More than 100 years ago, Ricardo Flores Magón and his followers helped spark the Mexican Revolution from Los Angeles. What lessons could they teach the city's newest progressive council members?
, was about to take us on a two-mile walk through Magonista L.A., ending at City Hall. I had asked her for a tour in the summer, but we couldn’t align our calendars.
“There’s only one American immigration story allowed, and it’s about assimilation,” Lytle Hernandez said. “But Mexican Americans also offer a story of resistance. The Magonistas are part of that story.”On Sundays in the old days, the whole family gathered at the Southern California chicken ranch to hear the old man tell tales of the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
“It was a complete brawl!” she exclaimed. Magón’s neighbors rushed to pull him away from the officers, who finally dragged him, kicking and screaming, into a car and straight to the city jail.Lytle Hernandez stopped and smiled. “You read the book!” she said, referring to her 2017 history of L.A.’s jail system, “City of Inmates.”
“You don’t show up to fight for someone,” Lytle Hernandez said, “unless you have community relationships. And you still see it in the city today.” “We see the same person that uses the language to take down a dictator — he used the same language to strip down anyone who disagreed with him,” Lytle Hernandez said.The tour stops at the intersection of Temple and Spring, in front of the Spring Street Courthouse.On one side was L.A. City Hall, where Soto-Martinez and Hernandez will be sworn in on Tuesday.
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