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Safe Park, downtown Tucson
PDA Tucson Coordinator Jim Hannley speaks against both the crowd management ordinance and the urban camping ban at the City Council meeting.
Giving the LD9 update at the June meeting. What a great crowd!
The Oberlin Rescuers outside of the Cuyahoga County Jail.
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.)
John Nichols of ‘The Nation’ addressed progressives and unionists at a Tucson event.
Congressman Ron Barber and Pamela Powers Hannley at Cyclovia
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.
Jobs with Justice marching with Occupy Tucson in support of postal workers.
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.
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.
Protesters hand deliver symbolic big check from corporate American to McCain.
#RedForEd teachers and supporters in the Arizona House Gallery, 2018.
Protesting migrant deaths in the Arizona desert.
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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.)
Martin Luther King, Jr. march.
Protesting cuts to education
A giant poet’s head made up of stainless steel letters marks the stop near the UA Poetry Center.
Governor Ducey had proposed increasing prison beds and funding, while cutting education. Protesters took issue with that short-sighted idea.
We are the 99%.
Arizonans for New Economy co-directors Jim Hannley and Pamela Powers Hannley with UA Tech Park VP Bruce Wright.
Rep. Sally Ann Gonzales and I were interviewed by NBC at the Phoenix rally.
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.
In the 1980s, the Tucson Weekly called Tucson the “Baked Apple”.
Occupy encampment in Armory Park– before it was cleared out in the middle of the night by Tucson Police.
A homeless man sleeps in the shadow of corporate America.
I have a background in research. Help me build Tucson’s tech industry and grow our own local businesses.
PDA members, including Advisory Board Chair Mimi Kennedy, protested food stamp cuts in front of Congressman Henry Waxman’s office.
Visiting with PALF chairman Fred Yamashita at the 2016 Labor Day Picnic.
Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley with members of the Tucson Chapter of NOW on opening day at the Arizona Legislature, 2018.
Protesting anti-woman laws at the Arizona state capitol.
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.
Pamela Powers Hannley, Progressive Democrat for Arizona House, LD9
Ironically, I posted this blog post on the anniversary of this election on June 19. 1970ish.
Tucson Progressive 
I’ve always wondered if because of the intense heat in the Salt River Valley that fried everyone’s brains down there. Time for America’s 51st state…Baja Arizona.
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If you got your facts straight and didn’t resort to biased fear mongering then maybe the Legislators would bother to read the paper more. As it is your irrelivant.
Frank Antenori isn’t looking to have people doing “varmit hunting” at night in downtown Tucson. He wants to let responisble hunters go after varmits and preditory animals after dark. His bill is actually quite responsible and would deal with the major issues and I would recommend you really read the article in question not just the title before going off half cocked. And as for the city hunting, he is proposing to allow hunting in open “wild” areas that have been incorporated but are not built up. Hunting with in a 1/4 mile of a building would still be against hunting regulations. In reality nothing would change. As it is both night hunting and city hunting have been done in many states successfully and safely for a long time.
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One possible reason the legislators don’t take their informatiion from the Arizona Daily Star is that it shows bias and is selective in its news. Thus they don’t usually read it. I thought everyone knew about the Red Star.
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I guess you haven’t read the Star since the new ownership took over a few years back. The Red Star is long gone!
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“The Red Star is long gone!”
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss….
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I’m certain the good people of Arizona understand that the newpaper is just a way for idiots to spread their viewpoints…. with your read, I rest my case….
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