https://www.opednews.com/populum/rss.php?c=a&t=&p=&tid=0 Opednews.com Progressive, Liberal United States and International News, Opinion, Op-Eds and Politics en-us Copyright 2026 Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:23:57 -0400 Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:23:57 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/rssbanner.png https://www.opednews.com/populum/rss.php?c=a&t=&p=&tid=0 152 149 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Top-Ten-Reasons-Obama-Shou-by-Chaz-Valenza-120124-904.html Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:02:12 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Top-Ten-Reasons-Obama-Shou-by-Chaz-Valenza-120124-904.html Chaz Valenza The president has called for tougher laws on financial fraud. If President Obama intends to take action on these words, his first action should be to remove a major obstacle to banking reform and the eventual implementation of his will: Secretary Tim Geithner. It's certainly not everything he'll need to do, but it may be a necessary first hurdle. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Must-Read-Photos--Does-th-by-Chaz-Valenza-120117-737.html Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:06:51 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Must-Read-Photos--Does-th-by-Chaz-Valenza-120117-737.html Chaz Valenza A picture is worth a 1,000 and with the right words explaining the picture... priceless. This type of communication is very effective and reaches people. How about some ideas about how the OWS movement can do more of this and reach greater numbers of people? https://www.opednews.com/articles/Texas-Police-Bungle-OWS-Gr-by-Chaz-Valenza-120116-979.html Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:26:01 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Texas-Police-Bungle-OWS-Gr-by-Chaz-Valenza-120116-979.html Chaz Valenza Thirteen OWS protesters are discriminated against. Who is at fault? The local authorities missed a chance to enforce the law and send a clear message to the perpetrator and his employer. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Middle-Class-Vanishes-by-Chaz-Valenza-120101-954.html Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:41:37 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Middle-Class-Vanishes-by-Chaz-Valenza-120101-954.html Chaz Valenza It's offical, the middle class is dead. Recently released US Bureau of Labor Statistic and Federal Reserve data show the "average American family" can't afford the average single family house... depended on their employer for health care insurance or went without... were in debt with no way out... didn't pursuing further education... saved nothing... and slashed their food budget to the bone. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Experts-stumped-by-ancient-by-Chaz-Valenza-111207-534.html Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:23:57 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Experts-stumped-by-ancient-by-Chaz-Valenza-111207-534.html Chaz Valenza In this photo taken on Dec. 1, 2011, Bloomberg Antiquities Authority archeologist, Timothy Geithner, sweeps marks carved in the bedrock in an archeological excavation in the city of Greed near the New York Stock Exchange. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Top-Ten-Twitter--so-I-pep-by-Chaz-Valenza-111122-186.html Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:48:58 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Top-Ten-Twitter--so-I-pep-by-Chaz-Valenza-111122-186.html Chaz Valenza Trending Now! (Not really. Twitter won't let it trend.) At hashtag #soipeppersprayedhim, the best jokes using this punch line. https://www.opednews.com/articles/AFL-CIO-Plans-Massive-Dece-by-Chaz-Valenza-111119-973.html Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:31:59 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/AFL-CIO-Plans-Massive-Dece-by-Chaz-Valenza-111119-973.html Chaz Valenza Pre-Press Announcement: The NYC Central Labor Council (NYC/CLC)- AFL/CIO will organize a massive march from Herald Square down Broadway to Union Square on December 1, 2011. https://www.opednews.com/articles/OWS-Day-N17--There-will-by-Chaz-Valenza-111117-596.html Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:11:20 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/OWS-Day-N17--There-will-by-Chaz-Valenza-111117-596.html Chaz Valenza Over 30,000 protest in NYC on the second anniversary of the birth of OWS. One hundred and seventy-seven were arrested. One Occupier badly beaten in Zoccotti Park. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Pearls-of-Wisdom-from-the-by-Chaz-Valenza-111116-740.html Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:38:40 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Pearls-of-Wisdom-from-the-by-Chaz-Valenza-111116-740.html Chaz Valenza Here are some of my, and I hope your, favorite quotes from those in-the-know, about those of us who would change things and support the efforts of the Occupy movement. https://www.opednews.com/articles/OWS--Bloomberg-to-Court-O-by-Chaz-Valenza-111115-354.html Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:14:01 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/OWS--Bloomberg-to-Court-O-by-Chaz-Valenza-111115-354.html Chaz Valenza Today, even though a court restraining order was granted to allow OWS protesters back into the Park eye-witnesses report the NYPD currently arresting those that try to return.