Reflection on the Sufferage and Zapatista movements Randi Kearn

Randi Kearn Soc movements 4/11 Films

The woman's suffrage movement

They thought public opinion would stop the movement but it didn't

They were charged with obstructing trafficking

They got 60 days in a work house, for obstructing trafficking

They were called the Iron Jawed Angels

Draft Dodgers

Alice Paul Quoted a lot of Woodrow Wilson and burned the papers and arrested more women, said he is obstructing democracy.

She was put in solitary and refused to eat.

Hunger strike was started in Ireland.

They force fed her and the others, with a tube, for inciting a hunger strike in the prison

They couldn't be ignored. They were arrested for no crime, and sentenced for speaking the truth.

Wilson passed the 19^th amendment August 26^th 1920

Zapatistas

product of slavery and war, indigenous peasants, pushed off their land, out of their villages, starved...

1914 Zapata "the past is what constructs the present"

Fought for the Mexican people

Effective speaker, Marco, was powerful, a Robin hood, defender of the poor, or like Zorro

Chiapas hides Zapatista's army made up of men and women, young and old

Mexico gave the worst land to the people that could not be farmed

93 instutional revolutionary party brought Mexico into the first world...free trade-oriented

indigenous army with guns and sticks, revolt of Indians from the corrupt government and it's armies

supposed to be a fight for better lives for poor peasants

rebels asked for education, food, housing, land to live on...

Zapitista Liberation Army

The Church confirms the abuses of the poor people

Clinton loaned Mexico 15 Billion dollars to bail out their economy but they had to get rid of the Zapatisita

New York Time calls it the First post modern revolution

a lot of them are women

The peace and justice group came to kill everybody who resisted the government. They were savage murderers killing everyone, including the women and children.

Comandante Ramona is the zapitistas most ferocious weapon. She went to Mexico city and spoke to the government, the people, and the World.

representing 28 million indigenous people. They were finally heard. Things have gotten better for them but so much blood was spill.

In the 2000's focused on building schools, that teach indigenous culture and history.

Both of these groups, the women and the Zapatista's were only fighting for human rights, equal rights, what is right. Change came slowly and with great pain, suffering, and deaths, but they did not go away, they persevered until the powers that be had to listen, until the whole World listened.

The womens movement by way of peaceful demonstrations, the Zapatista's started peaceful but war was waged against them, and they were almost completely destroyed.