http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/ This is a list for weekly updates of work being done with the Akha people in Northern Thailand, Laos, Myanmar (Burma), China, a Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:05:42 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/570 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/570 Dear Friends: We are in El Dorado, Arkansas. A town where you can be stopped by five police cars at night, for being seen with a saddle on the sidewalk. Oh Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:27:36 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/569 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/569 Dear Friends: Like I promised, when I got to Dallas, I'd picket George Bush's house over the drug war killings of the Akha under his policy with Thaksin Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:30:06 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/568 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/568 Dear Friends: This is to tell you that there are many new videos up at http://www.akha.org and http://www.youtube.com/akhazauh including the video Day 218 when Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:30:22 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/567 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/567 Dear Friends:   We rode east into Ft. Worth amidst hot and humid weather. As we crossed the area just south of downtown, the wind turned cold and hard.   By Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:50:47 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/566 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/566 Dear Friends: We close in slowly on Dallas Texas. We are all in part well but a few need dental work. The horse can use more grain and hay for the belly of the Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:56:46 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/565 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/565 Dear Friends: We have ridden all the way to Texas and are headed for Dallas across vast expanses of farm land. Rather flat in most cases. But we are pretty Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:49:00 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/564 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/564 Dear Friends: After riding far across New Mexico, many valleys and mountains, we have come to Roswell, New Mexico, home of UFO's and also we make the front Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:40:13 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/563 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/563 Dear Friends: I leave today for New Mexico, after a beautiful stay in Springerville, Arizona, actually the only real town we have stayed in while crossing Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:34:48 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/562 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/562 Dear Friends: In a few days we head for the New Mexico border.  Friday we got new shoes put on Hampton.  Arizona has been tough on us. The heat is one thing, Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:09:24 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/561 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/561 Dear Friends: Today is Day 144 of the Ride for Freedom for the Akha Hill Tribe People. We have ridden to Show Low, Arizona and are finally out of the brutal Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:40:26 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/560 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/560 Dear Friends: I have just uploaded 8 more videos to http://www.akha.org or http://www.youtube.com/akhazauh from our trip and discussions of Akha culture. We Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:45:45 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/559 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/559 Dear Friends: From the 7th of June till the 29th of June we made Hell's Crossing from Los Angeles across the Sonora Desert to Phoenix, the part from Indio to Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:39:01 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/558 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/558 Dear Friends: Day before yesterday Wed 8 June, we spent five hours picketing the Thai Consulate at 611 Larchmont in Los Angeles. CBS Channel 2, and that story Wed, 27 May 2009 04:48:14 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/557 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/557 Dear Friends: We are a day away from riding down into Santa Barbara where we will rest shortly before heading to Los Angeles and the Thai Consulate. We would Sun, 17 May 2009 13:31:48 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/556 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/556 Dear Friends: We head out for Big Sur this morning, Hampton and I, and the bus I will be going back for tonight and moving then. A good day it will be. The