Tired of the Trickle Down: Where Are the Jobs? (video)
‘Nuff said.
On August 31, 2011, join Progressive Democrats of America Tucson Chapter, local MoveOn activists, and local nurses at Jon Kyl’s Tucson office (yes, he has one) at 6840 N. Oracle Rd., Suite 150, 6 p.m. Click here for a map. Click here to RSVP.
Arizona Senator Jon Kyl is a member of the new Super Congress which will decide our future and the future of our children and grandchildren. Tell Kyl to “have a heart”– not an ideology.
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Jobs with Justice marching with Occupy Tucson in support of postal workers.
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.
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.
Visiting with PALF chairman Fred Yamashita at the 2016 Labor Day Picnic.
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Safe Park, downtown Tucson
Rep. Sally Ann Gonzales and I were interviewed by NBC at the Phoenix rally.
#RedForEd teachers and supporters in the Arizona House Gallery, 2018.
Pamela Powers Hannley, Progressive Democrat for Arizona House, LD9
Protesting migrant deaths in the Arizona desert.
Arizonans for New Economy co-directors Jim Hannley and Pamela Powers Hannley with UA Tech Park VP Bruce Wright.
We are the 99%.
A giant poet’s head made up of stainless steel letters marks the stop near the UA Poetry Center.
PDA members, including Advisory Board Chair Mimi Kennedy, protested food stamp cuts in front of Congressman Henry Waxman’s office.
PDA Tucson Coordinator Jim Hannley speaks against both the crowd management ordinance and the urban camping ban at the City Council meeting.
I have a background in research. Help me build Tucson’s tech industry and grow our own local businesses.
Martin Luther King, Jr. march.
The Oberlin Rescuers outside of the Cuyahoga County Jail.
Protesting cuts to education
Giving the LD9 update at the June meeting. What a great crowd!
Occupy encampment in Armory Park– before it was cleared out in the middle of the night by Tucson Police.
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.)
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.)
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
Governor Ducey had proposed increasing prison beds and funding, while cutting education. Protesters took issue with that short-sighted idea.
John Nichols of ‘The Nation’ addressed progressives and unionists at a Tucson event.
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.
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.
A homeless man sleeps in the shadow of corporate America.
In the 1980s, the Tucson Weekly called Tucson the “Baked Apple”.
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No, people are tired of being urinated on by Progressive Democrats.
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Well this story reminds me of the old choice of lesser of two evils, from 2000-2008 the GOP promised tax breaks to the richest 2% would trickle down with jobs, prosperity, seems to me it was a diet of manure, fed to us 98% in america and peddled by their right wing snake oil peddlers, being urinated on is not pleasant thought but if I have to choose between eating a steady diet of right wing manure, guess I will opt to be urinated on!:-)
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You want to know where jobs are? They are in Phoenix, not idiotic Tucson. Nobody is going to open a serious business here because its next to impossible to make profit, plus there is only 1 interstate and the city system was designed by a blind person.
Tucson is a giant welfare hole that will eventually be mexico, since its population is too lazy to fix anything.
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If there were fewer city/county/state/corporate layoffs, there would be fewer people on unemployment, fewer people who have exhauseted their unemployment, and more people with good-paying jobs. Employed people buy stuff; unemployed people buy food. The more local businesses push politicians for reduced or eliminated fees, the more city departments “tighten their belts” (AKA cut services and jobs). This adds to the local poverty rate. The nationwide austerity push– balancing the budgets on the backs of the workers and the poor– is killing jobs and the economy. Local businesses won’t thrive as long as local people don’t have spending money in their pockets.
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