ONE OF THE few concrete policy promises Ferdinand Marcos Junior made during his campaign for the Presidency of these isles of forgetfulness was to make rice available at Php20.00 per kilo. The average price of a kilo of the staple was more than twice Php20.00 at Php41.68 in 2020, and is rising...
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...
Marking the anniversary of the first ever internet connection in the Philippines, alternative media outifts are fighting back as they filed a civil complaint for damages against two companies found by experts to be the source of the relentless cyber-attacks against...
Last December 11, posters vilifying 41 individuals—mostly local civic leaders as well as activists in legal mass organizations, but also including lawyers and community journalists—appeared in Iloilo City. They were branded as “henchmen” of the Communist Party of the...
RAW VIDEO: Panoorin kung paano dinakip ng pulis sina Einstein Recedes, Jon Bonifacio, at Hiyasmin Saturay sa #NutriAsiaWorkersStrike. Kuha ni Eric Tandoc ilang minuto bago siya damputin ng pulis.
NINE YEARS. Three administrations. Yet justice has remained elusive for all the victims of the bloody Ampatuan massacre where 58 people, 32 of whom were journalists, were killed in Ampatuan, Maguindanao province in what is considered as the worst election-related...
Nakalaya na ang limang mamamahayag na kasama sa #Nutriasia19. Panoorin ang panayam kina Hiyas, Eric, at Avon.
The AlterMidya Network, a national network of independent media outfits in the Philippines, calls on the Philippine National Police and NutriAsia to drop all charges against the five journalists who were arrested while covering the dispersal of a strike by NutriAsia...
Updated 9:31 p.m. The AlterMidya Network (People’s Alternative Media Network) condemns the violent dispersal of the picketline of striking contractual workers of the giant condiments factory NutriAsia in Marilao, Bulacan, which led to the injury and arrest...
MUCH of public and corporate media attention has been focused on the cancellation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the registration of online news site Rappler. But hardly any has been paid to several other cases indicative of the ongoing Duterte...
THE dominant press and media are often constrained by the political and economic interests of their owners and even some practitioners. On the alternative tradition therefore falls much of the responsibility to defend press freedom and to provide the citizenry the...
HOW does the appointment of blogger and die-hard Duterte partisan Margaux "Mocha" Uson as an assistant secretary in the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) mesh with President Rodrigo Duterte's declaration last March 10, during the launch of...
The AlterMidya Network expresses deep concern over the unjust conviction of Malaysian human rights defender Lena Hendry, who faces possible imprisonment for screening a documentary about alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka. The incident is a setback to the exercise of...