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DESCRIPTION:Free Lynne Stewart Now!\n\nRally in Support of Activist lawyer and Guild 
 Member Lynne Stewart\nThursday, August 1, Noon\nFederal Building\n7th & 
 Mission in San Francisco\n\nSend a message to Bureau of Prisons Director 
 Charles E. Samuels Jr. that he must reverse his decision. \n\nLong-time 
 National Lawyers Guild member and activist lawyer Lynne Stewart needs our 
 help and she needs it now! The Federal Bureau of Prisons has denied Lynne 
 Stewart’s application for compassionate release, despite recommendations 
 in favor from the warden at her facility, the Regional Office Director, and 
 vetting of Stewart’s release plans by the Federal Probation Office in New 
 York.\nLynne Stewart’s condition is deteriorating rapidly. Medical 
 treatment to arrest the cancer that is metastasizing in her body has been 
 halted because she is too weak to receive it. She remains in isolation, as 
 her white blood cell count is so low that she is at risk for generalized 
 infection.\nFor over 30 years, Lynne Stewart devoted her life to the 
 oppressed – a constant advocate for the countless many deprived in the 
 United States of their freedom and their rights. She, herself, was targeted 
 and prosecuted because she defended vigorously her unpopular clients – 
 people the U.S. government sought to execute, disappear, and 
 demonize.\n\nIn 2006, Lynne Stewart was sentenced to 28-months. In 2009, 
 she was resentenced to 10 years in federal prison in response to the 
 vindictive dictates of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. In the fall, 
 the Supreme Court will consider her Certiorari petition on the basis of 
 both Lynne’s and her client’s first amendment rights.\n \nLynne 
 Stewart’s prosecution and continued imprisonment are an attempt to 
 intimidate all attorneys who would represent unpopular clients, 
 particularly those accused of being terrorists.  It is a message to those 
 of us in the legal community who understand how important it is that 
 everyone accused of a crime, especially those accused of the most serious 
 crimes, have a capable attorney both able and willing to zealously defend 
 them. \n\nThe struggle to free Lynne Stewart continues on many fronts:\n 
 \n• Join Guild members for a rally Thursday, August 1, noon to 2:00 pm at 
 the Federal building at 7th and Mission Streets.\n \n• Join Archbishop 
 Desmond Tutu, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Dick Gregory, Alice 
 Walker, Bianca Jagger, Pete Seeger, Ed Asner, Father Miguel D’Escoto 
 Brockmann, Daniel Berrigan, Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, and 25,000 
 others in the United States and internationally who have signed the 
 petition to free Lynne Stewart – at www.lynnestewart.org.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/07/18/18740033.php
SUMMARY:Rally to Free Lynne Stewart
LOCATION:Federal Building\n7th & Mission in San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/07/18/18740033.php
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