October 7: Commemoration of Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel

Commemoration Monday

October 7 — Today marks the first anniversary of Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel, which is being marked with several local events in metro Atlanta. We also have a roundup of related podcasts in today’s Look & Listen.

☀️ A cool morning leads to sunshine and 84° this afternoon.

🚇 The Brookhaven MARTA station will be closed for six weeks starting this morning for renovations. A shuttle bus will bridge the gap between the stations.

🔎 A Fulton County Jail inmate held in Cobb County due to overcrowded conditions was killed by another inmate.

🚘 Sandy Springs is investigating a 30-40% increase in fatal injury crashes and ways to prevent them.

🤝 Hands On Atlanta Week runs through October 12, with thousands of volunteers focused on helping with food security and supporting Hurricane Helene relief efforts.

💵The Metro Atlanta Chamber has announced that Kristi Brigman will serve as Chief Economic Development Officer.

🤔 Beth McKibben of Rough Draft joins Mike Jordan of the AJC and chefs Taria Camerino and Max Hines for “Is Atlanta a Food City?” on Tuesday, October 15.

🏈 Georgia remains No. 5 in the AP Top 25 college football poll, with Texas back at the top and Alabama falling to No. 7 after being upset by unranked Vanderbilt on Saturday.

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🌀 Hurricane Milton quickly intensified into a Category 1 storm on Sunday, days before it is expected to make landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday.

⚖️ The US Supreme Court opens its new term today with controversial cases on ‘ghost guns’, transgender rights and pornography. Court watchers also say cases related to the 2024 presidential election could come on the docket.

🕖 This is what’s in today’s newsletter:

• Voter registration deadline
• CrossFit competition
• Artist Krista M. Jones
• Global headlines
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• Watch and listen

Have a nice week,
Collin & Sammie

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1. The voter registration deadline is today

🗳️Democratic and Republican groups are making a last-ditch effort to register as many Georgia voters as possible before today’s deadline.

One of those groups is Greater Georgia, founded by former Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler. She said conservatives had “shifted voter registration to the left,” but that this is now part of Greater Georgia’s core mission.

Meanwhile, the New Georgia Project has been working to add more Black and brown Georgians to the voter rolls, including people navigating the communities devastated by Hurricane Helene.

➳ Learn more about the effort to register more voters here and visit Georgia’s voter registration site to see how you can register today.

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2. Tucker woman comes second in global CrossFit competition

💪 Over Labor Day weekend, the qualifiers traveled to Birmingham, AL to compete for the CrossFit World Title, and the runner-up in her category was none other than Tucker resident Tiiu Maavere.

The Masters CrossFit Games is an annual event that brings people together from all over the world to participate in the sport of CrossFit, a fitness program consisting of consistently varied, high-intensity functional movements.

Maavere, 57, was one of 30 women selected from thousands of newcomers in her age group invited to Birmingham, according to friend Joe Winterscheidt, a member of the so-called “Maavere’s Mafia” group of supporters.

🏃 For more information about Maavere, click here.

3. Scaling up with artist Krista M. Jones

🎨 Artist Krista M. Jones, who also paints under the name “Jonesy,” works out of a studio in the East Point home she shares with her wife Corinna.

She works full-time as an artist and has come a long way since her early days painting on scraps of wood on the streets of Little Five Points. At the time, she was still in the grip of addiction and was struggling to make ends meet. She eventually left Atlanta and got sober, returning later in 2015 to essentially start over from ground zero.

“I came back to a city that almost killed me and basically decided I was going to figure out a way to do this,” she said.

🖼️ Read more about Krista’s journey here.

4. Missiles fired at Tel Aviv and Haifa; Biden in Germany

🇮🇱 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 As people across Israel commemorate the first anniversary of the October 7 attacks, ten people were injured when Hezbollah rockets landed in northern Israel. In Tel Aviv, two people were injured when five rockets were fired from Gaza.

🎗️ A year ago, 250 hostages were taken by Hamas, and about 100, including four Americans, remain in captivity in Gaza. Today, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum announced that 28-year-old Idan Shtivi has been declared dead.

🇩🇪 President Joe Biden travels to Germany this week to bolster support for Ukraine’s defense against Russia and the NATO alliance. After Germany, President Biden will travel to Angola to support Africa’s first transcontinental open access rail network.

🇮🇳 The Indian government is formally opposing a proposal to criminalize marital rape. A government survey found that 1 in 25 married women in India experience sexual violence from their husbands. India is among about 30 countries that have not banned marital rape.

🇲🇽 Mexico is suing US arms manufacturers, accusing it of helping drug cartels traffic illegal weapons. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments seeking to dismiss the case. U.S. law broadly protects gun manufacturers from involvement in crimes committed with their weapons.

🇹🇼 Taiwan is cleaning up after Typhoon Krathon, which dumped almost two meters of rain in six days.

🇺🇦 During his first trip as NATO’s new Secretary General, Mark Rutte, the former Prime Minister of the Netherlands, told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Ukraine’s path to NATO membership is “irreversible.”

🇳🇿 New Zealand could lose access to Google News after the company threatened to stop providing links if the country passes a bill to tax Google for using news content.

🇰🇷 An 81-year-old South Korean model almost became the country’s oldest Miss Universe contestant. Although Choi Soon-hwa lost the 2024 Miss Universe Korea pageant to 22-year-old fashion student Han Ariel, Choi took home the award for best dressed.

🇬🇧 Parkrun, the free global 5K running phenomenon that started in London’s Bushy Park, celebrated its 20th anniversary on October 5.

🌎 The World Affairs Council of Atlanta has launched the Global Leadership Fellows program, aimed at developing early-career professionals into globally astute leaders. The initiative includes coaching, training and international travel for professionals at the start of their careers. Learn more today!

🎸 Enjoy your own city soundtrack this October Midtown Alliance “Live After 5” outdoor music series. Listen to emerging talent at two different locations every week from 5:30-7:30 PM (Peachtree @ 10th on Wednesdays; Peachtree @ 15th on Thursdays). With jazz, blues, singer/songwriter and more. Details here. SPONSOR MESSAGE

5. October 7 anniversary

This week’s Look & Listen takes a deep dive into the one-year anniversary of the start of the war between Israel and Hamas.

🎙️ Reuters talks to women in Israel and Gaza about their continued fear, and examines the next phase of the war as the battlefield expands to Lebanon and the threat of attack by Iran.