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Community Support for Striking ASARCO/Grupo Mexico Workers (video)

More than 1700 members from eight labor unions are on strike against ASARCO and Grupo Mexico. These workers haven’t had a raise in 10 years. Under ASARCO/Grupo Mexico’s best and … Continue reading →

October 22, 2019

Why I Support Paid Sick Leave

Tucson City Councilwoman Regina Romero is leading the charge to require local businesses to provide paid sick leave for employees. As someone who has been in management for more than … Continue reading →

January 13, 2016

$10.75/hour Median Wage? It’s Time to Break the Low-Wage Cycle in Tucson (video)

Last Wednesday was Women’s Equality Day, in commemoration of the passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote in 1920. In commemoration, the Tucson Weekly’s Maria Ines Taracena … Continue reading →

August 31, 2015 · 3 Comments

#TBT: Remembering the Day Tucson Launched SunLinks (video)

This weekend Tucson is celebrating the launch of the SunLinks modern street car in July 2014. Hundreds of Tucsonans stood in the sweltering summer sun to watch politicians, the UA … Continue reading →

July 23, 2015

UPDATED: Broadway Widening Redux: March 26 Meeting on ‘Community Alignment’

The beleaguered Citizens Task Force (CTF) of the Broadway Widening Project revolted at last week’s meeting and didn’t approve the city staff plan for widening Broadway Blvd. because it didn’t … Continue reading →

March 26, 2015 · 1 Comment

A Trip Down Memory Lane: What is our shared vision for downtown Tucson?

This article was originally published in 2009 on my Progressive Examiner blog. This month [November 2009] marks the end of an era in downtown Tucson– an era of art, innovation, … Continue reading →

March 24, 2015

Broadway Widening Project: Residents Speak Out Against It… Again

An estimated 80 Tucsonans attended the public meeting of the Citizens Task Force (CTF) for the Broadway widening project last week. The main event of the meeting was a potential … Continue reading →

March 23, 2015 · 2 Comments

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

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

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

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.

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

The Oberlin Rescuers outside of the Cuyahoga County Jail.

Martin Luther King, Jr. march.

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

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

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.)

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.

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

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

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.

A homeless man sleeps in the shadow of corporate America.

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.

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

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

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

We are the 99%.

Pamela Powers Hannley, Progressive Democrat for Arizona House, LD9

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

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.)

Congressman Ron Barber and Pamela Powers Hannley at Cyclovia

Safe Park, downtown Tucson

Protesting anti-woman laws at the Arizona state capitol.

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

Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley with Red For Ed

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

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

Protesting cuts to education

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 migrant deaths in the Arizona desert.

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: Tucson

Community Support for Striking ASARCO/Grupo Mexico Workers (video)

Why I Support Paid Sick Leave

$10.75/hour Median Wage? It’s Time to Break the Low-Wage Cycle in Tucson (video)

#TBT: Remembering the Day Tucson Launched SunLinks (video)

UPDATED: Broadway Widening Redux: March 26 Meeting on ‘Community Alignment’

A Trip Down Memory Lane: What is our shared vision for downtown Tucson?

Broadway Widening Project: Residents Speak Out Against It… Again

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