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The movement had a list of demands for Mexican president Gustavo Díaz Ordaz and the government of Mexico for specific student issues as well as broader ones, especially the reduction or elimination of authoritarianism. Simultaneous with the movement in Mexico and influencing it were global protests of 1968.
The battalion played an active part in these events, orchestrating a simulated confrontation near the armed student movement and the Mexican military. To that effect, the battalion had, in addition to its members mobilized throughout the plaza and neighboring buildings, snipers posted beginning the morning of October 2 in the plaza and the ...
The Tlatelolco massacre (Spanish: La Masacre de Tlatelolco) was a military massacre committed by the Mexican Armed Forces against the students of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), and other universities in Mexico.
The march was organized by the National Strike Council (CNH, in Spanish, Consejo Nacional de Huelga), the organization behind the Mexican Movement of 1968. CNH called for a silent pacifist demonstration to controvert Mexican Government allegations of violence of the movement and the silence made by President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz in his Fourth ...
October 2 – around 10,000 university and high school students gathered in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas to protest the government's actions and listen peacefully to speeches then the national guard attacked the demonstrations thus generating the Tlatelolco massacre.
Whereas the 1968 convention played out in an era of network television, where political conventions could command the attention of a much broader and diverse range of Americans, the media ...
On April 30, 1968, police arrested nearly 700 protesters who had occupied buildings at Columbia, including Hamilton Hall. Fifty-six years later, pro-Palestinian activists have taken over the same ...
On February 22, 1968, Dr. Summerskill resigned from his post as of the following school year, to be later replaced by Dr. Robert Smith. [6] [7] As tension continued to rise, BSU & the Third World Liberation Front occupied the school's YMCA on March 23, 1968, forcing all YMCA employees to leave. Despite demands from President Summerskill to ...