In response to the University firing the coastal scientist and research professor Ivor van Heerden, Levees.org announced a rally to protest the University’s decision at LSU’s Heath Sciences Center in New Orleans.
Levees.org, founded by Sandy Rosenthal a few months after Hurricane Katrina, is hosting the protest tomorrow at 10 a.m.
“This is much bigger than Ivor van Heerden, its about the citizens,” Rosenthal said.
Levees.org began after the hurricane to educate the public that New Orleans was flooded not by a natural disaster but by engineering failure, Rosenthal said.
In addition to the protest, the group posted a petition to Chancellor Michael Martin for citizens to sign and voice their disagreement.
“This is a huge loss for the citizens of south Louisiana and indeed the entire nation, and I request that you reconsider those decisions,” the petition read.
——Contact Joy Lukachick at [email protected]