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"...<i>it can happen anywhere. It can happen in my community. It
can happen in yours</i>"<br>
[and 2 days ago we have this, from Helen Caldicott: <br>
<a
href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/obama-approves-raising-permissible-levels-of-nuclear-radiation-in-drinking-water-civilian-cancer-deaths-expected-to-skyrocket/5331224">Obama
Approves Raising Permissible Levels of Nuclear Radiation in
Drinking Water. Civilian Cancer Deaths Expected to Skyrocket</a>]<br>
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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:part2.02080709.08000400@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. <br>
</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 [spoiler alert: it
does not have a happy ending].<br>
</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>Posted in 2011 at <b>writeonnewjersey.com:</b></p>
<blockquote class=" cite" id="Cite_0">
<p>I have a personal saying, "There is no justice
in this world, but there is the law." But after
seeing the staggering denouement of the Mann vs.
Ford case, I am no longer confident in the law.</p>
<p>The plight of the Ramapoughs, and the blind eye
that they have received from a mega-corporation
and our own government is not simply 'their
problem.' If it can happen in the once
unspoiled Ramapough Mountains of New Jersey, it
can happen anywhere. It can happen in my
community. It can happen in yours.</p>
When I was asked last week to craft an article to
help launch the upcoming HBO documentary, Mann vs.
Ford, I had no idea how hard my heart was about to
be wrenched, or how far my head was about to be
blown.
<p>I strongly urge you to view [the documentary],
absorb it, and understand how it impacts us all,
not just a group of Native Americans who have
been living under these untenable conditions for
more than 40 years.</p>
<p>Fly over the Ramapo Mountains and you will see,
lying incongruously and stealthily among the
green trees and shrubs, dried lakes of bright
blue, red, and tan. These are the waste products
of paint whose colors, decades later, are as
vibrant as the day they were applied to the cars
churned off the assembly line. <br>
<br>
What you won't see, unless you look and tread
very carefully, is how the paint, discarded
metals, and other waste infiltrated and tainted
so very many other areas: how the toxins are now
literally part of the landscape, how they have
seeped into a reservoir whose water is consumed
by than 2 million people, and how they impacted
every level of the food chain.</p>
</blockquote>
<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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