--Late in the day, a new court ruling permitted the city to ban overnight camping by protesters. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Take-My-Backyard-Please--by-Chaz-Valenza-111003-67.html Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:41:44 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Take-My-Backyard-Please--by-Chaz-Valenza-111003-67.html Chaz Valenza A local occupation aimed at horrifying the crooks in the mythical land of "we bet both ways and always win," also known as Wall Street, is coming to a town near you right now! That's right, at last count there were occupations to end economic tyranny operating or forming in 45 states of the union in over 130 towns and cities, plus the District of Columbia, and 28 more in 15 foreign counties including you Canada! https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street-Look-d-by-Chaz-Valenza-111002-200.html Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:46:58 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street-Look-d-by-Chaz-Valenza-111002-200.html Chaz Valenza Look deeper. Underneath the veneer of protests and arrests there is a new democracy waiting to be born. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street-Day-14-by-Chaz-Valenza-110930-267.html Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:57:56 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street-Day-14-by-Chaz-Valenza-110930-267.html Chaz Valenza The fire that is the peoples' movment known as Occupy Wall Street is now burning and fuel is being added. It's at the point where nothing can stop it. Today a Declaration of the Occupation of New York City was released. Those on the balcony of Harry Cipriani on Wall Street will sip champagne and chuckle just a little less than they did the day prior. Here we go! Let the ride begin. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street-Day-13-by-Chaz-Valenza-110929-605.html Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:54:39 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street-Day-13-by-Chaz-Valenza-110929-605.html Chaz Valenza Today, a Precinct community council is being held regarding NYPD Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna the officer caught on video pepper spraying marchers bound for Union Square this past Saturday. Despite rainy weather, lack of shelter and increasing illness due too exposure, the Wall Street overnight occupiers numbers have grown 33% from 200 on the first day, September 17th to over 300 according to Time Magazine. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street-Day-10-by-Chaz-Valenza-110926-785.html Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:40:31 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street-Day-10-by-Chaz-Valenza-110926-785.html Chaz Valenza Those arrested on Saturday reported the following: Innocent bystanders were caught in the police drag net and detained. Employees and owners of several businesses harbored marchers to save them from arrest. And, a number of sympathetic NYPD officers treated those arrested with respect and extraordinary leeway, some expressing support. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street-Day-9-by-Chaz-Valenza-110924-668.html Sun, 25 Sep 2011 01:00:01 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street-Day-9-by-Chaz-Valenza-110924-668.html Chaz Valenza Yesterday between 121 and 200 protesters were arrested when a peaceful march of approximately 2,000 headed to Union Square to spread the word about their occupation for emancipation from a corrupt economic and financial system. The events made news in many national MSM publications. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street-Day-8--by-Chaz-Valenza-110924-442.html Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:10:30 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street-Day-8--by-Chaz-Valenza-110924-442.html Chaz Valenza In the next few days Occupy Wall Street will have more and more going for it and be better prepared for inevitable MSM close-up and scrutiny. No confirmed arrests yesterday and signs of improved relations with the NYPD as Occupy Wall Street protesters end their first week of occupation and settle into Zuccotti Park a.k.a. Liberty Plaza in NYC. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street-Day-7--by-Chaz-Valenza-110923-366.html Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:29:28 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street-Day-7--by-Chaz-Valenza-110923-366.html Chaz Valenza Box Score - Arrests: Occupy Wall Street protesters: 21 - Wall Street Banksters: 0. Each morning reinforcements show up from the metro NYC area. These daily participants swell the occupation from a few hundred into the thousands, growing as the day progresses. After working hours yesterday the crowd grows to well over 4,000. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street--Day-6-by-Chaz-Valenza-110921-768.html Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:59:43 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street--Day-6-by-Chaz-Valenza-110921-768.html Chaz Valenza Yesterday was another rough day for those here in Liberty Plaza, but much better than Tuesday when the police harassment was a definite attempt to nip Occupy Wall Street in the bud. