Tag Archives: new orleans
Over 1,000 petition signatures to New York Times
You did it. Over 1,000 supporters of Levees.org signed a petition to the New York Times requesting a style memo. In under 72 hours, over 1,000 engaged people took action and signed a petition requesting that whenever the 2005 flooding in metropolitan New Orleans is referenced, that it be called a manmade disaster, not a […]
Levees.org supporters respond to NY Times editor’s defense of calling Katrina a ‘natural disaster’
Levees.org believes in the media, and that’s why we work with editors and help them get the story right about Katrina and the metro New Orleans flooding. So we asked our nearly 25,000 supporters to write to Greg Brock, senior editor of the New York Times in response to his defense of calling Katrina a […]
NY Times calls both BP spill and Katrina ‘natural disasters’
Levees.org believes in the media, and that is why we try so hard to work with reporters and help them get the story right about the metro New Orleans flooding. But after four and a half years, it seems the New York Times – the paper with the third highest subscription rate in America – […]
