Ivor van Heerden receives award for Civic Courage
At a recent award ceremony in Washington DC, Ivor van Heerden spoke before a large engaged crowd about the metro New Orleans flood in August 2005 and its aftermath. “150,000 families lost everything, and to add insult to injury, they were also moved away from their support base,” van Heerden said. Indeed, the loss of [...]
America Betrayed featuring Levees.org voted to Top 50 Documentaries of 2009
I just received word from the producer of the documentary America Betrayed that the film was voted yesterday as Top 50 Documentaries of 2009 by iTunes. This is a major honor. The film by Leslie Carde which features H.J. Bosworth Jr and me, Sandy Rosenthal is an important film. America Betrayed clearly exposes our government’s [...]
Southern California Public Radio uses Katrina shorthand
More people in California are at risk of levee failure than Florida, Texas and Louisiana combined. We now know this because the catastrophic flooding in metro New Orleans exposed that problem, and the problem of badly built federal levees nationwide. But many news sources continue to depict the New Orleans flooding is “due to natural [...]