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street-Day-5-by-Chaz-Valenza-110921-806.html Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:23:10 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street-Day-5-by-Chaz-Valenza-110921-806.html Chaz Valenza Yesterday, Tuesday, September 20th was hump day for Occupy Wall Street. It was a tough one. The word came down from on high: Use some intimidation and get these assholes out of Liberty Plaza and out of the city. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street-Day-4-by-Chaz-Valenza-110920-114.html Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:44:49 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street-Day-4-by-Chaz-Valenza-110920-114.html Chaz Valenza At 10:30 last night a spokesperson for a working group of Occupy Wall Street General Assembly announced plans for a rally on Thursday, September 22, 2011. https://www.opednews.com/articles/11-Things-You-Can-Do-to-Su-by-Chaz-Valenza-110919-830.html Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:16:41 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/11-Things-You-Can-Do-to-Su-by-Chaz-Valenza-110919-830.html Chaz Valenza Here's the good news -- you can help, right now today -- no matter where you are to support Occupy Wall Street. Here are 11 simple things you can do. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street--Day-T-by-Chaz-Valenza-110919-698.html Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:55:24 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street--Day-T-by-Chaz-Valenza-110919-698.html Chaz Valenza What is happening in NYC is embryonic, democratic and authentic. Here's the good news: you can help, right now today, no matter where you are. Believe me when I tell you nobody, but nobody knows this is going on! https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street--Day-T-by-Chaz-Valenza-110918-493.html Sun, 18 Sep 2011 19:50:30 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street--Day-T-by-Chaz-Valenza-110918-493.html Chaz Valenza September 18, 2011 - 7:42 PM The police are starting to get annoyed. They are trying to enforce little things like sitting on a low wall in the park. This is happening after a blocked attempt to get on the public street in NYC called Wall Street. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street--Day-O-by-Chaz-Valenza-110918-503.html Sun, 18 Sep 2011 13:57:53 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Wall-Street--Day-O-by-Chaz-Valenza-110918-503.html Chaz Valenza Protesters Occupy Wall Street: Day One reporting from the event. On Saturday, September 17, thousands of protesters took to the streets of lower Manhattan to mount a sustained effort to organize against a financial system that they say favors the wealthy and powerful at the expense of 99% of Americans. https://www.opednews.com/articles/FDIC-Demands-Banking-Break-by-Chaz-Valenza-110913-734.html Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:28:46 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/FDIC-Demands-Banking-Break-by-Chaz-Valenza-110913-734.html Chaz Valenza According to the Associated Press, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) voted today to approve a rule requiring banks with over $50 billion in assets to plan how they would break up if they are in danger of failing. Why not just break them up now? That way all American's can sleep a little easier knowing the "systemic" risk has been preempted. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Outrage-Begins-Wall-S-by-Chaz-Valenza-110910-406.html Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:18:27 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Outrage-Begins-Wall-S-by-Chaz-Valenza-110910-406.html Chaz Valenza On Saturday, September 17, 2001 U.S. Day of Rage has called for peaceable assemblies of people in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle. --In New York City, the plan is to occupy Wall Street and target the root of your political and social problems: Money. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Fortune-Magazine-s-Colin-B-by-Chaz-Valenza-110903-136.html Sat, 03 Sep 2011 21:12:37 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Fortune-Magazine-s-Colin-B-by-Chaz-Valenza-110903-136.html Chaz Valenza In his parting shot from Fortune Magazine and CNN Money, Colin Barr, Senior Writer, suggests Goldman Sachs may break-up. The reason, they are losing money. Why are they losing money? We may never know but my best guess is they were earning it the old fashioned way: stealing. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Public-Enemy-1-Goldman-S-by-Chaz-Valenza-110902-906.html Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:36:27 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Public-Enemy-1-Goldman-S-by-Chaz-Valenza-110902-906.html Chaz Valenza Until Goldman Sachs is decimated American democracy will remain comatose and few Americans are safe. Destroying Goldman Sachs is the key to getting our free, fair markets and our representative government back. https://www.opednews.com/articles/America-s-14-Most-Ready-to-by-Chaz-Valenza-110811-723.html Thu, 11 Aug 2011 02:47:58 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/America-s-14-Most-Ready-to-by-Chaz-Valenza-110811-723.html Chaz Valenza Could a Tottenham happen here? And, if so where? Here's a list of 14 large American cities that may be ready to erupt. