I am both a woman, and a black PoC
everyone is fucking suspicious to me. And you can’t blame me for that. You can’t blame me for being fucking suspicious of people that defended the murderer of a boy who wasn’t that different from me, for carrying skittles and an iced…
Riverside’s Chinatown is pretty easy to miss. It looks like any other construction site. Except, it was not always a construction site. The area historically housed Riverside’s Chinese community. Like many Californian cities and towns, Riverside had a influx of Chinese immigrants seeking a better life for their families.
The site was given over to private hands, and was designated to be destroyed and replace with a large private medical office. Because it was private land, the constructors disregarded proper archaeological protocols that ensures the integrity of the site. Archaeologists are supposed carefully access and document sites but because of lack of oversight and “cutting red-tapes” it didn’t happened.
Currently, there are public protests and campaigns to preserved what is left of the site and halt construction.
Canada’s teen birth and abortion rate drops by 36.9 per cent
Better access to contraception, higher quality sex education and shifting social norms have contributed to a 36.9 per cent decline in Canada’s teen birth and abortion rate between 1996 and 2006, according to a report released today by the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada.
America’s emphasis on abstinence-only sex ed “tends to result in a higher percentage of teens becoming pregnant,” as does the country’s lack of universal health care. Poverty is another factor.
Among the four countries compared for 2006, Canada boasted the lowest teen birth and abortion rate per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19 (27.9), followed by Sweden (31.4), England/Wales (60.3), and the United States (61.2).
