Lynne with her son, his wife, and Lynne’s grandkids.

Lynne and Ralph.

Lynne and her grandkids.

Lynne with her son.

Lynne Stewart, Maury Knight and Virginia Gernes (12/18/12)

Ralph visits on New Year’s Day 2012.

Recent interview with Lynne’s husband Ralph. The interview was taped November 6, 2011. Lynne has since resolved some of her medical issues with the prison.

Lynne Stewart Report – 11-6-11

Carswell Federal Prison, Fort Worth, Texas 2011
L to R : Virginia Gernes Lynne Stewart & Maury Knight
Virginia ” Ginny” Gernes is Lynne’s close personal friend (since 1955)
Maury Knight is Lynne’s friend & colleague since thier Rutgers Law School Days (1974)

THANK YOU from Lynne to everyone who came out for the John Brown Birthday Memorial at Brecht Forum in NYC. on May 9, 2011.  $300.00 was raised for Lynne.

To Lynne’s great delight among the many distinguished speakers, writers and artists, John Brown’s great great great granddaughter Alice Mecoy attended!  Thanks again to all involved for your generous donations of time and money!!  LS

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Lynne hopes you can come support:

TRUMPET OF FREEDOM:THE SAGA OF JOHN BROWN:

A one-person drama
Celebrate  JOHN BROWN’s Birth
At the Brecht Forum
Poetry Music  Drama Refreshments
Discussion “Should  John Brown Receive a Presidential Pardon”

Performance of
JOHN BROWN: TRUMPET OF FREEDOM
Monday May 9th 7PM
A benefit for the Lynne Stewart Defense Fund

JOHN BROWN: Trumpet of Freedom Is a one-man drama  portraying the legendary Abolitionist and 30 other Civil War period characters.  It employs an historically accurate narrative, relying largely on John Brown’s own words.  Appropriate for adults and young people 13 and older.

Norman Marshall has participated in over three hundred productions of plays, films, television and radio programs mainly in New York and Hollywood. He has shared the stage and screen with such notable actors as Moses Gunn, Raul Julia, F. Murray Abraham, Burt Reynolds and Barbara Streisand. Mr. Marshall was the founder, and for ten years the Artistic Director, of Merry Enterprises Theatre Inc. in New York.

David S. Reynolds is Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.  He is the author of John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights, winner of the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award.

This special performance is part of a series of programs related to the Historical Society of Princeton’s current exhibition, Princeton’s Civil War, on view until July 15. Museum Galleries and Shop at 158 Nassau Street, Princeton, open Tuesday-Sunday, 12-4pm.

Norman Thomas Marshall, the portrayer of John Brown
610 428 4852
www.wbworks.com/johnbrown

E-Mail: johnbrown1859 at sbcglobal.net

October 15, 2010

Lynne Stewart #53504-054
MCC-NY
150 Park Row
New York, NY 10007

Dear Lynne:

I’m writing today to notify you that my organization, the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), is hosting a National Conference on Socialism on Nov. 13-14 in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California campus. We expect many hundreds of people to come from all over the country to attend. The PSL is a revolutionary Marxist organization that struggles for social and economic justice in the United States. As a member group of the ANSWER Coalition, we have actively supported your case and demanded your freedom.

In our Nov. 13 evening panel, we are giving our first-ever PSL “Fighters for Justice” awards to several people. We would like to honor you as an award recipient. Other recipients will include political prisoners Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier and the Cuban Five. Presenters will include former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Mr. Clark will present your award since he has worked with you so closely.

The PSL is presenting you with this award for your decades of struggle and perseverance before and now during your unjust incarceration. Your unwavering defense of the most oppressed and exploited people resonate with working-class and poor people across the country and around the world.

We recognize that you should be there with us in November to receive the award, but understand you likely will not due to the backward, unjust system that keeps you locked up without cause. We reject that system and hope that this award will help highlight the continuing struggle for your freedom.

The PSL would be honored if you agreed to accept the award and could send us a written acceptance speech for the event. We would read your acceptance to the hundreds who attend and promote it as widely as possible.

If you agree, you can send your message to me, Ian Thompson, c/o PSL, 137 N. Virgil Ave, #203, Los Angeles, CA 90004. My phone numbers are 213-251-1025 (office) and 310-490-8595 (cell).

In solidarity,

Ian Thompson
For the Central Committee of the
Party for Socialism and Liberation

In one of the best selling books of this season, the heroine, Lizabeth Salander, a hardwired, brilliant young computer genius is shot and buried by the antagonist.  He is a prototype of the cruel, greedy, mysoginistic,exploiter.  She claws herself out of her premature grave and indomitable and focused, defeats him  .Finally by the end of volume 3 she has triumphed, using her own brains and relying on  her friends and comrades,  over the entire corrupt corporate, governmental, military power structure that had been trying to oppress and suppress her her whole life.

Last Thursday, Federal Judge John Koeltl attempted to bury me alive.  Acting for the Government and Judges of the 2 Circuit Court of Appeals he sentenced me at their demand to more than 5x the term he originally thought ” right and just”.  With his new sentence, of 10 years, I am buried in the Prison Industrial Complex until I am nearly 80 years old, if I make it.  But, believe me, I, like Lisabeth Salander intend to lift the dirt off and even if weakened and  wounded–regain my voice and strength !!

When the National Assembly was founded and had its first conference, it too had a formidable task–to become a democratic voice of the anti-war movement.  It too had to shift and move and overcome sectarianism.  To revive a weary, disillusioned anti war movement We have come a long way toward being the vibrant voice we envisioned  when we had the first telephone conference.  We have grown.  We have tried to stay true to the notion that everyone who attended had a voice and that important policy issues and future plans must be decided by vote of the membership.

I have been out of the steering aspect due to my “unavailability”  but my husband Ralph Poynter is still dedicated and active.  He represents both of us.  Others, too numerous to mention, close to me in my previous life, also now stand for me.   I miss many things from that life but most of all being part of the challenge to make lasting change in my lifetime by ending the scourge of imperialism and its endless wars and exploitation for ourselves and all the peoples of the world.  LONG LIVE THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY