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Article snippet: PRINCES HIGHWAY, Australia — Clinton Pryor had already walked 4,780 kilometers, or nearly 3,000 miles, by the time I met up with him Thursday morning on a country road between Sydney and Melbourne. Mr. Pryor, an Aboriginal activist from Australia’s west coast, was starting his 310th day on foot to protest the treatment of Indigenous Australians, and he seemed anxious to get going. He took a final drag off a cigarette. “Ready, guys?” he said, looking toward his support crew — grandpas with long white beards, one driving a white station wagon barefoot, the other astride a bike. His girlfriend, Kerry-Lee Coulthard, who met Mr. Pryor when he passed through her hometown in central Australia, eyed the road ahead. And with that, Mr. Pryor’s Walk for Justice continued. “We’re doing this for the grass-roots people,” he said, about two kilometers into the walk. “A lot of people are not being heard.” Mr. Pryor, 27, with a knee brace on one leg, said he started out his trek from Perth to Canberra to raise awareness about two specific issues: homelessness among Indigenous Australians, an issue he has experienced firsthand, and the forced closing of remote Aboriginal communities by the government, which he has been protesting since at least 2014. Over time, though, he said his mission has evolved to reflect what First Peoples have told him they were struggling with. Suicide. Poverty. Racist policing. Corruption. Lack of rights to land, lack of work, and perhaps most of all, Mr... Link to the full article to read more