Young filmmaker from St. Bernard Parish wins “Best Short” at prestigious NYC film fest

Saturday, June 27th, 2009
Filmmaker Matt Faust stands where his family home in Chalmette, LA once was. The home took on 9 ft of water in August 2005 and was later torn down by accident.

Filmmaker Matt Faust stands where his family home in Chalmette, LA once was. The home took on 9 ft of water in August 2005 and was later torn down by accident.

A lifelong resident of Chalmette, Matt Faust has won the prize for best short documentary at New York’s prestigious Tribeca Film Festival!

Many of you will recognize the haunting scene with the little girl and her beach ball standing in a desolate post-levee breach landscape from our Public Service Announcement a year ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqjIryjz1Ws&feature=channel_page

I am sure Matt would agree with me that the promise of many more audiences to view this beautiful film will help keep the preventable tragedy of the levee failures in front of the American people.

Click here for more on Faust and the Tribeca Festival.
http://delicious.com/leveesorg

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Levees.Org Asks Landrieu to do More about Corps of Engineers alleged internet scandal

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

At noon today, we sent the letter below to Senator Landrieu regarding her response to alleged coordinated abuse of public forums by a group of individuals at the Army Corps of Engineers.

June 25, 2009

Senator Mary Landrieu
328 Hart Senate Building
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510

Dear Senator Landrieu,

Thank you for your speedy response to our request, and for taking these disturbing, and in some cases, appalling allegations, seriously.

We appreciate your alerting the Department of Defense about this issue as these actions may be in violation of existing Department of Defense directives.

Still we wish to stress that since these activities may have violated Federal statutes, they must also be reviewed by the Department of Justice.

In short, we believe that the alleged activities may be far more than just a personnel matter within the Department of Defense.

Meanwhile, please also be aware that Levees.Org intends to file a complaint with the Office of Special Counsel to look into possible violations of the Hatch Act and Department of Defense Directive 1344.10.

Again, thank you for your speedy response to our concerns.  We look forward to hearing from you.

Yours truly,

Sandy Rosenthal
Executive Director

HJ Bosworth Jr, PE
Research Director

Vince Pasquantonio
Legislative Liaison

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BREAKING NEWS: US Senator will urge the Pentagon to review alleged Corps campaign against critics

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

At 4:34 pm today US Senator Mary Landrieu issued this statement to WWL TV Eyewitness News in New Orleans.

“I am very concerned by the reports that a number of Corps employees have engaged in a disingenuous campaign to undercut their critics in Louisiana,” Landrieu said. “My staff and I will continue to review these allegations and will urge Pentagon officials to thoroughly review this matter.”

Click here for full story by WWL.
http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl062309mlcorps.1b71a413.html

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