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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872864832 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100848690 02 0872864839 03 9780872864832 15 9780872864832 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>City Lights Open Media</TitleText> <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>Interventions</TitleText> 1 A01 Chomsky, Noam Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky is a world-renowned author, linguist, and advocate for democracy. He is the critically acclaimed author of many books, including Hegemony or Survival, Imperial Ambitions, Failed States, Manufacturing Consent, and Media Control. He lives in Massachusetts where he is Institute Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. 2 A24 Ruggiero, Greg Greg Ruggiero Since cofounding the Open Media Series 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, Alice Walker, Allen Ginsberg, Arundhati Roy, Ralph Nader, Barbara Olshansky, The Dalai Lama, Vladimir Chernousenko, Cindy Sheehan, Manning Marable, and Subcomandante Marcos. Ruggiero published the Open Media series independently for several years from Westfield, New Jersey with his friend Stuart Sahulka before bringing the imprint to Seven Stories Press in 1997. Ruggiero worked as senior editor with Seven Stories Press from 1997 to 2005 during which time he published such critically acclaimed and bestselling titles as 9-11 by Noam Chomsky, Silencing Political Dissent by Nancy Chang, Israel/ Palestine by Tanya Reinhart, and Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis. In 1996, Ruggiero began working with "<a href="http://mediafilter.org/MFF/S38/S38.STR.html" target="_blank">Steal This Radio, 88.7FM</a>," an unlicensed FM radio station on New York City's Lower East Side where for two years he hosted a weekly show using the on-air name of "DJ Thomas Paine." Under a MacArthur grant received by the National Lawyers Guild in 1999, he took a three-month sabbatical from publishing to work as a national organizer for The Micropower Radio Coalition, an organization founded to end the government ban on low-power community radio. That organization's mission and purpose continues to this day through the brilliant efforts of the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.prometheusradio.org/">Prometheus Radio Project</a>. Ruggiero travels often to Chiapas, Mexico. In 1999 he began working with Juana Ponce de Leon to research and edit the book, Our Word is Our Weapon. The New York Times reported that during a trip to Chiapas in January 2000, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/06/world/mexico-expels-2-us-supporters-of-zapatistas-who-visited-chiapas.html?pagewanted=1">Ruggiero was forced by the Mexican government to leave Mexico</a> due to alleged affiliation with the Zapatista communities. In November 1999, Ruggiero traveled to Seattle for the historic anti-WTO protests, and while there worked with friends on the first of what has since become a global network of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.indymedia.org/">Independent Media Centers.</a> Represented by the <a href="http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/home.asp" target="_blank">Center for Constitutional Rights</a>, in February 2002 Greg won a First Amendment victory in Federal District Court . The case, <a target="_blank" href="http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/common/opinions/200202/00-1100a.txt">Ruggiero vs the FCC</a> proved that the U.S. government's lifetime prohibition against individuals who had engaged in civil disobedience from applying for a low-power FM license was unconstitutional. The victory was later overturned by an <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/legal/justice/justiceArticle.asp?ObjID=sQkxBe4Qma&Content=86">en banc decision</a>, and the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected to hear the case. Ruggiero authored <a href="http://www.sevenstories.com/book/?GCOI=58322100337230" target="blank">Microradio and Democracy, Low Power to The People</a> and has co-edited several books, including The Speed of Dreams, Selected Writings of Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos (with Canek Peña-Vargas, City Lights Books, 2007) Critical Mass, Voices for a Nuclear Free Future (with Start Sahulka, Open Media,1996), The New American Crisis: Radical Analysis of the Problems Facing America Today (with Start Sahulka, New Press 1995), Open Fire (with Stuart Sahulka, New Press 1993). Ruggiero graduated from Rutgers College in 1988, and spent several years hitchhiking around the US and abroad before settling into publishing. He currently lives and works from "nowhere Zen New Jersey." 