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...
With several weeks left before the official filing of candidacy, voters have yet to hear substantial talk on the platform of governance raised (or not raised) by those who have already declared their intention to run for higher office in 2016, especially for the...
SOME radio and TV stations as well as broadsheets have been commemorating the declaration of martial rule in 1972 by airing and presenting special reports every September. These media organizations, among them the Philippine Daily Inquirer, started early this year....
We in the AlterMidya (People's Alternative Media Network) deplore and condemn the red-tagging and sexual harassment on Bulatlat.com reporter Janess Ann Ellao by the lawyer of Staff Sgt. Edgardo Osorio, one of the accused in the enforced disappearance of UP students...
The Lumads of Mindanao consist of the few remaining tribes in the country who have preserved their indigenous culture through the only means it can be done—by living on their ancestral lands. If the current trend of killing and driving them away from the mountains...
The fact that the public remains vigilant over whether the Aquino administration struck a deal or not with the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) underscores the reality that the administration, through the Department of Justice (DOJ), indeed holds special powers over which of...
We in AlterMidya, a national network of independent and progressive media outfits are alarmed over the killing of two media practitioners in Sorsogon and Davao in the last two days. We condemn the continuing culture of impunity and violence in the country and demand...
Watching the State of the Nation Address (SONA) from the gallery, I witnessed how the nation’s top officials and VIP guests of Pres. Benigno Aquino III reacted to the surprise protest staged by members of the Makabayan bloc after Aquino’s speech. The boos in the...
In 2010, candidate Benigno Aquino III pledged, among others, to prioritize a Freedom of Information Act among his legislative initiatives. In the ensuing months his administration practically made it a point not to include an FOI bill among those it submitted to...
Altermidya expresses grave concern over the House of Representatives’ (HOR) blacklisting of at least 50 individuals including sectoral leaders and activists, a journalism professor, campus journalists, and media liaison officers of national student organizations,...
[Statement on GMA7’s massive retrenchment] Altermidya, the national network of alternative media organizations and practitioners, stands in solidarity with our colleagues in the GMA-7 regional stations who have recently been laid off. The mass retrenchment of...
The obsolete, repressive law on libel is one of the instruments of oppressors to attack the freedom of speech and expression and press freedom. Since 1986, more than 180 journalists have been killed and more still suffer from oppressive libel charges. Just recently in...
Five years after the massacre of 58 men and women including 32 journalists in Ampatuan town in Maguindanao, justice remains elusive and impunity still reigns. The promise of President Benigno Aquino III to help speedily resolve the case that has put the Philippines in...