1.   Amy Offner, a history student at Harvard, got her first taste of labor activism while in high school.

2.   Early last year, there was a wave of labor activism by his supporters, including strikes and street demonstrations.

3.   Member unions include the huge Hyundai union, longtime considered the leader for labor activism, as well as unions representing journalists.

4.   Officials said police would be used to crack down on any illegal labor activism.

5.   Zhang had already served a seven-year jail term for labor activism and prosecutors had reportedly called on the court to strictly punish him as a repeat offender.

6.   Beijing continued to suppress independent labor activism and to restrict journalists and Voice of America broadcasts, the bill noted.

7.   Carol Graham, a Latin America expert at the Brookings Institution, said the new labor activism was not surprising.