By DOMINIC GUTOMANBulatlat.com MANILA – At the start of the year, fisherfolk under the banner of Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya (Pamalakaya) call on the government to review clean energy projects that trample the human rights and welfare of coastal...
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Youth activist missing in Mindoro
By DOMINIC GUTOMANBulatlat.com MANILA – Karapatan Southern Tagalog reported a missing youth activist missing after a series of aerial bombing and strafing on January 1 in Occidental Mindoro. Chantal Anicoche immersed with the peasants and Mangyan indigenous...
NDFP Cagayan Valley declares staff missing
By RAYMUND VILLANUEVAwww.nordis.net QUEZON CITY—The National Democratic Front of the Philippines in Cagayan Valley (NDFP-CV) has raised alarm over the disappearance of one of its regional staff, who has been out of contact for over three weeks. In a statement, NDFP-CV...
Groups urge Baguio council to finalize SM market project withdrawal
By SHERWIN DE VERAwww.nordis.net VIGAN CITY—The Save Baguio Market Movement and other groups are urging the city council to officially accept the withdrawal of SM Prime Holdings, Inc. (SMPHI) from the Public Market Redevelopment Project. SMPHI holds the original...
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Global media watchdogs: Frenchie Mae a test case for Philippines’ press freedom
Advocates warn that Frenchie Mae Cumpio’s prolonged detention signals shrinking civic space, rising risks for Filipino community journalists
‘It’s a wrap, mga korap!’: Film workers unite vs gov’t corruption
A newly-formed alliance of film industry workers added to calls in holding corrupt officials accountable. The Film Workers Against Corruption (FWAC) in a press conference at the UPFI Film Center in UP Diliman, Quezon City today, November 22, 2025, asserted calls...
In Search of the Sacadas
It was one of those rare moments of clarity, or one when one's view of the world suddenly comes into complete focus. In my mind, I, of course, knew that this happens all the time, in one shape or another, in places both seen and unseen. I only even saw the...
How ‘conservation’ became a cover for land grabbing from Cebu’s Cantipla farmers
By Salome Lapiten The land knows no master. Yet it recognizes a farmer’s calloused hands, worn with the same cracks that run through the barren land. It knows their blood that seeps through those fissures and breathes the same rugged breath as the farmers, enduring so...
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‘A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE’: Altermidya condemns the guilty verdict on Frenchie Mae Cumpio’s case
The decision is a grave injustice and is a serious peril to the already dire state of press freedom and free expression in the Philippines.
Groups picket at DOJ ahead of promulgation: Acquit Frenchie Mae Cumpio, Drop all charges against Tacloban 5! Â
Tomorrow, January 22, our colleague Frenchie Mae Cumpio will face the promulgation of the two trumped-up charges against her at the Tacloban regional trial court. The Altermidya Network, together with all advocates of press freedom and free expression, demands the...
#FreeFrenchieMaeCumpio: International NGO Coalition Urges Journalist’s Release ahead of expected verdict
January 14, 2025 – A coalition of international and local press freedom organisations is urging President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to immediately and unconditionally release prominent journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, whose promulgation of judgment in the illegal firearms...
Of counter-hegemonic ‘dictators’
I’m glad that even a majority, I think, of liberal commentaries have correctly taken a stand against the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the US military actions against his country. This is so unlike the Iraq War, when the majority of the liberal...
‘A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE’: Altermidya condemns the guilty verdict on Frenchie Mae Cumpio’s case
The decision is a grave injustice and is a serious peril to the already dire state of press freedom and free expression in the Philippines.
Groups picket at DOJ ahead of promulgation: Acquit Frenchie Mae Cumpio, Drop all charges against Tacloban 5! Â
Tomorrow, January 22, our colleague Frenchie Mae Cumpio will face the promulgation of the two trumped-up charges against her at the Tacloban regional trial court. The Altermidya Network, together...
#FreeFrenchieMaeCumpio: International NGO Coalition Urges Journalist’s Release ahead of expected verdict
January 14, 2025 – A coalition of international and local press freedom organisations is urging President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to immediately and unconditionally release prominent journalist...
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