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Cordillera Tribes Heighten Struggle Against Large-Scale Mines in Chico River Watersheds
By ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Indigenous Peoples Watch Posted by Bulatlat BONTOC, Mountain Province – Like the anti-Chico Dam struggle in the 1980s, tribal elders in this province, 394 kms. north of Manila, and nearby Kalinga are renewing their cooperation, including their peace pact (bodong or pechen), in their new struggle to defend their…