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PDA Tucson Clean Elections Forum Nov 16

What is Clean Elections all about? Why would anyone choose to run for office using Arizona’s Clean Elections system– rather than run a “traditional” political campaign fueled by as much … Continue reading →

November 16, 2017

July LD9 Constituent Update: News & Upcoming Events

It may be hot on the sidewalks of the Old Pueblo, but that doesn’t stop Tucsonans from getting together for community events. Since the Arizona Legislature ended its session in … Continue reading →

July 4, 2017

Dem Statewide Meeting: ‘We Can Win with a Progressive Message’

I have been back in Tucson for two weeks now, and it’s been a fun whirlwind of visits, phone calls, and events with Tucson friends and family, LD9 constituents, fellow … Continue reading →

June 4, 2017

Bernie Sanders on Austerity: From Greece to Puerto Rico to Arizona? (video)

On Democracy Now today, Amy Goodman reported on an economic panel assembled by Vermont Senator and Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders. Goodman excerpted a section of Sanders’ speechon the failure … Continue reading →

August 21, 2015

Does Bernie Sanders Have ‘White People Problems’? (video)

Saturday was a day of highs and lows for Senator Bernie Sanders. In the morning at Netroots Nation, Sanders became visibly annoyed by Black Lives Matter protesters who wanted to … Continue reading →

July 19, 2015

#BlackLivesMatter Protesters Disrupt Netroots Nation Sanders & O’Malley Town Hall

Wow! What just happened? I was sitting in a big hall with 100s of Bernie Sanders supporters waiting to film a Bernie love fest, but that’s not what happened at … Continue reading →

July 18, 2015

Progressives: Let’s Move Hillary and Bernie to the Left (video)

Several long-term politicians and a few wannabes have thrown their hats into the ring for the 2016 presidential bid (or are at least hinting at it). Democrats Hillary Clinton and … Continue reading →

May 13, 2015 · 7 Comments

A homeless man sleeps in the shadow of corporate America.

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.)

Congressman Ron Barber and Pamela Powers Hannley at Cyclovia

Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley with Red For Ed

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.)

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

The Oberlin Rescuers outside of the Cuyahoga County Jail.

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

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

Martin Luther King, Jr. march.

Protesting cuts to education

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.

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

Safe Park, downtown Tucson

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

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

Protesting anti-woman laws at the Arizona state capitol.

Pamela Powers Hannley, Progressive Democrat for Arizona House, LD9

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.

We are the 99%.

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

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.

Arizonans for New Economy co-directors Jim Hannley and Pamela Powers Hannley with UA Tech Park VP Bruce Wright.

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.

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

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

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

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Protesting migrant deaths in the Arizona desert.

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: Progressive Democrats of America

PDA Tucson Clean Elections Forum Nov 16

July LD9 Constituent Update: News & Upcoming Events

Dem Statewide Meeting: ‘We Can Win with a Progressive Message’

Bernie Sanders on Austerity: From Greece to Puerto Rico to Arizona? (video)

Does Bernie Sanders Have ‘White People Problems’? (video)

#BlackLivesMatter Protesters Disrupt Netroots Nation Sanders & O’Malley Town Hall

Progressives: Let’s Move Hillary and Bernie to the Left (video)

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