The Altermidya Network expresses alarm over the recent spate of attacks against community journalists in the Bicol region. These incidents undermine the crucial role of journalists in providing information and threaten their fundamental right to free expression. Vince Casilihan, anchor of...
Raid led by police, SWAT & CIDG on the office of Gabriela in Bacolod City. Photo taken by community journalist Anne Krueger before she was arrested with 61 others in simultaneous raids on October 31. Altermidya condemns in strongest terms the arrest of our...
The polio outbreak that authorities are drumming up rabidly are exaggerated and misdirected. The assertion that the polio outbreak in the Philippines is due to the “Dengvaxia scare” resulting in low immunization rates, is not supported by consistent scientific data...
Alternative media outfits demand accountability over the sustained and systematic cyber attacks launched against them for over three months. On March 29, Altermidya, Bulatlat, Kodao Productions and Pinoy Weekly filed a civil case against two companies found to be the...
Itinuturing namin ang nabalitang pagsunog sa daan-daang kopya ng Pinoy Weekly na nakalagak sa subscriber naming komunidad ng mga maralitang nag-okupa ng tiwangwang na pampublikong housing project sa Pandi, Bulacan bilang lantarang atake sa karapatan sa pamamahayag....
Intelligence: This is what the Duterte administration apparently wants to increase next year. Or so reveals the 2020 proposed national budget. Next year, the Office of the President is seeking to almost double the budget for its intelligence and confidential funds,...
The Dengvaxia tragedy inflicted by corporate hijacking of the health care system go unabated and even threatens to expand. The increase in dengue incidence and deaths over the last several months have given Big Pharma and their cohorts another chance to push Dengvaxia...
Altermidya Network condemns the recent attacks on our colleagues based in Ifugao and in Bukidnon. On August 6, Brandon Lee, correspondent for Northern Dispatch, was shot by unidentified gunmen in front of his home in Lagawe, Ifugao He is seriously wounded and...
OVER THREE YEARS AGO, the nation has been promised: change is coming. And change did come, but things took a turn for the worse. As the nation marks President Rodrigo Duterte’s third year in power this June 30, we look back in sheer dismay over the unprecendented...
Altermidya Network, the broad alliance of alternative media and community journalists groups in the Philippines, denounces the patently unreasonable manner in which the University of the Philippines Diliman’s Executive Committee (EC) ordered the suspension of the...
The Filipino people just celebrated Independence Day, and one is reminded of the popular saying “The truth shall set us free!” These words are frequently uttered by oppressed peoples fighting for liberation; as well as by those whose freedom has been curtailed by acts...
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...
THE DUTERTE government is the biggest threat to the people’s right to press freedom, freedom of expression and other human rights. It uses the entire coercive power of the state to attack and quell the independent press and these attacks are instigated and led by the...