Lynne Stewart-Political Prisoner!

Please come out to a Pot Luck Political Prisoner Writing Night at Burning Books on this coming Thursday the 14th @ 7pm. We will break bread, learn about the history of Lynne, her urgent situation currently, and write her letters! Lynne has been a tireless warrior for justice, equality and humanity for decades, her incarceration and sentence in her later years is horrific travesty of justice. Below 2 recent statements from Lynne one about her fight with Cancer and another for International Womens Day.

Sign petition for Compassionate Release- http://www.iacenter.org/LynneStewartSpreadThx/#.UToRMbQcxUF.facebook

If you can't make is you can still send her a letter- Visit her website- http://lynnestewart.org/Write Lynne
To send Lynne a letter, write:
Lynne Stewart #53504-054
Federal Medical Center, Carswell
PO Box 27137
Ft. Worth, TX 76127

Update from Lynne -3/4/13; 9 am Dear Folks;

Well, getting old ain’t for sissies nor is Chemo.  I had my Day One on Feb 25, did amazingly well the next day and then hit the wall on Wednesday.  Soooo tired.  Sooo without energy,  Soooo unlike my usual busy self.  Anyway, we all may have to count this March (and thereafter) for me as the months that weren’t !!! I am fortunate in that I have only some of the “messier” side effects but I can say that from Wednesday (26) to today (3/4) I have definitely been missing in action — sleeping extraordinary amounts of time and staying in my bed at other times (with or without the chow line).  My roommates and friends have been extraordinarily kind, helpful, bossy, sweet and will make sure I come through this.  The huge amount of mail I get is astounding to my fellow prisoners (“church, relatives, ?? ” I try to downplay it (some poor souls NEVER) get a letter) but my usual answer is that the source is 73 years of trying to do good works for people.  When someone then said “And now you’re here?!  I said that I have always been “here” and the government didn’t like it.)  I feel worst about the fact that I have run short of energy to help the women who already have spoken with me but they all do understand.

So, if you write and don’t get an answer don’t be surprised.  As I have said– I read everything and cherish the caring and kindness–with people such as we, how can we not prevail over the cruel over-power that tries to control us all?   It is, to my librarian mind, so reminiscent of the traditional folk/fairy tale where the cleverness and goodness of the fight back always prevails over evil.

Still waiting on Supreme Court (Brief is on Website) and laying plans for a campaign of compassionate (?) release.  Please stay tuned.

Love Struggle,
Lynne

International Womens Day Statement-

This is a cry from deep in my soul on behalf of my sisters--abused, forgotten, made marginal.  We are always aware of our place on the rungs of the ladder of oppression based on race and class and sex.

Since this needs be brief I want to first talk about sisters Indian--Asian and Native American.  It is the most difficult concept to conceive of the evil predatory communities these women on different sides of the world live in.  Rape is VIOLENCE not sex. It has been routine for men to absolutely do as they will without any fear of retribution legally.  There have been no courts to Prosecute, to PUNISH.  My first rejoinder is always to urge self-defense--that will always get a woman to Court.  But she may be the victim again.  Right now, the Congress has passed a "law" that we hope will protect Native Indian women here.  But there have been many "Laws".  There is greater hope in India where there has been a righteous female uprising that cannot, will not be ignored.  

Briefly I just want to mention --women who are not in the cruel world but suffer behind bars --cages, if you will.  Some of us are political --here because the Government has criminalized our actions or framed us --I call out to you to Remember and  Cherish  Marie Mason, a "green warrior", Afiia Siddique " a heroine in her own Pakistan for her brave resistance", and also Me--Still fighting, Still Struggling.  Still loving you all.

Love Struggle,

Lynne

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