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John Nichols of ‘The Nation’ addressed progressives and unionists at a Tucson event.
Safe Park, downtown Tucson
Protesting migrant deaths in the Arizona desert.
It was truly a honor to meet Nevada State Senator Patricia Spearman (center) in October and to confer with her regarding our efforts to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in Arizona. Spearman led the successful Nevada efforts to ratify the ERA in 2017. Here we are with activist and NOW leader Dainne Post after the ERA workshop at the We the People Conference in Phoenix. There are a lot of Arizona women who are ready to make history in 2018. Watch my blog here and my Facebook page here for ERA updates.
A homeless man sleeps in the shadow of corporate America.
In the 1980s, the Tucson Weekly called Tucson the “Baked Apple”.
Giving the LD9 update at the June meeting. What a great crowd!
Despite the sweltering heat, Jim and I had a great time at the Labor Day Picnic. We collected a lot of Clean Elections $5 donations and signatures. Here I am with LD9 chair Michael Dues.
There have been many lively debates in the Arizona House in 2018. This team of House Democrats fought for consumer protections and fought against risky financial deals in a “regulatory sandbox.” (Pictured are Reps. Mitzi Epstein, Kelli Butler, Athena Salman, Pamela Powers Hannley, Ken Clark and Isela Blanc.)
Congressman Ron Barber and Pamela Powers Hannley at Cyclovia
This is a broken sink in the Ladies’ Room at the Arizona State Building in downtown Tucson. One of the elevators also was broken. It’s time to fix Arizona government.
#RedForEd teachers and supporters in the Arizona House Gallery, 2018.
Arizonans for New Economy co-directors Jim Hannley and Pamela Powers Hannley with UA Tech Park VP Bruce Wright.
A giant poet’s head made up of stainless steel letters marks the stop near the UA Poetry Center.
Ironically, I posted this blog post on the anniversary of this election on June 19. 1970ish.
Protesting cuts to education
Rep. Sally Ann Gonzales and I were interviewed by NBC at the Phoenix rally.
Jim and I were part of a contingent of Unitarian Universalists who came up from Tucson. Here I am with Rev. Ron Phares from the Mountain Vista UU Church in my district. (Jim is photobombing us.)
Visiting with PALF chairman Fred Yamashita at the 2016 Labor Day Picnic.
The Oberlin Rescuers outside of the Cuyahoga County Jail.
The Living Economy event was very informative; we had a great time hob-nobbing. My husband Jim is a small business owner and a member of Local First Arizona. I have owned two small businesses in the past– Powers/Queen Associates and Wind Dancer Design. We support Local First Arizona and buying/investing locally. We believe that supporting local small businesses with low-interest loans through a public/private partnership between a public bank and community banks and credit unions is the sustainable route to improving our local economy. Trickle down economics doesn’t work; it’s time for new ideas.
Governor Ducey had proposed increasing prison beds and funding, while cutting education. Protesters took issue with that short-sighted idea.
PDA Tucson Coordinator Jim Hannley speaks against both the crowd management ordinance and the urban camping ban at the City Council meeting.
Protesting anti-woman laws at the Arizona state capitol.
I have a background in research. Help me build Tucson’s tech industry and grow our own local businesses.
Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley with members of the Tucson Chapter of NOW on opening day at the Arizona Legislature, 2018.
We are the 99%.
PDA members, including Advisory Board Chair Mimi Kennedy, protested food stamp cuts in front of Congressman Henry Waxman’s office.
Protesters hand deliver symbolic big check from corporate American to McCain.
Jobs with Justice marching with Occupy Tucson in support of postal workers.
Martin Luther King, Jr. march.
Occupy encampment in Armory Park– before it was cleared out in the middle of the night by Tucson Police.
Pamela Powers Hannley, Progressive Democrat for Arizona House, LD9
We often hear that corporations need migrant workers because Americans “don’t want to do these jobs.” When I hear this statement, I picture farm workers picking vegetables. Recently, I toured two dairies and an animal feed packing plant in Pinal County. The photo above from the Zinke Dairy shows a giant cow milking carousel. Nine migrant workers milk 4000 cows three times a day at this dairy. Legislators watched the two men pictured here– working at a brisk pace– bend over and pick up, lift, and attach large electronic suction cups to the cows as they ride the carousel around the giant facility. This level of automation is the wave of the future for industrial jobs.
