![Arnie Fielkow May 2008 Presser City Council President Arnie Fielkow takes questions at a Press conference hosted by Levees.org in May 2008](https://levees.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Arnie-Fielkow-May-2008-Presser-150x150.jpg)
City Council President Arnie Fielkow takes questions at a Press conference hosted by Levees.org in May 2008
After all, Fielkow had just sponsored a resolution in New Orleans (written by Levees.org) urging all local media to stop using Katrina ‘shorthand’; that is, to stop saying that a ‘natural disaster’ flooded the city.
We just got the language of the presentation and we are pleased.
Fielkow and Cowen had five central points to make and the first, the very first was Katrina exposed flaws – crumbling federally-built levees…
Levees.org is pleased because the exposure by Katrina of poorly built levees – and how the Army Corps of Engineers was responsible for them – is probably the MOST important yet LEAST understood fact about the tragedy of the metro New Orleans flooding.
New Orleans thanks you Council President Fielkow and Tulane President Cowen.