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Greg Ruggiero, an editor at City Lights Publishers, founder of Open Media Books and the driving force behind Zuccotti Park Press.

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Compañeros of the Word: Toward a Literacy of Rebellion

(2) Comments | Posted April 4, 2013 | 2:48 PM

In the dead of winter, 1994, a mysterious caller left a voice-message on my answering machine. Speaking in English, but with a Mexican-sounding accent, the female voice simply said, "The compañeros asked me to call you to thank you for the pamphlet you made about the struggle." Compañeros? It was...

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Occupying With Noam Chomsky

(8) Comments | Posted April 30, 2012 | 12:02 PM

"People seem to know about May Day everywhere, except where it began, here in the United States of America," says Chomsky in a new piece he's written for Zuccotti Park Press. "That's because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning. ...Today, there is...

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What Is Solidarity? A Pamphleteer's Occupation

(3) Comments | Posted April 12, 2012 | 3:01 PM

Who in their right mind would start a new small press at a time when the economy is so bad, e-books are rising, and book stores, libraries and perhaps the printed word itself are getting shoved down the same path as vinyl records and record stores?

Why bother to sink...

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