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...
IT HAS BEEN A DARK DECADE of injustice for families and loved ones of the victims of the Ampatuan massacre, which killed 58 individuals, 32 of them journalists. A decade of unbearable grief and pain, as they watch the masterminds of the world’s single deadliest attack...
Altermidya Network condemns the surveillance conducted by suspected state security forces against Philippine Collegian, student publication of University of the Philippines Diliman. At around 9:30 p.m. yesterday, November 16, a certain Wilfredo Manapat tried to break...
Altermidya expresses alarm at the information that the Philippine National Police is planning to serve a warrant of arrest to someone supposedly within the premises of IBON Building in Timog Ave., Quezon City where we, and several other local and international NGOs...
Today, Nov. 2, is the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, and the Altermidya Network calls on the Duterte administration to immediately release Negros-based community journalist Anne Krueger, who was unlawfully arrested with 56 others in...
Raid led by police, SWAT & CIDG on the office of Gabriela in Bacolod City. Photo taken by community journalist Anne Krueger before she was arrested with 61 others in simultaneous raids on October 31. Altermidya condemns in strongest terms the arrest of our...
Alternative media outfits demand accountability over the sustained and systematic cyber attacks launched against them for over three months. On March 29, Altermidya, Bulatlat, Kodao Productions and Pinoy Weekly filed a civil case against two companies found to be the...
Itinuturing namin ang nabalitang pagsunog sa daan-daang kopya ng Pinoy Weekly na nakalagak sa subscriber naming komunidad ng mga maralitang nag-okupa ng tiwangwang na pampublikong housing project sa Pandi, Bulacan bilang lantarang atake sa karapatan sa pamamahayag....
Altermidya Network condemns the recent attacks on our colleagues based in Ifugao and in Bukidnon. On August 6, Brandon Lee, correspondent for Northern Dispatch, was shot by unidentified gunmen in front of his home in Lagawe, Ifugao He is seriously wounded and...
OVER THREE YEARS AGO, the nation has been promised: change is coming. And change did come, but things took a turn for the worse. As the nation marks President Rodrigo Duterte’s third year in power this June 30, we look back in sheer dismay over the unprecendented...
Altermidya Network, the broad alliance of alternative media and community journalists groups in the Philippines, denounces the patently unreasonable manner in which the University of the Philippines Diliman’s Executive Committee (EC) ordered the suspension of the...
We in the alternative media denounce the unlawful arrest of Margarita Valle, veteran Mindanao-based journalist and a columnist of Davao Today. Valle was arrested at the Laguindingan airport on June 9 by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) reportedly...
THE DUTERTE government is the biggest threat to the people’s right to press freedom, freedom of expression and other human rights. It uses the entire coercive power of the state to attack and quell the independent press and these attacks are instigated and led by the...