{"id":40444,"date":"2014-06-19T10:04:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T17:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=40444"},"modified":"2014-06-19T10:48:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T17:48:35","slug":"lynne-stewart-and-ralph-poynter-on-life-activism-prison-and-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/06\/19\/lynne-stewart-and-ralph-poynter-on-life-activism-prison-and-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynne Stewart and Ralph Poynter On Life, Activism, Prison, and Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140619Uprising\/2014_06_19_lynn_stewart.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Lynne Stewart and Ralph Poynter <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140619Uprising\/2014_06_19_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/lynnandralph.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Famed activist Lawyer Lynne Stewart as freed earlier this year on compassionate release as she battled cancer in prison. The celebrated lawyer who had been incarcerated under post 9-11 \u201cSpecial Administrative Measures\u201d for sharing her terrorism suspect client\u2019s views with a reporter, was freed after 4 years in prison, where she suffered from late-stage breast cancer and was given only 18 months to live. <\/p>\n<p>Progressives all over the nation, led by Stewart&#8217;s husband, Ralph Poynter, organized for her release for many months. <\/p>\n<p>Lynne Stewart is well known for representing controversial clients, and according to one press account, she &#8220;defended America\u2019s poor, underprivileged, unwanted, and forgotten (Indymedia).&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famed activist Lawyer Lynne Stewart as freed earlier this year on compassionate release as she battled cancer in prison. The celebrated lawyer who had been incarcerated under post 9-11 \u201cSpecial Administrative Measures\u201d for sharing her terrorism suspect client\u2019s views with a reporter, was freed after 4 years in prison, where she suffered from late-stage breast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40457,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40444\/revisions\/40457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}