It is with great pride that Citizen Works announces the release of a brand-new book that gets right at the heart of fighting corporate dominance.

The People's Business, which hits stores this week, examines the very nature of corporate power, presenting a range of strategies to curtail it, explaining how ordinary people can restore citizen control. Bringing together the recommendations of the Citizen Works Corporate Reform

From Democratic Underground (www.democraticunderground.com:

it is against voting regulations and poll workers have been instructed to enforce this rule! This rule applies in MOST if not ALL states. The boundaries vary from state to state but please check with your election commission before doing this. It would be sad to wait in line for hours to vote only to be turned away when you get within the allowed boundary. Please help spread this information!

From Don Lowrie of the Gabe Castillo Campaign:

The drive to defeat Dan Lungren is entering the final weekend, and we absolutely need every single one of you to help.

We continue to call every night starting at 5:30 PM from our campaign offices at 1321 Howe Avenue, Suite 111, Sacramento. Come to the office (bring your cell phone) and call voters with a reminder to support Gabe Castillo on Election Day.

ATTENTION ALL VOLUNTEERS!!!

The Sacramento for Kerry Campaign needs people Saturday, October 30th and
Sunday October 31st from 10am to 3pm to do phone banking to
CRITICAL swing states. We will be calling swing states to

The DNC has chosen Sacramento to conduct Nevada Swing State Calling EVERY DAY from now until the Election.

Our first phone bank day will be Friday, October 15th at the Sacramento Downtown Headquarters at 1017 J Street. We are calling from 10am-8pm. Phones will be provided!

If you are interested in phone banking, please send an e-mail to
CatalanoSM@aol.com and let Sam know what time you can phone banks.
Shifts are:
10AM to Noon
Noon to 3PM
3PM to 6PM
6PM to 8PM

If you can't phone bank Friday, please let Sam know what alternate date and time you are available.

From the downtowm Democratic HQ:

We are now calling permanent absentee voters in selected precincts to remind them to vote for Kerry, Boxer and certain DCC endorsed local candidates. The script is short and easy. We are only calling Dems. We did to get this done ASAP as the Absentee Voter Ballots are already mailed or being mailed now. We need to reach these voters before they fill out their ballots and mail them in. We are doing this phone banking Monday to Friday from 5:30 pm to 8 pm, Sat. 10 am to 8 pm and Sun. 12 noon to 8 pm. We currently have more phones than we have volunteers. If you can spare a couple of hours, please come down to the office at 1017 J Street. And get your friends, neighbors, co-workers and family to come down as well!

The parking is free after 6 pm and on Sat. you can park for free in the City Parking Garage between 10 and 11th by just going in the exit gates (they do not have attendants on Sat.) Sunday parking is free on the streets.

And please please make time available for our GOTV efforts (that's Get Out The Vote) the Sat., Sun, and Monday before Nov. 2nd. Joan Beach has gotten us nearly 40 phone lines and we need to have each phone staffed every day, reminding Dems to get to the polls!!!!

Any questions, call the office at 446-3794 or email CatalanoSM@aol.com

Kerry Lures Persuadable Voters in Debate

WILL LESTER
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Many undecided voters liked what they saw from John Kerry and were more than a little concerned about President Bush's performance in the first presidential debate - but they still had questions about what Kerry would do in Iraq.

We have received our of "Castillo for Congress" lawn signs, and we need places to put them. Please let us know if you would like a lawn sign for your yard.

Email or call us with your address, and we will deliver!
email: campcastillo@castilloforcongress.org
phone: (916) 286-7990

We also need people to deliver the signs, and to post them in appropriate high-visibility areas.

3 Polls Show Kerry Won Debate Over Bush
President Bush, John Kerry Hit Campaign Trail Following Debate; 3 Polls Show Kerry Edging Bush

The Associated Press

CORAL GABLES, Fla. Oct. 1, 2004 — President Bush and Sen. John Kerry rushed back to the campaign trail Friday to try to convince voters they had won the debate over foreign policy and to renew the argument over whether going to war in Iraq had made the nation safer.

by KEN GUGGENHEIM, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Thursday's presidential debate on foreign policy should come with a disclaimer: What you hear from the candidates is not necessarily what you would get in the next four years.

By Darya Korsunskaya

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian government approved the Kyoto Protocol Thursday, giving decisive support to the long-delayed climate change treaty that should allow it to come into force worldwide.

Poll: Americans Uninformed on Bush, Kerry

By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - If matching presidential candidates to their positions on basic issues were like a "Jeopardy!" category, most Americans wouldn't earn a single dollar.

Flood of New Voters Signing Up

9/28/2004

By ROBERT TANNER, AP National Writer

New voters are flooding local election offices with paperwork, registering in significantly higher numbers than four years ago as attention to the presidential election runs high and an array of activist groups recruit would-be voters who could prove critical come Nov. 2.

ATLANTA - A federal appeals court on Monday revived a lawsuit seeking a paper trail for Florida's new touchscreen voting machines with only five weeks left before the presidential election.

The court told a federal judge to reopen the case affecting the 15 Florida counties that use voting machines that don't create paper copies.

Mon Sep 27, 9:15 AM ET

WASHINGTON - Former President Jimmy Carter says that despite changes designed to eliminate voting problems in Florida — where the disputed 2000 presidential election was decided by only a few hundred votes — conditions for a fair election in that state still don't exist.

A Big Increase of New Voters in Swing States

By FORD FESSENDEN

Published: September 26, 2004

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A sweeping voter registration campaign in heavily Democratic areas hasadded tens of thousands of new voters to the rolls in the swing states of Ohio and Florida, a surge that has far exceeded the efforts of Republicans in both states, a review of registration data shows.

College and NBA Arenas in 20 Battleground States to Feature Live, On Stage, Oscar-winning Filmmaker

He Plans to Rally Non-voters and Slackers, "America's Majority"

For Immediate Release -- Thursday, September 23, 2004

The NE office located at 4142 Sunrise Blvd is again in need of
volunteers for voter registration this Saturday September 25th. We will be asking for your assistance for most sites11am to 3pm. Approximately 50 volunteers will be needed. Some of our sites we send out begin at 8am and end at noon and then we have been seding a 2nd team out from 11am to 3pm because our GOP friends (just kidding, of course!) are also at these sites. If you have taken our training class, please e-mail me at rwake3d@accessbee.com by 5pm Thursday to confirm your availability. If you are in need of attending our training session, this will be the LAST CLASS this Friday evening September 24th from 6:30pm to 8:00pm. We do prefer you attend our training session, so if you would like to help us, please come this Friday evening. You can call 961-8877 to confirm your attendance. Here is some additional information I would like to update

The Downtown Coordinated Campaign Office is looking for folks to help
with Voter Reg. We have training on Friday nights at 6 pm and Sat. at 9 am at our office at 1017 J Street. We have dozens of locations set up from supermarkets, the downtown mall, colleges, farmer's markets.

Letter from the Chairman --
Dear California Democrat:

Our Every Vote Counts 2004 Campaign is going strong and the Democratic Party has staff in the field ready to mobilize volunteers to register voters and get out the Democratic message on the issues which matter most to Californians. As always, our success depends on our volunteers. If you want to do what you can to help elect the Kerry-Edwards team and re-elect Senator Barbara Boxer, as well as assist your local state senate or assembly candidates, please fill out our online volunteer form.