Mael Macat

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Still a Long Walk to Justice
by Lloyd Ericson C. Rodriguez
Mabalacat City, Pampanga

It was on the morning of July 22, 2023, when I captured this photo of an Aeta elder walking with his grandsons and their pet carabao across the rugged terrain beneath a hanging bridge that connects two hills in Sitio Haduan, Mabalacat City, Pampanga.

It was a beautiful and serene moment. Yet, I could not help but wonder: would scenes like this still exist if the area were eventually developed into a “smart” or commercial site?

An online article by Michael Beltran, published by Al Jazeera on December 20, 2025, which discusses a “smart city” being built on ancestral lands, opens an important conversation. It raises concerns about how Aeta communities near and within Clark—such as those in Sitio Haduan—could be at risk of displacement due to development projects like New Clark City.

While I am aware that rules and guidelines protecting Indigenous land rights are already in place, we must acknowledge that these are sometimes undermined by misleading promises of compensation and shared benefits. Who could forget the viral standoff in April 2025 between Aeta community leaders and authorities, during which the former blocked access to the popular Mount Pinatubo trails in protest over what they considered an unjust share of tourism revenues? The situation escalated further when some leaders were arrested and detained.

For accessible and inclusive justice to truly empower Indigenous communities, recognition and equity must prevail over exclusion and marginalization. It is through empowering Indigenous Peoples that we continue to enrich our culture, preserve traditions, and strengthen our national identity.

During my most recent visit to Sitio Haduan in August 2025, I observed foreign tourists traversing the textured landscape on rented ATVs.

I hope such activities are properly regulated so that we may continue to see our Aeta brothers and sisters walk across these lands—barefoot, alongside their carabaos and goats—safe, secure, and dignified.

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This is real footage from 127 years ago.

A family was performing their acrobatic act in Paris, in 1899, and someone was there to film it...

What you are watching was captured by the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, the two Frenchmen who pioneered cinema. Only a few years earlier, in December 1895, they had held the first public screening of projected film in history, using their invention, the Cinématographe.

Now they were pointing their camera at the world around them, recording ordinary life as almost no one ever had before: workers leaving a factory, a train pulling into a station, and this, a family of acrobats throwing their bodies through the air.

The performers were the Kremos, a celebrated troupe who had created their signature act just a few years before this film was made. They were what circus people call icarists, specialists in a breathtaking discipline where one performer lies on their back and launches another into the air with their feet, catching and re-launching them like a juggler using human beings instead of clubs.

The family kept the act alive for generations. Their descendants were still performing, on stages around the world, more than a century after this film was made...

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By the time you get to move #40, the total number of possible games explodes to roughly 10⁴⁰, a number comparable to the total number of atoms in the observable universe.

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@Rainmaker1973 I only trace 8 great grandparents

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In order to be born, you needed:

2 parents
4 grandparents
8 great-grandparents
16 second great-grandparents
32 third great-grandparents
64 fourth great-grandparents
128 fifth great-grandparents
256 sixth great-grandparents
512 seventh great-grandparents
1,024 eighth great grandparents
2,048 ninth great-grandparents

For you to be born today from 12 previous generations, you needed a total of 4,094 ancestors over the last 400 years.

Think for a moment:
How many struggles?
How many battles?
How many difficulties?
How much sadness?
How much happiness?
How many love stories?
How many expressions of hope for the future? – did your ancestors have to undergo for you to exist in this present moment...

[theoretical calculation not considering the Pedigree Collapse]

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