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,...
By DANILO ARAÑA ARAO Remember May 5, 2020. On that day, ABS-CBN was forced to cease its operations in what media organizations label as the biggest attack on press freedom under the Duterte administration. As if this was not enough, it was also on this day Cornelio...
JOINT STATEMENT (with updated signatures as of 9pm, May 16) Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade, Jr. of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF ELCAC) issued a statement Monday night claiming that “the ABS-CBN issue is about CPP [Communist Party of the...
STATEMENT WHILE THE DUTERTE REGIME is failing to flatten the curve of the coronavirus' spread, it is accelerating the curve of another mounting pandemic afflicting the nation – the pandemic of impunity. State forces are relentlessly pursuing attacks against the...
STATEMENT The National Telecommunications Commission’s order to shutdown broadcast network ABS-CBN is unconstitutional and an assault to the people’s right to information. The order is contrary to the recommendation of Congress to issue a provisional license for the...
STATEMENT A turn for the worse – this best describes how the fundamental freedoms of speech, expression, and of the press have been abridged in the past months, with the attacks against press freedom escalating amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, May 3, as the world...
STATEMENT The Altermidya Network, together with independent journalists nationwide, demands the immediate release of seven Altermidya correspondents in Panay arrested on May 1. Our colleagues from Dampig Katarungan, Panay Today, and Panaysayon— all member outfits of...
STATEMENT Bulacan police apprehended six volunteers of Tulong Anakpawis-Sagip Kanayunan, along with former Anakpawis Rep. Ariel Casilao, who were on the way to a relief drive in Norzagaray, Bulacan. The manner that the police presented the circumstances of the arrest...
The novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) that is threatening modern civilization today is a disaster that was bound to happen mainly because of human folly. This is an inevitable consequence of the dominance of a neoliberal, national security state doctrine with a...
JOINT STATEMENT We, media organizations, advocates of freedom of the press and of expression, journalists and academics, raise the alarm over the insertion of measures to control free expression in the "Bayanihan to Heal As One" Act. We refer to Section 6(6), which...
While we recognize the gravity of the situation, we assert that this imposition is unnecessary, unreasonable and unconstitutional.
Ang sumusunod ay siyentipikong opinyon ni Romeo F. Quijano, M.D., isang retiradong propesor ng Department Of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila Ito ay bilang reaksyon sa pahayag ng World Health Organization na iwasan...
STATEMENT At a time when the whole of Philippine society must come together to address the worst public health crisis in decades, the Duterte administration is instead engaged in abridging the people’s right to know. With the national government’s implementation of...