Stories by Bobbi Murray
Bobbi Murray is a freelance journalist based in Los Angeles.
L.A.'s powerful union movement unites to defeat the governor's ballot initiatives, even as the national movement threatens to fragment.
Posted on Oct 11, 2005, Source: LA CityBeat
Lacking health insurance and tired of working for peanuts, Los Angeles-area janitors strike against aerospace contractors.
Posted on Jul 19, 2005, Source: LA CityBeat
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.
Posted on Dec 23, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The Governator helped crush Prop. 66, but reforms for California's controversial Three Strikes law may still be coming.
Posted on Dec 2, 2004, Source: LA CityBeat
It's now accepted as nothing less than gospel that public bodies must give out subsidies to private companies to fuel economic growth.
Posted on Sep 15, 2003, Source: The Nation
A new HBO series breaks new ground in both its depiction of the drug war and, more importantly, the racial stereotypes that accompany it.
Posted on Oct 4, 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.
Posted on Sep 26, 2002, Source: AlterNet
