Macli-ing’s famous words, on land ownership: “You ask if we own the land and mock us saying, “Where is your title?’ When we ask the meaning of your words, you answer with taunting arrogance, ‘Where are the documents to prove that you own the land?’ Titles? Documents? Proof of ownership? Such arrogance to say that you own the land, when you are owned by it! How can you own that which outlives you? Only the race owns the land because the race lives forever. To claim a place is the birthright of everyone. Even the lowly animals have their own place. How much more when we talk of human beings?”
IT’S that time of the year again when the temperature dips to chill the bones and the festive fever rises to its peak. Panagbenga indeed can be called the festival of festivals when colors of fire and hues of pastels swirl in street dances and barren grounds in the city…
■ Hanna C. Lacsamana Baguio Councilor Jose Molintas is prepared to file a petition before the Supreme Court to declare Republic Act 11689 or the Revised Charter of the City of Baguio unconstitutional. The councilor insisted the city’s revised charter authored by Rep. Mark Go is unconstitutional due to lack of plebiscite, which he said
THE Ibagiw Festival, an activity of Baguio in line with its status as a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Creative City, has opened with a bang. One of the loudest events held as part of the festival is an exhibit of Eduardo Masferre photographs, titled Cordillera Analogues. Analogues, because they are not digital photographs, but produced in the gelatin-negative way of yesteryear. They are black-and-white photographs taken between 1934 and 1956 in the Cordillera the mountains of Northern Luzon, the home of several ethnic tribes. The exhibit which opened at the Baguio Convention Center s Gallery 2600 last Saturday, November 18 features 28 iconic photographs that show the independent, proud and rich life of the Cordillera and its culture when these were taken.