Thanks for this heads-up. Before the Ford plant was built on the property, I took flying lessons on the grass field that was on that swath of flat land. I went to grammar school (4 rooms) with some kids from the people suing Ford. But I was gone before Ford built. Joyce Kilmer was from that area and maybe wrote Trees while living there? What a change.
Gene Coyle On Jul 17, 2011, at 6:20 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > If someone asked you what came to mind when it came to a huge > multinational corporations dumping toxic waste on indigenous peoples’ > land, you are likely to think of far-off places like Ecuador where > Chevron refuses to pay for the to land, water and the health of native > peoples caused by oil run-off. This conflict between Indians and Chevron > was documented in the film “Crude” that represented advocacy film-making > at its finest. > > As it turns out, a similar drama unfolded not 40 miles from New York in > the 1990s when the Ramapough Mountain Indians sought damages against > Ford Motor for dumping the toxic waste from their Mahwah plant into the > soil, water and abandoned iron mines where the native peoples lived. A > documentary titled “Mann V. Ford” that is every bit as powerful as > “Crude” tells their story tomorrow night at 9pm on HBO, the premium > cable channel that is one of the best places to go on television for > hard-hitting political material. It is a sad commentary on the state of > PBS’s Frontline that you need to go to cable TV to see such a film. > > full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/mann-v-ford/ > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
