Linda Gail Arrigo新書介紹：我的聲音借妳 - 台灣人權訴求與國際聯絡網 1960-1980

艾琳達於八月九日至台灣中心介紹她的新書，「我的聲音借妳」。以下是琳達的新書簡介：

This book recounts the efforts of those who gave their voices and many years of their lives to the international appeal for human rights in Taiwan.

第二次世界大戰結束，美國把台灣從日本殖民帝國的手裡轉交給貪腐的蔣介石政權，兩年之內台灣人民因不滿欺壓，於1947年2月28日爆發起義，旋即遭慘烈屠殺。1949年蔣軍在國共內戰全面敗退遷台後，藉宣佈戒嚴令實行白色恐怖統治直至1987年才結束。隨著1960年代在日本、北美及歐洲等地興起反戰運動的步伐增生了大批人，積極致力於揭發冷戰下獨裁政權對人權的迫害真相。而參與救援台灣人權者，包括了探索亞洲的學生，說當地語言的傳教士，同情前殖民地同胞的日本人，甚至是美國官兵。『我的聲音借妳』函括了二十多位外國友人他們第一手親身的紀實，從覺醒、質疑、內心掙扎到投入，以及台灣人民的溫暖和勇氣所給予他們的精神的慰藉與鼓舞。

從1960年代中起，到1980年代初期，編者梅心怡和艾琳達實際參與蒐集受迫害者的真相，輸送給國際人權組織及在外國的關心者。梅心怡和艾琳達在本書中併入一份原為學者天江喜久對長老教會為台灣的民主與自決而抗爭的研究，一方面在於對戒嚴令政權的控訴，一方面也對當年那些人，儘管知道對雙方都有風險，卻仍幫助相關在地人秘密做出貢獻者憾人真相的讚嘆。

基於我們的信仰及聯合國人權宣言

1960年代被派往台灣基督長老教會的外國傳教士，一開始在國民黨政府的宣傳樣板中難以接觸真實的台灣，很快地，在逐步深入河洛話族群的民眾後，他們終於有機會接觸到台灣本土的真相。

第一章1950年代：美軍默許蔣介石進行白色恐怖

亞洲實在太遠了，以致於美國的偽善很容易掩飾。1943年7月由美國海軍情報首 長Milton Miles和中國間諜頭子戴笠所共同簽訂的中美合作協議，也是美國公然默許國民政府以集中營處置政治犯的開始。蔣氏政權在中國與共產黨的戰爭中潰敗後，於1949年逃至台灣，然而國民黨與美國合作的模式仍持續著。

1960-1970：台灣政治犯名單終有見天

1960年代，也就是1960年至1970年的十年，始於企圖成立反對黨的自由中國主編雷震於1960年被逮捕入獄，結束於1970年彭明敏逃至自由的國度。1969年，國際特赦組織Amnesty International的總秘書長Martin Ennals首度來台，並取得由台灣政治犯所提供的黑名單。在這十年的末期，台灣島內的自由鬥士與國外的接應者之間已暗中形成聯盟。在海外，反對越南戰爭的聲浪開始成為美國本士與 世界的頭條新聞，反對美國支持獨裁政權的聲浪也急速增長，許多從事亞洲研究的美國學者也加入 組織進行聲援。在1968-69年，國際動員成功救援就學於夏威夷大學的台灣大學生陳玉璽免於死刑的案例，成為後來有效國際救援行動的藍圖。這是國民黨首度面臨到結盟的跨國人權工作者的監督。

人物介紹:

Linda Gail Arrigo, Miyake Kiyoko三宅青子, Chen Chu陳菊, and Lynn Miles in Taipei in 1999. Lynn developed the International Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Taiwan (ICDHRT) in Osaka from the early 1970s. Miyake and concerned Japanese formed the Taiwan Political Prisoners Rescue Association (TPPRA) in 1976. Linda joined up with the democratic movement in Taiwan from 1977. Chen Chu, jailed 1980-86， was elected mayor of Kaohsiung City in 2006.

James Seymour of Columbia University founded the Society for Protection of East Asians' Human Rights (SPEAHR) in 1977. Kagan of Hamline University repeatedly visited and reported on Taiwan's opposition movement. Both gave testimony to the US Congress in 1980. Gerrit and his wife Mei-Chin carried on Lynn Miles' human rights newsletter from 1979, and have published Taiwan Communique for over 25 years.

The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan (PCT), founded in 1865, has played a central role in the struggle for democracy and human rights in Taiwan, especially through the missionaries from America and Canada. Yoshihisa Amae, PhD. University of Hawaii 2006, has researched this history. Judith Thomas and Milo Thornberry in 1969 designed Peng's escape from Taiwan. PCT missionaries involved since the 1960s include Donald Wilson, David Gelzer, Wendell Karsen, and Rowland Van Es. Mark Thelin, for decades a sociology professor at Tunghai University, was also later associated with the Tainan Theological Seminary.

The Catholic Church in Taiwan toed the government line, but Maryknoll and Columban missionaries learned Taiwanese and grew close to the people over their decades of service; many were deported. Michael Fonte, Ronald Boccieri, James Collignon, and Edward Kelly. Other Maryknollers who contributed to Taiwan labor and social movements were Sister Nadine Tierney, AI Borsari, Jack Kennedy, Neil Magill and Richard Madsen.

Ron Boccieri and James Collignon, Taiwanese speaking Catholic pastors deported after decades in Taiwan, were invited back by TFD in 2003.

Michael Fonte came to Taiwan with Maryknoll in 1967, and now works for Taiwan's global recognition.

Lynn Miles came to Taiwan in September 1962 at age 19, through his classmate, son of a KMT general. He gradually sensed there was a hidden history of repression. After meeting the dissident writer Lee Ao and former political prisoners such as Prof. Peng Ming-min and Hsieh Tsung-min, Lynn became involved in carrying out letters for them. Peng escaped Taiwan in January 1970; soon after Lee Ao and Hsieh were arrested, and Lynn expelled. Through the clandestine communications of Miyake Kiyoko, earlier recruited by Hsieh, Lynn kept reports flowing to Amnesty International Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Taiwan in 1975, and held together a network of contacts in Taiwan among traveling students and reporters.

Linda Gail Arrigo came to Taiwan in 1963 at age 14 with her father, a retired Army officer, and graduated from Taipei American High School in 1966 Coming again in 1975 to research young women workers, she joined the rising democratic movement, and linked up with ICDHRT in 1977, conveying letters for Chen Chu and Prof. Chen Ku-ying. (Theresa Yuan袁嬿嬿, worker dorm mother, also joined human rights work.) In the crucial period 1978-79, as the public opposition organization grew explosively, Linda served as English media contact for Formosa, the Magazine of Taiwan's Democratic Movement. Following the arrests of December 1979, she and other long involved foreigners, such as James Seymour and Richard Kagan, carried the campaign to the US Congress and worldwide together with the Taiwanese-American community.