“She’s gravely ill now from a hunger strike, and she’s told the generals that she’ll gladly leave. But she said, ‘I want all political prisoners released, and I want to walk to the airport.’ It’s twenty miles from her house to the airport. And she has so rallied the spirit of her people that the [...]
EDMONTON – Many of us complain about the daily grind, but Masahito Yoshida did something about it. “When I was in Japan, the same every day. I wake up, I work, I ate. The next day, the same. I wake up, I work, I ate. I was hoping to change my life, so I walk,” [...]
Ethiopian artist Mihret Kebede would have liked to walk the 5850 miles from her home in Addis Ababa to our town of Huntly, Aberdeenshire. However the physical difficulties of navigating through the deserts, let alone the closed borders and visa restrictions make such a feat almost impossible. So Mihret needs our help. As part of [...]
The State Barrier Fence of Western Australia,formerly known as the No. 1 Rabbit-proof Fence, is a pest-exclusion fence constructed between 1901 and 1907 to keep rabbits and other agricultural pests, from the east, out of Western Austalian pastoral areas. Rabbit-Proof Fence is a 2002 Australian drama film directed by Phillip Noyce based on the book [...]
The freedom to roam, or everyman’s right is the general public’s right to access certain public or privately owned land for recreation and exercise. The right is sometimes called the right of public access to the wilderness or the right to roam.
