Mann v. Ford

Excellent documentary, surprised it never got more press. It makes one wonder who runs the country, big business and money? Profits at what cost is the issue with regards to human life.

Very informative great classroom resource.

I’ve lived around these folks all my life & they are nothing but hard working, caring & kind. The way they’ve been treated by Ford and everyone else in power is an absolute disgrace that has resulted in nothing less than murder of the poor. What happened to them is heartbreaking even if you don’t know them. A very, very well done documentary that cuts to the core. These people live minutes away from some of the richest real estate in the USA.

I first saw this video on a video I downloaded from Amazon. I bought this video for our friends, and our former next door neighbors. We lived in Ringwood, where this is all about, for 23 wonderful years. I gave this video to our then, neighbors, to see and share. We knew all about this area, called Upper Ringwood, and the iron mining, then, the Ford dumping. We would go over, talk to these wonderful people, who are descendants of Hessian soldiers, escaped black slaves, American Indians, and Dutch settlers. They were kind, thoughtful, family oriented, and loved to talk about their families and their mining of the high quality iron ore, which stopped in the 1970s. We would pick up pieces of this ore and bring it home and stick our magnets to it! Being on the ambulance corps, we had our share of ambulance calls up there....even delivering a baby to big a hurry to see the world! Ringwood has a huge stigma regard the Ford dumping of all the toxic waste in the abandoned iron mines. This is the second time it has been on the Superfund site. The Photography is beautiful, as I remembered it. It does not show Ringwood, other than the Mine Area, which is what this video is about. If you are from, have been through, or know about Ringwood, get this video. It is old history in todays world.

I grew up on the other side of the town in which the Ford plant (the source of the pollution) was located, and suspect that one of the people mentioned as having died was someone I had known in school. The dumping took place during the years I was in high school, and I was only in town for brief periods thereafter, so seeing this film after looking up some recent references on the internet to the community of Ramapough native people there was the first I knew of what happened to them or even that they were native Americans. This is a powerful story of injustice, and should be much more widely known.

The truth comes out. Big business that cares more for profit than human beings. When will the madness stop. Politics and money are not good together.

This is a very important subject matter in the portrayal of how big business always wins via corruption and deep pockets with the aid and complliance of the very governmental agencies that are supposed to protect us; and how the relationship between politics and big business allows for genocide with absolutely no repercussions. A more subtle message here is how the fetid political agency/corporate relationships have turned human misery and destruction into a cottage industry for lawyers. Citizens United assured that corporations are people -- but the very legal structure of corporations prevents personal responsibility of corporate officers, so you CAN have your cake and eat it too -- if you have money and both implied and actual legal immunity. The reason I didnt rate this higher is that they managed to take a really compelling case and widespread socio-economic issues and produced a documentary that repetitively misses the mark by dabbling in several critical --- historically and presently pertinent -- crises while not truly digging into any of them.

Amazing transaction, and a must watch for people who want to be informed!