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Stop the attacks on Northern Dispatch

Stop the attacks on Northern Dispatch

Altermidya Network denounces the relentless and escalating attacks against alternative news outfit Northern Dispatch (Nordis). In the latest development in what can be considered as a series of overlapping legal maneuvers, a cyberlibel charge has been filed against...

ABS-CBN shutdown: An assault on the people’s right to know

ABS-CBN shutdown: An assault on the people’s right to know

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...

We will fight back a reign of terror

We will fight back a reign of terror

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....

Stand with Rappler, resist repression

Stand with Rappler, resist repression

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...

Reporting the people’s demands is not a crime

Reporting the people’s demands is not a crime

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: Stand with ABS-CBN, Defend Free Expression

Joint statement: Stand with ABS-CBN, Defend Free Expression

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...

Media attacks: Accelerating the curve of impunity

Media attacks: Accelerating the curve of impunity

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...

Scrap the NTC order! No to ABS-CBN Shutdown

Scrap the NTC order! No to ABS-CBN Shutdown

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...

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