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Tucson: It’s Time to Stop Ignoring the Homeless & Help Them (video)

For decades, Tucson has waffled between ignoring the homeless living on our streets and under bridges to over-policing them. When I moved here in 1981, the politically correct term for … Continue reading →

February 21, 2015 · 3 Comments

On Occupy’s 2nd Anniversary: The World Says ‘End Austerity Now!’ (video)

What began on Sept 17, 2011 as an extended sit-in in a park in Manhattan– the bastion of US capitalism– the Occupy Movement grew into a worldwide movement with a simple … Continue reading →

September 25, 2013 · 1 Comment

Who is Tucson’s progressive choice for mayor?

Tucson is in the midst of an all mail-in election for mayor and 3 city council seats. Ballots were mailed to all registered voters a few weeks ago, but I’m … Continue reading →

November 3, 2011 · 27 Comments

Notes from the Occupation: Camping and court dates

This is the fifth in a series of personal accounts from the Occupation of Tucson. In this letter, Green Party Mayoral Candidate Mary DeCamp talks about life in the Occupy … Continue reading →

November 2, 2011 · 1 Comment

Notes from the Occupation: Jon Justice, violence, and illegal sleeping

This is the fourth in a series of personal accounts from the Occupation of Tucson. In this letter, Green Party Mayoral Candidate Mary DeCamp addresses accusations made by Tucson right-wing … Continue reading →

October 30, 2011 · 8 Comments

Notes from the Occupation: Tucson Mayor and Council meeting

This is the third in a series of personal accounts from the Occupation of Tucson. On October 25, the Tucson’s Mayor and Council held a closed door session to discuss … Continue reading →

October 26, 2011 · 12 Comments

Notes from the Occupation: Of Permits and Police

This is the second post in a series of personal accounts from the Occupation of Tucson. [Emphasis added.] Oct. 25: Notes from the Occupation By Mary DeCamp Tea Party events that … Continue reading →

October 26, 2011 · 8 Comments

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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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.)

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.

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

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

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

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

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 are the 99%.

Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley with Red For Ed

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

Protesting cuts to education

Congressman Ron Barber and Pamela Powers Hannley at Cyclovia

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

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

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

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

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.

The Oberlin Rescuers outside of the Cuyahoga County Jail.

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

Protesting migrant deaths in the Arizona desert.

Protesting anti-woman laws at the Arizona state capitol.

Martin Luther King, Jr. march.

A homeless man sleeps in the shadow of corporate America.

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

#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.

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.)

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

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.

Safe Park, downtown Tucson

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

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

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.”

Tucson Progressive

Category Archives: Mary DeCamp

Tucson: It’s Time to Stop Ignoring the Homeless & Help Them (video)

On Occupy’s 2nd Anniversary: The World Says ‘End Austerity Now!’ (video)

Who is Tucson’s progressive choice for mayor?

Notes from the Occupation: Camping and court dates

Notes from the Occupation: Jon Justice, violence, and illegal sleeping

Notes from the Occupation: Tucson Mayor and Council meeting

Notes from the Occupation: Of Permits and Police

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