On February 7, Frenchie Mae Cumpio, a community journalist from Leyte, marks her sixth year in detention—an incarceration that rights and media groups strongly believe stems from her work as a journalist. As a radio broadcaster, Frenchie reported on the lives of farmers, urban poor communities,...
A podcast series from the point-of-view of Filipino workers.
Radyo Natin-Guimba aims to serve as a channel for truthful and developmental broadcasting that would serve to inform, unite and move community people, individually or collectively towards community development. With a 500-watt transmitter, RNG is audible within 20...
Unang State of the Nation Address ni Pres. Benigno Aquino III: Hindi tayo gagastos ng "kahit na piso" sa PPPs. Totoo ba ito?
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Last week, a veteran union leader of government employees, Tonette Setias-Dizon, was forced to seek protection at the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, fearing for her life after being tailed by suspicious men. Setias-Dizon’s case, detailed in a report by Pinoy...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines' declaration of a victory in the killing of New People’s Army commander Leoncio “Kumander Parago” Pitao and his medical aide Vanessa Limpag last June 28, is marred by the probability of an international humanitarian law violation....
Altermidya expresses grave concern over the House of Representatives’ (HOR) blacklisting of at least 50 individuals including sectoral leaders and activists, a journalism professor, campus journalists, and media liaison officers of national student organizations,...
[Statement on GMA7’s massive retrenchment] Altermidya, the national network of alternative media organizations and practitioners, stands in solidarity with our colleagues in the GMA-7 regional stations who have recently been laid off. The mass retrenchment of...
The obsolete, repressive law on libel is one of the instruments of oppressors to attack the freedom of speech and expression and press freedom. Since 1986, more than 180 journalists have been killed and more still suffer from oppressive libel charges. Just recently in...
Five years after the massacre of 58 men and women including 32 journalists in Ampatuan town in Maguindanao, justice remains elusive and impunity still reigns. The promise of President Benigno Aquino III to help speedily resolve the case that has put the Philippines in...
The people’s media serve the people, particularly the toiling masses of workers and peasants, the women, the youth, the intelligentsia, the national minorities, the low-income people, and others who are oppressed and exploited and who have little or no access to the dominant or so-called mainstream media.