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Louisiana Senator Proposes Openly Racist Amendment Kicking Ex-Cons Off Food Stamps

Many of us are wise to the racist private prison pipeline for people of color in the US. Black men have been incarcerated at higher rates than white men for … Continue reading →

May 28, 2013 · 1 Comment

Budget Battle: Can the Rich Afford to Pay Higher Taxes?

Since the Tea Party took over the House of Representatives after the disastrous 2010 election, you’d think the most pressing job facing the Congress was to lower taxes on the … Continue reading →

March 19, 2013

EU mad, US mum: Will European outrage over austerity measures spill over to US? (video)

In case you’ve been too busy watching Faux News to notice, we live in a global economy, and the current economic crisis is NOT a Tucson crisis, NOT an Arizona … Continue reading →

January 4, 2011 · 6 Comments

Ruth McClung: Brought to you by the Republican Party Machine

Ruth McClung delivered an outstanding performance this evening at the CD7 debate with Congressman Raul Grijalva, Libertarian George Keane, and Independent Harley Meyer. She didn’t offer any specific ideas– just … Continue reading →

October 13, 2010 · 38 Comments

LaWall uses scare tactics and half-truths to campaign against medical marijuana

As political junkie, I have attended numerous public forums, City Council meetings, Pima County Board of Supervisers’ meetings, and even Arizona Legislature sessions, but tonight’s “educational” forum on medical marijuana … Continue reading →

September 20, 2010 · 10 Comments

Save the middle class: Big Ed wants you to march on DC

Ed Schultz, homespun radio progressive from Fargo, ND and now an MSNBC pundit, is organizing the One Nation March, to be held on October 2 at the Lincoln Memorial in … Continue reading →

September 9, 2010

What can we learn from the gay rights struggle of the 1970s? Don’t give up the fight!

What have we learned in the past 33 years? Apparently not much in the brotherly love category. Far too many of us are easily manipulated by hatred and fear ginned … Continue reading →

September 8, 2010

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

A homeless man sleeps in the shadow of corporate America.

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.

We are the 99%.

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

Protesting cuts to education

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr. march.

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.

Pamela Powers Hannley, Progressive Democrat for Arizona House, LD9

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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Protesting migrant deaths in the Arizona desert.

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

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

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

Protesting anti-woman laws at the Arizona state capitol.

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.)

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

The Oberlin Rescuers outside of the Cuyahoga County Jail.

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

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.)

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

Safe Park, downtown Tucson

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.

Congressman Ron Barber and Pamela Powers Hannley at Cyclovia

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

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

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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: Republicans

Louisiana Senator Proposes Openly Racist Amendment Kicking Ex-Cons Off Food Stamps

Budget Battle: Can the Rich Afford to Pay Higher Taxes?

EU mad, US mum: Will European outrage over austerity measures spill over to US? (video)

Ruth McClung: Brought to you by the Republican Party Machine

LaWall uses scare tactics and half-truths to campaign against medical marijuana

Save the middle class: Big Ed wants you to march on DC

What can we learn from the gay rights struggle of the 1970s? Don’t give up the fight!

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