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DESCRIPTION:A Look at the Mexican Revolution - 1810 and 1910\n Join us for film and 
 discussion\n\nSnapshot!\n\nBetween 1776 and 1836, several colonial 
 independence movements shook the Americas. One of the leaders of the 
 Mexican revolution was Father Miguel Hidalgo, who led a revolt that sparked 
 the outbreak of Mexico's war of independence. On September 16, 1810, 
 Hidalgo shouted the famous "Grito de Dolores"--"Long live our Lady of 
 Guadalupe, down with bad government, down with the Spaniards!" For the next 
 eleven years there were many more uprisings and in 1821 Mexico declared its 
 independence from Spain.\n\n\nSnapshot!\n\nIn the early 1800s two economic 
 systems were competing in the U.S.: slavery and capitalism. The southern 
 slave system, with its constant need for new land, was the driving force 
 behind the seizure of the territory of northwest Mexico (what is now the 
 U.S. Southwest). But the capitalists in the North also eyed the territory 
 as a source of land, gold and other mineral resources, and as an opening of 
 trade to the West. In 1836, slave owners, who had moved into the eastern 
 part of Texas, stole the land from Mexico and declared it the Independent 
 Republic of Texas. Despite warnings from the Mexican government, the U.S. 
 annexed this so-called republic in 1845, and this led to the U.S.-Mexican 
 War....At the end of the U.S.-Mexican War the U.S. ripped off approximately 
 50% of Mexico's territory…and the theft of this land crippled Mexico's 
 future economic development.\n\n\nSnapshot!\n\nRevolution broke out in 
 Mexico in 1910 as peasants rose up demanding "Tierra y Libertad--Land and 
 Liberty." Ninety-five percent of the Mexican people were landless peasants 
 and tenant farmers and they fought for the land to be redistributed. 
 Peasant leaders like Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata led the Mexican 
 people in resistance. Organizations in the U.S. like the Partido Liberal 
 Mexicano (PLM), led by Ricardo Flores Magon, actively built support for the 
 revolution among Chicano and Mexicano workers. Magon was later imprisoned 
 by the U.S. government and murdered in prison.\n\nThis period saw the first 
 large-scale migration of Mexican workers into the U.S. The political and 
 economic upheaval that accompanied the Mexican Revolution led to hundreds 
 of thousands coming to the U.S.--nearly 10% of Mexico's population. 
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SUMMARY:A Look at the Mexican Revolution - 1810 and 1910 Join us for film and discussion
LOCATION:Revolution Books\n2425 Channing Way(in the Sather Gate Parking Mall off of 
 Telegraph Avenue).Wheelchair accessible,donations accepted.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/18/18659185.php
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