The Altermidya Network condemns the attacks on community journalists covering the farmers’ protest at the Department of Agrarian Reform earlier today, October 19. Quezon City police attempted to nab Bulatlat reporter Aaron Ernest Cruz while the protest was ongoing, even as Cruz identified...
Nina John Aaron F. Corporal at Emmanuel B. Gata Nagbabala ang mga grupong pangkalikasan at mga residente sa posibleng pinsala sa kalikasan, kabuhayan, at mga komunidad sa Olongapo City dahil sa Olongapo Solar Project at sa planong pagpapalawak nito. “Napakayaman nung...
The pending anti-disinformation bills confuse the symptoms with the disease. Instead of addressing the political, economic, and technological systems that manufacture and profit from coordinated information manipulation, they place the burden on individual expression...
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. must think the public is as blind as his subordinates when he said it was difficult to determine who were protesters and who were journalists in the July 22 violent dispersal in Pasay City. The police...
By Devian Claire B. Bersales QUEZON CITY — Governance issues, prolonged displacement, political interference, and continuing human rights concerns remain among the biggest challenges confronting the Bangsamoro peace process, experts said in a State of Mindanao Forum...
It is not an isolated incident but part of the continuing pattern of legal harassment that seeks to silence independent journalism through the misuse of the legal system
Nina Ronald Sayson at Ayesha Tale “Nakikita natin ito bilang sovereignty issue, environmental issue, na dapat po kagyat na i-address sa isang imbestigasyon.” Ito ang panawagan ni Atty. Renee Co, Kabataan Partylist representative, at ng mga grupong makakalikasan...
Nina Moi Balisacan and Jahzeel Sarino Umaalma ang mga tsuper ng jeepney sa Katipunan Jeepney Terminal sa nakaambang pagpapaalis sa kanilang terminal. Bibigyang-daan ang itatayong parke sa ilalim ng Urban Regreening and Renewal Program ng Metropolitan Manila...
By Devian Bersales and Jahzeel Sarino QUEZON CITY—Families of the victims and human rights advocates called for a more thorough investigation into the deaths of 19 individuals in Toboso, Negros Occidental, launching the Justice for Negros 19 Campaign Network at the UP...
Altermidya raises concern over the proposed “Anti-Fake News and Digital Disinformation Act” or House Bill (HB) 2697, sponsored by presidential son Rep. Alexander “Sandro” Marcos, and backed by House Speaker Faustino “Bojie” Dy III. We believe that it is a...
By Abegail Lupaas Dupax del Norte, Nueva Vizcaya — After weeks of sustained barricade and community resistance, Woggle Corporation has agreed to pull out its remaining drilling equipment from Sitio Keon in Barangay Bitnong. The agreement was reached during a dialogue...
Altermidya commemorates World Press Freedom Day amid grief and outrage. We condemn the killing and demand justice for our colleague, community journalist RJ Ledesma, and the rest of Negros 19. We also call for the freedom of community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio,...
Altermidya Network mourns the killing of our colleague RJ Nichole Ledesma, writer and editor of Paghimutad‑Negros and regional coordinator of Altermidya in Negros Island.RJ was killed in a supposed military encounter in Barangay Salamanca, Toboso, Negros Occidental on...