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via Javalobby.

An Aug. 14 announcement that most of their protest permits had been denied brought television cameras to groups who’d previously attracted little attention. By Aug. 18, these groups — from Code Pink to Iraq Veterans Against the War — announced plans to ask Pittsburgh City Council for a resolution supporting their right to free speech “in a place where we will be seen and heard,” according to a letter delivered to council. The groups asked for a second resolution that “holds law enforcement accountable to a use of force policy to ensure that demonstrators are not abused.”

They also successfully petitioned council to hold a public hearing on free-speech rights during G-20. That hearing has not yet been scheduled, but activists may not wait to be heard.

via Pittsburgh City Paper.

You don’t have to know Jim Finkle or anyone else at the State Department to recognize their pain. Millions of workers around the world are in the same straits: They’ve heard about the joys of Firefox, the wonders of Google Docs, or any number of other great programs or Web sites that might improve how they work. Indeed, they use these apps at home all the time, and they love them. But at work they’re stymied by the IT department, that class of interoffice Brahmins that decides, ridiculously and capriciously, how people should work.

via Slate

The most famous and farreaching labor conflict in a period of severe economic depression and social unrest, the Pullman Strike began May 11, 1894, with a walkout by Pullman Palace Car Company factory workers after negotiations over declining wages failed. These workers appealed for support to the American Railway Union (ARU), which argued unsuccessfully for arbitration. On June 20, the ARU gave notice that beginning June 26 its membership would no longer work trains that included Pullman cars.

via Pullman Strike.

Hobson Street in Brookline is getting a face lift, undergoing base repair this week and next week the tarry smell of asphalt will float through the neighborhood.

via kdka.com.

A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company’s owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company. The former employee also alleges that Prince “views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe,” and that Prince’s companies “encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life.”

via The Nation