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Are-You-Doing-Your-Part-to-by-Chaz-Valenza-110727-485.html Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:20:15 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Are-You-Doing-Your-Part-to-by-Chaz-Valenza-110727-485.html Chaz Valenza Review this simple check list. Now is the time to ask not what Big Business can do to you, but what you can do to screw yourself for Big Business. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Hunger-Game-by-Chaz-Valenza-101222-543.html Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:37:23 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Hunger-Game-by-Chaz-Valenza-101222-543.html Chaz Valenza There's no reason anyone should ever starve to death in America. But, more and more working Americans, many earning what were once middle class incomes, are spending their time and scarce money to find their next meal. The necessity of food will be the last thing you'll spend your limited funds on as wage stagnation, the cost of energy, housing and other mandatory expenses drive middle class family budgets to the brink. https://www.opednews.com/articles/THE-BIG-BANGA-THEORY-Amer-by-Chaz-Valenza-101210-656.html Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:24:30 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/THE-BIG-BANGA-THEORY-Amer-by-Chaz-Valenza-101210-656.html Chaz Valenza Eight million Americans told Amex, Visa, MasterCard and Discover to Stick It! last year. Some have had enough of too-big-to-fail business as usual on Wall Street and are sending a message. Meanwhile, at least one credit card company is developing the next financial WMD to part you from more and more of your money. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Bank-Run-Protest-Spreads-t-by-Chaz-Valenza-101123-997.html Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:36:52 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Bank-Run-Protest-Spreads-t-by-Chaz-Valenza-101123-997.html Chaz Valenza Finally, the idea of direct economic protest against Big Greed is gaining traction in America. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Capitalism-is-Dead--Long-by-Chaz-Valenza-101012-516.html Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:22:34 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Capitalism-is-Dead--Long-by-Chaz-Valenza-101012-516.html Chaz Valenza Capitalism is Dead - How the System was Worked to Death in easy to understand terms. Throw away your calculator. Here's how the Big Greed Boy and Girls make the big bucks. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-Gets-a-Big-Fat-F-for-by-Chaz-Valenza-100917-238.html Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:52:59 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-Gets-a-Big-Fat-F-for-by-Chaz-Valenza-100917-238.html Chaz Valenza President Obama may be a great leader. I don't know if he is or isn't. But I do know this, up to this point he has not taken any viable leadership actions. He has forgotten that the number one thing the President of the United States must do to be successful is to lead the nation, not to react, not to compromise and certainly not to follow the dictates of the opposition into oblivion. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Three-Ways-to-Put-America-by-Chaz-Valenza-100905-980.html Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:23:01 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Three-Ways-to-Put-America-by-Chaz-Valenza-100905-980.html Chaz Valenza President Obama says there is very little the government can do to create jobs. We can't do anything to create jobs? Really!? https://www.opednews.com/articles/Election-2010-The-Progres-by-Chaz-Valenza-100902-715.html Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:58:32 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Election-2010-The-Progres-by-Chaz-Valenza-100902-715.html Chaz Valenza Progressives have a Sophie's choice come November. Drag yourself to the polls to vote for a milk-toast Democrat, or stay at home and watch the congress go bye-bye to the now extreme right party of no? https://www.opednews.com/articles/People-to-Wall-Street--Dr-by-Chaz-Valenza-100822-402.html Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:14:13 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/People-to-Wall-Street--Dr-by-Chaz-Valenza-100822-402.html Chaz Valenza It's a not so fond farewell to Wall Street's yellow brick road. The curtain that hid the Wall Street fraud has fallen with a $33 Billion thud. