The Akha Farm fights for survival in Falls City, Oregon

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Wednesday May 14, 2014 · 11:30 AM PDT

2014/05/14 · 11:30

In 2011 we located a small piece of property with excellent soil in a meth ridden community called Falls City, Oregon. We cleaned up the property, secured the fencelines, got a house together, painted it and of all things began growing vegetables. That is when the trouble began.

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Friday June 18, 2010 · 10:07 AM PDT

2010/06/18 · 10:07

Across the US by horseback for Akha Human Rights.

We pause at Douglas, Wyoming, in part because we are out of diesel, but we are on the way home with horse Hampton, in a used but solid trailer. I can't say I mind driving now, but I can't say I mind riding either. Course Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa might test the mettle of anyone out for a day's ride.

A great view in Wyoming:
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A great Akha woman and a great horse. Michu and Hampton.
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Tuesday March 23, 2010 · 9:42 PM PDT

2010/03/23 · 21:42

After 382 days we arrive by horseback at the UN in New York city. We want to especially thank the police departments of New Jersey who were fantastic, the Port Authority and the NYPD. And we would also like to thank the hundreds of people who helped in every imaginable way, the Ride for Freedom. Across America by horseback for Akha Human Rights.

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Monday March 08, 2010 · 6:49 PM PST

2010/03/08 · 18:49

The Ant in the Queen's Tea Cup

Tomorrow we ride into Philadelphia to see a friend on our way to the Jersey state line and New York City which is only about 6 or 7 days away now.

We got three warmer days which has been nice, since basically a glacier crash landed on the NE part of the country. In Maryland we rode down roads that had 6 feet piles of snow still stacked up beside the road.

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Friday February 26, 2010 · 6:34 PM PST

2010/02/26 · 18:34

We ride and make it to Wash. DC and the Capital Mall about midnight the 22nd of February, 2010. Then a day north, I put up Hampton and go back for the bus. The next day we spend on the Capital Mall.

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Friday February 19, 2010 · 8:57 AM PST

2010/02/19 · 08:57

Well, we take a day off before our big push into Wash. DC. and then up to NY City.

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Tuesday February 16, 2010 · 10:20 PM PST

2010/02/16 · 22:20

In the town of Chilhowie, Virginia where the police are corrupt they can still get the State Police to spend state money to investigate criticism of the City Manager on YouTube.

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Saturday February 13, 2010 · 6:43 PM PST

2010/02/13 · 18:43

So I rode into the last month of the Ride For Freedom most fittingly by stopping very briefly in the town of Chilhowie, Virginia. A man stopped me and he asked me if I needed a place for the horse? I said yes and wondered if the park near the river would be OK? He said his brother in law was the city manager and he didn't see a problem with it. He'd call and let the city manager know.

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Sunday January 31, 2010 · 7:57 PM PST

2010/01/31 · 19:57

Well, so they arrested a few missionaries from Idaho for trying to get kids out of Haiti. What is interesting about this story is that it is a lot more common than people think, just not all the kids get taken to an airport. In Thailand for years, white missionaries decide that being white and being missionary from the "WEST" makes them so much more fit to OWN Akha children than let them be with their own parents.

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Monday January 25, 2010 · 8:13 AM PST

2010/01/25 · 08:13

The Hell you say! We battled with Rotary International and Rotary Northwest and Rotary Lake Oswego Oregon for two years to admit what they were doing and stop funding the removal of Akha children at the project http://www.childrengoldentriangle.org

After confronting the gov. of Rotary NW they finally pulled the project off the Rotary Intl. website. But they never admitted that taking children was a problem. In fact the Gov. defended the Australian David Stevenson, saying he had been assured that the children were "abandoned". We made very clear that the children were not abandoned and told Rotary exactly how the scam works.

We doubted Rotary had quit.

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Monday January 11, 2010 · 3:50 PM PST

2010/01/11 · 15:50

Through a very cold winter, we ride a few more days to the Virginia State Line and start our run to Washington DC. Some days of riding the temperature doesn't clear 20 degrees. With a good few hundred miles to DC and a couple more weeks to the UN at New York, reflections are already coming to mind on this year long trip across the US by Horseback, Hitchhiking and Bus.

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Tuesday December 29, 2009 · 9:04 PM PST

2009/12/29 · 21:04

For those of you who have been following the Ride for Freedom for the Akha people, we are now in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. We have ridden from Salem, Oregon to Los Angeles, from LA to Phoenix, to Dallas, Texas and now are only 894 miles from New York City where we are headed to the UN.

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