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...August 13 a large demonstration was held. 60,000 students from schools all over the city were led by the principal of the University of Mexico and faculty from each of the participating schools. A six-point plan was drafted and published in some of the newspapers as well as distributed in leaflets to thousands of people. The government still made no official statement on the situation...
...six-point plan asked the government to: 1) respect the autonomy of the University, 2) remove the article of social dissolution which was being applied to censor freedom of speech (the article enabled the police to arrest any one speaking against the government), 3) release all political prisoners, 4) dissolve the Granaderos--a special police corps used against demonstrations and riots; and not create any similar organization, 5) remove the chief and subchief of police--those who were responsible for the police brutality--and 6) open an investigation into the participation of the army and the actions of the four...
...government was invited to come to the University on August 20 to discuss the six-point plan, but no government representative came. The University declared that it would strike indefinitely until the government agreed to public discussion...
...which about half a million people marched to the Zocalo (the government center). These were not just students, but parents, teachers, and people from the countryside. A group of 5000 people remained after the demonstration and said they would stay there until the government would either accept the six-point plan or agree to open discussion of it. During the demonstration, the bells of the Cathedral at the Zocalo were rung (with permission of the Church) to signify the quest for freedom, and a black and red flag was placed next to the Mexican flag to symbolize strike...
...petition, signed by more than a third of the Med School's students, calls for the formation of a student-faculty-administration fact-finding committee and for a six-point program to improve the school's role in Roxbury...