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...
THE MARCH 21 decision of the University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) University Council (UC) to cut the number of General Education (GE) units from 45 to 21 – or from 15 three-unit subjects to seven – means that undergraduate students will be...
THE RUSH to pass a death penalty law despite the objections of the Catholic Church, Amnesty International, and even some senators shouldn't surprise anyone. The campaign to restore capital punishment began practically on Day One of the Duterte regime, when the then...
It is safe to say that majority of peace-loving Filipinos do not want “all-out war.” This kind of war has been launched repeatedly by administrations past—only to end in eventual failure, massive human rights violations, and zero efforts to address the roots of the...
PHILIPPINE SOCIETY has been mired in crisis for centuries due to the rapaciousness and incompetence of a ruling elite nurtured by colonial rule and sustained by imperialist intervention. The signs and expressions of that crisis – poverty, injustice, political...
THE COMMUNIST PARTY of the Philippines (CPP) warned the Duterte administration that it may be forced to soon withdraw its declared unilateral ceasefire amid the continuing armed operations of the military and unfulfilled commitment of the President to release all...
WE IN THE alternative media denounce the attempt to silence respected journalist Inday Espina Varona, whose account was disabled by social media site Facebook. Varona’s verified FB account was blocked today after she was apparently reported as “not following Community...
THAT JUSTICE remains elusive seven years since the Ampatuan massacre proves how the culture of impunity persists today. We are alarmed that recent events including the Marcos burial and continuing extrajudicial killings not only of alleged drug personalities but also...
The furtive burial of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani is a heinous addition to the long list of crimes of the Marcoses against the Filipino people. The Supreme Court decision dismissing the petition against the Marcos burial has yet to...
ALTERMIDYA, a national network of alternative media groups, strongly condemns the attack on journalists covering the protest at the US embassy Wednesday morning. Close to a thousand protesters, mostly indigenous people, were about to conclude their demonstration when...
AS JOURNALISTS COMMITTED to providing our countrymen the information they need in these exciting but perilous times, do alternative media practitioners still have to abide by the ethical and professional standards to which the dominant media supposedly subscribe?...
CORPORATE MEDIA reporting of conflict has always been erratic, haphazard if not egregiously partisan, and as a consequence detrimental to the search for solutions including the making of peace agreements. The conflict in Mindanao had not received...
ANY INITIATIVE TO assure access to government-held information is a step towards greater transparency. For so long, the lack of a strong mechanism to ensure transparency in government records and transactions has allowed corruption and the culture of impunity to...