravi Shankar, rock history in Taiwan, Santana, Syd Goldsmith, Taiwan history, Taiwan Review, Taking Woodstock, the Who, White Lily movement, White Terror era, Woodstock experience in Taiwan, Woodstock music festival

By Dan Bloom Special to The Wild East TAIPEI, TAIWAN — Despite how the U.S. was transformed by the 1969 Woodstock musical festival in upstate New York, Taiwanese filmgoers are only now able to see what the fuss was all about. In those days, Taiwan was still under martial law.

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