By the end of the day, 200,000 people had joined the demonstration, which in the following days would spiral into violence and devastation.
There was no significant change in the percentage of girls or boys that used soap during a handwashing demonstration, which, in one study, was shown to be the closest correlate (albeit imperfect and prone to overestimation) with observed behavior among caregivers in Indian households compared with other self-reported indicators.
Sit-in demonstrations, which in the days leading up to the ban had involved tens of thousands of followers in dozens of cities, have subsided.
Free-thinking students spawned the Tiananmen Square demonstrations, which, in turn, provoked a new crackdown that has lasted to this day.Which may explain one genuine irony: when asked, some of the artists who organized the Shunyi and Songzhuang exhibitions chose to pretend that their colleagues were not censored at all.
Around 2,500 people took to the streets on Saturday for the demonstration which ended in clashes with police late in the night.
They were later evicted following a High Court injunction, sought for by the university in the aftermath of their largest demonstration, which attracted in excess of 1,000 people.
However, most previous studies learn CPs from a single demonstration, which results in limited scalability and insufficient generalization toward a wide range of applications in real environments.
The vast demonstration, which unfolded in crisp temperatures under cloudless skies, was not the exclusive province of climate campaigners.
Over the last few days, 12 people have been arrested on charges stemming from the last large-scale demonstration, which ended in violence on May 6.
This month's demonstration, which ended in violence with one person dead, appeared to be backed by his political opponents, interested in halting his popular rise by exploiting simmering sectarianism.
"Good demonstrations are good theater," said Ben Shepard, one of the organizers of the demonstration, which unfolded in Paramount Plaza a week ago.
