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(CNN)The forces of Occupy Wall Street, splintered and faded in the aftermath of their 2011 demonstrations, are getting the band back together to boost Bernie Sanders ahead of next week's critical New York primary. Nearly five years since Occupy was evicted from Zuccotti Park, blocks from the New York Stock Exchange in lower Manhattan, a coalition of organizers, labor leaders and progressive activists who lined up under the banner of "the 99 percent" are renewing their efforts in pursuit of a more traditional cause: Getting voters to the polls on April 19.

A council set up to advise California's governor on preparing for emergencies has not met since 2002, despite the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Hurricane Katrina and a state law that requires the governor to convene the panel at least once a year. "I just think it's a reflection of neglect," said Assemblyman Pedro Nava, D-Santa Barbara, the vice chair of a Senate-Assembly committee on emergency services. Last week, after Nava and other legislators pushed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to jump-start the dormant California Emergency Council, he agreed. The Republican governor informed Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland, that he...