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About :
Levees.Org was founded in November of 2005 by Sandy Rosenthal, 50 and her son Stanford, 16 while living in Lafayette, Louisiana after evacuating from New Orleans. They returned to the city and grew the organization to over 14,000 members with a six member Board. The non sectarian non partisan grassroots group's mission is education that New Orleans was destroyed primarily by bad engineering and not bad weather.
Their 2006 goals were addition of Corps Reform measures the Water Resources Development Act bill and also passage of federal legislation awarding a fairer share in the revenues from royalties on off shore drilling in the Gulf. Both goals were achieved and widely recognized.
The group's 2007 goal, launched on January 3 is the 8/29 Commission, an independent analysis of the failure of the federal flood protection in metro New Orleans on August 29, 2005. Over 400 petition signatures were collected in the first few hours, and Levees.Org quickly lined up broad support from businesses, city government, environmentalists, neighborhood and special interest groups, and major publications. Levees.Org has no corporate sponsors and expenses are funded entirely by member donations.
Total Active Members: 14,320
Programs:
- Call for an 8/29 commission: An independent commission to examine and make recommendations regarding Louisiana's flood protection is vital to reestablishing public trust. This Commission would examine decades of possibly flawed governmental policy at the federal, state and local level. This is not about placing blame, but about moving forward in the best way because taxpayers need a full return on the investment dollars that Congress authorizes and the citizens of south Louisiana need the best protection possible.
- Website includes various public service announcements, fact sheets articles, web tools, and other media resources.
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