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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

Carmona on SB1070 and the Supremes

This week’s Supreme Court and Senate debates/hearings on Arizona’s infamous SB1070 anti-immigrant have been a real eye-opener. If you haven’t been paying attention, here are a few stories… Russell Pearce: … Continue reading →

April 26, 2012

Tired of Russell Pearce? Participate in the recall effort!

Citizens for a Better Arizona is sponsoring a Recall Pearce canvas operation in Mesa on Saturday, March 5. Tucson activists– including Tucson’s Chapter of Progressive Democrats of … Continue reading →

March 3, 2011 · 7 Comments

Since when do Utah right-wingers and FOX News get to tell Pima County what to do? (video)

[tnivideo caption=”Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik’s Press Conference after the Shooting of Gabrielle Giffords” credit=”MSNBC”]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccY9lNRiUWg[/tnivideo] After the Tucson massacre and the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords early this month, Pima … Continue reading →

January 26, 2011 · 15 Comments

La Brewja’s next term: More lawsuits, more debt, more poverty, more job cuts, less education

Jan Brewer, Arizona’s most recent Secretary of State to slide into the governor’s post, won the election last night against Attorney General Terry Goddard. Now what? As the Three Sonorans … Continue reading →

November 3, 2010 · 16 Comments

Why SB1070? Because Brewer and Pearce Are Beholdin’ to Private Prisons

>There are a myriad of reasons why people either support or denounce SB1070, Arizona’s harsh anti-illegal immigration bill. Pro: “America’s under attack! The brown people are coming to take our … Continue reading →

August 17, 2010

Arpaio on a hit list? So, what else is new?

>Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a media whore. The big news out of Maricopa County yesterday was that (reportedly) a Mexican drug cartel has put a $1 million reward on Arpaio’s … Continue reading →

August 3, 2010

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

Protesting anti-woman laws at the Arizona state capitol.

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

Protesting migrant deaths in the Arizona desert.

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

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

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

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

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

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.)

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

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.

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

Pamela Powers Hannley, Progressive Democrat for Arizona House, LD9

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

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

Congressman Ron Barber and Pamela Powers Hannley at Cyclovia

Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley with Red For Ed

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.

Protesting cuts to education

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

Safe Park, downtown Tucson

The Oberlin Rescuers outside of the Cuyahoga County Jail.

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.

A homeless man sleeps in the shadow of corporate America.

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.

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

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.

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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.)

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

We are the 99%.

Martin Luther King, Jr. march.

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 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: SB1070

Will the Real John Huppenthal Please Stand Up?

Carmona on SB1070 and the Supremes

Tired of Russell Pearce? Participate in the recall effort!

Since when do Utah right-wingers and FOX News get to tell Pima County what to do? (video)

La Brewja’s next term: More lawsuits, more debt, more poverty, more job cuts, less education

Why SB1070? Because Brewer and Pearce Are Beholdin’ to Private Prisons

Arpaio on a hit list? So, what else is new?

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