If there is one lesson to be drawn from recent history, it is that any attempt to regulate online expression will not protect democracy but will instead threaten press freedom and free expression, exacerbating the very problems it claims to solve.
Sa mga pagkakataong ibinalita namin ang mga makapangyarihan, hindi ito upang lalo silang bigyan ng boses o lakas. Hindi rin upang maging pintakasi sa pagitan ng mga kampon ng kadiliman kontra sa kampon ng kasamaan. Inuuulat man namin ang kanilang mga ginagawa, ito ay upang lalong maipakita ang pangangailangang baguhin na nga ang bulok na lipunang kanilang pinaghaharian.
We assert that journalism is no crime. The public service that journalism brings is essential now more than ever amid our increasingly fragile democracy. We urge the public to join our call: End the systematic use of anti-terrorism policies against civilians, junk the Anti-Terror Law, and abolish the NTF-ELCAC.
This coming February 7, it will have been 5 years since Tacloban 5 were arrested. We stand by Frenchie Mae Cumpio, Marielle Domequil, and the rest of the Tacloban 5 and call for the immediate dismissal of the fabricated cases against them and to hold the persons responsible for their arrest accountable!
As we mark the 15th year since the brutal Ampatuan Massacre, widely regarded as the worst case of election-related violence and the worst attack on media workers in Philippine history, we continue our fight for justice.
Cumpio, a community journalist known for her work on human rights and environmental issues, has been detained for over four years on charges that her supporters describe as politically motivated, intended to silence her reporting.
Hindi dapat magtapos ang ating pagdiriwang na hindi rin natin pagpugayan ang mga tulad ni Dean Luis sa ating hanay na nauna na: Si Engr. Ramon Ramirez ng Arkibong Bayan, Wilfredo Villareal ng Pokus-Gitnang Luson, at Kathleen Okubo ng Northern Dispatch.
It is Altermidya’s 10th anniversary this week. Like mosquitoes, today’s alternative journalists hope to lay thousands more eggs to pester the people’s enemies, the real bloodsuckers in our rotten society.
There is no doubt that Israel’s war deliberately targets journalists and civilians. This holds true with the recent killing of 19-year old Palestinian journalist Hassan Hamad in Gaza for documenting the war’s destruction. It speaks volumes of the willful act of Israel to erase information necessary for the people to hold them accountable.
The tone may have changed, but the press freedom landscape remains virtually unaltered: In the Philippines, journalists remain under attack for reporting the truth; the people’s right to know remains vastly curtailed; and the practice of journalism remains a dangerous act.
