The planning and soliciting of funds for the monument fell largely to Po Yang, the chairman of the foundation, who spent nearly ten years in a Green Island prison for angering the authorities with his translation of a Popeye comic strip.
紀念碑在人權教育基金會董事長、曾因翻譯一幅大力水手漫畫而觸怒當局，在綠島服刑將近十年的異議作家柏楊的積極籌畫、勸募經費之下完成。