AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Please investigate Cornell Trustee Bill Sanders
Dear Dr. Skorton:
This is to alert you to a horrific situation, a virtual
concentration camp, in Juarez, Mexico that is part of a mega-binational
development in which one of your trustees is a major
investor. Please read the Dec. 27, 2007 on-line article
by Pulitzer Prize winner (1994, for national reporting) Eileen
Welsome. This is a comprehensive narrative of the Lomas del Poleo
land dispute, the violence and murders, the billions of dollars behind
this Mexico/El Paso/southern New Mexico development scheme. I have
met with some of the U.S. citizens documenting this horror as well as
with Juarez residents of Lomas del Poleo who have seen their homes
destroyed, their children terrorized and gang member
“guards” assaulting innocent residents including women.
You can google Lomas del Poleo where you will see many sites including YouTube, and for photos click here and here.
I know that university trustees are wealthy individuals who are
counted on to contribute huge sums to Cornell's endowment but do you
really want Cornell to benefit from corruption and violence?
I am the aunt of a Cornell graduate and I am a former Peace Corps
Volunteer who retired here in southern New Mexico from New York City
where I headed a small public relations company whose main client for
20 years was a Fortune 500 company. I am very concerned about
underhanded and secretive efforts to build hundreds of thousands of
housing units – 400,000 supposedly in Juarez alone — and
businesses in this southern border desert area without regard to the
environment and water resources not to mention the violence against and
displacement of honest working people in Juarez and El Paso.
Please investigate your trustee's role in this development scheme.
Thank you.
Yours truly,
Charlotte Lipson
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