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Economic Inequality, Access to Care & Workforce Development: A Progressive Roadmap (video)

On December 4, 2017, I gave a talk on economic inequality at the Democrats of Greater Tucson Luncheon. This is the text of that speech. Economist Dean Baker, of the Center for … Continue reading →

December 13, 2017

Rep. Powers Hannley: 2017 Legislative Report Card (video)

In 2016, I ran for the Arizona House on a platform of economic reform, equality, and tackling the opioid epidemic. I stood up to big-money politics and ran as a … Continue reading →

October 8, 2017

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

Another Tucson Occupier taken into custody

As police and local governments begin major crackdowns across the US, the Tucson Police Department and Occupy Tucson continue their nightly dance of citations, arrests, and resistance at Veinte de … Continue reading →

December 1, 2011 · 10 Comments

Tucson Occupiers climb trees and avoid arrest

Several Tucson Occupiers climbed the large trees at Veinte de Agosto Park after 10 p.m. on November 28. The Tucson Police, which had been citing protesters nightly for six weeks, … Continue reading →

November 29, 2011 · 1 Comment

TPD arrests disabled Occupy Tucson protester

Joan Zatorski Puca was arrested by Tucson Police on Friday, November 25, 2011. Here is the video of the arrest. Her powerful statement below details her rational for submitting to … Continue reading →

November 28, 2011 · 26 Comments

Tensions heat up at Occupy Tucson

For six weeks– through heavy rain and nightly disruption by the Tucson Police Department (TPD)– Occupy Tucson has maintained a peaceful encampment protest in downtown Tucson. TPD has issued more … Continue reading →

November 28, 2011 · 15 Comments

Protesting anti-woman laws at the Arizona state capitol.

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.

Pamela Powers Hannley, Progressive Democrat for Arizona House, LD9

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.

The Oberlin Rescuers outside of the Cuyahoga County Jail.

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

Protesting cuts to education

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

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.

Protesting migrant deaths in the Arizona desert.

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

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

Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley with Red For Ed

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr. march.

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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.

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.)

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

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.

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

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

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

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.)

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

Congressman Ron Barber and Pamela Powers Hannley at Cyclovia

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

Safe Park, downtown Tucson

We are the 99%.

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

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.

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.

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: trickle down economics

Economic Inequality, Access to Care & Workforce Development: A Progressive Roadmap (video)

Rep. Powers Hannley: 2017 Legislative Report Card (video)

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

Another Tucson Occupier taken into custody

Tucson Occupiers climb trees and avoid arrest

TPD arrests disabled Occupy Tucson protester

Tensions heat up at Occupy Tucson

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