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 dangerous measure that potentially...
'Fight back!' This was the rallying call of over 20 alternative media outfits under the banner of Altermidya People’s Media Network, as they gathered for the network’s Third National Congress in Quezon City during the last week of September. During the Third National...
"Sa mga commuter po na naabala sa aming strike, hindi lang po para sa amin ito kundi para rin sa inyo." Para sa malalaking negosyante, hindi para sa drayber at commuter ang PUV modernization program ng gobyerno, ayon sa PISTON.
Alternative media outfits demand accountability over the sustained and systematic cyber attacks launched against them for over three months. On March 29, Altermidya, Bulatlat, Kodao Productions and Pinoy Weekly filed a civil case against two companies found to be the...
Altermidya Network condemns the recent attacks on our colleagues based in Ifugao and in Bukidnon. On August 6, Brandon Lee, correspondent for Northern Dispatch, was shot by unidentified gunmen in front of his home in Lagawe, Ifugao He is seriously wounded and...
OVER THREE YEARS AGO, the nation has been promised: change is coming. And change did come, but things took a turn for the worse. As the nation marks President Rodrigo Duterte’s third year in power this June 30, we look back in sheer dismay over the unprecendented...
Altermidya Network, the broad alliance of alternative media and community journalists groups in the Philippines, denounces the patently unreasonable manner in which the University of the Philippines Diliman’s Executive Committee (EC) ordered the suspension of the...
Ano ang mali sa tipo ng pamamahayag ng mga Tulfo? Panoorin ang YAN ANG TOTOO kasama si Prof. Luis Teodoro.
We in the alternative media denounce the unlawful arrest of Margarita Valle, veteran Mindanao-based journalist and a columnist of Davao Today. Valle was arrested at the Laguindingan airport on June 9 by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) reportedly...
Sa niraratsadang amendments sa Anti-Terrorism Act, kahit sino ang pwedeng arestuhin, sundan, at tiktikan kung mapaghinalaan kang terorista. Alamin natin kung bakit mapanganib ito para sa ordinaryong mamamayan kasama si Inday Espina-Varona sa episode na ito ng Alab...
“Based on a narrow pretext, but has a much wider purpose". This was how the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) described President Rodrigo Duterte's declaration of military rule in Mindanao following armed encounters between the Philippine Army and Maute Group....
THE DUTERTE government is the biggest threat to the people’s right to press freedom, freedom of expression and other human rights. It uses the entire coercive power of the state to attack and quell the independent press and these attacks are instigated and led by the...
THE CONVICTION of two radio broadcasters in Kidapawan City for simply expressing their opinion in social media –supposedly meant to provide an avenue for personal opinions and narratives – is the latest attack on free expression not only of media practitioners but of...