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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rally's attendees included members from various local unions as well as the Student Labor Action Movement, Socialist Alternative, Women's Fightback Network, and even the Allston-Brighton Neighborhood Assembly...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Staff, Activists Protest Layoffs | 6/25/2009 | See Source »

Geoff Carens, a Harvard librarian and a member of the Harvard Union for Clerical and Technical Workers, used a loudspeaker to lead the protestors in chants that included "The people, united, will never be defeated" and "They say cutback, we say fightback; They say lay off, we say back...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Staff, Activists Protest Layoffs | 6/25/2009 | See Source »

...within his own party. He doesn't have to face voters until 2010, since Tony Blair was only 25 months into a fresh five-year term when he handed over the reins to Brown last June. Brown now hopes to use the remainder of that term to stage a fightback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Ominous Loss for Britain's Brown | 7/25/2008 | See Source »

...learned, also, that the farther south in Europe your opponent's roots, the more dazzling the footballing and the hotter the tempers. Get the Italians mad at each other, and you've got a good shot at winning. Get ahead of a Greek team, and get ready for a fightback. Or at least a fight: the Greeks are people with a tremendous culture and history - and they play every game like it's a World Cup - but my experience has been that when a Greek walks onto the pitch his passion for the game is such that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soccer: An American Game | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

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