1. Linda Gail Arrigo is an American political activist, human rights activist, and academic researcher in Taiwan.
22 Facts About Linda Arrigo
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Linda Arrigo formerly served as the international affairs officer of Green Party Taiwan.
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Linda Arrigo is the ex-wife of the former chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party, Shih Ming-teh.
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Linda Arrigo attended Taipei American School and after graduating as valedictorian in 1966, eloped with her Taiwanese-American husband, George Chen, to the US in 1968.
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Linda Arrigo received her undergraduate degree in 1972 from the University of California, San Diego.
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Linda Arrigo then attended Stanford University and obtained a master's degree in anthropology in 1976 after ideological disagreements with her advisors there.
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Linda Arrigo initially returned to Taiwan in 1975 to continue work on her doctorate research by studying the marriage and labor issues of Taiwanese women entering the workplace.
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Linda Arrigo became a part of the 1978 campaign coalition that later evolved into the Democratic Progressive Party, and in 1978 married Shih Ming-teh, a former political prisoner.
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Shih soon became the general manager of Formosa Magazine, and Linda Arrigo served in English public relations for the magazine.
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Linda Arrigo has written about land struggles and environmental degradation in Taiwan.
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The ROC government falsely accused Linda Arrigo of spying for the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Linda Arrigo moved from California to New York in 1983 for further graduate study in the Department of Sociology, Binghamton University.
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In May 1990, Linda Arrigo was permitted to return to Taiwan after Shih's release where she became politically active in the Green Party Taiwan and Taiwan Environmental Protection Union.
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Linda Arrigo taught at Shih Hsin University in Taipei and acted as a liaison for non-governmental organizations.
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Shih and Linda Arrigo formally divorced in June 1995 after she accused him of violating human rights principles in the party's international relations.
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Linda Arrigo finished work on her PhD from the Binghamton University.
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Linda Arrigo married for the third time in September 1999, to Ho Shu-yuan, a bus driver at a Taipei primary school that she met doing environmental volunteering; but the couple has long been separated.
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Linda Arrigo filed a lawsuit against her former husband, Shih Ming-teh, for alimony.
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Linda Arrigo won the lawsuit but Shih said he would only pay the money if she would "behave herself".
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Linda Arrigo publicly criticized her former husband, Shih Ming-teh, in 2006, when he launched a campaign to oust President Chen Shui-bian.
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Linda Arrigo contended that his campaign was financed and supported by the Kuomintang.
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From 2007 to 2012, Linda Arrigo taught at Taipei Medical University, Taiwan.