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In Light of Local Poverty, Tucson Needs Creative Direction & Progressive Economic Ideas

Business friendly? Tucson’s been there, done that, … and got the t-shirt at Goodwill. As former City Councilwoman Molly McKasson said, we put all of our eggs in the development … Continue reading →

August 5, 2013 · 10 Comments

It’s your turn to speak out: Convention hotel & medical marijuana zoning on City Council agenda

Tuesday’s Mayor and Council Meeting will be one of the liveliest meetings they have had for months. Both the Convention Center hotel project and proposed medical marijuana zoning are on … Continue reading →

October 25, 2010 · 4 Comments

Mayor Walkup says, ‘No sunshine here’

Last week I posted 2 stories about downtown Tucson land deals currently being considered by the Mayor and Council– one urging the M&C to dump the convention hotel deal (for now) … Continue reading →

October 19, 2010

Kozachik throws down the gauntlet: Will the hotel’s fate be decided in the sunshine or behind closed doors?

Earlier today, I posted a story about Mayor Bob Walkup using a procedural maneuver to delay a vote on the Convention Center Hotel project. Councilman Steve Kozachik, who has been trying … Continue reading →

October 15, 2010 · 4 Comments

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

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.

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.

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.)

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

Congressman Ron Barber and Pamela Powers Hannley at Cyclovia

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

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

Protesting anti-woman laws at the Arizona state capitol.

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

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

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

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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.

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.)

A homeless man sleeps in the shadow of corporate America.

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

Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley with Red For Ed

Protesting migrant deaths in the Arizona desert.

We are the 99%.

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

The Oberlin Rescuers outside of the Cuyahoga County Jail.

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

Martin Luther King, Jr. march.

Safe Park, downtown Tucson

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

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.

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

Pamela Powers Hannley, Progressive Democrat for Arizona House, LD9

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

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

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

Protesting cuts to education

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

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

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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In Light of Local Poverty, Tucson Needs Creative Direction & Progressive Economic Ideas

It’s your turn to speak out: Convention hotel & medical marijuana zoning on City Council agenda

Mayor Walkup says, ‘No sunshine here’

Kozachik throws down the gauntlet: Will the hotel’s fate be decided in the sunshine or behind closed doors?

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