Statements

STATEMENT: Stop the attacks against community journalists in Bicol

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...

Prior restraint, again

Prior restraint, again

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...

The Anti-Terrorism Bill: Legislating the quelling of dissent

The Anti-Terrorism Bill: Legislating the quelling of dissent

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...

Altermidya denounces latest red-tagging of journalists

Altermidya denounces latest red-tagging of journalists

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...

Parties to cyberattacks case reach agreement

(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,...

Gagging press freedom

Gagging press freedom

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...

Stop the harassment against Eastern Vista!

Stop the harassment against Eastern Vista!

The Altermidya Network strongly denounces the continued harassment against community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio of the Tacloban-based outfit Eastern Vista. Amid reports of an impending police raid of a progressive group’s office in Tacloban — similar to the Negros...

Support ABS-CBN’s franchise renewal, defend press freedom

Support ABS-CBN’s franchise renewal, defend press freedom

Altermidya, the nationwide network of independent and progressive media outfits, stands in full support with the call of thousands of media workers, actors, directors, and employees of ABS-CBN for the renewal of the franchise of the broadcast network, which is set to...

Initial people’s victory in the long march for justice

Initial people’s victory in the long march for justice

STATEMENT OF ALTERMIDYA NETWORK ON THE AMPATUAN MASSACRE VERDICT The conviction of members of the Ampatuan clan is an initial victory of the families and of the people who have joined their long journey for justice. We hail the courage and determination of families,...

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