Levees.org is now #1 on Whitehouse.gov

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

You did it! You did it!

You managed to be Number One on the White House’s site of Petitions to the President. It won’t be number one long, so we took a screen shot so you could see it yourself.

If you haven’t yet, please sign the petition. We agree it’s a bit user unfriendly. Our web designer (my son Stanford) says you have to register, verify, change password, sign out, sign in, then click sign.

But if this is all it takes to get the attention of President of United States, we say “let’s do it!”

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/call-new-orleans-flooding-man-made-disaster-created-failure-federal-governments-levees/NFzNZlj1

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Levees.org launches petition to President Obama

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Home in St. Bernard Parish. Photo/Mike Collins

The White House has just issued a new tool for citizens to bring important issues to the attention of the President.

Levees.org saw a unique opportunity to reach out to the Obama Administration and ask him to stop calling the New Orleans flood a ‘natural disaster.’

We created a petition and are urging all of our supporters to sign it. When we get 150 signatures, our petition will be searchable on Whitehouse.gov.

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Corps of Engineers’ 11th Hour Block Attempt Backfires

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Interconnected sheet metal from failed I-walls in New Orleans during Katrina look like a giant metal grosgrain ribbon. Photo/Francis James

When the New Orleans Corps of Engineers District attempted an 11th hour strategy to block Levees.org from stating its case before the state advisory board, the Governor’s office denied the Corps’ request.

So the next day, the Corps tried another maneuver. Even though Levees.org had paid for title research showing the Corps owned the Industrial Canal breach site, the Corps showed up, again in the 11th hour claiming it didn’t own the site. Therefore, the state had to table Levees.org until November on that technicality.

But guess what? Another records request obtained today shows the Corps does own the site!

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