January 20, 2006
Rally tomorrow...
CITIZENS URGED TO TAKE MESSAGE DIRECTLY TO CORPS OF ENGINEERS ON SATURDAY, JAN. 21
A rally will be held on Saturday, Jan. 21, at 11 a.m. at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Building on Leake Avenue (River Road) in New Orleans, near the Carrollton/St. Charles Riverbend. THE EVENT WILL LAST 1/2 HOUR. For info, go to www.levees.org
A new citizens group, called Levees for Greater New Orleans, is calling upon citizens to demonstrate in front of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Building in New Orleans to underscore their central participation in the levee failures during Hurricane Katrina and call upon Congress to compensate homeowners, restore wetlands and fund full Levee 5 protections.
“Our city is destroyed and hundreds of people have died because the levees failed. Katrina passed well to the east of New Orleans and we weathered the winds of a Cat 1 storm, yet levees broke all over the metro area. The levees broke because they weren't built right, and the responsibility for designing and building the levees belongs to the US Army Corps of Engineers- a federal agency,” said Director Sandy Rosenthal.
“America needs to understand that our flood protection is a federal program gone wrong. And there is no need to wait a year for an engineering study to tell us the broken levees had engineering flaws. The evidence speaks for themselves,” she added.
The group seeks to raise public awareness that the flooding of large portions of Greater New Orleans was caused by federal engineering failures and call upon Congress to compensate homeowners, restore wetlands, and build Cat 5 flood protection where deemed cost effective.
“Let us make a demonstration on behalf of all those who have lost homes in our city, and in more than 1100 cases, lost their lives because the security we paid for was not there to begin with,” said Russell Henderson, Director, Rebuilding Louisiana Coalition.
Get info at www.levees.org
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The United States cannot afford to lose a city as valuable as New Orleans. If New Orleans Levees are not rebuilt properly, then the long-term effects will be disastrous for American culture and the U.S. economy. Please sign our petition at http://www.savebigeasy.org
Posted by Bill at January 21, 2006 10:41 PM