Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Lynne Stewart - breaking news re release application-Free Lynne Stewart

Please forward widely and immediately...


Dear Friends of Lynne Stewart and Mumia Abu-Jamal,


Here's the latest news further indicating that a recommendation from Judge Koelt to grant Lynne compassionate release to her family's New York City home and thence to Sloan Kettering Cancer Center may be close at hand. We are awaiting confirmation.


Please read the material below and redouble your efforts to obtain additional signatures on the petition for Lynne's release.


I am presently scheduled to visit with Lynne at FMC Carswell in Fort Worth,Texas. It is my greatest hope that I can cancel my plane tickets and instead visit Lynne at her new home in New York. The fight for her return to good health, as difficult as that will be, will continue as well as her winning her freedom as Lynne pursues her legal battle demanding that the U.S. Supreme Court hear her appeal.


There is absolutely no doubt that the progress that we have collectively made to date opens the door wide to further victories. Let us all press on at this critical moment.


In solidarity,


Jeff Mackler, West Coast Coordinator, Lynne Stewart Defense Committee
*** Please forward widely ****
1. BREAKING NEWS - May 13, 2013 2:00 p.m. PST:

The International Petition Campaign to Free Lynne Stewart and Save Her Life is gratified to report that today, May 13, following urgent communications from former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and social activist Dick Gregory, that Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBP) General Counsel Kathleen Kenney telephoned Ramsey Clark to advise that a recommendation of Compassionate Release for Lynne Stewart from FMC Carswell Warden Jody R. Upton is on the desk of FBP Director Charles E. Samuels, Jr. with a full package of documentation.

Ramsey Clark and the International Petition Campaign are on stand-by for further news regarding Federal Bureau of Prisons implementation of Compassionate Release for Lynne Stewart with the appropriate filing of this Motion with Judge John Koetl.

We call upon all to intensify our collective efforts and expand the Petition Campaign as this life and death decision for Lynne Stewart is pending.

Our grateful thanks to all for your dedication and commitment in waging this struggle for justice, compassion and freedom for Lynne Stewart
(This Breaking News Update was prepared by Co-Cordinators Mya Shone, Ralph Schoenman and Ralph Poynter.)
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2. Email from We Will Not Be Silent:
LYNNE STEWART SHOULD BE FREE
We will stand for love, courage and solidarity to make the call for Lynne to return home.

STAND WITH THE MANY
NOT WITH THE FEW
On April 26, 2013, people gathered outside the gates of the U.S. Federal Prison in Carswell, Texas where Lynne Stewart is being held.
3. Write a letter to Charles Samuels, who is looking at Lynne's case. Write that Lynne Stewart should be discharged on Compassionate Release grounds.
Charles E. Samuels, Jr., Director
Federal Bureau of Prisons
321 First Street NW
Washington, DC 20534
4. We will come out to stand together in Foley Square, NYC, this Wednesday, in Lynne's city and stand up for her. We will create a public presence from Carswell, Texas to Times Square, to Foley Square, New York to stand for compassion, for love, for justice for Lynne Stewart and ask others to stand with us.
We will be part of this wave of humanity...
to get justice done to bring Lynne home.
We will not delay. Time is of the essence.
In Lynne's own words, "until my feet are planted like the Tree that grows in Brooklyn and I am around my friends, family and comrades... we must continue. Fight On!!"

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