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Lynne Stewart, people’s lawyer, freedom fighter, presente!
by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Lynne Stewart, after 78 winters in America, has died, after battling for years against breast cancer.
But those were just some of her battles and, like most of us, she won some and lost some. But she never stopped fighting!
For decades, she and her husband, Ralph Poynter, fought for New York’s political activists and revolutionaries, like Black Panthers and Young Lords, a Puerto Rican socialist collective. But mostly, they fought for the freedom of the poor and dispossessed of New York’s Black and Brown ghettoes.
She – they – fought often and fought well in the city’s courts.
Her husband, Ralph, was a stalwart of the Black Panther Party and her most committed defender.
When Lynne was targeted by the U.S. Justice Department, and she was tried and convicted for putting out a press release for her client, the blind Egyptian sheikh, Omar Abdul Rahman, Ralph stood in the hot Washington, D.C., sun with a sign in front of the White House, demanding his wife’s release.
Her defense of her client was in the best tradition of criminal defense lawyers, and she received significant support from a broad swath of the Bar – from lawyers, yes; judges, no.
Initially sentenced to 28 months, the 2nd Circuit sent it back for resentencing – and she got 10 years! Her support only grew.
The late activist lawyer Bill Kunstler once opined that defense lawyers should be officers of their clients, instead of officers of the court.
Lynne Stewart was an officer of her clients, a People’s Lawyer, beloved and respected.
May she ever be so.
(Español) Desmantelan la cabina de Regeneración Radio
El pasado martes 7 de marzo, nos percatamos de que nuestra cabina de radio fue abierta por la fuerza. Al ingresar, lo primero que vimos fue la ausencia de nuestro equipo: micrófonos, cables, consolas, ecualizadores de audio, computadoras con el acervo de Regeneración Radio -entre otras cosas- fueron extraídos de nuestro centro de trabajo. Llama la atención que de una casa completa, solo el espacio radiofónico fue afectado.
Estos acontecimientos se dan en un clima de violaciones al derecho a la comunicación, agresiones a la prensa y ataques constantes a los proyectos ubicados en la CDMX, en donde la consigna es exterminar a todo aquel que pretenda construir desde el aspecto político, social y cultural; desde abajo y a la izquierda.
ANTECEDENTES: No es la primera vez que recibimos un ataque. Es preciso recordar que el 21 de septiembre de 2015 nuestra anterior cabina fue completamente destruida por un grupo porril en la UNAM, aunado a las agresiones físicas, amenazas de muerte y el intento de asesinato a uno de nuestros integrantes. Aquella vez logramos reconstruirnos y reinventarnos en un nuevo sitio.