On this day in 1911, Magonistas, Mexican anarchists drawing from the ideas of Ricardo Flores Magón, took the city of Mexicali in the first of battle of the Magonista Rebellion of 1911.

The Magonista uprising was an early incident of the more broad period of unrest known as the Mexican Revolution. It was organized by the Liberal Party of Mexico ("Partido Liberal Mexicano", PLM), and was successful in northern Mexico; the Magonistas controlled Tijuana and Mexicali for about six months.

The capture of Mexicali began in a pre-dawn raid on January 29th, 1911, when 30 rebels, guided by José María Leyva and Simón Berthold, seized the town of Mexicali without resistance. They opened the jail, killed the jailor, occupied the barracks, and confiscated government office funds.

Other settlers joined the rebels as well as many foreign socialists and anarchists, mainly militant members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), including Frank Little and Joe Hill. The U.S. government in Calexico and Yuma offered military support to aid the Mexican government's efforts to suppress the rebellion in order to protect hydraulic works of American engineers.

Although the rebellion was launched against the rule of Porfirio Díaz, it was was put down by forces loyal to Francisco Madero, a wealthy landowner who supported reforms and became the Mexican President in 1911. The PLM split into factions, with one faction still supporting the incarcerated Magón brothers while the other faction supported Madero, the new president of Mexico.

The Magonista Revolt in Tijuana: A Prelude to the San Diego Free Speech Fight :meow-anarchist:

Magonista rebellion of 1911 :AC-AnarKitty:

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  • ElGosso [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    It's the dumbest movie. The plot is dumb, the fight scenes are dumb, gun kata is dumb. Somehow it's still a watchable action flick.

    • Blep [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Gun kata rules and I'll not tolerate its slander :rage-cry:

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Does John Wick count as gun kata? I feel like it's the same basic concept but with choreography focused on making it look grounded and believable instead of fantastic and stylized.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It's extremely dumb and I love it. Using guns to do Kung Fu was such a stylistically cool decision. The costumes are terrible. The acting is generally pretty bad. But who doesn't want to see Christian Bale doing gun kung fu to destroy a bunch of cops to save a puppy? It's John Wick before John Wick.

      Ultraviolet is another movie by the same director. It's a colorful, extremely dumb, extremely fun action movie full of neat special effects and Milla Jovovich in improbably tight clothes. The bad guy is an evil medicine pope. The fight scenes are so dumb but so cool

      Milla Jovovich really has been in some of the most fun bad action movies of the 21st century.