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 Georgina Uy-Perez,...
Marking the anniversary of the first ever internet connection in the Philippines, alternative media outifts are fighting back as they filed a civil complaint for damages against two companies found by experts to be the source of the relentless cyber-attacks against...
POOLED EDITORIAL: March 12 is World Day against Cyber Censorship, when advocates around the globe call for an Internet that is not only accessible to all, but also free from restrictions on free speech. It is specially relevant to us today, when our nation is...
The real underlying cause of deaths in the measles epidemic is the dysfunctional health care system brought about by chronic socio-economic underdevelopment, not the loss of vaccine confidence due to the “Dengvaxia scare.” Failure to understand the true nature and...
UNITY STATEMENT OF ALTERMIDYA NETWORK, NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALISTS IN THE PHILIPPINES, LET’S ORGANIZE FOR DEMOCRACY & INTEGRITY (LODI), COLLEGE EDITORS GUILD OF THE PHILIPPINES The arrest of Rappler CEO Maria Ressa on spurious cyber libel charges under...
The AlterMidya Network, a national network of over 30 independent and alternative news organizations in the Philippines, strongly condemns the continuing series of cyberattacks against two of its members, online news outfits Bulatlat.com and Kodao Productions. On...
Graphics by Kaye Pancho WE DENOUNCE the recent cyberattacks on the news sites of Altermidya members Bulatlat, Kodao, and Pinoy Weekly. Their websites were evident targets of distributed denial of service or DDOS attacks, which made the websites inaccessible since...
AMID great fanfare in 2017, President Rodrigo Duterte signed an administrative order – his first – creating the Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS). Mandated to look into and reduce the number if not completely stop the killing of journalists, the task...
NABAGO at nakontrol na ng pamunuan ni Rodrigo R. Duterte ang diskurso publiko sa mga usaping bayan sa paraang magaspang at lampas sa matwid. Ang malungkot na resulta nito: Nasasakal at nasa panganib ang kalagayan ng press freedom at people’s right to know. Sa unang 22...
MUCH of public and corporate media attention has been focused on the cancellation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the registration of online news site Rappler. But hardly any has been paid to several other cases indicative of the ongoing Duterte...
The deeper malady beneath the Dengvaxia fiasco is being buried under the lies, theatrics and hypocrisy of various elements in the ruling and privileged classes of the present unjust and oppressive social system. The proximate cause of this Dengvaxia fiasco is...
ALTERMIDYA, a nationwide network of alternative media outfits, finds the decision to revoke the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) registration of online news site Rappler deeply troubling. The SEC decision is a serious danger to press freedom and freedom of...
The Dengvaxia fiasco is just a symptom of a deeper malady of the US-modeled health care system which is driven by market forces rather than by people’s actual health needs. This illustrates starkly the danger of putting health in the hands of profit makers rather than...