Why Levees.Org removed its PSA from YouTube
Levees.Org was served an order to Cease and Desist from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) on November 10, 2007. We were ordered to remove our funny student-made Public Service Announcement (PSA) from YouTube. If we refused, the ASCE promised “appropriate legal action.” We stand behind every word of our PSA. But had we [...]
ASCE meets YouTube
Early this past week, an in-house attorney for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) served Levees.Org with a Cease and Desist letter, ordering us to remove our latest Public Service Announcement from YouTube. On Tuesday night, the webmaster, my 17 year old son removed the video from view, after returning from his out-of-state track [...]
Corps denies blame in New Orleans levee failures
Our new PSA video is a HIT, garnering over 27,000 views in 4 days and bringing lots of focus to the 8/29 Investigation, a whole new analysis of the flood protection failures in metro New Orleans. Due to the hoopla, you may be hearing this objection: “The Corps has already admitted they’re at fault. Why [...]
