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 Congress has done it again: betray the Filipino people. This time, by striking another blow to press freedom and the people’s right to know. To say that the members of the media sector are perturbed and disappointed is an understatement: we are beyond aghast...
STATEMENT Just when we thought things could not get worse, President Rodrigo Duterte signed today the “Anti-Terrorism Law of 2020,” a law that many legal pundits, human rights advocates, and no less than the United Nations Human Rights Council – gravely warned about....
Altermidya Network today condemns the ruling of Tacloban City regional trial court branch denying the request of the Tacloban 5, including community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, to quash the defective search warrant against them. Judge Georgina Perez of Tacloban...
We in the alternative media community stand in solidarity with journalist Maria Ressa and news outfit Rappler as the Manila Regional Trial Court hands down on June 15 its decision on the cyberlibel case filed against them over a 2012 story involving businessman...
STATEMENT Information is of utmost importance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reporting the people’s grievances and demands is the solemn duty of the media; it is not a crime. The Guimba municipal council's Sangguniang Bayan Resolution No. 52 s.2020 last May 11...
JOINT STATEMENT (with updated signatures as of 9pm, May 16) Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade, Jr. of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF ELCAC) issued a statement Monday night claiming that “the ABS-CBN issue is about CPP [Communist Party of the...
STATEMENT WHILE THE DUTERTE REGIME is failing to flatten the curve of the coronavirus' spread, it is accelerating the curve of another mounting pandemic afflicting the nation – the pandemic of impunity. State forces are relentlessly pursuing attacks against the...
STATEMENT The National Telecommunications Commission’s order to shutdown broadcast network ABS-CBN is unconstitutional and an assault to the people’s right to information. The order is contrary to the recommendation of Congress to issue a provisional license for the...
STATEMENT A turn for the worse – this best describes how the fundamental freedoms of speech, expression, and of the press have been abridged in the past months, with the attacks against press freedom escalating amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, May 3, as the world...
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...
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...