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Suburban Albany is not known for its rip-roaring weekend scene, but this most recent Saturday night, it was the momentary center of the political universe, as an underfunded political party was using its quadrennial convention to try to force America’s most powerful and best-financed governor to submit to its demands. Though the Working Families Party’s conventions are typically low-key affairs, this one had drawn 800 activists and operatives and most of the New York press corps—all to see if the party would endorse conservative Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo or run a third-party candidate against him. In the end, when the...

In a coordinated effort (and we leave how coordinated and with whom to your imagination), Occupy Oakland and Occupy Portland stormed Obama campaign headquarters in their respective cities in Oakland, California and Portland, Oregon.

On Friday evening, the populist Occupy Wall Street movement that echoes many of the same grievances that brought tens of thousands of protesters to Wisconsin’s Capitol earlier this year will take root in Madison. Characteristically of such grass-roots uprisings, details as to the form Occupy Madison will take are not clear -- but according to its Facebook page, the event begins at 6 p.m. Friday at Reynolds Park, located off East Dayton Street near Lake Mendota. Actions are scheduled to run through Jan. 31.Many say it was only a matter of time before the movement made its way here. Occupy...

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