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-New-Normal-A-Lot-Like-by-Chaz-Valenza-100821-634.html Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:39:34 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-New-Normal-A-Lot-Like-by-Chaz-Valenza-100821-634.html Chaz Valenza How bad, how disenfranchised, how weird will the New Normal America be?The future New Normal is not so difficult to divine. I believe it will be the same as now, and both worse and different. https://www.opednews.com/articles/How-to-Fight-Against-the--by-Chaz-Valenza-100818-60.html Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:50:38 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/How-to-Fight-Against-the--by-Chaz-Valenza-100818-60.html Chaz Valenza There is nothing normal or new about the "new normal." It is the imposition of a two tiered caste system: Upper Tier -" The Privileged Uber-wealthy. Lower Tier: Grateful Obedient Servants. https://www.opednews.com/articles/America--An-Undeveloping-by-Chaz-Valenza-100810-701.html Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:12:58 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/America--An-Undeveloping-by-Chaz-Valenza-100810-701.html Chaz Valenza The realization that America is in a slide, on a trajectory of decrease, "undeveloping" if you will, is dawning on Americans and it's a rude awakening. Who did take it and what can we do about it? https://www.opednews.com/articles/Your-New-Job-is-Coming--P-by-Chaz-Valenza-100805-687.html Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:58:26 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Your-New-Job-is-Coming--P-by-Chaz-Valenza-100805-687.html Chaz Valenza That's right, don't lose heart, the new jobs are on their way. The current 5 to 1 job to seeker ratio will soon be history. That is as soon as you are ready. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-political-action-is-no-by-Chaz-Valenza-100128-675.html Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:58:36 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-political-action-is-no-by-Chaz-Valenza-100128-675.html Chaz Valenza Corporatocracy is its own animal. Once in power this perversion cannot be defeated through democratic means as it has control of the roots of government. As we have witnessed, petitions, letter writing, emails, phone calls and even our votes are worth so little they are now ineffective. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Let-s-all-welcome-CorPerso-by-Chaz-Valenza-100125-561.html Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:28:12 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Let-s-all-welcome-CorPerso-by-Chaz-Valenza-100125-561.html Chaz Valenza On Thursday, January 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court slapped the CorPerson on its fat butt, cut the umbilical cord and, the heir to a zillion-zillon dollar fortune, wailed with joy! In the spirit of taking things way too far, I suggest a number of human attributes be bestowed upon the new humanoid immediately. https://www.opednews.com/articles/New-York-Times-Takes-Aim-a-by-Chaz-Valenza-100120-575.html Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:25:43 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/New-York-Times-Takes-Aim-a-by-Chaz-Valenza-100120-575.html Chaz Valenza The New York Times seeks to "reframe "the issue as a "consumer" ethical dilemma. Any positive force, fairness in pricing, trade and payment options is ignored. The argument of credit card non-use as a protest with a financial weight behind it ignored. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Holiday-Greetings-from-Big-by-Chaz-Valenza-091217-948.html Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:10:11 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Holiday-Greetings-from-Big-by-Chaz-Valenza-091217-948.html Chaz Valenza Thank you a trillion for using credit and debit cards. Sincerely, Big Banking and Finance https://www.opednews.com/articles/Wall-Street-Gets-It--The-by-Chaz-Valenza-091215-192.html Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:06:58 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Wall-Street-Gets-It--The-by-Chaz-Valenza-091215-192.html Chaz Valenza The people on Wall Street are out to steal every last dollar they can, as fast as they can, and as long as they can get away with it. Are you willing to do something to save you and your children from the people of Wall Street? Might I suggest you at least stop giving the banks your last dollars? https://www.opednews.com/articles/We-the-People-Must-Punish-by-Chaz-Valenza-091211-386.html Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:22:35 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/We-the-People-Must-Punish-by-Chaz-Valenza-091211-386.html Chaz Valenza Mr. and Mrs. America, your money and jobs are going, going... gone. So, what are you going to do now? We need to force change. Here's a swift, legal, crafty action you can take today, tomorrow and forever until we get change. If we can not take direct actions like Use Cash, what will we tell our children? https://www.opednews.com/articles/Join-the-Posse-Main-Stree-by-Chaz-Valenza-091205-821.html Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:05:17 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Join-the-Posse-Main-Stree-by-Chaz-Valenza-091205-821.html Chaz Valenza Main Street is mighty piss-off and itching to string up a few bank robber barons in the concrete canyons of Wall Street.But, there's a more effective, legal means at our disposal. With this plan, it's easy to easy to imagine putting a hurt on Big Banking to the tune of a billion dollars a year. https://www.opednews.com/articles/-7-Billion-to-get-you-to-u-by-Chaz-Valenza-091201-525.