In Spring 2006, City Lights Publishers—known for our commitment to freedom of expression, renegade literature and radical political views—proudly announced that Greg Ruggiero, founder and editorial director of Open Media Books, had joined the ranks of the City Lights editorial team.

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, Alice Walker, Manning Marable, Tanya Reinhart, The Dalai Lama, and Subcomandante Marcos.

Ruggiero's move to City Lights and the launch of the City Lights Open Media Series marked a new chapter in the publishing of intelligent, inspiring and potentially radicalizing books. Some of the titles published in the series are Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism by Richard Wolff and David Barsamian, Interventions by Noam Chomsky, To Die in Mexico by John Gibler, and The Meaning of Freedom by Angela Davis.

The Open Media Series is archived by the The Tamiment Library at New York University.