In Memory of
Peng Wan-Ru
12/8/1996
Dear Friends:
Thank you for your support of our proposal. The follwoing is an update for
the recent development:
1) We now have more than 4700 signatures.
2) Yam, the leading web navigator in Taiwan, has made a page link with us in
their home page (http://taiwan.iis.sinica.edu.tw/en/yam) and turned their
background color into black (like our page design) to show support. Their
support has brought in a lot of signatures from Taiwan.
3) Our mobilization through the internet has attracted attention from the
printed media. The China Times Evening News has reported our efforts on Dec.
7, and the Central Daily will publish the Chinese version of our letter on
Dec. 8. There are also quite a few community newspapers and campus
newspapers in Taiwan as well as overseas reporting our efforts.
4) We have made some corrections in our open letters since we first started
circulating them. These are the corrections: a) It should be the Women's
Rights Day, instead of the Women's Right Day. b) Peng Wan-Ru's memorial
service will be held on Dec. 31st, instead of early December.
5) In memory of Peng Wan-Ru, women's organizations in Taiwan have decided
to hold a joint event on Dec. 21. The details remain to be further
discussed, but it is likely to be either a parade or a vigil or both. They
will hold a press conference in the morning of the 20th, and, among other
things, annouce the
number of the signatures that we have collected. In our letter, we didn't
specify the time zone for the deadline because we didn't want people to be
bothered by the time difference. However, since we need to do the final
count before the press conference, we have now decided that the deadline
should be 11:30 PM, Dec. 19th Taiwan time. If you are still forwarding our
letters or disseminating informaiton about our proposal, please make sure to
inform people of this.
6) One of Peng Wan-Ru's major contributions to the women's movement in
Taiwan was to enlarge the space for women's political participation. Under
her leadership at the Department of Women's Development, the Democratic
Progressive Party adopted a nomination policy that will gurantee at least
one-fourth of the nominated candidates being female. Women's organizations
in Taiwan now demand
the Democratic Progressive Party to raise the proportion to one-third, and
demand the two other major political parties, the Kuomintang and the New
Party, to adopt the same nomination policy.
7) There are now foundations, hotlines, and other activities or programs
named after Peng Wan-Ru. The Peng Wan-Ru Foundation will start to accept
donation soon.
8) The Taxi Drivers' Association has called for a plan to discipline and
scrutinize their members, since Peng Wan-Ru's death put all the taxi drivers
on the spot.
Womenet
Huang Chang-Ling
University of Chicago
hua8@midway.uchicago.edu
Chang Sheng-Lin
UC-Berkeley
schang1@ced.berkeley.edu
Po Lan-Chih
UC-Berkeley
pol@ced.berkeley.edu
Sun Jui-Sui
UCLA
sssun@ucla.edu