Hundreds at Tucson march honor the legacy of Cesar Chavez (video)
Hundreds of people of all ages, races, and ethnicities honored the memory of Cesar Chavez and the farm workers’ struggle at a march and rally in Tucson on March 26, 2011.
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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.
Congressman Ron Barber and Pamela Powers Hannley at Cyclovia
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.
In the 1980s, the Tucson Weekly called Tucson the “Baked Apple”.
Martin Luther King, Jr. march.
#RedForEd teachers and supporters in the Arizona House Gallery, 2018.
PDA members, including Advisory Board Chair Mimi Kennedy, protested food stamp cuts in front of Congressman Henry Waxman’s office.
We are the 99%.
A homeless man sleeps in the shadow of corporate America.
The Oberlin Rescuers outside of the Cuyahoga County Jail.
Protesting anti-woman laws at the Arizona state capitol.
Governor Ducey had proposed increasing prison beds and funding, while cutting education. Protesters took issue with that short-sighted idea.
Arizonans for New Economy co-directors Jim Hannley and Pamela Powers Hannley with UA Tech Park VP Bruce Wright.
Pamela Powers Hannley, Progressive Democrat for Arizona House, LD9
John Nichols of ‘The Nation’ addressed progressives and unionists at a Tucson event.
PDA Tucson Coordinator Jim Hannley speaks against both the crowd management ordinance and the urban camping ban at the City Council meeting.
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.)
Protesting migrant deaths in the Arizona desert.
Giving the LD9 update at the June meeting. What a great crowd!
Protesters hand deliver symbolic big check from corporate American to McCain.
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.
Safe Park, downtown Tucson
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.)
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.
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.
Visiting with PALF chairman Fred Yamashita at the 2016 Labor Day Picnic.
I have a background in research. Help me build Tucson’s tech industry and grow our own local businesses.
Occupy encampment in Armory Park– before it was cleared out in the middle of the night by Tucson Police.
Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley with members of the Tucson Chapter of NOW on opening day at the Arizona Legislature, 2018.
Rep. Sally Ann Gonzales and I were interviewed by NBC at the Phoenix rally.
Protesting cuts to education
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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.
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Irony at its best. You honor a man who fought for workers rights, but want to employ immigrants so you dont have to give them the rights these people fought for.
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Chavez knew full well that many agricultural workers are immigrants. This country depends on undocumented labor for its food. All he wanted to do was help them get paid and treated decently.
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Chavez knew full well that many agricultural workers are immigrants. This country depends on undocumented labor for its food. All he wanted to do was help them get paid and treated decently.
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George there are machines that will do that labor these days, but the plantation owners have no desire to drop that kinda coin when there is State sponsored slaves to be exploited.
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Good point.
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Well said James.
Chavez was fighting for Hispanic “American Citizens” rights not illegal aliens rights, of which he spoke against. But what racist like, martinez, the ambulance chaser, demonstrated in that sham of a debate the other day with Horne is a shame. It was an opportunity for miscreants as himself, like this march has been, to promote the racist agenda that “white people bad”, “people of color good”. “White people only evil on planet”, “people of color oppressed innocent ones”. It is to perpetuate the myth that people in this country don’t want illegal immigrants in America because of the economy which is what that liar maritinez said that evening. Largely it is because the farmer work force is around two percent of the illegal population whereas the other 98% who are here illegally are not. It is because if the crime and violence they bring with them. The gang violence. It is because they steal identities of true Americans. They don’t pay taxes and send American money into that joke of a country mexico. It is because they are an economic drain at the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars per year for they are totally uneducated, too lazy to learn English, are having “anchor babies” by the score to further the la raza, and reconquista racist agenda. Americans have finally woke up to how our country has become a welfare state for mexico and other latin american banana republics.
The American people have become aware of how the mexican government (so-called), working with la raza and reconquista perpetuate the myth that this is their country. They are lying opportunist with the mentality of nazi Germany. Why like nazi Germany. One of their mantras is, and I paraphrase: “ if it isn’t latino it doesn’t deserve to exist”. Also, the white race of American is getting old and dying off and we will take over with shear numbers. Of course they mean the black and any other as they have demonstrated by their violence against other races in Los Angeles.
They are lying opportunist in that they prey on the minds of uneducated mexicans. They prey on hispanic opportunist who want something for nothing or their naivete’ too real history. They teach that Americans (which they call white) are mean, ruthless people who have done nothing but bad things to “people of color”. The immense good that America has done for all is conveniently not mentioned. As that miscreant, martinez said in the debate. “I want my son to know of the deliberate syphilis inflicted on others.” and other semi-real or imagined atrocities. It is glaringly obvious that he and his ilk want to paint a picture of white American as being this cess-pool of evil whereas people of color as la raza puts it are this benevolent people who have been taken advantage of by the evil white people. They want to create a hatred so emotion blocks true education and reason. That true education. What I call “They Precious Knowledge”.
The ancestors of the hispanic in mexico and America, are largely from Spain and Portugal. They have a horrid history of genocide, slavery, and wanton destruction of the Native Mexican’s. The list of atrocities I dare say makes America’s so called atrocities pale by comparison. What these racist organizations and the mexican government opportunistically fails to point out is why the mexican speaks Spanish. Why do they not speak the following tribal languages today?:
[Amuzgo] [Chatino] [Chinantec] [Ch’ol] [Chontal of Oaxaca] [Chontal of Tabasco] [Cora] [Cuicatec] [Huarijio] [Huasteco] [Huave] [Mayan] [Mayo] [Mazatec] [Mixe] [Mixtec] [Náhuatl] [Otomi] [Popoloca] [Popoluca] [Purepecha (Tarascan)] [O’odham (Papago, Pima)] [Seri] [Tarahumara] [Tepehuan] [Tequistlatec] [Tlapanec (Me’phaa)] [Totonac] [Triqui] [Tzeltal] [Tzotzil] [Yaqui] [Zapotec] [Zoque]
Why? Because Spain and Portugal destroyed their culture. They enforced their way of life, religion (primarily Catholic), and Spanish language on them or it meant death. Now that’s the “Precious Knowledge” that these racist organizations don’t want people today to know.
The details of all the heinous deeds are their for all to read if they dare. But for those who have become used to a hand-outs instead of being honest and making an honest living ignorance is bliss, therefore they don’t want the truth.
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Yep, ol Cesar and Delores made a few trips down to the border and it was not to hand out milk and cookies….
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So, now you’re a big union supporter, Joe? It was not a struggle against migration per se, but a struggle against those who would ‘scab’; a scab being the lowest form of animal life.
It’s very unseemly when the fascist right attempts to hijack the memories and works of the likes of Cesar and MLK, Joe. It’s like an ill-fitting suit.
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Hehe…well, I am a dues paying union member after all.
I am on record here stating that an unlimited supply of labor (like the open border provides) only drives down wages and at best stagnates them.
Corporate America LOVES open borders……
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I am shocked.
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