Taipei Times
Date: Nov 13, 2017
By: Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter
The Autumn Struggle (秋鬥), an annual protest organized by labor rights advocates,
A piggy bank originally used in President Tsai Ing-wen’s election campaign is lodged in barbed wire outside the Presidential Office on Taipei’s Ketagalan Boulevard yesterday as two police officers look on. The piggy banks were thrown by Autumn Struggle demonstrators unhappy with the Democratic Progressive Party government. Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times
yesterday rallied 61 groups as they marched down Taipei’s Ketagalan Boulevard and shouted their disappointment with the politics of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration.
The protest focused on the rights of local workers, migrant workers and people in education, as well as land expropriation.
Group representatives first voiced their demands at a news conference at the National Taiwan University Alumni Club before starting on a march toward the boulevard at 11am.
Nearly 200 protesters threw plastic piggy banks that were used for President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) fundraising during her presidential campaign toward the Presidential Office Building at the end of the boulevard. [FULL STORY]
