Ni JENNY PAPASIN Minsan akong nagawi sa Asyenda Luisita, Tarlac para makipag-aralan at makipamuhay sa mga magbubukid. Sa batayan ng lawak ng dagat sa kinalakihan kong isla, magkakahitsura sa akin doon ang "walang hanggan" sa lupa. Sa loob kasi ng asyenda, lagpas sa kayang abutin ng tanaw ang...
A short documentary featuring two 12-year old Lumad kids who survived a massacre in their school in Lianga, Surigao del Sur by paramilitary troops involved in military operations. Shot and edited by Ilang-Ilang Quijano
IN THE FACE of serious impacts of climate change, leaders of over 130 nations have come together in Paris, France for the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) Climate Talks. But according to civil society organizations, much of what is happening inside the COP,...
Tudla Productions, an AlterMidya-member film collective, presents the 4th Truth Cinema. The 4th Truth Cinema delivers the latest human rights films and videos to urban poor communities around Metro Manila. This year, two documentaries--Tudla Productions'...
While Pres. Benigno Aquino III is "rubbing elbows with other hypocritical world leaders" at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP 21) Climate Talks in Paris, France – an "environment-friendly" government project has come under fire for supposedly being used as an excuse...
AlterMidya, a national network of alternative media outfits and individuals, supports veteran journalist and press freedom advocate Inday Espina-Varona as she seeks redress for malicious and dangerous red-baiting engaged in by a top military official, the Philippine...
IT is Pres. Benigno Aquino III’s last year in office but justice remains elusive for the victims of Ampatuan massacre. No perpetrator has been convicted, the victims still cry for justice. Aquino’s vow six years ago to immediately resolve the gruesome massacre...
Protests over the recently concluded high-level meetings of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) were not confined within Metro Manila: they were spread out throughout the entire country as early as May, when APEC economic ministers met in Boracay. If Pres....
Teddy Casiño, former chair of the House Committee on Small Entrepreneurship, talks about how APEC and globalization policies have caused the death of small and medium enterprises in the Philippines.
IBON executive director Sonny Africa talks about what could have been--if the Philippines protected its industries like other Asian countries, would we have developed our own?
Here are the CEOs who caused much traffic in Manila during #APEC2015--and also much suffering for the working class of the world.
Malcolm Guy of the International League of Peoples Struggles talks about the possibility of a world without APEC and imperialist globalization.
The full text of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement was finally disclosed after years of being negotiated in utmost secrecy. The public, including the US Congress itself, were kept in the dark on the details of the US-led trade pact until it...