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Past democracy activists turn out to support student demonstrators (2014/03/30)

Twenty-four years ago student activists gathered in Taipei to seek direct elections. Today leaders of the demonstration, known as the Wild Lily Student Movement, returned to Memorial Square, now called Liberty Square. They marched with students protesting against the cross-strait trade-in-services pact.

Leaders of the Wild Lily Student Movement returned to where their movement took place more than two decades ago.

Chou Ke-ren
Founder, Wild Lily Student Movement
The symbol of the Wild Lily Student Movement is a flower that only grows in rugged mountain terrain. Among farmers, sunflowers are a symbol of green fertilizer. (These students) are willing to turn themselves into a component of the earth.

The Wild Lily protesters demanded an end to central government bodies known as the “non-reelection congress,” in which officials kept office for decades. Up to 10,000 people joined the demonstration, which ended in six days after then-President Lee Teng-hui accepted the protesters’ demands.

Now the Sunflower Movement is taking place. Its main demand is scrapping the cross-strait trade-in-services pact. According to the students, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators joined the demonstration today, but still, after 13 days, the students and the government remain far apart.

Chen Shang-chih
National Chung Cheng University
This president insists on his point of view and is not willing to make any concessions. Because of this, there is a deadlock between the government and the movement. We political science scholars see this as risk to constitutional law.

Past demonstrators who helped bring democracy to Taiwan want to let this new generation of activists know that they have support.

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反服貿民眾今天下午走上凱道，而「野百合世代」也發出動員令，號召24年前的老戰友們，大約六十人從中正紀念堂的自由廣場出發，一路跟隨學生們遊行到凱道，他們一邊走一邊喊口號，支持太陽花學運，也呼籲馬總統拿出誠意，化解僵局。

1990年野百合學運的老前輩舊地重遊，就是為了支持太陽花學運。

[[野百合學運發起人　周克任]]
“野百合的一個象徵就是，在崎嶇的山坡地上，它才能長出來的一種花，而太陽花在農業上代表是一個綠肥，也就是他們甘願把自己化身為土地的肥份”

野百合學運以改造萬年國會為訴求，參與人數最多達到一萬人，六天得到時任總統李登輝的回應而落幕。

這次的太陽花學運，以退回服貿為主要訴求，雖然透過網路動員，號召了數十萬人上街，但學運邁入第13天了，依舊陷入僵局。

[[中正大學助理教授陳尚志]]
“現在這個總統就是，堅持己見，不願意退讓，他的不願意退讓，也使得這一場運動，跟政府之間形成一個僵局，在我們政治學者來看，這是一場憲政危機”

反服貿，學生們不孤單，老學運份子如今也站出來，展現最大的支持力量。