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Arizona Joint Income Tax Credit Review Committee

Progressives & Libertarians Debate Tax Credits at #AZLeg Income Tax Credit Review (video)

For years, Democrats in the Legislature have been calling for a review of the tax credits and the other tax giveaways. The goal of the review process is to recommend … Continue reading →

January 3, 2020

Maternal & Child Health… a Dialogue with Rep. Powers Hannley (video)

What is the state of maternal and child health in the state of Arizona? Well, it certainly could be better. Arizona ranks in the 40s (out of 50 states) in … Continue reading →

September 20, 2019

Gosh Darn Podcast Interview with Rep. PPH Delves Deep into Education Views

University High students Rose Long and Grace Proebsting have been interviewing political candidates and others for their podcast on economics entitled Gosh Darn Podcast (GDP). My interview is linked below, … Continue reading →

October 26, 2018

What Is Our Goal for Education in Arizona? (video)

Funding for education at all levels — but particularly for k-12 public education — has been a HOT button issue in Arizona since Governor Jan Brewer and her henchman, ousted … Continue reading →

October 7, 2016

Tucsonans Take to the Streets to Protest Ducey/GOP Budget

More than 1000 people rallied at the Arizona Capitol to protest cuts to education on Thursday. The Phoenix rally spawned a similar protest in Tucson, where 100 people protested millions of … Continue reading →

March 6, 2015 · 3 Comments

Eliminating open enrollment: Is PCC opening or closing the doors of opportunity?

Pima Community College has had a long egalitarian tradition of offering higher education to anyone who wanted it but that could change in 2012. During the summer, Pima announced its plans to … Continue reading →

September 14, 2011

AZ Teapublican budget: Government against the People

[tnivideo caption=”Another Brick in the Wall: We don’t need no education” credit=”Pink Floyd”]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_bvT-DGcWw[/tnivideo] In signing Arizona’s devastatingly regressive Teapublican budget, Governor Jan Brewer chose to side with Legislative radicals– rather … Continue reading →

April 8, 2011 · 14 Comments

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.

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.

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.

Safe Park, downtown Tucson

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

Congressman Ron Barber and Pamela Powers Hannley at Cyclovia

Protesting cuts to education

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

We are the 99%.

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

The Oberlin Rescuers outside of the Cuyahoga County Jail.

Martin Luther King, Jr. march.

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

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

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

Pamela Powers Hannley, Progressive Democrat for Arizona House, LD9

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

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

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.

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.)

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

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

Desconocido (unknown)

Protesting anti-woman laws at the Arizona state capitol.

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

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

A homeless man sleeps in the shadow of corporate America.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Protesting migrant deaths in the Arizona desert.

Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley with Red For Ed

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.)

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: public education

Progressives & Libertarians Debate Tax Credits at #AZLeg Income Tax Credit Review (video)

Maternal & Child Health… a Dialogue with Rep. Powers Hannley (video)

Gosh Darn Podcast Interview with Rep. PPH Delves Deep into Education Views

What Is Our Goal for Education in Arizona? (video)

Tucsonans Take to the Streets to Protest Ducey/GOP Budget

Eliminating open enrollment: Is PCC opening or closing the doors of opportunity?

AZ Teapublican budget: Government against the People

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