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<h1><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rule19.org/download-film/film-130418-Mann%20vs%20Ford.pdf"><img
alt=""
src="cid:part1.05050508.07020301@mynas.com"
width="548" align="right" border="2"
height="708" hspace="20"></a><font
face="Aharoni"><i><b>Mann vs Ford<br>
</b></i></font></h1>
<h2>after years of toxic dumping, one small
community fights for its life<br>
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<p>Showing Thursday, April 18, in Cambridge
[<a
href="http://rule19.org/download-film/film-130418-Mann%20vs%20Ford.pdf"
moz-do-not-send="true">please download
distribute & flyer</a>]</p>
<p>In 1955, Ford built America’s largest
auto plant in Mahwah, New Jersey, just up
the river from New York City. Between 1967
and 1971, Ford dumped hundreds of tons of
toxic waste into mineshafts in northern
New Jersey—right in the backyards of
communities.</p>
<p>The sludge of lead, arsenic, Freon, paint
chemicals and dioxins poisoned the members
of the Ramapough Native American
community, causing a spate of severe
health problems. Mothers started having
miscarriages; people started coming down
with cancer. </p>
<p>One member of the Ramapough, Wayne Mann,
led the charge against Ford in 2005 with a
lawsuit stating that they had deliberately
poisoned the land and the people living on
it. The class action suit finally carried
through in 2008; but with an impending
bankruptcy on the horizon, the Ramapough
took a settlement averaging $8,000 per
plaintiff—except for the 30 people in the
area who died of cancer while the lawsuit
went through the courts. </p>
<p>Less than 5 percent of the community have
lived past 60, indicating what one doctor
in the film matter-of-factly refers to as
'<i>a massive die-off' rate</i>.' <br>
</p>
<p>"<i>The Record called this time period a
“toxic wild west,” ... The investigation
found that Ford repeatedly dumped waste
in poor communities, and knowingly
dumped sludge into a stream that feeds
into the Wanaque Reservoir. This was
reportedly done through organized crime
and government manipulation, coupled
with relaxed environmental regulations
and clean-up efforts.</i>" ~ Jessica
Mazzola, patch.com</p>
<p>"<i>If I poisoned 10 children, I’d go to
jail for life; if a corporation poisons
hundreds of people, it will get away
with it.</i>" ~Wayne Mann</p>
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<b>When/where</b><br>
doors open 6:40; film starts promptly 7pm<br>
243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway
and Windsor,<br>
entrance on Windsor<br>
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Please join us for a stimulating night out;
bring your friends!<br>
<b>free film, free refreshments, & free
door prizes.</b><b><br>
</b><b> [donations are encouraged]</b><br>
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"<i>You can't legislate good will - that
comes through education</i>." ~ Malcolm X<br>
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<b>UPandOUT film series</b> - see <a
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href="http://rule19.org/videos">rule19.org/videos</a><br>
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Why should YOU care? It's YOUR money that
pays for US/Israeli wars - on Iraq,
Afghanistan, Iran, Palestine, Libya. Syria,
Iran, So America, etc etc - for billionaire
bailouts, for ever more ubiquitous US
prisons, for the loss of liberty and civil
rights...<br>
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