On this day, 4 February 1987, Afghan political and women’s rights activist Meena Keshwar Kamal was assassinated in Pakistan. She founded the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) in Kabul in 1977, whose mission was to “give voice to the deprived and silenced women of Afghanistan” and taught Afghan women how to read and write. Two men subsequently confessed to her murder, who were both linked to the KHAD secret police agency under Soviet occupation. Kamal and RAWA opposed the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. RAWA’s work continues, though mostly in secret due to the rule of the Taliban. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1913671448817996/?type=3
The February 1 quake marks the fifth event of its kind in the area so far in 2022
Yet another earthquake has been recorded near Lake County [Ohio]!
Just days after a 2.0 magnitude quake hit off the coast of Willowick on January 29, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) says that a 1.6 magnitude shake occurred Tuesday evening about five miles out from Eastlake.
The event, which marks the fifth earthquake in the Lake County area since January 1, had a depth of 8 kilometers and stuck just around 8:30 PM Eastern. …
Gene McGee, the mayor of Ridgeland, Mississippi, is reportedly threatening to withhold funding from the local county library system unless it removes LGBTQ-related materials from its premises.
Mississippi Free Press reports that McGee is withholding $110,000 in funds for the libraries because he’s upset that they’re carrying books with LGBTQ characters and themes.
Tonja Johnson, executive director for the Madison County Library System, tells Mississippi Free Press that she questioned McGee about why he was withholding money after she noticed that Ridgeland did not make its first quarterly payment this year.
“He explained his opposition to what he called ‘homosexual materials’ in the library, that it went against his Christian beliefs, and that he would not release the money as the long as the materials were there,” Johnson explains.
Johnson says that she tried to tell McGee that libraries are not religious institutions, and thus a person’s religious beliefs should have no impact on the books it decides to carry.
However, it seems he was unpersuaded.
“He told me that the library can serve whoever we wanted, but that he only serves the great Lord above,” she claims.
The Great Pyramid of Giza Ukraine-based photographer Alexander Ladanivskyy using a drone shot The Great Pyramid of Giza from different altitudes creating a visually stunning zoom in.
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“1.6 earthquake recorded near Eastlake | wkyc.com The February 1 quake marks the fifth event of its kind in the area so far in 2022
Yet another earthquake has been recorded near Lake County [Ohio]!
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