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 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 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:10:05 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/555 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/555 Dear Friends: Today is day 55 of the Ride for Freedom, and we are closing in on San Francisco. We travel from Cloverdale towards Santa Rosa today, this Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:17:59 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/554 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/554 Dear Friends: We are in Fortuna, California on our way to San Francisco on the Ride for Freedom. The weather is turning beautiful, the rolling hills covered Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:08:14 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/553 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/553 Dear Friends: This evening we have a presentation on the Queen of Thailand taking the land of the Akha people, missionaries removing Akha children and other Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:50:39 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/552 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/552 Dear Friends, Tomorrow we ride from Cave Junction, Oregon into the Redwoods of California. You can watch our daily videos on line at www.akha.org or at Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:11:11 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/551 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/551 Dear Friends: We are headed into our 17th day in our Ride for Freedom. People have been real good to us as we travel. We are currently in Roseburg, Oregon. We Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:30:36 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/550 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/550 Dear Friends: Visit the videos at www.akha.org We have really stirred it up in Eugene, Oregon about this Richard P. Haugland guy taking away small Akha girls Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:56:42 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/549 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/549 Dear Friends: We have started our "Ride for Freedom" to the UN. We are on day 7. You can see videos from each day at www.akha.org Thanks to all the people who Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:27:16 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/548 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/548 Dear Friends: Within a day or two days we will be heading out on the start of our ride. Our driver quit after training so we are looking for a new driver. But Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:37:14 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/547 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/547 Dear Friends: Well, after training a driver for a month, keeping her well fed, she up and quit. So we look again. Least she got free truck driving school. Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:01:04 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/546 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/546 Dear Friends:   We are hoping to be out within a week, to beat the weather.   We have gotten our vet check, vaccines, and travel papers arranged. We have Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:12:52 GMT Matthew McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/545 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/545 Dear Friends: We have a driver. Kaely has joined us for the Ride for Freedom and has settled in behind the wheel. We are glad to have her on board.