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,...
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...
The AlterMidya, a national network of independent and alternative media outfits, welcomes Pres. Rodrigo Duterte’s signing today of an executive order (EO) implementing the Freedom of Information (FOI). The EO is an important step in promoting transparency and...
AlterMidya, a national network of alternative media practitioners, calls for the dropping of charges against the “Haran 15”, which includes one of our members from Kilab Multimedia, Jaja Necosia. The Haran 15 is a collective term for fifteen human rights advocates,...
"What direction will Philippine foreign policy have?" Change is coming, they say. Newly-installed President Rodrigo Duterte proudly proclaims that during his college days, he was a member of the Kabataang Makabayan (KM). KM led the anti-Vietnam war demonstrations...
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte's support for the resumption of peace talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), his pledge to release political prisoners involved in the talks, his designation of two nominees (out of a promised four) of the...
REGRETTABLY, the conversation between President-elect Rodrigo Duterte and the news media has turned sharp and shrill. All but lost in the noise is the two parties’ common duty in law and tradition to serve and to inform the Filipino people on issues, events and...
We, alternative media members of AlterMidya, express our concern over Facebook's blocking of certain accounts of journalists, artists and activists apparently because they shared posts criticizing the Marcos family and the plans to move the late dictator Ferdinand...
It was quite a shocker to have president-elect Rodrigo Duterte hit the media as hard as he did last week. The words “kill journalism” and “don’t f*ck with me”—no matter the context—were enough to send shivers down my spine. But after the initial shock, one realizes...