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An Agta wedding in the Sierra Madre demonstrates the precarity of tradition
Elders pray for the union of the couple. —PHOTOS BY MARI-AN C. SANTOS
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July 4, 2025July 4, 2025Culture, Environment

An Agta wedding in the Sierra Madre demonstrates the precarity of tradition

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It was not yet 6 a.m. and I was bouncing on the back of a hired motorcycle (locally called habal) navigating the rocky, slippery mountain road that leads to the sitio in General Nakar, Quezon, where I was to attend an Agta wedding. I had taken a bus past midnight in Manila and arrived a...

Kaliwa Dam_Famy
Day 5, Feb. 19: Marchers back on protest road, leaving Famy, Laguna. —STOP KALIWA DAM FB PHOTOS
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February 19, 2023September 12, 2023Diversity, Environment

Once more into the breach: Indigenous folk march against Kaliwa Dam

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Some 240 tribespeople and advocates are trekking to Malacañang to press President Marcos Jr. to stop the construction of Kaliwa Dam in their ancestral land in the Sierra Madre mountains in Quezon province, and the memory of a similar protest march in 2009 against Laiban Dam upstream in Rizal province is still fresh on their...