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Chaz Valenza is writer and small business owner in New Jersey. He earned his MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business. His current feature film project is "Single Point Failure" an insider's account of how the Reagan Administration caused the greatest tragedy of the space age based on Richard C. Cook's book "Challenger Revealed." He is a former Director of Public Information for Planned Parenthood of NYC. His website is: www.WordsWillNever.com
(9 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 20, 2011 Occupy Wall Street: Day 4 - NYPD 2 Step: Stomp Ankle & Hop
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.
(15 comments) SHARE Monday, September 19, 2011 13 Things You Can Do to Support: Occupy Wall Street
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.
(16 comments) SHARE Monday, September 19, 2011 Occupy Wall Street - Day Three: 8 confirmed arrests
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!
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 18, 2011 Occupy Wall Street - Day Two
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.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 18, 2011 Occupy Wall Street - Day One
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.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 13, 2011 FDIC Demands Banking Break Up Plans: Why Wait?
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.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 10, 2011 The Outrage Begins: Wall Street - September 17th
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.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 3, 2011 Fortune Magazine's Colin Barr Suggest Goldman Sachs May Break Up
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.
(30 comments) SHARE Friday, September 2, 2011 It's Time to Break Up Public Enemy #1: Goldman Sachs
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.
(72 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 11, 2011 America's 14 Most Ready to Riot Cities
Could a Tottenham happen here? And, if so where? Here's a list of 14 large American cities that may be ready to erupt.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 27, 2011 Are You Doing Your Part to Support Big Business?
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.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 22, 2010 The Hunger Game
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.
(10 comments) SHARE Friday, December 10, 2010 THE BIG BANGA THEORY: Americans Ditch Credit Cards Stick It to Wall Street
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.
(13 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 23, 2010 Bank Run Protest Spreads to USA
Finally, the idea of direct economic protest against Big Greed is gaining traction in America.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 12, 2010 Capitalism is Dead - Long Live the Mighty Con
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 & Girls make the big bucks.
(13 comments) SHARE Friday, September 17, 2010 Obama Gets a Big Fat F for Leadership
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.
(9 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 5, 2010 Three Ways to Put America Back to Work Now!
President Obama says there is very little the government can do to create jobs. We can't do anything to create jobs? Really!?
(32 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 2, 2010 Election 2010: Progressives in a Pickle
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?
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 21, 2010 The New Normal: A Lot Like Now Only Worse
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.