While this castigation by the media was still in full swing, on 4 May over 130 civic organizations took part in a "March for Taiwan" organized by Eden Social Welfare Foundation founder Liu Hsia and led by Humanistic Education Foundation director Shih Ying, feminist scholar Liu Yu-hsiu, lawyer Lin Yi-hsiung and others.
輿論討伐聲猶未歇，五月四日，由伊甸基金會創辦人劉俠召集，人本教育基金會董事史英，婦運學者劉毓秀、律師林義雄等人領隊，一百三十多個民間社團群起「為台灣而走」。