Stories by Bobbi Murray

Bobbi Murray is a freelance journalist based in Los Angeles.subscribe to Bobbi Murray's rss feed

Labor Plays Hardball

Posted on Oct 11, 2005, Source: LA CityBeat

L.A.'s powerful union movement unites to defeat the governor's ballot initiatives, even as the national movement threatens to fragment.

Dirty Business

Posted on Jul 19, 2005, Source: LA CityBeat

Lacking health insurance and tired of working for peanuts, Los Angeles-area janitors strike against aerospace contractors.

A Law and Order Kind of Guy

Posted on Dec 23, 2004, Source: AlterNet

David Soares' victory in the Albany County district attorney's race jarred loose changes that once seemed impossible; reform of New York's ultra-punitive Rockefeller drug laws.

Negotiating Three Strikes

Posted on Dec 2, 2004, Source: LA CityBeat

The Governator helped crush Prop. 66, but reforms for California's controversial Three Strikes law may still be coming.

Money for Nothing

Posted on Sep 15, 2003, Source: The Nation

It's now accepted as nothing less than gospel that public bodies must give out subsidies to private companies to fuel economic growth.

The Drug War Goes Prime Time

Posted on Oct 4, 2002, Source: AlterNet

A new HBO series breaks new ground in both its depiction of the drug war and, more importantly, the racial stereotypes that accompany it.

Orphaned By the Drug War

Posted on Sep 26, 2002, Source: AlterNet

When a woman of color is arrested on a drug charge, three generations of her family pay the price: mother, child, and grandmother.
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