Weng Ming-chih, Chen Chen-chien, and Wang Chang-ming established an organization in August 1987 to press their case. The three men, who were already active in the opposition movement in Taiwan, marched to the Fujian provincial government headquarters in the Taipei suburb of Hsintien and demanded an end to martial law and establishment of self-rule in the islands.
民國七十六年八月，在台灣從事反對運動的金門人翁明志、陳振堅，與另一位馬祖人王長明等人組成的「金馬人民團結自救會」到當時位於新店的福建省政府請願，要求金馬解嚴、實施地方自治。