Macli-ing On-line Library Launched

I met Macliing Dulag way back in 1979 when he was campaigning against the implementation of the Chico River Hydroelectric Project during the bodong, a peacepact system, in Bugnay, Kalinga-Apayao. He was a charismatic leader, barely 5 feet tall. He wore colorful headdress and g-strings when dancing. And he could command the attention of the whole tribe when he spoke about the need to be courageous in the face of impending obliteration of their place to give way to the Project. Luckily the Project was scuttled as the indigenous groups, aided by non-government organizations raised their protests to the highest levels, the World Bank which was funding the Project. The latter was intended to bring electricity to Cagayan and the Ilocos Regions, home provinces of the most powerful persons in the country at the time during martial law. By the way, I had gone there to shoot on video the proceedings and was able to produce two products: an audio-visual presentation, Besieged Generations which became the subject of my MA Thesis on Communication in Ateneo, and the Super 8mm film Vochong.

Wilhelmina S. Orozco

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The Pamayanang SanibLakas ng Pilipinas, through the Lambat-Liwanag Network for Empowering Paradigms, just uploaded in the internet its on-line library of articles on 15 empowering paradigm shifts.

The soft-launching date today is timed with the 29th death anniversary of Apo Macli-ing Dulag, the Kalinga village chieftain and inter-tribe peace pact holder, who led the Cordillera people in defiantly opposing the Marcos dictatorship's mega-dam project upon the indigenous wisdom of the tribes, which inspires present-day scholars to think out of the very restrictive and divisive boxes brought upon us by western schools of thought.

For this reason, Apo Macli-ing aptly represents the assertion of indigenous knowlege systems that have resulted in much more civilized human societies than the "modern" social systems that have been forcibly developed based on greed.

The Macli-ing Dulag Memorial On-Line Library may be accessed via this website:


Posted by Prof. Ed Aurelio C. Reyes
Lambat-Liwanag Network Executive Convenor
and Acting Spokespersonhttp://lambat-liwanag.8m.net