01 eng 256 00 256 03 25 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Essays 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Politics 01 "Interventions offers over forty of Chomskys columns; insightful, crisp and well-researched pieces on news events of the day. From 9-11 to the Iraq War, from the 'non-crisis' of social security to the leveling of Lebanon, Chomsky provides informed opinion and critical analysis." Mumia Abu-Jamal <a href="http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=21&ItemID=13306">Read a new interview with Noam Chomsky on Z-net</a> "Unwavering political contrarian Noam Chomsky smart-bombs the U.S. military's global Interventions (City Lights). Shock and awe!" Vanity Fair, June 2007 Short, forceful commentaries on U.S. politics from Latin America to the Middle East. Noam Chomsky says that the freedom to challenge power is not just an opportunity, its a responsibility. For the past several years Chomsky has been writing essays for The New York Times Syndicate to do just that: challenge power and expose the global consequences of U.S. policy and military actions worldwide. Interventions is a collection of these essays, revised and updated with notes by the author. While Chomsky's New York Times Syndicate writings are widely published around the world, they have rarely been printed in major U.S. media; none have been published in the New York Times. Concise and fiercely argued, Interventions covers the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Bush presidency, Israel and Palestine, national security, the escalating threat of nuclear warfare, and more. A powerful and accessible new book from one of Americas foremost political intellectuals and dissidents. Noam Chomsky has taught linguistics and philosophy at MIT for more than fifty years. He is the author of numerous books, including Hegemony or Survival and Failed States. 02 "From 9-11 to the Iraq War, from the 'non-crisis' of social security to the leveling of Lebanon, Chomsky provides informed opinion and critical analysis" – Mumia Abu-Jamal 08 "From Bush's hostile footing toward Iran to the background of America's divide-and-conquer strategy in Iraq to America's reliance on repressive proxies around the world, Chomsky's interventions are necessary to understanding the empire we are setting out to dismantle." Chris Dols Socialist Worker 08 "Interventions portrays a fair and wide perspective of Noam Chomsky's values . . . Chomsky elucidates the illogical rationale that holds up an imperial war against the Iraqi nation . . . Most essays are quirky think pieces, but plenty more are fully researched and documented . . . [T]he book is a series of interesting political reflections that anyone with a curiosity for politics can enjoy." —Peter Gruskin Counterpoise 08 "Interventions covers the Iraq invasion and occupation, the Bush presidency, Israel and Palestine, national security and more." Chicago Sun-Times 08 "These columns are littered with unpopular but accurate caveats to the Bush administration's dream of unchallenged global dominance." John Freeman Newark Star-Ledger 08 "Noam Chomsky sounds off on US military interventions since 9/11." John Freeman Boston Phoenix 08 " . . . bulk of the essays deal with the US invasion of Iraq, but other issues are covered as well, including Hurricane Katrina, threats against Iran, the recent Israeli attack on Lebanon . . ." Book News Inc. 08 "It continues to amaze me that, for all the demonizing of Chomsky by certain regressive elements, his analyses are sensible and fact-based. If you are unfamiliar with his work, this would be a good introduction." The Morning News.org 08 "For more than 50 years now, MIT linguist Noam Chomsky has been a skeptic of statesin particular, the United Statesand how they use power. . . Say what one will about his ideas, Chomsky has taken this mandate seriously, even as his criticisms of U.S. foreign policy have marginalized him. Indeed, the 44 opinion pieces that comprise his latest collection, Interventions, were commissioned by the New York Times syndicate, but never ran there. . . Chomsky has been warning (some might say hectoring) America about the dangers of its military ambitions for decades. But he doesnt end without hope. . . he wants readers to take the banner that appears on the back of this book Arm Yourself with Information as seriously as they take their Second Amendment." John Freeman alibi.com 08 For those of us who know the name Noam Chomsky, our familiarity flows from having read (or read about) his many books on political or foreign affairs. Perhaps his best-known are 9-11, Manufacturing Consent (written with Ed Herman), and thanks to the promotion at the United Nations by Venezuelan president, Hugo Chvez recently, Hegemony or Survival. That said, when (or if) we think of Chomsky, its in the context of a critic, an author, or a scholar. Who knew that he is a gifted, concise columnist? Mumia Abu- Jamal ZNet 08 "Unwavering political contrarian Noam Chomsky smart-bombs the U.S. military's global Interventions (City Lights). Shock and awe!" -- Vanity Fair "Hot Type" Vanity Fair 08 "The introductory Editor's Note explains that post-9/11 Chomsky began writing short, roughly 1000 word, concise articles distributed by The New York Times Syndicate as op-eds. They were widely picked up overseas but rarely in the US and only in smaller regional or local papers. They never appeared in the New York Times that circulated them worldwide but not to its own readers. It shows how the Times and all the corporate media suppress views contrary to dominant mainstream thinking. They're verboten in a nation where A.J Liebling once said 'Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.' . . . " http://www.sjlendman.blogspot.com/ 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100848690/images/87286100848690L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100848690/images/87286100848690S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100848690 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 20070501 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 20070501 01 02 15.95 USD