Farmers lose Php85 billion during first year: Peasant livelihoods destroyed, food insecurity worsened by rice liberalization
IBON estimates that rice farmers in aggregate suffered a total income loss of Php84.8 billion in 2019 due to the catastrophic drop in palay farmgate prices. This is equivalent to an average income loss of some Php35,328 per rice farmer.
NUJP agrees with Robin vs contractualization but vows to defend ABS-CBN jobs
“That is why we also challenge government to make contractualization and all its iterations absolutely illegal as the President repeatedly promised in the past. The millons of contractual workers and the NUJP are still waiting,” the media group said.
Groups launch network to defend activists from trumped-up charges
The group said the red-baiting tactics of the government lump together civilian activists with the armed combatants of the New People’s Army in a bid to make them targets of military combat operations and legal offensives.
Lawyers vs lawyer: Calida’s attack against reporter-lawyer Navallo earns objections
The NUPL said that Calida’s “feudal treatment” of a fellow lawyer based on his self-professed superiority does not speak well neither of the office he represents nor of the profession.
Quo warranto laban sa ABS-CBN, atake sa malayang pamamamahayag
Ayon sa National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), hindi lamang direktang atake sa malayang pamamahayag ang ginawa ni OSG Jose Calida sa nasabing istasyon kundi pagpapakita din ito ng tiranikong pamumuno ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte.
Pahayag ng Altermidya Network kay Frenchie Mae Cumpio
Pebrero 10, 2020 Nagbigay pahayag si Rhea Padilla, national coordinator ng Altermidya- People’s Alternative Media Network kaugnay sa pag-aresto kay Frenchie Mae Cumpio, mamamahayag ng Eastern Vista at sa tinaguriang Tacloban 5 noong Pebrero 7 sa Tacloban City.
The Kingmaker, ipinalabas sa Cine Adarna
Enero 29, 2020 Ipinalabas sa Cine Adarna, Unibersidad ng Pilipinas ang The Kingmaker, isang dokyumentaryo ni Laura Greenfield. Ang pelikula ay tungkol kay Imelda Marcos, sa rehimeng Marcos at ang kanilang muling pagbabalik sa kapangyarihan. Tinanong ng Kodao ang mga nanood kung ano ang masasabi nila sa pelikula at ito ang kanilang mga sinabi. Bidyo […]
Media group slams ‘boorish’ Calida’s harassment of ABS-CBN reporter
The NUJP said Calida was being boorish, “a classic example of a government factotum who mistakes his position of authority as a license to throw his weight around.”
Quo warranto petition attacks press freedom–NUJP
“ABS-CBN, you’re a mouthpiece of… Your franchise will expire next year. If you are expecting it to be renewed, I’m sorry. I will see to it that you’re out,” Duterte said in a mix of Filipino and English last December 3.
IBON files historic first red-tagging complaint with Ombudsman against Parlade, Badoy, Esperon
An administrative complaint will be filed against former Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) deputy chief-of-staff for civil-military operations and now Southern Luzon Command chief Major General Antonio Parlade, Jr, Presidential Communications and Operations Office (PCOO) Undersecretary Lorraine Badoy, and National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon.