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City Lights Publishers, known for our commitment to freedom of expression, renegade literature and radical political views, is proud to announce that Greg Ruggiero, founder and editorial director of Open Media Books, has recently joined the ranks of the City Lights editorial team. This spring, Ruggiero will launch the City Lights Open Media Series, bringing you the best in up-to-the-minute political analysis and democratic debate. Since cofounding Open Media in 1991, Ruggiero has published some of the most outspoken scholars, social justice advocates, and dissidents of our time, including Noam Chomsky, Angela Y. Davis, Howard Zinn, Arundhati Roy, Ralph Nader, Manning Marable, and Subcomandante Marcos. Ruggiero’s move to City Lights and the launch of the City Lights Open Media Series marks a new chapter in the publishing of intelligent, inspiring and potentially radicalizing books, and we're wasting no time about it. Our first title, Cindy Sheehan's Dear President Bush, was published in April. (See below for more information), followed quickly by The Other Campaign: The Zapatista Call for Change from Below by Subcomandante Marcos. In 2007, watch for Interventions by Noam Chomsky and Targeting Iran by David Barsamian. Be sure to check back as our collaboration unfolds. |
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PRAISE FOR THE OPEN MEDIA SERIES
 See a bio for Greg Ruggiero, founder of the Open Media series |
“An operation out to change the world” – Evelyn Nieves, The New York Times "Like Tom Paine or Martin Luther, the Open Pamphlet Series desperately wants to create democratic debate by providing timely snippets of information and analysis that the empire would just as soon suppress. They're a quick read, and in a time of intellectual as well as political crisis, they put serious information into the hands and minds of a needy public… 'Public intelligence is power,' says Ruggiero, and he's determined to disseminate both." – James Ledbetter, The Village Voice Top Editor to City Lights | | Publishers Weekly by Bridget Kinsella "Peace on the Page" | The Boston Phoenix by Christopher Dreher "The Accidental Bestseller" | Publishers Weekly by Christopher Dreher "Indie Presses to Rush Out Cindy Sheehan Titles" | Publishers Weekly by Bridget Kinsella |
FORTHCOMING FROM CITY LIGHTS OPEN MEDIA SERIES
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Interventions By Noam Chomsky Available May 2007 ISBN 0-87286-483-9 Paperback, 176 pp “Chomsky is a global phenomenon…perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet.” – The New York Times Book Review Interventions is Noam Chomsky at his best. Not since his all-time bestselling title, 9/11, published in the Open Media Series in 2001, have readers had a timely, short, easy-to-read, affordable Chomsky. Unlike 9/11, Interventions is a writerly work – a series of more than thirty tightly argued essays aimed at various aspects of U.S. power and politics in the post- 9/11 world. While critical of U.S. military interventions around the globe, each piece in the book is in itself an intellectual intervention aimed at raising public ire about the consequences of U.S. use of power at home and abroad. Interventions’ subjects span from 9/11 and the Iraq War, to Social Security and Intelligent Design, South America and Asia, the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the election of Hamas, Hurricane Katrina, and the U.S. concept of “just war.” According to Business Week, “With relentless logic, Chomsky bids us to listen closely to what our leaders tells—and to discern what they are leaving out… Agree with him or not, we lose out by not listening.” Chomsky’s Interventions delivers what readers want: and accessible set of skeleton keys for opening up a wide range of global issues dominating today’s political landscape. Noam Chomsky is the critically acclaimed author of many books, including Hegemony or Survival, Imperial Ambitions, Failed States, Manufacturing Consent, and Media Control. |
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Targeting Iran
By David Barsamian Available June 2007 ISBN 0-87286-458-8 Paperback, 144 pp Iran and the United States are on a collision course. David Barsamian presents the perspectives of four experts on Iran who discuss the 1953 CIA coup and the rise of the Islamic regime; Iran’s internal dynamics and competing forces; relations with Iraq and Afghanistan; and the consequences of U.S. policy. Ervand Abrahamian authored Iran Between Two Revolutions. Noam Chomsky’s most recent book is Failed States. Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer and human rights activist. She won The Nobel Peace Prize in 2003. Nahid Mozaffari edited The PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature. David Barsamian’s books include Imperial Ambitions with Noam Chomsky and Original Zinn with Howard Zinn. |
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Dear President Bush By Cindy Sheehan Introduction by Howard Zinn City Lights Open Media Series ISBN 0-87286-454-5 Paperback, 144 pp America’s most famous antiwar Mom speaks out for peace, social justice, and end to the Iraq War. Sheehan discusses Martin Luther King, Jr., civil disobedience, US foreign policy, New Orleans, military recruitment, her son Casey’s death on his 5th day in Iraq, soldiers who resist, and her personal transformation into America’s most outspoken advocate for peace. With an introduction by Howard Zinn. Cindy Sheehan is the internationally known mom and peace advocate whose son, Casey, was killed in action in Baghdad, in April 2004. Since camping outside President Bush’s home in Texas throughout August 2005, Cindy has been interviewed in major media outlets. |
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The Other Campaign: The Zapatista Call for Change from Below
By Subcomandante Marcos City Lights Open Media Series ISBN 0-87286-447-4 Paperback, 120 pp Bilingual Edition $8.95 The Other Campaign is a collection of texts – in English and Spanish – by Subcomandante Marcos and his Zapatista compañeros that articulate a vision for “change from below,” a call to create social change outside and beyond the limits of electoral politics. As Mexico approaches the presidential elections in July 2006, Marcos and supporters are touring the country in an effort to build a broad-based movement to catalyze democratic change. Rather than depending on what they experience as an irreparably corrupt and out-of-touch political system, the Zapatistas are calling for change to come “from below,” from the power that will be unleashed when unrepresented and marginalized communities join forces. The book includes a recent interview with Marcos, speeches made by Zapatista commandantes, as well as the full text of the Zapatistas’ “The Sixth Declaration of the Lacandón Jungle,” a collective statement that places the indigenous struggle for democracy in its historical context and articulates an evolving vision for democracy, dignity, and justice. "The Sixth Declaration" was released to the world in September 2005, putting out a call to all Mexicans and to marginalized groups around the globe, inviting them to join in a network of solidarity. The Other Campaign is the living voice of revolutionary struggle in Mexico today – a passionate and powerful call for the creation of “one world in which many worlds fit.” More than ten years after their emergence as a compelling new voice, the Zapatistas continue to inspire and bring together individuals and groups around the world who believe that “another world is possible.” Subcomandante Marcos is a spokesperson and strategist for the Zapatistas, an indigenous insurgency movement based in Mexico. He first joined the indigenous guerrilla group that was to become the Zapatistas in the early 1980s. Marcos is author of several books translated into English, including Story of the Colors (Cinco Puntos), which won a Firecracker Alternative Book Award, and Our Word is Our Weapon (Seven Stories Press). For more info see: http://www.ezln.org.mx/ Luis Hernández is a scholar and journalist who writes for Mexico’s daily newspaper, La Jornada. |
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