Mahigit isang buwan na nang muling simulan ang demolisyon ng mga tahungan sa Navotas sa isang bahagi ng Manila Bay. Katwiran ng lokal ng pamahalaan na naglabas ng utos ng demolisyon noong Pebrero, ‘iligal’ at ‘marumi’ ang mga tahungan. Paliwanag ng Navotas LGU, sinusunod lamang nito ang...
MEDIA GROUPS under Altermidya Network filed a case against members of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) over red-tagging. The complaint is the sixth petition filed before the Ombudsman against the anti-communist task force....
On November 1, 2020, super typhoon Rolly (international name 'Goni') pummeled through southern Luzon leaving communities in Bicol and Southern Tagalog are left devastated. A few weeks later, on November 12, 2020, Ulysses (international name 'Vamco') flooded Metro...
THE NATIONAL BUDGET reflects an administration’s priorities. Pres. Rodrigo Duterte stated in his 2021 budget message: “The national budget of P4.506 trillion that we are proposing for fiscal year 2021 is focused on our greatest priority of the moment – to sustain and...
Media groups under Altermidya Network filed a consolidated complaint before the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) for cases of press freedom violations against the alternative media perpetrated by state forces. The violations range from red-tagging, threat, harassment,...
Pero gaya ng ginawang paghamon ng mamamayan sa mga restriksyon ng pandemya, tiyak na paglaban din ang magiging tugon ng taumbayan sa pinipilit na lockdown ng estado sa ating mga karapatan at kalayaan.
By Romae Chanice Marquez ON JUNE 13 around 8 p.m., four unidentified armed men barged into the home of community worker Elena Tijamo in Brgy. Kampingganon, Bantayan, Cebu. The abductors, masked and clad in black, reportedly put a tape on Elena’s mouth and tied her...
It was April 26 when more than a hundred repatriated Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) awoke to the news that a fellow balikbayan had hung herself in a stairwell in Room 43. They had been housed under the same lodgings for almost a month—twice the mandatory 14-day...
As the easing of movement restrictions begins in some parts of the country, many Filipinos remain unsure about the real extent of the spread of COVID-19, and anxious about the government’s capacity to control it. Has the government used the past two months of a...
Artists, groups join journalists in 'Black Friday Protests' vs. ABS-CBN Shutdown Like the previous Black Friday protests for press freedom that started last year, journalists, artists, and different groups came together to denounce the National Telecommunications...
Veteran journalist Inday Espina-Varona interviews Dr. Gene Nisperos of UP Manila and UP-PGH in the latest episode of ALAB Analysis. The country's COVID-19 cases skyrocketed in a matter of weeks, with the Philippines now among those with the highest number of cases in...
Over a hundred civil society groups from 30 countries came together to urge governments to ensure the rights and welfare of rural communities. The call was made after numerous countries implemented restrictive lockdown measures in a rush to contain COVID-19. In a...
With the Tacloban City Prosecutor’s Office filing charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives against a community journalist and four activists nabbed in simultaneous raids in Tacloban City in the wee hours of February 7, various groups slammed the move...