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 cemeteries, military camps,...
ONCE AGAIN, state forces led the hostile red-baiting of independent media at the December 1 Senate hearing, as they presented the Altermidya Network and its members nationwide as so-called communist fronts. The red-tagging of Altermidya journalists, online and...
Altermidya Network denounces the relentless and escalating attacks against alternative news outfit Northern Dispatch (Nordis). In the latest development in what can be considered as a series of overlapping legal maneuvers, a cyberlibel charge has been filed against...
We, independent media outfits and journalists under the Altermidya Network, express our support to the People’s Initiative to Grant ABS-CBN a People’s Franchise or Pirma Kapamilya, a movement that seek to gather 7 million signatures for ABS-CBN.
STATEMENT ALTERMIDYA NETWORK condemns the brazen assault on press freedom against local community radio Radyo Natin Guimba (RNG) in Nueva Ecija, which faces charges of cyberlibel and alleged violations of the Bayanihan Act. The mayor’s charges against RNG, filed in...
PRESIDENT RODRIGO DUTERTE’S repeated threats against ABS-CBN are wrong for its pettiness and narrow, self-serving, and vindictive partisanship. But it is equally wrong for its pro-people and anti-oligarchy pretensions. Mr. Duterte did not only shut down the country’s...
STATEMENT Congress has done it again: betray the Filipino people. This time, by striking another blow to press freedom and the people’s right to know. To say that the members of the media sector are perturbed and disappointed is an understatement: we are beyond aghast...
COMMUNICATION academics, media advocacy groups, human rights defenders, journalists’ organizations, artists and other professionals, and even some congressmen and senators have condemned the shutdown of ABS-CBN. But national artist for literature F. Sionil Jose is...
STATEMENT Just when we thought things could not get worse, President Rodrigo Duterte signed today the “Anti-Terrorism Law of 2020,” a law that many legal pundits, human rights advocates, and no less than the United Nations Human Rights Council – gravely warned about....
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” -Albert Einstein There seems to be a strong presumption that the ultimate answer to the COVID-19 pandemic is a vaccine. People are made to believe that a magical vaccine is in the...
Altermidya Network today condemns the ruling of Tacloban City regional trial court branch denying the request of the Tacloban 5, including community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, to quash the defective search warrant against them. Judge Georgina Perez of Tacloban...
We in the alternative media community stand in solidarity with journalist Maria Ressa and news outfit Rappler as the Manila Regional Trial Court hands down on June 15 its decision on the cyberlibel case filed against them over a 2012 story involving businessman...
STATEMENT Information is of utmost importance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reporting the people’s grievances and demands is the solemn duty of the media; it is not a crime. The Guimba municipal council's Sangguniang Bayan Resolution No. 52 s.2020 last May 11...