NNU: Where There is Struggle, Nurses Will be There (video)
by Pamela Powers Hannley National Nurses United (NNU) is one of the most creative and most activist unions in the US. Long before anyone was talking about the financial transaction tax (AKA the Robin...
View ArticleJohn Nichols: What Challenges Face Labor & Progressives in the Future? (video)
by Pamela Powers Hannley John Nichols, political writer for The Nation and regular contributor to MSNBC, returns to Tucson on Saturday, March 9, 2013, to discuss the progressive movement, our mutual...
View ArticleJohn Nichols: Don’t Let the ‘Crooks’ Roll Back Years of Progress (video)
by Pamela Powers Hannley Author and historian John Nichols warned a packed house of Tucson progressives and unionists that now is not the time for complacency. Now is the time to rise up and fight...
View ArticleJohn Nichols: US Needs 3 Constitutional Amendments to Save Our Democracy (video)
by Pamela Powers Hannley One hundred years ago, at the dawn of the last American Progressive Era, the United States was a very different place– a place of inequality, discrimination, and wealth...
View ArticleJohn Nichols of ‘The Nation’ Returns to Tucson for Progressive Politics &...
John Nichols speaking in Tucson in 2013 Author, historian, and humorist John Nichols of The Nation and MSNBC returns to Tucson on Saturday, March 15, 2014. This is the third year in a row that the PDA...
View Article‘The Nation’ Scolds Network TV for Denying Air Time to President Obama
John Nichols of The Nation NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX have decided to air their usual prime time pablum tonight, instead of airing President Barack Obama’s short speech about his executive order on...
View ArticleJohn Nichols & The Nation Are Coming to Tucson (video)
John Nichols fires up progressives at a PDA event. Author and commentator John Nichols of The Nation will make his annual trek to Tucson for the Festival of Books, but this year, he’s bringing his...
View Article‘The Nation’ Celebrates Its 150 Year Anniversary in Tucson this Weekend (video)
‘The Nation’ celebrates its anniversary in Tucson this weekend. The Nation magazine is 150 years old this year, and Tucson is playing a major role in the celebration. The Blog for Arizona Calendar has...
View ArticleWhy Don’t Americans Vote? We’re Repeatedly Told Not To (video)
John Nichols of ‘The Nation’ addressed progressives and unionists at a recent Tucson event. The United States is the world’s largest democracy, we spend an obscene amount of money on elections–more...
View ArticleJohn Nichols on Money in Politics: $10 Billion in Political ads in 2012 (video)
John Nichols of “The Nation” speaking in Tucson in March 2015 One issue that unites millions of voters is their disgust for big-money politics and their hatred of misleading, negative political...
View ArticleAn Evening with John Nichols of The Nation, March 10 (video)
Author and historian John Nichols, Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley, and former Arizona Senate Minority Leader Phil Lopes at PDA’s John Nichols event in 2017. The Tucson Festival of Books brings hundreds of...
View ArticleTime again for popular Tucson Festival of Books
Tucson Festival of Books: March 10 and 11, 2018 — 9:30 to 5:30 p.m. both days on UA Mall, west of Campbell Avenue. Now in its 10th year. Complete schedule of authors’ presentations:...
View ArticleTucson Festival of Books coming up this weekend at UA Mall
Well, it's that time again for Springtime and the ever popular Tucson Festival of Books on the University of Arizona mall, both Saturday and Sunday March 4 and 5, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Perhaps...
View ArticleRemembering May Day with movies: Black, brown, white– unite! (video)
by Pamela Powers Hannley 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 striking Chicago...
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Of austerity and cookies (video)
by Pamela Powers Hannley These days, you can't turn on the TV or radio without hearing a "news" story or pundit "analysis" about the battle over deficit reduction by budget cuts or revenue generation....
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