The longtime New York activist Ralph Poynter has died. Poynter was a retired New York school teacher who was a longtime advocate for political prisoners and a radio host on Pacifica station WBAI. He was married to the prominent radical attorney Lynne Stewart, who died in 2017. Poynter helped lead efforts to free Stewart, who was jailed for four years for distributing press releases on behalf of her jailed client, Egyptian cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman.