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#GOP Says: ‘Don’t Vote’ & Leave the Governing to Us (video)

In case you haven’t heard, the corporate media has been telling Democrats for months that we won’t get our act together to vote. Now the GOP has released a direct … Continue reading →

November 4, 2014

2010 Arizona Tea Party Dream Team: 4 Down, 1 to Go

Oh, boo, hoo. The Blog for Arizona commenters think I am being too tough on poor millionaire GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Ducey. Let’s not forget that Ducey– along with fellow Teapublicans … Continue reading →

September 3, 2014

Refugee Supporters & Anti-Immigrant Protesters Face Off in Oracle (Images)

Demonstrators with dueling banners and ideologies lined the roads of rural Oracle, Arizona on Tuesday awaiting the arrival of 40-60 child refugees. An estimated 150 protesters, dozens of law enforcement … Continue reading →

July 17, 2014

Will the Real John Huppenthal Please Stand Up?

Since Blog for Arizona broke the story, new insights into Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal’s secret life as an Internet troll continue to be revealed as bloggers and … Continue reading →

June 29, 2014 · 1 Comment

Mr Parraz goes to Washington (video)

This past Saturday, Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) sponsored the People’s Inauguration in Washington, DC. Citizens for a Better Arizona leader Randy Parraz was one of the speakers. Thanks to Loneprotestor, you can see a video … Continue reading →

January 23, 2013

Andrei Cherny– I Always Thought He Was a Republican (video)

Congressional candidate Andrei Cherny–Mr. No Labels, the guy who was installed as chair of the Arizona Democratic Party by bending the rules, and then quit the post to run for Congress– … Continue reading →

June 23, 2012

Remembering May Day with movies: Black, brown, white– unite

May Day– more than any other day– is a holiday for the 99%. For decades, on May 1, workers around the world have honored the memory of Haymarket Square and … Continue reading →

May 3, 2012

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

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

The Oberlin Rescuers outside of the Cuyahoga County Jail.

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

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

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

Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley with Red For Ed

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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.

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.

Protesting anti-woman laws at the Arizona state capitol.

Martin Luther King, Jr. march.

A homeless man sleeps in the shadow of corporate America.

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

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

Safe Park, downtown Tucson

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

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.

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

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

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

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.)

Protesting migrant deaths in the Arizona desert.

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

Congressman Ron Barber and Pamela Powers Hannley at Cyclovia

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.

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

We are the 99%.

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

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

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.)

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

Pamela Powers Hannley, Progressive Democrat for Arizona House, LD9

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.

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

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: SB 1070

#GOP Says: ‘Don’t Vote’ & Leave the Governing to Us (video)

2010 Arizona Tea Party Dream Team: 4 Down, 1 to Go

Refugee Supporters & Anti-Immigrant Protesters Face Off in Oracle (Images)

Will the Real John Huppenthal Please Stand Up?

Mr Parraz goes to Washington (video)

Andrei Cherny– I Always Thought He Was a Republican (video)

Remembering May Day with movies: Black, brown, white– unite

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