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:22:13 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/-7-Billion-to-get-you-to-u-by-Chaz-Valenza-091201-525.html Chaz Valenza Use Cash is about getting some power back into the hands of people toward ending the current unfair, usury and exploitive financial system. https://www.opednews.com/articles/-Use-Cash-Movement-to-Ign-by-Chaz-Valenza-091129-129.html Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:38:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/-Use-Cash-Movement-to-Ign-by-Chaz-Valenza-091129-129.html Chaz Valenza Transaction by transaction, we can deprive Big Banking of their lifeblood: fees, penalties and interest. Join the movement: USE CASH. It's a first step to banking and monetary reform. https://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Simple-Plan-to-Screw-the-by-Chaz-Valenza-091127-741.html Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:07:24 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Simple-Plan-to-Screw-the-by-Chaz-Valenza-091127-741.html Chaz Valenza Use Cash: a low-tech, easy, effective, and unstoppable way to fight Big Banking abuse. Every cash transaction snatches a dime, a dollar, thirty-five dollars, a hundred dollars or more out of the greedy, blood soaked hands of Big Banking. Each transaction denied is a cut. Together it's death by a billion cuts daily. https://www.opednews.com/articles/What-the-Economists-Aren-t-by-Chaz-Valenza-091119-795.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:24:26 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/What-the-Economists-Aren-t-by-Chaz-Valenza-091119-795.html Chaz Valenza My analysis of three indicators shows that within 12 months the annualized number of bankruptcies will roar past 1.5 million. This analysis forces us to ask many questions, including: When and how will Main Street emerge from the Great Recession? https://www.opednews.com/articles/Six-Reasons-to-Screw-Wall-by-Chaz-Valenza-091111-152.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:37:52 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Six-Reasons-to-Screw-Wall-by-Chaz-Valenza-091111-152.html Chaz Valenza You and I, and people like us that must work for a living, have no business in the equities markets. Not in individual stocks. Not in mutual funds. Not even in a broad index fund like the S&P 500, which is most likely the best way to --??invest--?-- in equities. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Madoff-associate-had-heart-by-Chaz-Valenza-091026-778.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:56:44 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Madoff-associate-had-heart-by-Chaz-Valenza-091026-778.html Chaz Valenza Pitch forks, torches and Molotov cocktails are so a Fight Club ago. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-s-Grab-a-Mop-Speec-by-Chaz-Valenza-091022-615.html Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:22:28 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-s-Grab-a-Mop-Speec-by-Chaz-Valenza-091022-615.html Chaz Valenza President Obama's "Grab a Mop" speech grabbed me by the... I'm not going to agree with everything our current President says or does, but I have to agree with him that it's time to grab a mop. Allow me to elucidate. https://www.opednews.com/articles/King-Making-in-New-Jersey-by-Chaz-Valenza-091014-972.html Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:51:25 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/King-Making-in-New-Jersey-by-Chaz-Valenza-091014-972.html Chaz Valenza The thrid party candidate in New Jersey deserves your vote and has a chance to win. Mr. Daggett did slay two dragons at once. He won the first election debate and proposed a plan to get New Jersey back on fiscal track. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Nothing-Succeeds-Like-Rule-by-Chaz-Valenza-090923-512.html Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:24:52 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Nothing-Succeeds-Like-Rule-by-Chaz-Valenza-090923-512.html Chaz Valenza Feeling powerless lately? You are. Time to pry our lives out of the hands of Big Greed corporations. Comments on Doughlas Rushoff's "Life Inc. How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back,--?-- https://www.opednews.com/articles/Heckled-Woman-in-Wheelchai-by-Chaz-Valenza-090908-546.html Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:15:03 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Heckled-Woman-in-Wheelchai-by-Chaz-Valenza-090908-546.html Chaz Valenza You may have seen this event on MSNBC or You Tube: At one of the many notorious August town hall meetings, a woman in a wheelchair ignores a barrage of heckling and stoically reads a brief statement in favor of health care reform. I wanted Ms. Hoynes to have a real chance to speak her mind. She has a lot to say and her story is timely. Please take a few moments to hear her out. https://www.opednews.com/articles/ACLU-to-Separation-of-Chur-by-Chaz-Valenza-090901-680.html Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:05:43 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/ACLU-to-Separation-of-Chur-by-Chaz-Valenza-090901-680.html Chaz Valenza It may be your taxpayer $$$, but to them it's God's beach and off limits to you. Welcome to Sunday morning in Ocean Grove, NJ. Did the ACLU - NJ care? Nope. