BAGUIO CITY — “This struggle is long but we will fight until we win,” Leonora Membrot vows.
In the mountains of Kalinga, where the rivers sing the stories of ancestors and the soil holds the bones of warriors, an old enemy rises once more—this time bearing a name that means “to know or to be known.”
But the Makilala Mining Company, Inc. (MCCI) is bound to find not just copper, gold, and other minerals buried beneath the land but also the Kalinga people—grounded, resolute, and unwilling to be moved by promises built on sand.
As dawn breaks, the Kalinga people stand ready—rooted in rich soil and in an unbroken tradition of defending their home.
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