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Boo Hoo… Wall Street Says Elizabeth Warren Doesn’t Understand Global Banking

JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon thinks Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren doesn’t “understand global banking system”. So, it’s not that Dimon and Warren have a basic disagreement on how banks … Continue reading →

June 16, 2015

Warren Blasts Corporate Politicians, Calls for Break-Up of CitiGroup (video)

In a fiery but measured speech on the Senate floor, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren blasted the close ties between CitiGroup, Congress, and the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations as Wall … Continue reading →

December 13, 2014 · 2 Comments

Walk Down Memory Lane to July 2013 When Boehner & #GOP Failed to ‘Govern’

Tonight, I had planned to write a highly poignant new blog post about why movement on immigration reform now (and not when the Republicans finally… maybe… get around to it) … Continue reading →

November 19, 2014

Shopping the ACA Marketplace: One Small Business’ Route to ‘Affordable’ Healthcare

With full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), January 2014 marks the beginning of a new era in health insurance in the US. For the chronically uninsured and for those with … Continue reading →

December 23, 2013

John Nichols: US Needs 3 Constitutional Amendments to Save Our Democracy (video)

One hundred years ago, at the dawn of the last American Progressive Era, the United States was a very different place– a place of inequality, discrimination, and wealth disparity, author … Continue reading →

June 26, 2013 · 4 Comments

Obama Opposes Food Stamp Cuts, Threatens Veto of Farm Bill

President Barack Obama has issued an official statement saying that he opposes the current form of HR1947, the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013 (AKA the Farm … Continue reading →

June 18, 2013 · 2 Comments

Paul Ryan: Why Propose Stale Budget Policies We Voted Against in November?

Does Congressman Paul Ryan not realize that the Romney-Ryan ticket lost in November? And that President Barack Obama (who sounded like a progressive in the last days of the campaign) won … Continue reading →

March 12, 2013 · 1 Comment

Protesting anti-woman laws at the Arizona state capitol.

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

Protesting cuts to education

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

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

Safe Park, downtown Tucson

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.

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.

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

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

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

Pamela Powers Hannley, Progressive Democrat for Arizona House, LD9

The Oberlin Rescuers outside of the Cuyahoga County Jail.

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

Desconocido (unknown)

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Congressman Ron Barber and Pamela Powers Hannley at Cyclovia

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

We are the 99%.

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.)

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

Protesting migrant deaths in the Arizona desert.

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

A homeless man sleeps in the shadow of corporate America.

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

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.)

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

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.

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

Tag Archives: Barack Obama

Boo Hoo… Wall Street Says Elizabeth Warren Doesn’t Understand Global Banking

Warren Blasts Corporate Politicians, Calls for Break-Up of CitiGroup (video)

Walk Down Memory Lane to July 2013 When Boehner & #GOP Failed to ‘Govern’

Shopping the ACA Marketplace: One Small Business’ Route to ‘Affordable’ Healthcare

John Nichols: US Needs 3 Constitutional Amendments to Save Our Democracy (video)

Obama Opposes Food Stamp Cuts, Threatens Veto of Farm Bill

Paul Ryan: Why Propose Stale Budget Policies We Voted Against in November?

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