Former Dean of UP College of Mass Communication Roland Tolentino joins the protest action against the shutdown of ABS-CBN, May 8. (Photo by Obet de Castro) “Shrinking democratic space through the militarizing of the pandemic response as well as not closing the largest media network’s airwaves is a direct affront to civil liberties.” By EMILY…
Alternative media practitioners, rights defenders, and press freedom advocates hold online rally against ABS-CBN shutdown order. (Courtesy of Sanaf Marcelo / IAWRT) By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Support poured for ABS-CBN and their 11,000 workers amid the government shutdown order as progressives, cultural artists, fellow media workers, and press freedom advocates held…
Ging Reyes, head of ABS-CBN’s Integrated News and Current Affairs, thanks supporters during the Red Friday for Press Freedom last Feb. 14. (Photo by Carlo Manalansan / Bulatlat) “Di ko akalain na ang kalayaan na na-achieve natin noong 1986 ay manganganib uli ngayon.” (I did not expect that the freedom we had achieved in 1986…
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“We are alarmed that soon, other media outlets would follow. Without the freedom of the press, there is the danger of other freedoms to be lost. God forbid, these are the first ‘test signs’ of curtailing other rights.” (BULATLAT FILE PHOTO) Mrs. Edita Burgos. By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Edita Burgos, the…
By JUSTIN UMALI Bulatlat.com SANTA ROSA, Laguna – A farmer in Quezon province was arrested yesterday, May 7, on his way home after being discharged from a hospital in Lucena. Leoben Holeto, 19, was on his way home to Lopez, Quezon after undergoing a successful appendectomy. He, however, along with his mother, was barred from…
Adelaida “Nanay Ede” Macusang, 61 years old. (Photo courtesy of Kapatid) “Her untimely death underscores the failure of the prison system to provide even the most basic health care for treatable illnesses that justifies the petition we filed at the Supreme Court seeking the humanitarian release of the elderly and the sick who are most…
[Statement] Justice for Rex Cornelio, 16th journalist slain under Duterte pic.twitter.com/AUO1Bi6dqt — NUJP (@nujp) May 6, 2020 “His ultimate passion was for good governance and his advocacy was to help save the environment. He was a highly principled man who sought refuge in his faith.” By RITCHE T. SALGADO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Just two days…