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...
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...
STATEMENT Senate Bill 1083 or the 'Anti-Terrorism' Bill, recently approved on third and final reading by the Upper Chamber, is – for all intents and purposes – the Duterte administration’s penultimate attack against the Filipino people, the last piece in the puzzle...
They are at it again: harassing and maliciously red-tagging journalists, including veteran journalist and AlterMidya host Inday Espina-Varona, Nonoy Espina of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), Froilan Gallardo of Mindanews, and several...
(Joint Statement: Alipato Media Center for Bulatlat, Altermidya Network, Kodao Productions, Pinoy Media Center Inc. for PinoyWeekly, Plaintiffs; and IP Converge Data Services Inc., Ernesto R. Alberto, Nerissa S. Ramos, Anabelle L. Chua, Juan Victor I. Hernandez,...
Solicitor General Jose Calida is on a vicious roll – aimed not only against ABS-CBN, but against the very tenets of our freedom of expression, speech, and of the press. Calida filed a quo warranto petition last week to void the network’s franchise. Now he has also...
The attempt to block the renewal of the ABS-CBN franchise is part of the Duterte regime’s continuing assault on the constitutionally-protected right to free expression and press freedom. With Congress having only a few weeks left before it adjourns on March 14, nine...