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October 31, 2023

National News

Israeli forces battle Hamas around Gaza City, as military says 800,000 have fled south

Israeli troops are battling Hamas militants and attacking underground compounds with a focus on northern Gaza. An estimated 800,000 Palestinians have fled south despite continued Israeli bombardment across the besieged enclave.

apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-gaza-war-news-10-31-2023-54ab6bd7f6861be86266770c245827e1

State News:

Turnout Rewired: How Blue Voter Guide Jumpstarts Voting, with Founder Wayne Liebman · Field Team 6

Join Blue Voter Guide Founder, Wayne Liebman, as he demonstrates how to use Blue Voter Guide to increase voter turnout thus helping to elect more Democrats. Blue Voter Guide helps voters build a sample ballot which they can share or take with them to the polls. To jumpstart voters' decision-making process, Blue Voter Guide shows their candidates and ballot initiatives along with the progressive organizations that endorse them—enabling quick, smart, confident voting choices in minutes instead of hours. In 2023, Blue Voter Guide is available in Virginia, New Jersey, Mississippi, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Louisiana. It also provides endorsement information for ballot initiatives in Ohio. In 2024, Blue Voter Guide will be available in all 50 states. Join us on Zoom for this half hour event starting at 5:30 PM Pacific. Zoom link provided on registration.

www.mobilize.us/ft6/event/589736/?rname=William&share_context=event_details&share_medium=copy_link

Local News:

The McMinn County Historical Society will meet Sunday, November 5th at 2 p.m. in the blue room of the McMinn County Courthouse. Special guest will be McMinn County Sheriff, Joe Guy, Author and Historian, discussing “Washington Crossing the Delaware”. The public is welcome to attend this meeting. Election of new officers will be held at this meeting, and only members may vote. For more information, call 423-744-3911.

The Etowah Library Board will meet at 5pm on Monday, November 9th at the library. This meeting is open to the public. For more information, call (423) 263-9475 or visit us online at www.etowahlibrary.com 

Tennessee Wesleyan University will host “A Cure for Hate” on Thursday, November 2nd, in Townsend Auditorium on the college’s campus. Author Tony McAleer spent 15 years in the white supremacist neoNazi movement. After over a thousand hours of individual and group counseling, he became instrumental to helping found Life After Hate, an organization supporting those considering exiting Hate Groups. He is the author of The Cure for Hate: A Former White Supremacist’s Journey from Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion, published by Arsenal Pulp Press. He also has a TED Talk available on “Radical Compassion” on TEDx. The community is invited to attend this free event sponsored by the Tennessee Holocaust Commission, the TWU Office of Multicultural Affairs, and TWU History Department.

The Arts:

Graffiti on a wall that says: IF YOU DON'T LIKE GRAFFITI, THEN JUST LOOK AWAY LIKE YOU DO FOR HUMAN SUFFERING...

Seniors:

The Movement to Crush Free Speech on Campuses and DeSantis' Bogus Brag He Sent Military Aid to Israel

Elon Musk's Racist Tweet Got Fact-Checked, Christians Blind to Racism, Richard Roundtree ("Shaft") Homage

open.substack.com/pub/kareem/p/the-movement-to-crush-free-speech?r=2cuzj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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