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Putrid-Stench-of-Priva-by-Chaz-Valenza-090825-893.html Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:00:54 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Putrid-Stench-of-Priva-by-Chaz-Valenza-090825-893.html Chaz Valenza Nearly everyone recognizes something is terribly wrong with private health care insurance. The crux of the problem, obscured by a a massive school of red herring, is rarely identified though it infects the entire medical services system. Once exposed all arguments in opposition to reform crumble. https://www.opednews.com/articles/I-Know-the-Barter-Secret--by-Chaz-Valenza-090821-285.html Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:46:50 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/I-Know-the-Barter-Secret--by-Chaz-Valenza-090821-285.html Chaz Valenza Barter brokers would like you to think that they are the solution to many business problems. According to them, trading your services for everything from advertising to medical care to vehicle maintenance is easy and fair. Learn from my experience, it stinks. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Let-s-Eat-Our-Own--Hold-N-by-Chaz-Valenza-090817-408.html Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:24:23 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Let-s-Eat-Our-Own--Hold-N-by-Chaz-Valenza-090817-408.html Chaz Valenza Good medicine is good medicine. Let's yank open their jaws and shove it down their throats. To that end I am proposing that we figuratively kidnap and hold certain Democrats for ransom. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Wall-Street-vs-Small-Farm-by-Chaz-Valenza-090815-37.html Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:03:42 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Wall-Street-vs-Small-Farm-by-Chaz-Valenza-090815-37.html Chaz Valenza Our priorities are inverted when it comes to two commodities: food and money. We reward Wall Street and stiff the local farmer. This upside-down situation is driving us toward a dystopian future. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Vicious-Lie--Small-Busine-by-Chaz-Valenza-090813-996.html Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:09:48 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Vicious-Lie--Small-Busine-by-Chaz-Valenza-090813-996.html Chaz Valenza It's a vicious lie when behemoth corporations and their minions claim small businesses side with them in opposition to healthcare reform. Here's why small businesses share no common ground with the medical and insurance cartel. https://www.opednews.com/articles/What-won-t-be-said-at-the-by-Chaz-Valenza-090729-717.html Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:57:46 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/What-won-t-be-said-at-the-by-Chaz-Valenza-090729-717.html Chaz Valenza Wonder how much discretionary power the police have over you? Plenty. They expect deferential treatment and unless you're among the elite, you best be nice. https://www.opednews.com/articles/9-Things-You-Can-Do-to-Sto-by-Chaz-Valenza-090723-223.html Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:50:45 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/9-Things-You-Can-Do-to-Sto-by-Chaz-Valenza-090723-223.html Chaz Valenza Big corporations are destroying our lives, but what can we do? Here are some ways to begin to deprive Big Greed of a little bit of the lifeblood that keeps it so damn strong. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-s-trickle-down-stimu-by-Chaz-Valenza-090716-898.html Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:58:28 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-s-trickle-down-stimu-by-Chaz-Valenza-090716-898.html Chaz Valenza President Obama chose a trickle down, politically correct attack on the economic crisis--that isn't workin--and the natives are not buying it. Bold, bottom up actions are required now. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Big-Greed-s-Dream-by-Chaz-Valenza-090714-617.html Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:20:26 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Big-Greed-s-Dream-by-Chaz-Valenza-090714-617.html Chaz Valenza How, why and what to do about the tyranny of Big Greed, the corporate power that is decimating the American working class. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Three-Rules-for-Living-thr-by-Chaz-Valenza-090706-403.html Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:28:40 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Three-Rules-for-Living-thr-by-Chaz-Valenza-090706-403.html Chaz Valenza Three Rules for Living through the Second Depression - what we need right now to help ourselves in hard times. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Excuse-me-but-is-that-cha-by-Chaz-Valenza-090701-488.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:56:33 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Excuse-me-but-is-that-cha-by-Chaz-Valenza-090701-488.html Chaz Valenza At an Organizing for America, Obama's grassroots support campaign, the rank and file object to the Administration's lack of leadership and support for the so-called "public option" in health care reform. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Jobs-Mr-President-jobs-by-Chaz-Valenza-090625-837.html Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:18:33 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Jobs-Mr-President-jobs-by-Chaz-Valenza-090625-837.html Chaz Valenza Creating jobs in a frozen credit market where most Americans are not creditworthy is now job one. President Obama should work to create jobs that will add homegrown economic vigor.