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 families’ support [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Ivor van Heerden receives award for Civic Courage
Saturday, December 26, 2009 – 4:15 pm
America Betrayed featuring Levees.org voted to Top 50 Documentaries of 2009
Thursday, December 24, 2009 – 5:05 pm
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 [...]
Southern California Public Radio uses Katrina shorthand
Monday, December 21, 2009 – 11:45 am
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 disaster” rather [...]
The Katrina Myth video will go home with all St. Bernard Project volunteers
Saturday, December 19, 2009 – 6:35 pm
The Community Center of St Bernard will include Levees.org’s Katrina Myth video in a DVD they will send home with all their visiting volunteers.
“We feel that the video is an invaluable resource and goes a long way to combat the erroneous information being circulated about what actually transpired here in our region,” says R.M. “Iray” [...]
Jon Donley: The Corps is one of most powerful machines in the U.S.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 – 5:19 pm
The following is a comment by Jon Donley, founder and former editior and chief on NOLA.com on my Huffington Post blog dated Dec 14, 2009.
The Corps of Engineers is one of the most powerful machines in the country; it can award and withhold contracts in the hundreds of billions of dollars. The power behind the [...]
Directions Magazine has published Levees.org’s levee county map
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 – 2:32 pm
Directions Magazine, a widely read publication for geospatial professionals has published Levees.org’s levee county map!
The eye-popping map is featured in the segment called “Off the Beaten Path” that highlights interesting geographic information systems (GIS) applications.
This great exposure to geospatial professionals across the nation should help to open some more eyes and spur additional efforts to [...]
Levees.org is published on Huffington Post
Monday, December 14, 2009 – 4:48 pm
It’s a good day for the people of south Louisiana when a publication like the Huffington Post publishes a news article written by Levees.org.
We want to keep the focus on how what happened during Katrina is a national infrastructure issue and not a parochial New Orleans issue.
You can help right now.
Please leave a comment on [...]
Why should you care about New Orleans’ flood disaster now?
Sunday, December 13, 2009 – 2:11 pm
Three weeks ago, headlines rocketed around the world that a federal judge had faulted the Army Corps of Engineers for much of the horrific flooding during Katrina.
This matters to all of us, because the same agency that bungled in New Orleans is responsible for most of the important water projects in this country.
And that’s important [...]
Levees.org will be a guest of Garland Robinette today at 11:20am CST
Friday, December 11, 2009 – 10:38 am
Levees.org will be a guest of Garland Robinette this morning at 11:20am CST.
H.J. Bosworth Jr, lead researcher for Levees.org will talk about an underground steel wall being built under the border of Egypt and Gaza by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that will be reportedly impenetrable and will take 18 months to construct according [...]
Cowen and Fielkow to National Press Club: Katrina exposed flaws in federal levees
Saturday, December 5, 2009 – 2:26 pm
When we heard New Orleans City Council President Arnie Fielkow and Tulane President Scott Cowen had traveled to Washington DC this week to speak to the National Press Club, we were dying of curiosity to find out that they said.
After all, Fielkow had just sponsored a resolution in New Orleans (written by Levees.org) urging all [...]
Dear Rep Ed Legg: New Orleans has mainly a culture of hospitality, not corruption
Thursday, December 3, 2009 – 6:41 pm
Ed Legg (D-Kennebunk) an elected official from the State of Maine was in New Orleans two weeks ago and decided that all of us are corrupt including federal Judge Stanwood Duval.
In a piece released today he opined that
“the front pages of the respected local newspaper, The Times-Picayune, were filled regularly with tales of criminal, [...]
Pam Dashiell, advocate and friend passes
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 – 2:19 pm
I am greatly saddened to share the news that Pam Dashiell, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Lower 9th Ward for Sustainable Engagement and Development passed away yesterday morning.
This is a loss for Ms. Dashiell’s family, her neighborhood, the city of New Orleans, the state of Louisiana and for the United States of [...]
New map shows large sectors of American population are protected by levees
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 – 2:12 pm
NEW MAP: Levees.org recently discovered (in a FOIA request) that 55% of the nation’s population (156,615,630 people) lives in counties protected by levees.
We thought this information so important that we commissioned a researcher to translate the volume of data tables into a easy-to-read map.
The result is eye popping.
The graphic and accompanying table shows that [...]