The tiny population of this valley — factory workers, university students, farmers and smugglers — has been turned into a loosely organized fighting force, deployed along the boundary that separates South Ossetia from Georgian-controlled territory.
Mr. Zocchi and Mr. Garcia also noted the social benefits of organized fighting in a city like New York — benefits that would multiply, they say, with sanctioned competitions in the state.
That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.
In increasing numbers, people are speaking up, doing grassroots research, organizing, fighting back.
While Nikitin was promoting White Rex and organizing fighting tournaments, far-right researchers say he was also touring Europe to connect extremist hooligan groups and teach knife-fighting skills to far-right activists.
Some are fighting for a minimum wage that is a living wage; fighting for just compensation for overtime (and, hooray, for President Obama's new overtime rules): fighting to defend and protect public employees; fighting against all kinds of wage theft; fighting to defend workers who seek to organize; fighting to defend unions and the crucial role they play on behalf of all workers.
"You know, I mean, when you get the kids starting to beat you up, you might have to start promoting" — that is, organizing fights, instead of fighting them.
The taking of the hostages also sullied the reputation of the Free Syrian Army, the loosely organized antigovernment fighting groups.
The men didn't think so; the Free Syrian Army, the loosely organized antigovernment fighting groups, would have properly buried the bodies, they said.
In the last few years, enforcement has stopped organized dog fighting in Peekskill, he said, but it continues in the southern part of the county.
WASHINGTON -- President Obama's top two national security officials signaled on Thursday that the United States was unlikely to arm the Libyan rebels, raising the possibility that the French alone among the Western allies would provide weapons and training for the poorly organized forces fighting Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's government.
