While watching the orchestrated shooting at the Senate back in June, I only thought of one thing: the freedom of the press is compromised. Those in power are ever-desperate to control and feed the mass media with a coverage unworthy of people's attention in an attempt to cover- up their...
Tomorrow, August 30, is National Press Freedom Day. It is the first year we are commemorating this day without our colleague, community journalist RJ Nichole Ledesma of Paghimutad-Negros. RJ would have also turned 31 on August 30. We are outraged that justice remains...
The lawyers of Frenchie Mae and Marielle Domequil will appeal the conviction today at the Court of Appeals. The two were convicted wrongfully fo terrorism financing early this year. We maintain that the ruling of the Tacloban Regional Trial Court, issued by Judge...
The pending anti-disinformation bills confuse the symptoms with the disease. Instead of addressing the political, economic, and technological systems that manufacture and profit from coordinated information manipulation, they place the burden on individual expression...
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. must think the public is as blind as his subordinates when he said it was difficult to determine who were protesters and who were journalists in the July 22 violent dispersal in Pasay City. The police...
One of the rare occasions when I, as a kid, engaged in team sports was during our high school intramurals, when I was recruited, out of desperation, to play for one of the school’s football teams simply to fill out the roster. Few wanted to play football, while...
It is not an isolated incident but part of the continuing pattern of legal harassment that seeks to silence independent journalism through the misuse of the legal system
Jaazeal Jakosalem The Filipino phrase “utak pulbura”—literally translated as “gunpowder brain”—aptly describes a rigid, militaristic mindset that views violence and force as the ultimate solutions to societal friction. Today, this mindset is no longer confined to...
They were two of my peers at the University, only a few years removed from our days haunting the halls of Vinzons, went missing while organizing landless farmers in Hagonoy, Bulacan, exactly twenty years ago today. Many clues, a few witnesses, and countless visits to...
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...
Altermidya commemorates World Press Freedom Day amid grief and outrage. We condemn the killing and demand justice for our colleague, community journalist RJ Ledesma, and the rest of Negros 19. We also call for the freedom of community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio,...
Altermidya Network mourns the killing of our colleague RJ Nichole Ledesma, writer and editor of Paghimutad‑Negros and regional coordinator of Altermidya in Negros Island.RJ was killed in a supposed military encounter in Barangay Salamanca, Toboso, Negros Occidental on...
The news from Toboso is not just another headline. Nineteen lives were lost in a single armed encounter, human beings, not statistics. On one side were those identified as members of the New People’s Army. On the other, soldiers of the state. Both Filipino. Both sons...