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I think it’s a shame that a person can’t say what he thinks for fear of losing his job. I, frankly, wish all our public servants would speak their mind all the time. It would make it easier to know who to vote for. I didn’t completely agree with Sheriff Dupnik, but I knew where he was coming from and I heard a man hurt about what had been done to his community and the people he has sworn to serve and protect. I for one, feel safer knowing people like the Sheriff are ready and willing to handle the problems in a no nonsense way. And let’s not forget that the talk show blowhards are hired for just that. It’s their job to get us excited, it doesn’t matter if what they say is true or not. If I allow them to do that to me, I’m the one whose losing. They don’t tell me what to think, thank God!
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You have to wonder what kind of person gets offended by the idea of less bigotry and hatred.
And who are so dumb that they can’t even see how irrational they appear.
But then, that seems to be a requirement for teabaggers
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You have to wonder what kind of person gets offended by the idea of less bigotry and hatred.
Good point. I heard that they all agreed that they weren’t sure exactly what he was saying, but they were pretty sure they didn’t like it one little bit, what with him using all them big words like “vitriol”. A classic case of “You think you’re better than me”?
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http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/immigration/deportation-costs-1-26-2011
$12,ooo plus for each deportation, ad to this the private prison contracts being handed out from Phoenix by elected officials to their patrons one has not to think to hard whats going on here, greed, avarice in high places! 🙂
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They aren’t telling us to do anything. They are trying a recall…if it works Dupnik is out, if it doesn’t work he stays, at least till next year when we vote him out (he turns 74 this year….manditory retirement next year).
KGUN did a poll the other night, the results? 65% supported a recall of Dupnik.
I’m a Democrat and I plan on signing the petition myself. He lost my support when, in regards 1070, Dupnik stated on camera that neither he nor his department would enforce that law. Last time I checked, selective enforcement was illegal and the term “law enforcement” meant you ENFORCED THE LAW. Judges and legislators pass and approve laws…NOT the Sheriff!
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“Dupnik stated on camera that neither he nor his department would enforce that law. ”
It’s ironic, Az passes 1070 because the feds are not enforcing the law. Then Dupnik refuses to enforce 1070……did I mention that is ironic?
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KGUN9 is sister station to 104.1 FM there polls are meaningless, its like the “fox” in the hen house! 🙂 I seem to have read these same threats by the “extreme right wingers here in Tucson on how they were going to unseat Gifford/Grijalva, I thought then and do now a bit premature, one does not get unseated pre-election but post-election! 🙂 Polls are like my horoscope, fun, entertaining to read, but I do not live by life by them, and all polls are run by someone with a paymaster, which always opens the possibilty of a slanted poll to ones paymasters wishes! 🙂 If Sheriff Dupnik was so easily unseated one might has why do they need a outside band of Utah Mormon agitators? 🙂
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RH,
Why the name change to PR?
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SB1070 is mired in federal courts, this new 14th amendment repeal will also be mired in federal courts for years possibly, all the time these politicians using them for their political platforms will be laughing at their constituients who think merely passing a “questionable constitutional law” means its law, no fact of life is only when a law has no questions as to its constitutionality does one see a immediate effect, no ironies here in Arizona other than we have some angry, white folks who are sitting in some right side up or upside down mortgaged homes, either on unemployment benefits or afraid of being on them soon, so they vent, get angry and blame the world for their woes! 🙂
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http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoenix/valley-man-possessing-explosive-devices-indicted
Looks like one can connect the dots to this story, Neo-Nazi arrested with IED explosive devices in Arizona is a member or was a member of the Neo-Nazi’s here in Arizona, connected to his commander in Chief Neo-Nazi JT Ready, cook out buddy and spiritual child of Arizona Mormon elder/state senator Russell Pearce!
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Check out the national website for the National Socialist Movement (the Nazis). Arizona is prominently featured with 2(!) videos on the home page. Jan Brewer might as well through her measly $1million for tourism down the toilet when this state is pictured as the poster child for the white supremacist movement. Sigh…
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Over half of 1070 has now cleared the courts…the rest will soon follow.
Do your job Dupnik, enforce the law!
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I see the xenophobes have weighed in here, demanding he “enforce the law”. The Sheriff has a good deal of latitude in managing his department. If he feels that a law cannot pass constitutional muster, it is his prerogative to refrain from implementing it. Clarence Dupnick has the courage to state what many of us are feeling; that Fox News, Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh are purveyors of hate and anarchy and that while they spew their vitriol under cover of free speech, it has consequences such as the deaths of many innocents and incapacitation of a bright young lawmaker.
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