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Big Banks, Big Insurance, Big Pharma & Big Housing: Corporate America Is Burying Us in Fees

Working for a living is hard. You have to get out of bed early, get dressed… maybe even put wear a silly uniform that you were required to purchase… drop … Continue reading →

January 1, 2020

Why Can’t the Ronstadt Center Be an Open-Air Transit & Community Space?

Do you remember the controversy surrounding redevelopment of the Ronstadt Transit Center? Back in 2013-2014, developers were making a play to redevelopment the Ronstadt Transit Center. They had pitched redevelopment of the … Continue reading →

August 7, 2019

FY2020 Budget & #AZLeg Session Wrap-Up: What Just Happened? (video)

Drama, rumors, secrecy, backroom deals, coup attempts, flexible rules, and a bit of chaos are commonplace during the waning days of each session of the Arizona Legislature. This is the … Continue reading →

July 29, 2019

Watch the Gentrification & Affordable Housing Forum with Mayor & Council Candidates (video)

Nearly 400 people packed into the El Rio Neighborhood Center to hear the Mayor and Council Candidate Forum on Gentrification and Affordable Housing on Saturday, June 22. This was an … Continue reading →

July 17, 2019

GPLETs, Annexations & Tax Breaks on Sept. 17 Mayor & Council Agendas

Tax breaks for economic development were hotly debated during the recent Democratic Primary for Mayor, and they continue to be a really hot topic for many Tucson voters. Recently, I … Continue reading →

July 13, 2019

Why I Voted to Raise the #AZLeg Per Diem

[On Monday, May 27, the Arizona Legislature voted to raise the per diem compensation. This is my floor speech to explain my vote.] When I decided to run for office … Continue reading →

May 27, 2019

Arizona Women Win 42 Legislative, State & Congressional Races (video)

Arizona has a history of electing women to public office. In 1932, Arizona elected Isabella Greenway to the US House of Representatives. In 1972, State Senator Sandra Day O’Connor was the first … Continue reading →

December 4, 2018

Jobs with Justice marching with Occupy Tucson in support of postal workers.

Giving the LD9 update at the June meeting. What a great crowd!

PDA Tucson Coordinator Jim Hannley speaks against both the crowd management ordinance and the urban camping ban at the City Council meeting.

Protesting migrant deaths in the Arizona desert.

In the 1980s, the Tucson Weekly called Tucson the “Baked Apple”.

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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

A giant poet’s head made up of stainless steel letters marks the stop near the UA Poetry Center.

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.

Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley with Red For Ed

PDA members, including Advisory Board Chair Mimi Kennedy, protested food stamp cuts in front of Congressman Henry Waxman’s office.

Occupy encampment in Armory Park– before it was cleared out in the middle of the night by Tucson Police.

Protesting cuts to education

I have a background in research. Help me build Tucson’s tech industry and grow our own local businesses.

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.

Ironically, I posted this blog post on the anniversary of this election on June 19. 1970ish.

Rev. Ron Phares and Pamela Powers Hannley

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 are the 99%.

Protesters hand deliver symbolic big check from corporate American to McCain.

John Nichols of ‘The Nation’ addressed progressives and unionists at a Tucson event.

Rep. Sally Ann Gonzales and I were interviewed by NBC at the Phoenix rally.

#RedForEd teachers and supporters in the Arizona House Gallery, 2018.

The Oberlin Rescuers outside of the Cuyahoga County Jail.

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.)

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr. march.

A homeless man sleeps in the shadow of corporate America.

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.

Governor Ducey had proposed increasing prison beds and funding, while cutting education. Protesters took issue with that short-sighted idea.

Visiting with PALF chairman Fred Yamashita at the 2016 Labor Day Picnic.

Congressman Ron Barber and Pamela Powers Hannley at Cyclovia

Safe Park, downtown Tucson

Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley with members of the Tucson Chapter of NOW on opening day at the Arizona Legislature, 2018.

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.

Protesting anti-woman laws at the Arizona state capitol.

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The Tucson Progressive: Pamela J. Powers

I stand on the side of Love. I believe in kindness to all creatures on Earth and the inherent self-worth of all individuals–not just people who agree with me or look like me.

Widespread economic and social injustice prompted me to become a candidate for the Arizona House, representing Legislative District 9 in the 2016 election.

My platform focused on economic reforms to grow Arizona’s economy, establish a state-based public bank, fix our infrastructure, fully fund public education, grow local small businesses and community banks, and put people back to work at good-paying jobs.

In the Arizona House, I was a strong voice for fiscal responsibility a moratorium on corporate tax breaks until the schools were fully funded, increased cash assistance to the poor, expansion of maternal healthcare benefits, equal rights, choice, unions, education at all levels and protecting our water supply.

After three terms, I retired from the Arizona Legislature in January 2023 but will continue to blog and produce my podcast “A View from the Left Side.”

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Category Archives: environment

Big Banks, Big Insurance, Big Pharma & Big Housing: Corporate America Is Burying Us in Fees

Why Can’t the Ronstadt Center Be an Open-Air Transit & Community Space?

FY2020 Budget & #AZLeg Session Wrap-Up: What Just Happened? (video)

Watch the Gentrification & Affordable Housing Forum with Mayor & Council Candidates (video)

GPLETs, Annexations & Tax Breaks on Sept. 17 Mayor & Council Agendas

Why I Voted to Raise the #AZLeg Per Diem

Arizona Women Win 42 Legislative, State & Congressional Races (video)

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