Stories by Bobbi Murray
Bobbi Murray is a freelance journalist based in Los Angeles.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
