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Link – ‘Sustainability Sunday’ in Tucson: Cycling, solar-powered rock, and water harvesting (video), March 28, 2011

Link – Beer Wars: Free market only works when capitalists make profits. When profits are in peril, they want government help, March 10, 2011

Link – Carnaval Parade enlivens downtown Tucson (video), February 20, 2011

Link – How many times will Humberto Lopez offer his aging hotel to the city? November 9, 2010

Link – Tucsonans and City Council say ‘no’ to risky hotel project, October 27, 2010

Historic Tucson

Link – Historic Landmark Signs: Should Tucson preserve its neon heritage? (video), June 27, 2011

Link – Historic preservation: Is history becoming fashionable in Tucson?, June 26, 2011

Link – Stop dozing our history: Tucson’s historic homes create a ‘sense of place’ (video), June 21, 2011

Link – Historic Landmark Signs: Should Tucson preserve its neon heritage? (video), June 27, 2011

Link – Historic preservation: Is history becoming fashionable in Tucson?, June 26, 2011

Link – Stop dozing our history: Tucson’s historic homes create a ‘sense of place’ (video), June 21, 2011

Link – As UA tuition increases, will mini-dorms become empty monuments to greed?, April 6, 2011

Link – Neighbors + Goodman + TPD + media attend candlelight vigil in Jefferson Park (video), January 8, 2011

Link – Mini-dorm controversy heats up on blogs and the JOLT: Take a video tour of mini-dorms in the Feldman Neighborhood (video). January 7, 2011

Link – The Developers’ Hour on the JOLT: Mini-dorm building is community service, January 5, 2011

Link – Candlelight vigil: Save historic Tucson from the scourge of mini-dorms (video), January 4, 2011

Tucson Art, Music, and Culture

Link – The Glow: Experience art by the full moon (video), September 9, 2011

Link – Flor de Muertos: A ‘must see’ for All Souls Procession and Calexico aficionados, July 23, 2011

Link – Neon Tour of Tucson, June 26, 2011

Link – Thomas Jefferson says: Stop the ‘War on Dancing’ (video), June 6, 2011

Link – 4th Avenue Spring Street Fair, April 2011

Link – Carnaval Parade enlivens downtown Tucson (video), February 20, 2011

Link – Tucson Carnaval: Dancing in the Streets, Feb. 19, February 18, 2011

Link – Gem Show update: Hotels near Interstate 10 (video), February 6, 2011

Link – African Art Village at the Gem Show: Experience Africa and Middle East in Tucson (video), February 3, 2011

Link – Salvador sings ‘Teritoria’ (video), October 26, 2010

Link – You know you’re a Baby Boomer when…, September 14, 2009

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

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.

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.)

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

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

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

A homeless man sleeps in the shadow of corporate America.

Congressman Ron Barber and Pamela Powers Hannley at Cyclovia

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr. march.

Safe Park, downtown Tucson

Protesting cuts to education

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

Protesting migrant deaths in the Arizona desert.

We are the 99%.

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

The Oberlin Rescuers outside of the Cuyahoga County Jail.

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

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.)

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.

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

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

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

Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley with Red For Ed

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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