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Levees.org founder to speak at Tulane Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

Sandy Rosenthal, founder of Levees.org

For the second year in a row, Sandy Rosenthal, the founder of Levees.org is invited to be interviewed at Tulane University’s Disaster Resilence Leadership Academy.

The mission of the Academy is strengthening disaster assistance and humanitarian leadership globally to increase resilience in communities and individuals threatened by natural and manmade disasters.

Ms. Rosenthal is invited as a case study in disaster resilience leadership and will be interviewed at 4pm Wed Feb 16 at the Payson Center, Tulane’s uptown campus in New Orleans.

Click here for more information and recent guests.
http://www.drlatulane.org/drla-home/community/leadership-corner

Harry Shearer’s ‘The Big Uneasy’ will screen in Scotland and Ireland

Monday, February 14th, 2011

H.J. Bosworth Jr, Harry Shearer and Sandy Rosenthal at August 2010 press conference. Photo/Pat Garin 8-23-2010

Next week, Harry Shearer’s award-winning documentary The Big Uneasy will be screened at two international film festivals in Europe. Mr. Shearer will be present for both showings.

The Big Uneasy is a hardhitting documentary about the human errors that led to the devastating flooding during Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans on August 29, 2005.

In an interview with Colm McAuliffe of The Daily Record, Mr. Shearer said,

“I made this film out of a sense of outrage that the true story behind one of the major news events of the 21st century has never been properly told to a wide audience. It’s a story that continues to have profound implications for the survival of a city that I love.”

In Scotland, Harry Shearer will appear at the Glasgow Film Theatre to introduce The Big Uneasy on Sunday Feb 20, 2011 at 6.30pm. For tickets and information, visit http://www.glasgowfilm.org/.

In Ireland, Mr. Shearer will attend the screening of The Big Uneasy at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival in Dublin on Tuesday Feb 22, 2011 at 6:30p. For tickets and information, visit http://jdiff.ticketsolve.com

Times Picayune’s Jeff Duncan has earned our Seal of Approval

Sunday, February 13th, 2011

Failed I-wall at site of Industrial Canal's east side north breach

Jeff Duncan, sportswriter for the Times Picayune has earned himself a Seal of Approval from Levees.org for an important assertion in his article today.

In a piece about America’s reaction to New Orleans’ angst over Sean Payton’s moving his family to Dallas, Mr. Duncan wrote:

“..Katrina, as we all know, was anything but a natural disaster.”

Levees.org gives out Seals of Approval each time we see a reporter properly reporting on the facts surrounding the worst civil engineering disaster in history of the United States. It’s our way of using honey instead of vinegar each time a reporter resists the urge to use fast, easy “Katrina shorthand.’

Saying Katrina storm flooded New Orleans would be like saying traffic broke the I-35 bridge in Minneapolis. Both the storm and the traffic exposed structural flaws. Both revealed blatant engineering mistakes.

Jeff Duncan is the 19th reporter at the Times Picayune who has been bestowed with the Levees.org Seal of Approval.

Who Dat Nation has every right to be upset with New Orleans Saints Coach Sean Payton’s move